3 hours ago By Christal Hayes & Holly Honderich, BBC News Getty Images The first presidential debate is done and the aftermath has not been good for the incumbent, Joe Biden. Mr Biden’s primary goal on Thursday was to ease concerns about his age. Instead, the debate deepened them. Some Democrat politicians and operatives reportedly texted Newsportu […]
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After 36 matches, Euro 2024 has progressed to the all-important knockout stage, starting with the round of 16 on Saturday. Al Jazeera picks out the four key matches in this round: ⚽ Germany vs Denmark When: June 29, 9pm local time (19:00 GMT) Where: BVB Stadion in Dortmund Germany and Denmark will meet in a […]
7 hours ago By Joanne MacAulay, BBC Scotland News Venture Builder Incubator Sânziana Foia has created a non-invasive test to check for signs of cervical cancer When Sânziana Foia went for her first smear test at the age of 25, she was surprised by how uncomfortable she found the whole experience. The post-graduate student thought there must […]
Just now By Mark Palmer, BBC News Getty Images The company had originally planned to shut down one of the blast furnaces by the end of June and the second by September Workers at Tata Steel have been told the company is taking steps to potentially cease operations at much of the Port Talbot plant by 7 […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla filed a response Thursday disputing a wrongful-death lawsuit from the wife of a Tesla employee killed in a fiery 2022 crash. The initial suit seeking damages from Tesla was filed last month in the U.S. District Court in Colorado and alleges that the company sold the employee a defective car and […]
One Democratic donor texted a face-palm emoji with a single word: “Oy.” Another was more blunt, texting a yellow emoji spewing green vomit. And by the time CNN’s 90-minute presidential debate between President Biden and former president Donald Trump concluded Thursday evening, even Biden’s former communications director Kate Bedingfield concluded on the network’s air, “It […]
ATLANTA — Several players on the U.S. men’s national soccer team were targeted with racist comments on social media following their 2-1 defeat to Panama on Thursday in Copa América, the U.S. Soccer Federation said. “U.S. Soccer is aware of and deeply disturbed by the racist comments made online and directed at several of our […]
4 hours ago By Caroline Hawley, Diplomatic correspondent REX/Shutterstock Growing crowds have attended reformist Massoud Pezeshkian’s rallies A snap election called after a deadly helicopter crash. A candidate promising a different approach both at home and abroad. And suddenly there’s an element of suspense and unpredictability in Iran, as voters go to the polls to choose a […]
8 hours ago By Karl Mercer, Political correspondent, BBC London BBC Streatham GP Lucy Goodeve-Docker said the situation had been “incredibly tricky” Doctors’ surgeries in London have continued to struggle with the impact of a cyber attack that knocked out pathology services across the area. Synnovis, an agency which manages labs for NHS trusts and GPs in […]