Soutik Biswas & Ishleen Kaur BBC Eye Investigations BBC Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead in a hail of bullets in 2022 It was a killing that shocked India: Punjabi hip-hop star Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead through the windscreen of his car by hired gunmen. Within hours, a Punjabi gangster named Goldy Brar had […]
A nighttime curfew was in force in Los Angeles as local officials sought to get a handle on protests that United States President Donald Trump claimed were an invasion by a “foreign enemy”. “I have declared a local emergency and issued a curfew for central Los Angeles to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting,” […]
A federal appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow President Trump to maintain many of his tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, extending a pause granted shortly after another panel of judges ruled in late May that the import taxes were illegal. The decision, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal […]
Women who tracked their menstrual cycle using smartphone apps have been warned about the privacy and safety risks of doing so. A report from the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre said the apps were a “gold mine” for consumer profiling and collecting information. Academics cautioned that in the wrong hands, the data could result in […]
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to weaken a Biden-era regulation that required power plants to slash pollutants, including the emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin that impairs brain development, according to an internal agency document. Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, intends to announce the proposed changes within days, according to two people who have been briefed […]
National Guard troops stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, MDC on June 08, in Los Angeles. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith said he fears President Trump wants to use the U.S. military as his “personal police force.” “President Trump wants […]
East Pacific has seen three named storms, while the Atlantic has yet to see its first named storm of the season. The Eastern Pacific hurricane season has gotten off to a fast start, with three named storms already forming since the beginning of the season on May 15. Meanwhile, since the start of the Atlantic […]
The United States and China, trying to ease economic tensions between the superpowers, agreed to a “framework” for extending a trade truce that they reached last month, officials from both countries said on Tuesday. After two days of marathon negotiations in London, top economic officials from the United States and China are now expected to […]
A minibus carrying schoolchildren has been swept away by heavy flooding in South Africa, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape provincial government has told the BBC. Khuselwa Rantjie said it was unclear how many children were on the bus, but three had so far been found alive. Rescue efforts had been suspended as night had […]
Niede Guidon, a Brazilian archaeologist whose work called into question a longstanding theory of how the Americas were first populated by humans, and who almost single-handedly transformed a hardscrabble region of northeast Brazil into the Serra da Capivara National Park, died on Wednesday at her home near the park, in São Raimundo Nonato. She was […]