It was earlier this month, as protests swept Bangladesh and bodies lay on the streets, that prime minister Sheikh Hasina hastily boarded a helicopter. She was unaccompanied by any political aides and did not tell any of her senior ministers she was leaving. In a matter of hours, she touched down in neighbouring India, where … Read more
Getty Images More than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or been handed over to volunteer groups in the UK since 2016, BBC analysis has found. More deprived communities were four times more likely to have lost a publicly-funded library in that time, while 2,000 jobs have also been lost. The figures “laid bare the … Read more
BBC Last October, Palestinian grandmother Ayesha Shtayyeh says a man pointed a gun at her head and told her to leave the place she had called home for 50 years. She told the BBC the armed threat was the culmination of an increasingly violent campaign of harassment and intimidation that began in 2021, after an … Read more
Reuters Benjamin Netanyahu has asked for “forgiveness” from Israelis for failing to return six hostages found dead in Gaza on Saturday, as Hamas warned more could be “returned to their families in shrouds” if a ceasefire isn’t reached. His comments came as intense street protests over his handling of negotiations entered a second night in … Read more
As many children return to school, parents face increasing pressure to pay voluntary contributions for books, art supplies and trips. Over the coming months, a growing number of schools are expected to ask parents for sums that can range from anywhere between £5 and many hundreds, as they try to balance their books. A recent … Read more
There’s a footpath opposite my house; it slips between two bungalows ending at a stile that takes you into the fields. In spring, it’s one of the first places you can spot cuckooflower and Jack-by-the-hedge; in summer, borage sprawls on to the path, humming with bees. I have walked and run along this path thousands … Read more
Success for Earps – but does a battle lie ahead? The former Manchester United goalkeeper Mary Earps has said that a large reason why she wanted to join Paris Saint-Germain was to win more trophies and, just a couple of months on, she has already got her hands on some minor silverware with the French … Read more
Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden’s transport secretary, introduced himself to Democrats at their convention earlier last month in unusual fashion. “I’m Pete Buttigieg and you might recognize me from Fox News,” he told the crowd in Chicago. The comment drew laughter, but beneath it was a certain truth: in the final two months of the 2024 … Read more
Donald Trump has a knack for rallying a remarkable range of political opinion around a common goal: preventing his return to the White House. That now includes prominent names from his own Republican party and top aides who worked under him as president. From former White House officials and national security staff to a once-worshipful … Read more
Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Sherwood on BBC One. Please don’t read it unless you have watched series two, episode four. The women behind the wire Out of options and fearing violent reprisals, the Sparrow crime family formed an unlikely alliance with police to bring down the Bransons. Yet their statements, even … Read more