Image caption Arif Ansari checked his reporter’s script before it was broadcast, the court heard BBC Asian Network’s head of news has gone on trial over the naming of a victim of sexual abuse in a live radio broadcast, a charge he denies. Victims of sexual offences are given lifetime anonymity by law. The reporter […]
Image copyright Victoria Police Image caption Police released these images of Aiia Maasarwe, taken on the night she was killed A 21-year-old Israeli student was attacked and killed in Melbourne, Australia while speaking with her sister on the phone, police say. The body of Aiia Maasarwe, 21, was found near LaTrobe University in the city’s […]
Image copyright Horizon Nuclear Hitachi has announced it will suspend work on a £20bn nuclear plant in the UK because of rising construction costs. The decision puts thousands of jobs at risk if the Wylfa Newydd facility in Anglesey, north Wales, is scrapped. The Japanese firm had been in talks with the UK government since […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionTheresa May has called on MPs to “work constructively together” to find a way forward Theresa May is to meet MPs to try to find a way forward for Brexit, after her slim victory in the no-confidence vote. The PM saw off a bid to remove her […]
Image copyright AFP Image caption The animal was being kept illegally at the farm in Minahasa in North Sulawesi An Indonesian woman has been mauled to death by a pet crocodile in Sulawesi after she fell into its enclosure. Deasy Tuwo, 44, had reportedly been feeding the crocodile at the pearl farm where she worked, […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The fact that President Trump’s limousine is a Cadillac is said to have helped the US carmaker’s sales in China If you’re selling Cadillacs in China, it helps that the US president is driven around in one. Cao Chenyi, the boss of a Cadillac dealership near Shanghai, told me […]
Image caption The FT joins most other papers in leading on Wednesday’s confidence vote and the Prime Minister’s “narrow” victory. It says her calls for a cross-party solution to the Brexit stand-off were “left facing deadlock from the outset” as Jeremy Corbyn insisted Mrs May rule out any possibility of a no-deal exit before he […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The miners have been trapped since mid-December Indian navy divers have found the body of a worker who was trapped with 14 others inside a flooded coal mine in the north-eastern state of Meghalaya. The men had entered the illegal pit, known as a “rat hole”, on 13 December, and […]
Image copyright Horizon Nuclear Image caption Wylfa Newydd would have a 60-year operational life A decision is expected about whether work to build a new nuclear power station on Anglesey will be halted. Japanese media has reported that Hitachi will suspend construction of its £20bn Wylfa Newydd plant – with the board due to meet […]
Image caption Forty one students at the London state school have received offers from Oxbridge “Both of my mums were so excited,” says Dorcas Shodeinde. “First I rang my foster mum and then I rang my actual mum,” she explains. Dorcas has been in care since she was 14 and has just received an offer […]