Tag Archives: BBC News

By Brandon Drenon,BBC News The parents of a Michigan teenager who shot dead four students have each been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison.  A seven-year sentence was recommended, but prosecutors asked for more.  James and Jennifer Crumbley, the first parents of a US school shooter to be convicted, appeared together for the first time in months at ...

Millions of people across Mexico, the US and Canada looked to the skies on Monday to witness a total solar eclipse carve a narrow path of darkness across the continent.Its shadow first touched the surface of the Earth in the Pacific Ocean before travelling across Mexico, turning daylight into darkness as crowds watched on. The eclipse rolled over the border ...

By Ido Vock,BBC News More than 90 people have died after a ferry sank off the north coast of Mozambique, local authorities say.  Officials in Nampula province said five people had been rescued of the around 130 believed to have been on board. They were fleeing a cholera outbreak, Nampula Secretary of State Jaime Neto said. Many children were among ...

By Jonathan O’Callaghan Millions of observers will watch next week’s American solar eclipse from the ground. But a few lucky Nasa flight crews will get a much closer view. When a total solar eclipse crosses North America on Monday 8 April, an estimated 31 million people will be in its path – watching. Many more are likely to travel for the ...

By Nadine Yousif,BBC News The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from hospital.  The 62-year-old was sent home on Wednesday, two weeks after the ground-breaking surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).  Organ transplants from genetically modified pigs have failed in the past.  But the success of this procedure so far has ...

https://bbc.com/africalive Kenya’s largest public referral hospital has announced that it will dispose hundreds of unclaimed bodies currently at its morgue if family members will not collect them. “Interested members of the public are therefore requested to identify and collect the bodies within seven days, failure to which the hospital will seek authority from the courts to dispose of them,” the ...

By Myles Bonnar & Calum McKay,BBC Scotland Jade Skea was a teenager when she first met charismatic street trader Kim Avis. She did not know it would bring her into a decade-long, controlling and abusive relationship with him and land her at the centre of a story that involved a fake death plot, an international manhunt and a high court ...

By Lipika Pelham,BBC News Six people are missing and presumed dead after a container ship hit the landmark Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore. The Coast Guard said it had suspended its search and begun a recovery effort. Several vehicles were crossing the bridge, which is more than 2.6km (1.6 miles) long, when it collapsed after ...

By Nadine Yousif,BBC News, Toronto It was a simple at-home DNA testing kit, a Christmas day gift, that upended the lives of two Canadian men forever.  Richard Beauvais, from the coastal town of Sechelt, British Columbia, grew up his whole life believing he was indigenous. But the test he took showed that he had a mix of Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish ...

By Nadine Yousif,BBC News, Toronto It was a simple at-home DNA testing kit, a Christmas day gift, that upended the lives of two Canadian men forever.  Richard Beauvais, from the coastal town of Sechelt, British Columbia, grew up his whole life believing he was indigenous. But the test he took showed that he had a mix of Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish ...