Mary Kay Letourneau dies at 58 in hospital after battle with cancer while being cared for by her former husband who she was convicted of raping when he was 12 and she was his teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, the former Seattle middle school teacher who was at the center of a national scandal in the […]

The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has reignited the conversation about racial equality around the world. BBC World Service has been listening in to some of what is being said on black-owned radio stations across the United States. As part of a series called Black America Speaks, listeners have been on a virtual road […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. King’s College London professor of European politics and foreign affairs and director of the UK in a Changing Europe think tank, Anand Menon, revealed the most crucial issues putting pressure on the […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Donald Trump has notified Congress and the United Nations (UN) the US will be formally withdrawing from the World Health Organisation.  A US State Department official said the notice of withdrawal would […]

MADRID (Reuters) – The Spanish government is still not able to say how many nursing home residents have died because of the coronavirus, according to a Health Ministry document seen by Reuters, which puts the blame on a lack of good enough data from regional authorities. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has repeatedly pledged to disclose […]

Accused Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly has secret video footage of Britain’s Prince Andrew — and she may be willing to share it with prosecutors, a distant relative of the prince claimed in an interview published Tuesday. Christina Oxenberg, who said she’s a former friend of Maxwell and Epstein, told The Sun that Maxwell […]

Aldi vows never to sell chlorinated chicken or hormone-treated beef even if UK strikes trade deal with US Aldi has pledged never to sell chlorinated chicken or hormone-treated beef It joins Waitrose in trying to prevent the weakening of UK food standards  There are fears that Boris Johnson will not protect British farmers’ interests as […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. A bus in China, carrying students, broke through a road fence after cutting across traffic and plunged into a reservoir. This incident happened around 12 pm local time in southwest China’s Guizhou […]

AS coronavirus restrictions are eased across the nation, the streets of Leicester remain deserted due to local lockdown. Now the Government has revealed it intends to review the restrictions to control the coronavirus. But when will the local lockdown end, when did it start, and what are the current restrictions? ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. China “will always be authoritarian” if there isn’t “a firm, assertive attitude” towards them, according to a former Hong Kong lawmaker. Speaking to Channel 4 News, pro-democracy activist Nathan Law warned that […]