A Chinese court has handed a suspended death sentence to a man who injured over a dozen children by ramming his car into a crowd outside a primary school in central China. Thirty people, including 18 schoolchildren, were hurt in the incident in Changde City on 19 November. It was the third attack on a…
Beverley Jarvis Is Beverley the new Nige-air-lla this Christmas? A cookery writer has decided to ditch the traditional oven and cook her entire Christmas dinner using air fryers. Self-confessed “air fryer bore” Beverley Jarvis, from Ashford in Kent, will use five of the appliances to feed 11 of her loved ones a festive feast. Ms…
Jack Garland, BBC Venda hopes her two-year-old daughter Shaina will pull through Two-year-old Shaina is hooked up to an intravenous drip at one of the few functioning hospitals in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Her mother, Venda, desperately hopes it will alleviate the acute malnutrition the emaciated young girl is suffering from. Shaina is one of 760,000…
In the afternoon session, Welsh number seven seed Jonny Clayton also needed sudden death to pull off a sensational final-set comeback against Mickey Mansell in. He was a leg away from defeat twice to his Northern Irish opponent, but came from behind to win the final set 6-5 in a sudden-death leg to win 3-2….
US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, switching their penalty to life in prison without parole. The three excluded from the measure include the Boston Marathon bomber and the man who killed Jewish worshippers in 2018. In a statement, Biden said he was “more convinced…
Adam is now adapting to life with his new prosthetic legs A promising teenage footballer who lost both lower legs after a car crash is home from hospital and walking again – in time for Christmas with his family. Adam Golebiewski was 17 when he was injured in the crash in Macduff, Aberdeenshire, in September….
Israel’s defence minister has for the first time acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July. Israel Katz made the comments in a speech vowing to target the heads of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen, which has been firing missiles and drones at Israel. Haniyeh was killed in a…
BBC The port was originally due to reopen on Friday 20 December Haulage companies are appealing for better communication and more clarity over the reopening of one of Britain’s busiest ports. Holyhead in Anglesey, north Wales, was forced to close following damage during Storm Darragh and is not set to reopen until January 15 at…
A ship docked at a port in Istanbul rolled on its side in the early hours of Monday morning, sliding its cargo into the water. The ship, called Anmah, became unbalanced because of unequal loading of containers onto the vessel, according to local reports. All 15 crew members escaped without coming to serious harm, though…
Astonishing photographs captured from deep within the Brazilian rainforest show an uncontacted Amazon tribe for the first time, it has emerged. The images, taken on automatic cameras, appear to show the Massaco tribe arming themselves with machetes and axes that were left behind by the Brazilian National Indigenous Peoples Foundation (Funai). Funai has spent decades working to preserve…
