BBC News Heathrow Airport will be allowed to charge airlines more for its services to recover money spent on the early stages of its third runway project. The aviation regulator is permitting the airport to claw back up to £320m through higher airport charges to airlines for each passenger, which is likely to end up […]
BBC News Business was winding down for the day at Sendan Shokudo, a diner in Japan’s southwestern city of Yatsushiro, when the whole building suddenly lurched. Everything on the kitchen shelves cascaded to the floor; bowls and glasses shattered. The restaurant’s co-owner, 75-year-old Hiroko Ogata, had just walked in. “I was surprised, and scared,” she […]
BBC News This season will see a new version of Aston Villa under Unai Emery. A 4-2 defeat to Real Sociedad on Tuesday will irritate their perfectionist head coach, but there is plenty of time for him to fine-tune the Europa League holders before the start of the new campaign. With Brian Madjo, George Hemmings, […]
BBC News Ngake was born in Douala, the largest city in Cameroon, around 200 miles to the west of the nation’s capital Yaounde. She is reluctant to reflect too much on that time, having distanced herself from thoughts of her homeland for more than a decade, but it is clear that childhood brought “challenges”, many, […]
BBC News At a conference of settler leaders in July, the IDF commander for the West Bank, Maj Gen Avi Bluth, said farm outposts “align well” with Israel’s security concept, “provided that this is also reflected in operational conduct, as well as ethical conduct, and in accordance with the law”. “All of this greatly strengthens […]
BBC News Thousands of people who have poured into the city of el-Obeid hoping to find shelter from Sudan’s raging civil war have found themselves under threat again, amid warnings that paramilitary fighters are preparing to descend on the army-controlled city. Clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the military has escalated in […]
BBC News Warning: Contains graphic details of alleged sexual offences and misconduct, as well as strong language Four women have accused Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct, with the alleged offences having taken place when they were teenagers. One of the women says she was sexually assaulted […]
