BBC News Two men who piloted overcrowded small boats have been jailed for endangering others while crossing the Channel. Omar Heidari, a 34-year-old Afghan national who steered a dinghy carrying 95 people to the UK in June, has been jailed for two years. Manas Yuk, an 18-year-old Sudanese national, was sentenced to 18 months in […]
Business News Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man in Sony and Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.” Sony Spider-Man is already webbing up a massive box office haul. Sony and Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” secured $72 million in preview ticket sales, the highest collection for any domestic film in Hollywood history. The previous […]
BBC News Ron Marsh said he had contacted Legacy Independent Funeral Directors when his mother Joyce Moulton died in September 2023, aged 98. He said Bush was professional and the service he organised was “excellent”, but the family never received her ashes, with attempts to contact Legacy going unanswered. In March 2024, he was visited […]
BBC News The 43-year-old was born in a small village in Nepal’s mountainous Myagdi district, located around 1,600m above sea level. He comes from a family of Gurkhas, a world-famous group of Nepalese soldiers who have served in different armed forces, including the British Army. Following in the footsteps of his father and elder brothers, […]
BBC News Tens of thousands of migrants have entered Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, with many swimming and using inflatables to travel from Morocco. Others ran through a gate in the border fence. The territory’s leader, Juan Jesús Vivas, said the number of arrivals has been overwhelming resources and urged the Spanish government to […]
BBC News This reworking of Rein Me In, from Fender’s third studio album, the Mercury Prize-winning People Watching, features an extra verse about the breakdown of a relationship from a female perspective, from Dean. “[It’s] very personal and reminded us of home, but when Olivia put her touch on it, it became a much more […]
BBC News Google also insists guidelines built into its AI model will prevent the creation of imagery depicting “harmful topics”, however BBC Verify has found that small changes to prompts can be used to bypass these guidelines. For example, a request to create a “raised platform to hang traitors” next to the UK parliament was […]
BBC News Tracy Brabin, the Labour mayor of West Yorkshire, said that giving regions like hers a proportion of income tax would mean “people will be able to see and feel the real benefit of their hard work and where that money is going”. Richard Parker, the Labour mayor for the West Midlands, described the […]
BBC News At the time, the Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, said the use of the rooms was “horrifying”. Leigh Day is now bringing a civil legal claim on behalf of 10 families against the trust which ran the school and the London borough of Waltham Forest. The law firm says the […]
BBC News Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s position came under further scrutiny on Friday as the governing body’s chief operating officer strongly criticised his plan to sell stakes in competitions to private investors. In a statement released to the Associated Press, Kevin Lamour described the controversial plans as “the project of one person” and said “the […]
