BBC News In cinemas, the film’s global takings include £12.6m from the UK – making it the second-biggest opening weekend in the country so far this year, behind Toy Story 5. In the process, The Odyssey broke the record for the highest takings in an opening weekend for a film on Imax screens in the […]
BBC News Cameron Menzies needed medical attention after being taken ill during his World Matchplay second-round match against Ross Smith in Blackpool on Wednesday. While leading the game 2-1, Scotland’s Menzies stepped away from the oche and appeared unsteady on his feet as England’s Smith and the referee guided him safely off stage. It was […]
BBC News A Florida teenager who sued Meta claiming that he was addicted to and harmed by his use of platforms, such as Instagram, has dropped his case. The 15-year-old plaintiff, known by the initials R.K.C., had in recent weeks settled the same claims against TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, all of which have been accused […]
BBC News Major League Soccer says it is investigating allegations of tampering by Inter Miami after the club signed Brazil midfielder Casemiro. On Wednesday, Miami announced they had signed the 34-year-old – who left Manchester United at the end of last season – on a deal that runs to the end of the 2027 MLS […]
BBC News The trial of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is scheduled to begin on 1 June 2027, a New York judge ordered on Wednesday. US forces seized Maduro and Flores from their compound in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in a dramatic, night-time raid on 3 January, and brought them […]
BBC News A woman has been placed under formal investigation over the death last year in France of a British-South African mother-of-four. Karen Carter, 65, was found lying near her car with stab wounds by a friend in Trémolat, the Dordogne village where she had lived for over a decade and managed two holiday rental […]
BBC News Natalie Fleet says she has stepped down as safeguarding minister after finding the role “overwhelmingly triggering”, telling the BBC that it was making her ill. The Labour MP, who was groomed and raped as a teenager, added she told the team of new Prime Minister Andy Burnham that she “sadly couldn’t stay” in […]
BBC News The Louvre Museum in Paris reopened its Galerie d’Apollon (Gallery of Apollo) to visitors on Wednesday, nine months after jewellery worth millions was stolen in a brazen heist. But the gallery, which once housed France’s crown jewels, reopened without any on display. “This is an iconic space within the Louvre, but it will […]
BBC News The Hundred women’s competition, Utilita Bowl Southern Brave 127-6 (100 balls): Wolvaardt 45* (36); Graham 4-19 Welsh Fire 118-8 (100 balls): Voll 52 (39); Molineux 3-14 Southern Brave won by eight runs Scorecard. Table Southern Brave produced a remarkable fightback to begin their Hundred campaign with a hard-fought eight-run win against Welsh Fire […]
BBC News Rangers manager Derek McInnes has been given a four-game touchline ban, with one suspended, for describing as “disgusting” the decision to award Celtic a late penalty at Motherwell in May. The comments, made at the end of last season when McInnes was in charge of Hearts, related to a stoppage-time spot-kick for handball […]
