The resignation of BBC Director General Tim Davie and his Head of News Deborah Turness boosted the papers on Monday. “BBC bros quit in disgrace” was the headline in the daily mail. The broadcaster has come under fire for a Panorama documentary accused of wrongly editing a speech by Donald Trump to make it appear […]
Bernd Debusmann JRIn El Paso, Texas Getty Images The Trump administration has targeted enforcement in the El Pasa Area as well as along the entire US-Mexico border. In Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, the immigration debate has spilled into the streets, turning into almost daily demonstrations as immigration agents make arrests. But in El Paso […]
Two pitchers for the Cleveland Cavaliers have been accused of taking bribes to rig pitches they threw in major league baseball games. The pitchers, Emmanuel Clase de la Cruz and Luis Leandro Ortiz Ribera, have been charged in connection with the sports betting and money laundering scheme, federal prosecutors and the FBI announced on Sunday. […]
Nick thorpeBudapest Concert nick thorpe / bbc There was no reason for Metropolitan Hilarion’s exile from Russia, but many observers regretted his views on the war in Ukraine “I have never worked for any intelligence [agency]it can be russian or anyone. I have never had tasks or duties or requests on their part,” said the […]
Aaron Holt,Editor of Social Affairs and James Melley,senior producer Family Handout The family of Alice Figue Warning: This article contains disturbing details and references to serious self-harm and death. Four months after a young woman died in a mental health unit in London, another patient tried to harm himself in very similar circumstances, leaked documents […]
Egon CossouBusiness reporter Metals of Trinidad You probably don’t mind the device you’re reading this article on, as long as it looks good and continues to work. But the elements that have power and run it is the subject of a growing struggle between the two largest economies in the world – the US and […]
Getty Images The company behind the report says that it looks like “luxury or strange” in the real intention of investing in early education. “A family based in North London is looking for an exceptional and experienced tutor to support their youngest son in his first steps towards becoming an English gentleman.” When reading this […]
Yogita LimayeSouth Asia and Afghanistan Recipe Family Handout Harhita Brellla’s body was discovered in the boot of a car in London on 14 November last year A year since HarhSita Brella was beaten to death in the UK, there is a sense of disbelief at her family home in India’s Capital Delhi. “Why is her […]
Justin RowlattClimate Editor BBC There is a photograph, taken ten years ago in Paris, that today seems like something of a relic. In it, dozens of men and women line up in dark suits, in front of an enormous sign that reads COP21 Paris. Right in the middle the UK’s then-Prime Minister, David Cameron, grins […]
There is a constant quip among BBC staff that “Deputy Heads must roll” with so many mistakes because they rarely have an impact on those at the top of the organisation. That all changed on Sunday, when Tim Davie and Deborah True quit their jobs. Davie has had no shortage of scandals in his five […]
