BBC/Emma Lynch James Gallagher inspects some of the captured ticks Am I the hunter or the hunted? It’s the question running through my mind as I stroll through the long grass and bracken. I’ve come to the park looking for blood-sucking ticks – to find out how common they are, why new species and new […]
Labour has promised to overhaul the business rates system to help revitalise the High Street if elected in the UK general election. The party has not specified what will replace the current business rates system but said reforms would level the playing field for High Street firms against online rivals. The party first put forward […]
The business secretary, Kemi Badenoch, is being pressed to question the Royal Mail bidder Daniel Křetínský on his business links, after the Guardian raised questions about a series of controversial global property deals connected to the Czech billionaire’s longtime business partners. Badenoch is scheduled to meet the tycoon next week to discuss his £3.57bn bid […]
7 hours ago By Matt Murphy, BBC News • George Wright, BBC News BBC The damaged school on Thursday The US has told Israel it must be fully “transparent” over an air strike that reportedly killed at least 35 people at a central Gaza school packed with displaced people on Thursday morning. Local journalists told the BBC a warplane had […]
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Every day, Chloe Ricketts wraps up her work and this awkward thing happens: She splits off from her co-workers and watches as they walk en masse in a different direction. Ricketts, the Washington Spirit forward who turned 17 last month, heads to a separate locker room, where she showers and changes alone. “It gets a […]
1 day ago By Vanessa Buschschlüter, BBC News Twitter/@BrunoRguezP Cuba, which is one of the guarantor nations in the peace talks, tweeted a group photo Colombia’s government and a group of left-wing rebels have said they will begin formal peace talks later this month. The group, which calls itself Second Marquetalia, split off from the Revolutionary Armed […]
PARIS — President Biden will return to Normandy on Friday to hail the U.S. Army Rangers who scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc eight decades ago in defense of freedom and democracy, part of a speech for the American people that will echo the central themes of his reelection bid. One day after meeting […]
Boeing’s Starliner capsule, carrying a pair of NASA astronauts, docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, completing the first leg of an important test flight after several of its thrusters went offline, forcing a dramatic, last-minute scramble to troubleshoot the issue. Traveling some 240 miles above Earth, the autonomous spacecraft slowly nestled in to […]
The U.S. has begun turning down people seeking asylum at the Southern border following Biden’s executive order. Here’s how border patrol agents, CBP and law enforcement are implementing the measures. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Right now, on the southern U.S. border, most migrants seeking asylum at ports of entry are being turned back. This comes just […]