Getty Images Visitors use binoculars to look at the North Korean side of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas North Korea has accused South Korea of flying drones into its capital, ratcheting up tensions that have been simmering for months. The drones allegedly scattered propaganda leaflets over Pyongyang in what the North described […]
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is looking to make tax rises and spending cuts to the value of £40bn in this month’s Budget, government sources have told the BBC. At a political cabinet meeting this morning, Reeves told ministers that filling the “£22bn black hole inheritance from the previous government” would only be enough “to keep public […]
Getty Images Bishnoi has been in prison since 2015, now held far from his native Punjab state in Gujarat On Monday, Canadian police made a sensational claim. They alleged at a press conference that agents of the Indian government were using “organised crime groups like the Bishnoi group” to target leaders of the pro-Khalistan movement, […]
Reuters The US says the 1.7 million Palestinians crowded into the al-Mawasi area are at “high risk of lethal contagion” The US has written to Israel, giving it 30 days to boost humanitarian aid access in Gaza or risk having some US military assistance cut off. The letter, sent on Sunday, amounts to the strongest […]
French and Italian police say they have broken up an international fraud ring that was passing poor quality bottles of wine off as vintages worth up to €15,000 (£12,500) each. Six people – including a Russian national who is the suspected ringleader – have been arrested in Paris, Turin and Milan. They are alleged to […]
Studio Canal Actor Sebastian Stan portrays Trump in The Apprentice The star of a controversial new film about Donald Trump has said the former president “should be grateful” that it provides a “complex, three-dimensional take” on his life. US actor Sebastian Stan portrays Trump in The Apprentice, which focuses on Trump’s younger years as a […]
Getty Images Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to replace the House of Lords with an elected chamber Over hundreds of years, the House of Lords has had its fair share of scrapes with extinction events. It was abolished in 1649, following the execution of King Charles I, by a law that declared it […]
Former Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has agreed to become the next England manager. The BBC has been told by two different sources that German Tuchel will become the third non-British permanent manager of the England men’s team after Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello. England have been without a permanent manager since Gareth Southgate resigned following […]
Downing Street has denied the prime minister received free Taylor Swift tickets as a “thank you” for the singer getting a police escort to her concerts at Wembley in August. Swift was given a motorbike convoy to protect her on the way to the London stadium despite initial reservations about the arrangement from the police. […]
The US has hit Lufthansa with a record $4m (3m) penalty after the airline barred Jewish passengers from a 2022 flight because some allegedly refused to follow rules requiring face masks. The Department of Transportation said Lufthansa discriminated against the passengers, treating them “as if they were all a single group”, though many were not […]