50 minutes ago By Robert Plummer, BBC News Getty Images Lula’s Brazil is keen to promote the Brics, but it is dwarfed by Xi Jinping’s China It’s been more than a year-and-a-half since Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to the country’s presidency, back from the political dead after his conviction on corruption charges was dramatically […]
Tens of thousands of music fans enjoyed the final day of Scotland’s biggest music festival. This year’s TRNSMT at Glasgow Green concluded on Sunday night with a set from chart-topping DJ Calvin Harris. Those attending were warned to plan their travel home in advance due to ScotRail’s reduced timetable, which meant many services from Glasgow […]
LOS ANGELES — Lloyd Howell needs directions. “Wait,” the NFL Players Association executive director asks, weaving through a crowd of future star players and their entourages convened for a rooftop reception. “Which way is stage right?” It’s the penultimate night of the NFL Players Association’s Rookie Premiere, a business and marketing orientation for 18 top […]
Minutes after Saturday’s shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., liberals began flooding social media platforms with conspiracy theories. They claimed the blood on former president Donald Trump’s ear was from a theatrical gel pack; that the shooting was a “false flag,” perhaps coordinated by the Secret Service in collaboration with the Trump campaign; […]
BUTLER, Pa. — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) identified the man killed in Saturday’s shooting at a rally for former president Donald Trump as Corey Comperatore, a father of two daughters who he said died trying to protect his family. Shapiro said he had spoken with Comperatore’s wife, who asked him to share that “Corey […]
Getty Images The new government has made tackling NHS waiting times a key priority – and this week appointed NHS surgeon and former health minister Lord Ara Darzi to investigate what is going wrong. Is productivity the place to start? The scale of the challenge facing Health Secretary Wes Streeting was made clear as he […]
NIFRS Significant damage was caused to the inside of the kart racing complex Firefighters have worked overnight to tackle a major blaze close to Newry city centre. At its height, about 50 crew members dealt with the incident at Greenbank industrial estate. It is believed to have started at a kart racing centre just before […]
The 2026 FIFA World Cup final at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium will heed the lessons of the ugly scenes the Copa América semifinal between Uruguay and Colombia in Charlotte and be “really safe and secure,” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy told ESPN. CONMEBOL opened a formal investigation after after Uruguay forward Darwin Núñez entered the […]
4 days ago By Jonathan Amos, @BBCAmos, Science correspondent FMHT/National Geographic Endurance rests on the seafloor at a depth of 3,000m A protection perimeter drawn around Endurance, one of the world’s greatest shipwrecks, is being widened from a radius of 500m to 1,500m. The extended zone will further limit activities close to the vessel, which sank in 1915 […]
Police snipers return fire after shots were fired while former President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday. Gene J. Puskar/AP hide caption toggle caption Gene J. Puskar/AP The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to […]