Reuters Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting visited a hospital in south London on Monday The government has announced more details of what is in this week’s Budget for the NHS – including £1.57bn for new surgical hubs, scanners and radiotherapy machines. The funding is part of the government’s overall plan to increase the number of…
Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams, a retired US Navy officer & NASA astronaut, speaks about Diwali via video from the International Space Station (Picture Credit: AP) Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams extended her heartfelt wishes for Diwali to those celebrating in the United States, and around the world via video message shared from the International Space Station. “Greetings…
Katie Amess Katie Amess said there are questions for the police on why they did not do more to protect her father, the late MP Sir David Amess “We have a lot of questions, and somebody needs to answer them,” the daughter of murdered Conservative MP Sir David Amess has said. Katie Amess told the…
Authorities in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, said they’ve opened investigations after two ballot boxes went up in flames early Monday morning. In Portland, an incendiary device was placed inside the ballot box and used to set it on fire, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement. Police said a suspicious device was found…
Getty Images There are no pictures of the city but it had pyramid temples similar to this one in nearby Calakmul A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in the southeastern state of Campeche. They found…
The moment two children were saved from a car stuck in the path of an oncoming train has been captured on camera. According to CBS, BBC’s local partner in the US, the vehicle got stuck in gravel on railway tracks at Redlands, California. The female driver and off-duty San Bernardino County Sheriff deputy Michael Castaneda…
Vice President Kamala Harris will visit every battleground state in the final week before Election Day, with a focus on female voters who she hopes will propel her to the White House. The campaign has directed several messages to female voters in recent days, reminding them that what happens in the voting booth is a…
Canada’s Indigenous Services minister refused to say Monday if non-Indigenous companies that won contracts by claiming to be Indigenous should pay back the value of contracts that were meant for First Nations, Inuit or Métis businesses. Under questioning by Conservative MPs during a parliamentary committee meeting, Patty Hajdu repeatedly stressed the value of the Indigenous…
Pete Middleton Lifelong tech enthusiast Pete Middleton Pete Middleton, who lives in Northamptonshire, UK with his wife, has long been an early adopter of technology. He became interested in computing while in the Royal Air Force in the 1980s and went on to learn several programming languages. In recent years he’s been enthusiastic about the…
Hannah Clarke The Budget on Wednesday will reveal how much tax each of us will pay and how much the government will choose to spend on services like the NHS, schools and transport. BBC News has been speaking to people with a range of incomes about what they want from the Budget and, in some…
