Moment tornado tears through southern France A tornado has torn through the village of Pomas in south-west France, injuring 39 people and damaging hundreds of homes. Authorities said 15 people were taken to hospital. One man said his pregnant wife was injured after their house collapsed on her. More than 120 emergency workers were deployed…
Women who have missed a cervical screening appointment in England are to be offered HPV self-testing kits by the NHS. Over the next year, nearly four million will receive invites on the NHS App or via text message, email or letter to order a free kit to use at home. Figures show around a third…
Kit Harington’s casting marks his third role in a HBO series after Game of Thrones and the financial drama Industry Kit Harington is joining the highly anticipated Harry Potter TV series as the wizarding world’s celebrity-turned-Hogwarts instructor Gilderoy Lockhart, HBO has confirmed to the BBC. X-Men star Nicholas Hoult was originally cast in the upcoming…
Sarah thought she knew what she was getting into when she attended a coroner’s court in May 2024 to discuss the death of her second cousin. Her day job as a murder detective meant she was used to courts, to judges, to legal argument. What she wasn’t prepared for was a coroner’s court. “I felt…
Burnham travelled to Ukraine on Monday to meet with Zelensky and chair his first ‘coalition of the willing’ meeting Andrei Fedorov, an adviser to the Kremlin, says there might be a “semi-military” response against UK drone factories by “unknown sources” over the sharing of blueprints for British-made cruise missile components. His comments on BBC Newsnight…
Watch: BBC visits factories in China with robot workers “I take a nap and the world changes,” says Chen Tianyu. His world certainly does. The 28-year-old keeps up with the latest technology by spending his spare time in factories that are switching to automation. That way he knows what to prioritise when teaching his class…
Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down on 21 December 1988 The trial of a Libyan man over the Lockerbie bombing has been postponed for a third time, after new evidence on the 37-year-old case came to light three days ago. Jury selection was due to get under way in Washington DC on Wednesday but…
Ministers have announced where more than 70,000 social and affordable homes will be built in England over the next 10 years as part of an initial allocation of almost £10bn, in a bid to address the housing crisis. Funding has been granted to Greater Manchester, the West Midlands, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North East England,…
See more of our coverage in your search results. Wild video shows a delivery man and a Barstool employee pummeling one another after a brawl broke out inside the company’s Manhattan headquarters on Monday. Barstool founder and president Dave Portnoy posted the shocking clip to X and said that the delivery app courier attacked their…
See more of our coverage in your search results. Large plumes of hazardous, black smoke erupted after a tire recycling facility caught on fire in Central Valley. The fire took place at American Tire Recycling, LLC at the 13000 block of Newport Road in the community of Ballico in Merced County Monday afternoon. “Merced County…