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General Election 2019: NI parties clash during BBC election debate
Image caption The general election takes place on Thursday, with 18 Westminster seats in Northern Ireland at stake. The five main Stormont parties have discussed Brexit, healthcare and the collapse of the assembly in the BBC election debate. It took place in the BBC’s studios in Belfast on Tuesday night. The general election takes place […]
Genaro García Luna: US arrests Mexico ex-minister on drugs charges
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Genaro García Luna was considered an architect of Mexico’s “war on drugs” A former Mexican security minister has been arrested in the US, charged with taking bribes from a drugs cartel. Genaro García Luna is accused of allowing the Sinaloa cartel of “El Chapo” Guzman to operate in Mexico in […]
Jersey City: Police officer and several others killed in shooting
A police officer and several other people have been killed in a shooting in the US city of Jersey City. A second officer and two others were also injured, according to city Mayor Steven Fulop. Gunfire was exchanged for at least an hour in the city’s Greenville neighbourhood, which is just across the Hudson River […]
Sydney bushfire smog ‘like being a heavy smoker’
Sydney is cloaked in a thick haze as smoke from bushfires burning across New South Wales drifts into Australia’s most populated city. Landmarks like the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House have disappeared into the smog and people are being warned to say indoors. The BBC’s Phil Mercer says the smoke in the air […]
General election 2019: Tories investigate candidate over alleged Islamophobia
Image copyright UK Parliament Image caption Labour’s Naz Shah said she was “disgusted” by the comments of a Conservative party candidate The Conservatives are investigating a complaint made by Labour candidate Naz Shah that a Tory candidate re-tweeted Islamophobic material. In a letter to Conservative chair James Cleverly, Ms Shah called for action over the […]
Maurice Saatchi quits advertising firm he co-founded
Image copyright Getty Images Lord Maurice Saatchi has quit the advertising agency he co-founded in 1995 along with three other directors in the wake of an accounting scandal. M&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence after profit warnings. The company also revealed a £11.6m hole […]
Merriam-Webster: Non-binary pronoun ‘they’ is word of year
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Singer Sam Smith came out as non-binary this year, and confirmed that their pronouns are they/them Merriam-Webster has named “they” its word of the year. The US dictionary also recently added a new definition of “they”, reflecting its use as a singular personal pronoun for non-binary people. Searches for […]
General election 2019: London Bridge victim’s dad ‘offended by Johnson’
The father of one of the victims of the London Bridge attack has accused Boris Johnson of using his son’s death “to score points” in the general election. After the attack on 29 November, the prime minister blamed Usman Khan’s early release from prison on legislation introduced under the Labour government. The father of Cambridge […]
Assisted dying: Western Australia passes legislation
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Supporters of the bill staged a rally in Perth in August Western Australia has legalised voluntary assisted dying, becoming the second state in the country to do so. There were cheers and emotional scenes in the public gallery as MPs passed the historic legislation in the state’s lower house […]