Donald Trump has pledged to shield police officers from legal accountability if he is re-elected as president after falsely claiming the US is in the grip of a wave of violent crime that he blamed on the Black Lives Matter movement and people crossing the Mexican border. Speaking to police officers in Michigan on Tuesday, … Read more
BBC Mike and Lisa Buller say they are stuck in a rent trap The “red-hot” rental market is starting to cool, exclusive data provided to the BBC reveals, but tenants say they are still caught in a price trap. The cost for renters who move home and take on a new tenancy has risen at … Read more
BBC Three weeks on from the start of the riots, many of us are still trying to make sense of their impact. Will the disorder come to be seen as a one-off outburst quickly faced down by the public and police, or as a display of power by a newly dangerous far right? The murders … Read more
Getty Images Harris and Obama hug at a White House event in 2022 Former President Barack Obama will return to the Democratic National Convention stage in his hometown of Chicago to deliver the keynote address on Tuesday, 20 years after his convention debut thrust him into the national spotlight. It’s a tricky moment for one … Read more
Elliot Morgan Clean Bandit (Clockwise from top): Jack Patterson, Luke Patterson and Grace Chatto Discovering a signature sound is the holy grail of pop music. There’s no Pink Floyd without David Gilmour’s sweeping guitar lines. Remove Dr Dre’s incendiary production, and NWA are just another rap posse. Billie Eilish’s vocal delivery is so distinctive she … Read more
Getty Images 7-Eleven is the world’s biggest convenience store chain When the owner of 7-Eleven announced this week that it had received a buyout offer from a Canadian rival it triggered shockwaves in Japan. A Japanese company of this size has never been bought by a foreign firm. Historically, companies from Japan were more likely … Read more
Eulita Jerop Kenyan Eulita Jerop has been in Lebanon for 14 months but now wants to leave “I want to go home,” Kenyan Eulita Jerop tells the BBC from Lebanon, where she is employed as a domestic worker. But the terms of her employment make it difficult for her to leave, despite fears of an … Read more