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Kayla Epstein and Madeline Halpert,BBC Several minutes of almost unbearable silence passed at Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal case, before the court officer’s voice came loud and clear through the courtroom. She asked the jury to read the verdict. And in a steady, even tone, the foreman began. And when the first guilty verdict rang out, the air in the courtroom ...

By Joe Pike and Charlotte Rowles,BBC Newsnight A man discovered a medical specimen bag had been left inside his stomach after his hernia surgery, the BBC has found. The surgeon who carried out the procedure, at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in 2016, also left behind part of Tom Hadrys’s bowel that had been cut out during the ...

Image caption, Fred Leparan (left) was convicted after attempting to sell a baby boy to an undercover reporter By Joel Gunter & Anna Payton BBC Africa Eye A Kenyan hospital employee who was caught by the BBC selling a baby on the black market has been convicted of child trafficking. Fred Leparan, who worked at Nairobi’s Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital, was ...

Sharing passwords for online streaming services such as Netflix is against the law, according to a government agency.The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) said on Tuesday the practice broke copyright law.It is common in the UK for people who do not live together to share their streaming service passwords, despite this typically being against terms of service agreements.Netflix has never indicated ...

Source: BBC Deadly parasite Malaria is a parasite that invades and destroys our blood cells in order to reproduce, and it’s spread by the bite of blood-sucking mosquitoes. Drugs to kill the parasite, bed-nets to prevent bites and insecticides to kill the mosquito have all helped reduce malaria. But the greatest burden of the disease is felt in Africa, where ...

Bill and Melinda Gates say they are getting divorced after 27 years of marriage, saying “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple”.“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the pair wrote on Twitter.The two met in the late 1980s when ...

Government officials from Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan are once again holding talks in a bid to try to resolve a long running dispute triggered by the construction of a huge dam on the River Nile. In July last year the reservoir of the hydro electric dam in the west of Ethiopia started filling with water despite the breakdown of talks ...

All schools in Kenya will remain closed until next January because of the coronavirus pandemic. Final year exams, usually taken in October and November, have also been cancelled. Education Minister George Magoha said students would repeat a year as schools had closed in mid-March, three months after the school calendar had begun. But colleges and universities are to reopen in ...

The Cameroonian capital suffered its third bomb attack in two weeks on Thursday. A home-made bomb detonated in Cameroon’s capital on Thursday, causing severe injury to five people. It was the third time in a fortnight that a neighbourhood of Yaoundé had been subjected to a bomb attack. The BBC reports that the incident happened at around 7.30pm local time (6.30pm GMT) ...