8 hours ago By Luis Barrucho, BBC World Service Getty In 2018, Brazilian pensioner João sought medical help after he found a wart on his penis. “I started visiting medical clinics to find out what it was, but all the doctors told me it was due to excess skin and prescribed medication,” the 63-year-old recalls. Despite the […]
A review of licensing laws and planning rules aimed at boosting pubs, restaurants and music venues would be launched in the first 100 days of a new Conservative government, the party has promised. Ministers would look at ways to “crack down” on councils setting “disproportionate conditions and restrictions on licences” in a bid to cut […]
Seven weeks after firing Darvin Ham, the Los Angeles Lakers landed on their next head coach on Thursday: JJ Redick, the 15-year NBA veteran turned podcaster and broadcaster, league sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell The Athletic. Redick is signing a four-year deal worth in the neighborhood of $8 million per season with […]
Macaque monkeys got on better with others in their social groups after a devastating hurricane, according to researchers. Researchers studied the impacts of a hurricane on a population of Rhesus macaques on an island off Puerto Rico. Temperatures are often around 40C so shade is a precious resource for macaques, since tree cover is still […]
Four Balkan countries suffered simultaneous power cuts lasting several hours on Friday as the region sweltered in a summer heatwave. Albania, Bosnia, Montenegro and large areas of the Croatian coast were hit by the afternoon blackouts, brought on by surging demand for power after households switched on air-conditioning to combat the high temperatures. In Bosnia […]
A senior State Department official and skeptic of the Biden administration’s “bear hug” approach to the government of Israel resigned this week in a setback for U.S. diplomats pushing for a sharper break with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition, said three people familiar with the matter. Andrew Miller, the deputy assistant secretary […]
A gang of cyber criminals causing huge disruption to multiple London hospitals has published sensitive patient data stolen from an NHS blood testing company. Overnight on Thursday, Qilin shared almost 400GB of the private information on their darknet site. The gang has been trying to extort money from NHS provider Synnovis since they hacked the […]
Jun 21, 2024, 04:38 PM ET The next Africa Cup of Nations finals have been put back six months and will now be played from Dec. 21, 2025 to Jan. 18, 2026, the Confederation of African (CAF) football announced on Friday. The 2025 tournament in Morocco was supposed to take place in mid-year but has […]
8 hours ago By Laura Bicker, China correspondent Watch: US ‘focused on reducing conflict’ with China, ambassador tells the BBC’s Laura Bicker Washington and Beijing are talking more regularly to avoid a conflict in the South China Sea despite their “contentious and competitive” relationship, the United States ambassador to China has told the BBC. “Our militaries are […]
Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. Wednesday, June 18, saw the start of EBAday 2024 in Lisbon — the annual summit for leading payments and transaction banking executives. During the first day of the summit, David Birch, an author, […]