Dawn Pummintr/BBC Stonehenge now has stones from all over Great Britain The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales as previously thought, new analysis has found. The discovery shows the construction of Stonehenge was a far greater collaborative effort than scientists realised. It […]
The first money from a £100m fund to help workers and firms affected by restructuring plans at Tata’s Port Talbot steel plant is being released, UK ministers will announce on Thursday. Tata closed one of its two blast furnaces on the site last month and plans to shut the second in September, as it moves […]
Consumer prices in the US rose at the slowest pace in more than three years last month, bolstering the case for the central bank to start cutting interest rates. Overall, prices rose 2.9% over the 12 months to July, the smallest annual increase since March 2021 and down from 3% in June, the Labor Department […]
Army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s about-face on joining talks dampens hopes they will lead to the end of 16-month war. A new round of talks aimed at ending a 16-month civil war in Sudan that has sparked a humanitarian crisis in the Northeast African country has begun in Switzerland despite the army’s absence. Army leader […]
Family handout Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane The families of the victims of the Nottingham attacks say those responsible for failings in Valdo Calocane’s care have “blood on their hands”. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and 65-year-old Ian Coates were killed by Calocane, who […]
BBC Brandon, who is a student at St Joseph’s Roman Catholic school in Port Talbot, thinks the town will struggle once the blast furnaces shut down. Brandon Hookings said he had always looked beyond his hometown of Port Talbot for his future, but the news about significant job losses at its steelworks this year has […]
NEW YORK — Aaron Judge wanted a change. One of the most feared hitters in the majors, the New York Yankees center fielder had struggled through the first several weeks of the season. By the end of April, he was hitting just .207. “I wasn’t doing too hot,” he recently said. So, Judge — who, like […]
Aug 13, 2024, 04:19 AM ET Premier League clubs spent £100 million in the 2024 January transfer window — the lowest single-window expenditure in the men’s game since 2012 (£60m) and a significant drop from the record £815m splashed out in 2023, according to Deloitte. Editor’s Picks 2 Related After record-breaking spending in the past […]
At least one person has died after one of Greece’s worst wildfires this year broke out on the outskirts of the capital, Athens, on Sunday. Authorities say the fires are now mostly under control with only a few “scattered hot spots”, but could spark up again later in the week. In recent years, wildfires have […]
SWNS / BBC Documents seen by the BBC show there had been concerns about Canon Hindley for years The Church of England made a six-figure pay-off to a priest assessed as a potential risk to children and young people, a BBC investigation has found. A senior member of staff at Blackburn Cathedral resigned over the […]