Tag Archives: BBC News

By Anthony Zurcher The 2024 election campaign has a new iconic image: Donald Trump, moments after narrowly avoiding serious injury or death from an assassin’s bullets, standing with his fist raised, lines of blood streaked across his face, an American flag billowing in the breeze behind him. “Fight! Fight! Fight!” the former president said, as some of the supporters, who ...

By Sofia Ferreira Santos & Chris Ewokor. At least 18 people have been killed and 30 injured in a series of deadly blasts in Nigeria thought to have been carried out by female suicide bombers. One of the bombings is reported to have killed six people and injured others at a wedding ceremony on Saturday, in the northeastern Borno state. ...

By Caitriona Perry, Ana Faguy & Bernd Debusmann Jr, A US couple who died during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia were walking for over two hours in scorching temperatures before they succumbed to heat stroke, their daughter has told the BBC. Alhaji Alieu Dausy Wurie, 71, and Haja Isatu Wurie, 65, of Bowie, Maryland, were among an estimated 1,300 ...

By Bernd Debusmann Jr, BBC News, Washington Several American Airlines employees have been put on leave for their involvement in an incident in which black passengers were removed from a flight after a complaint about body odour. Three passengers filed a lawsuit against the carrier in May, alleging racial discrimination in the 5 January incident. In a note to employees, ...

By Wedaeli Chibelushi, BBC News, London • Peter Jegwa, BBC News, Lilongwe The wreck of a plane carrying Malawi’s vice-president has been found with no survivors, President Lazarus Chakwera has said. Saulos Chilima and nine others were flying within the country on Monday morning when their aircraft disappeared from airport radars. The plane, a military aircraft, was flying in bad weather.  Soldiers had been searching ...

By Wedaeli Chibelushi, BBC News An aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima and nine others has gone missing, a statement from the president’s office has said. The Malawi Defence Force aircraft “went off the radar” after it left the capital, Lilongwe, on Monday morning, it added. The plane was supposed to land at Mzuzu International Airport, in the country’s north, just after ...

Thomas Mackintosh,BBC News Grammy award-winning producer and songwriter The-Dream has been accused of rape and sexual battery, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles The 47-year-old, born Terius Gesteelde-Diamant, was named as the defendant in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by a former protégé, Chanaaz Mangroe, who performed as Channii Monroe. According to the lawsuit, Ms Mangroe says Mr ...

Vanessa Buschschlüter,BBC News Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become Mexico’s first woman president in an historic win, exit polls suggest.  The 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City is projected to win 56% of the vote in Sunday’s election, convincingly beating her main rival, businesswoman Xóchitl Gálvez.  Preliminary results also give her a wide lead.  If the exit polls are confirmed, ...

Ana Faguy,BBC News Officials in Texas have found the remains of a woman in the jaws of an alligator. Houston authorities were in the area looking for a missing woman when they discovered the body.  Identification of the remains has not yet been made.  Authorities shot and killed the alligator to stop it from doing more damage to the remains. ...

Max Matza,BBC News Three black men have filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that the carrier briefly removed them from a flight after a complaint about body odour.  The men, who were not seated together and did not know each other, say that every black man was removed from the 5 January flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to ...