Papua New Guinea’s influential petroleum minister Jimmy Maladina has been charged with assault following an alleged “domestic dispute” in Australia, according to court documents. Police said a 31-year-old woman was allegedly attacked in Sydney by a 58-year-old man who was known to her on Saturday morning local time. Mr Maladina was granted conditional bail ahead […]
Jon Landau – the Oscar-winning producer of some of the world’s highest-grossing movies of all time, including Titanic and Avatar – has died aged 63. Landau, who was the long-time producing partner of filmmaker James Cameron, reportedly died on Friday after living with cancer for more than a year. His sister Tina confirmed his death […]
Holly Jackson Holly’s debut novel A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder has been turned into a series for the BBC Bestselling author Holly Jackson shares her secrets for plotting a modern murder mystery – and explains how true crime has influenced her. For the author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, the process of […]
6 minutes ago By Elaine Chong and Ed Main, BBC Trending BBC Helen Young was targeted by scammers who posed as Chinese police officers Chinese people around the world are being targeted by an elaborate scam in which criminals pretend to be Chinese police. A British-Chinese woman has told the BBC that she handed over her life […]
9 minutes ago By Aleem Maqbool, Religion editor Getty Images However big the headline change in the vote between the past two elections, drill down into two demographic pockets of Britain and you find staggering shifts. It all centres around the relationships between the Labour Party and not just Muslim voters, but Jewish voters too. It leaves […]
Getty Images Rob Delaney’s son Henry died in 2018 The US actor and comedian Rob Delaney has said he wants to buy the home his son died in so he can also experience his last moments there. Delaney’s two-year-old child Henry died in 2018 after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. Delaney told Radio 4’s […]
Getty Images Two former cabinet ministers who served under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have been given junior ministerial roles by Sir Keir Starmer. Former home secretary Jacqui Smith will join the House of Lords to become higher education minister, Downing Street said. While Douglas Alexander, who held several cabinet roles in the last Labour […]
Just now By Penny Dale, Journalist Mario Di Bari Female figures are at the forefront of Gabriella Ghermandi’s latest album Gabriella Ghermandi recalls with laughter the annoyance she felt about the so-called Ethiopian Spice Girls – charity-backed pop group Yegna that hoped to change narratives and empower girls and women through music. The all-female group sparked controversy […]
8 minutes ago By Katya Adler, Europe editor Getty Images How likely is France to wake up on Monday morning to a new far-right dawn? That was the garishly painted, hotly debated scenario in media headlines, the EU in Brussels and seats of government across Europe following the first round of France’s parliamentary vote last week. But […]
2 hours ago By Phelan Chatterjee, BBC News Alamy Swedish human rights activist Anna Ardin is glad Julian Assange is free. But the claims she has made about him suggest she would have every reason not to wish him well. She is one of two women who accused the WikiLeaks founder of sexual assault 14 years ago. […]