Tag Archives: BBC News

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 ...

Sean Seddon,BBC News American actor Johnny Wactor has been shot dead in Los Angeles by a thief who was trying to steal a part from his car. The 37-year-old suffered fatal injuries after interrupting three men who were attempting to remove the catalytic converter from his parked vehicle. Wactor – who previously featured in the US soap opera General Hospital ...

Smitha Mundasad,Health reporter A cancer charity is warning people to do more to protect themselves from the sun as the number of melanoma skin-cancer cases in the UK continues to rise. Cancer Research UK predicts there will be a record 20,800 cases diagnosed this year – up from a yearly average of 19,300 between 2020 and 2022. Its analysis shows ...

Ashley-John Baptiste & NJ Convery,BBC News Investigations & File on 4, @ashleyjbaptiste At the age of 14, Katy Baxter was detained alone under a court order, far from her Bournemouth home, supervised by two workers 24 hours a day, going for long periods without any contact with her family. “I wanted to see my nan and my sister. I couldn’t even ...

Curtis Lancaster,BBC News A new homeowner has found a crisp packet from nearly half a century ago in his back garden. Cenk Albayrak-Touye was renovating his home in Poole, Dorset when he made the discovery. He said: “I dug up the turf in the back garden and found a load of items but it was the yellow packaging that caught ...

A helicopter carrying the Iranian president has been involved in an accident, state media is reporting. State media says President Ebrahim Raisi was on board a helicopter that experienced a hard landing on Sunday. It was also said to be carrying Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. The Interior Minister said rescuers were still trying to reach the site due to ...

Farouk Chothia,BBC News, Johannesburg South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved a controversial new law that will lead to the biggest shake-up in the health sector since the end of the racist system of apartheid 30 years ago.  It promises universal health care for all, but has faced fierce resistance from the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), which has accused ...

Fan Wang,BBC News “I don’t want anyone to think that I ever said these horrible things in my life. Using a Ukrainian girl for a face promoting Russia. It’s crazy.” Olga Loiek has seen her face appear in various videos on Chinese social media – a result of easy-to-use generative AI tools available online. “I could see my face and ...

Priti Gupta,Technology Reporter, Mumbai Every day, with bare hands, Rukmini Baburao Kumbhar, collects around 50kg (eight stone) of fresh cow dung. She is part of a spiritual group that runs a small ashram (a religious retreat) in a village in the north-western Indian state of Maharashtra. Collecting cow dung is not, primarily, an effort to keep the place tidy. Instead, ...

Hafsa Khalil,BBC News The first man to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the operation, the hospital which carried out the procedure has said. Richard “Rick” Slayman, 62, was suffering with end-stage kidney disease before undergoing the operation in March. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) said on Sunday there was no indication his death was ...