Image copyright Reuters Image caption Officials in protective suits examine the area where Mr Skripal and his daughter were found Police say a nerve agent was used in an attempt to murder the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, Wiltshire. The pair are critically ill, along with a police officer...
A group of restaurant bosses is warning the government it must act to avoid “damaging closures and job losses”. In a letter to Chancellor Philip Hammond, they have asked for “root and branch” reform of business rates. The chief executive of Bills and the chairman of pub and restaurant chain Mitchells and Butlers are among...
Image copyright PA The Unite union has urged Ford to convert its UK engine plants to making electric cars and battery technology. Currently Ford makes engines for the Ford Fiesta and Jaguar Land Rover vehicles at Bridgend in South Wales and diesel engines in Dagenham in Essex. Both plants faces uncertainty, as Jaguar plans to...
Image copyright Megan “It’s taken three different hospitals and countless GPs and gynaecology specialists to get to this point. I’d like women to see that it is worth pushing and fighting, no matter what, and not to give up.” Megan is one of the estimated one-and-a-half million women in the UK living with endometriosis –...
Image copyright Peter Stone Image caption The UTexas robot football squad uses AI in order to work as a team and make fast-moving decisions Researchers in Texas are developing robots that have minds of their own. The scientists are creating systems that can learn for themselves and be able to operate in the home, the...
A certain gold statuette dominated the past week’s news… here’s the lowdown on the Oscars in case you missed them, along with some of the other stories from the past seven days. Image copyright Sony Image caption The Razzies called The Emoji Movie characters “obnoxious” Before the Oscars, the Emoji Movie, an animated film starring...
The BBC Travel Show visits the festival which has ice drums, ice horns and even an ice didgeridoo. Source link
Image copyright MARK RALSTON Image caption Singer Katy Perry got caught up in a lawsuit involving two nuns and the Los Angeles Archdiocese A nun embroiled in a property dispute with singer Katy Perry collapsed and died during a court hearing on Friday, US media report. Sister Catherine Rose Holzman was 89. She was one...
Image copyright MARK RALSTON Image caption Singer Katy Perry got caught up in a lawsuit involving two nuns and the Los Angeles Archdiocese A nun embroiled in a property dispute with singer Katy Perry collapsed and died during a court hearing on Friday, US media report. Sister Catherine Rose Holzman was 89. She was one...
Image copyright Neilson Barnard/Getty Image caption Miles Hurley, pictured with his aunt, Elizabeth Hurley, is believed to be one of two young men stabbed on Thursday Actress and model Elizabeth Hurley’s 21-year-old nephew is in hospital after being stabbed repeatedly in the back. Hurley confirmed the “brutal” attack on her Twitter account, saying it is...