Jungmin Choi / BBC Korean Hyuk is set to debut as a K-pop boyband member this year Yu Hyuk was just nine years old when he started begging on the streets of North Hamgyong, one of the poorest provinces in North Korea, nestled along the northern border with China and Russia. Besides begging, he ran […]
Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Samuel Weidenhofer Samuel Weidenhofer’s acts of kindness started with hugs and roses Growing up, Samuel Weidenhofer struggled with his mental health after losing his aunt to suicide when he was nine, experiencing a speech impediment, and being bullied. The trauma of it all made him want to end his own life, […]
Doctors are advising women to take care using menstrual cups, after one user developed temporary kidney problems because the cup was misaligned. The patient, in her 30s, had been experiencing intermittent pelvic pain and blood in her urine for months, but had not linked the symptoms to the menstrual cup, which is used to catch […]
Arne Slot lost his FA Cup gamble against Plymouth Argyle, but the Liverpool manager might instead have edged closer to winning the trophies that really matter at Anfield this season by giving his star men the day off. Make no mistake, Plymouth’s giant-killing 1-0 win — the bottom club in the Championship beating the Premier […]
Barely two days after Russell Vought, the new acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ordered the agency to close its office and halt all its work, employees spent Monday in a state of deep confusion about what they should — or should not — be doing. Mr. Vought, the recently confirmed director of […]
Getty Images President Donald Trump has ordered an across-the-board 25% import tax on all steel and aluminium entering the US in a major expansion of existing trade barriers. The tariffs, which will increase the costs of importing the metals into the US, come despite warnings of retaliation from some political leaders in Canada – America’s […]
Super Bowl LIX was expected to be fun and close, with the Kansas City Chiefs seeking to become the first team to win the big game three years in a row and the Philadelphia Eagles playing upstart. It ended up being a runaway few saw coming, as the slight favorite Kansas City fell 40-22 to […]
Assisted dying cases would no longer have to be signed off by the High Court under changes suggested by the bill’s supporters. The proposed law currently says a High Court judge must check each person is eligible and has not been coerced into making the decision to die. But BBC News has been told Kim […]
A federal judge rules US government has defied a previous ruling that suspended president’s sweeping order to freeze federal spending. A United States federal judge has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump did not fully comply with his order halting a federal spending freeze that has thrown the government into chaos. On Monday, […]
Hope you enjoyed the Super Bowl on Sunday night, and congrats to the Philadelphia Eagles. The ads were better than the game. We’ve got a rundown below. I got into a substantive debate on Sunday with Joe Lonsdale, the venture capitalist and co-founder of Palantir, and other investors, about how carried interest is taxed. President […]