BBC News Year 10 pupil Ethan, from Budehaven Community School, wants to become a marine biologist and recently completed a work experience placement at a seal sanctuary that was a three-hour round trip by car. “I love being in the sea and just protecting its habitats and wildlife, it really makes me excited to do […]
BBC News Food critic Giles Coren previously came out in support of the restaurant, claiming Michelin-starred restaurants should not have to abide by normal health and safety rules and the guidelines should “probably be modernised”. “It is not little kitchens and pots boiling away, mimsy little things being placed on plates. He is cooking with […]
BBC News Last year, an ex-army sergeant major was jailed for six months for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old soldier, who later took her own life. Warrant Officer Michael Webber, 43, pinned down Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck and tried to kiss her in July 2021. She was found dead five months later in her barracks […]
BBC News Andre Lavoie joined SpaceX in 2009 as an engineer, designing the pressure tanks that help power its rocket. He was paid partly in stock – a common trade-off at start-ups as a hiring incentive. Some 17 years on, those 200,000 shares he was given are worth about $23m (£17m) – and the 63-year-old […]
BBC News Stavnitser says Russia is almost certainly retaliating for Ukraine’s recent, highly successful attacks on Russian shipping, including sanctioned vessels carrying oil, as well as other ships involved in ferrying supplies to Russian-occupied Crimea. Using its own drones, Ukraine’s Operation MoLoChKa (which roughly translates as “Moscow will fall through Crimea”) has struck around 200 […]
BBC News More than 1,900 small high street businesses including mini-marts, vape shops and car washes are licensed to sponsor foreign workers under a specialist scheme intended for high-earning individuals despite visa rules being tightened, BBC Verify has found. The Home Office scheme allows registered employers to recruit workers from overseas who meet a certain […]
BBC News Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing has arrived on an official visit to Thailand, his first since he launched the coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government in 2021. The coup ignited a civil war, which has killed thousands of people and wrecked the economy. Min Aung Hlaing, who was already […]
BBC News More than 300 people abducted in separate attacks in Nigeria have been rescued, the country’s presidency says, in what it describes as its largest single-day operation by joint security forces. The victims were rescued from the Kainji Lake National Park in Niger State in an operation involving the military, police, intelligence unit and […]
BBC News Facebook owner Meta says an issue during an evaluation by an independent testing company allowed one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect to the internet and hack another organisation’s system. The announcement follows recent incidents across the AI industry, including breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic models, that have raised cyber-security concerns. […]
BBC News A man has been charged over the alleged hit-and-run death of schoolboy Keaton Slater in Coventry more than two years ago. Dolars Aleksanders was extradited from Latvia, where he was detained last month, and has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, West Midlands Police said on Wednesday night. The 23-year-old Latvian […]
