25 minutes ago Bernd Debusmann Jr,BBC News, Washington Getty Images Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the federal charges in Delaware With the strike of a judge’s gavel in Delaware, Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, will become the first child of a sitting president to be a...
As an indefinite general strike begins in Nigeria, one worker tells the BBC that it’s impossible to survive on what the government is proposing as a minimum wage as it is not enough to buy a bag of rice. Security guard Mallam Magaji Garba says he needs 50kg of rice, which costs 75,000 naira ($56;...
More than 50 people have died in India over the past three days as a brutal heat spell continues to grip parts of the country. Around 33 people died in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh over the weekend due to the heat. In Odisha (Orissa) state, about 20 people died due to heat stroke,...
1 hour ago BBC Eye Investigations, Panorama team and The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast,BBC World Service and BBC News Shutterstock Ruja Ignatova has not been seen since she took a flight from Sofia to Athens in October 2017 Now we have gone on her trail to try to discover her fate. BBC Eye Investigations and Panorama...
7 minutes ago Steve Rosenberg,Russia Editor, in Ivanovo BBC Russian propaganda tells people the country is marching on to economic and military success If the billboards in Ivanovo are to be believed, Russia’s really going places. “Record harvest!” “More than 2000km of roads repaired in Ivanovo Region!” “Change for the Better!” In this town, a...
China has accused UK’s Secret Intelligence Service MI6 of recruiting Chinese state employees as spies. In a post on its official WeChat channel, China’s Ministry of State Security said MI6 operatives turned a Chinese man identified only by his surname Wang and his wife surnamed Zhou against Beijing. Both worked in “core confidential” departments in...
The poll by the ARD public broadcaster said 21% of respondents agreed with the proposition. “It is racist. I feel we need to wake up. Many people in Europe had to flee.. searching for a safe country,” Nagelsmann said on Sunday. The 36-year-old said he agreed with Germany midfielder Joshua Kimmich, who described the questionnaire...
A couple of “magnet fishing” enthusiasts say they pulled up a safe containing an estimated $100,000 (£78,000) from a New York lake. James Kane and Barbie Agostini threw a rope with a magnet into a lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on Friday and pulled up the safe. Upon opening the secured box,...
A police officer who was left in critical condition after a mass stabbing in the German city of Mannheim on Friday has died, local authorities say. The 29-year-old was one of six people, including anti-Islam activist Michael Stürzenberger, to be wounded by the attacker, who was detained at the scene. The police officer was stabbed...
SABC President Cyril Ramaphosa has described South Africa’s election results as a victory for its democracy, despite his African National Congress (ANC) party losing its majority for the first time. The party, which was once led by Nelson Mandela, won 159 seats in the 400-seat parliament, down from 230 in the previous assembly. It is...