A surgeon found to have stripped naked in a toilet cubicle and inferred to a colleague that they have sex in it has been struck off the medical register. Dr Samuel Stefan was working at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth when the junior colleague who had been chatting with him online organised to meet […]
Getty Images A national day of mourning has been announced in Switzerland for 9 January The bodies of the 40 victims of a bar fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve have been identified by police. The victims range in age from 14 to 39 years old, with 15 aged […]
Adrian Plumb This mountain hare was spotted on a chilly day in the Cairngorns by Adrian Plumb. A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 26 December and 2 January. Send your photos to [email protected]. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC’s rules on photography that can be found here. Please also ensure […]
A flight from Belfast to Egypt was cancelled on Saturday due to a “group of customers behaving disruptively onboard”, EasyJet has said. The airline said as a result, the plane was “attended by police prior to departure”. Flight EZY3077, from Belfast international Airport to Hurghada, had been due to depart from Belfast International Airport at […]
A 48-year-old man has been charged with murder after a man was found dead in a property in south London on New Year’s Day. Officers attended an address on Bondway, Lambeth, at about 20:00 GMT on Thursday and found the body of Kaleem Shaik, 41, inside the property, the Metropolitan Police said. Daniel Levy, of […]
Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter Getty Images Wellbeing has become such a priceless (or in many cases pricey) endeavour that we can’t seem to get enough of it. Last year, we were mainlining magnesium, consuming creatine – a muscle boosting supplement that became mainstream, and we turned to AI chatbots for help with anything […]
Reuters US President Donald Trump has warned Iran’s authorities against killing peaceful protesters, saying Washington “will come to their rescue”. In a brief post on social media, he wrote: “We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” but gave no further details. A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded by […]
Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. While Tesla stock (NYSE: TSLA) was trading higher in early price action today, it subsequently turned red after the company missed Q4 delivery estimates and reported an annual drop in deliveries for the […]
Osmond Chia,Business reporterand Yan Chen,BBC News Chinese Getty Images People in China will pay a 13% sales tax on contraceptives from 1 January, while childcare services will be exempt, as the world’s second-largest economy tries to boost birth rates. An overhaul of the tax system announced late last year removes many exemptions that were in […]
Social media Latif Ayodele (left) and Sina Ghami (right) were close friends and team members of Anthony Joshua British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital in Nigeria days after a fatal car accident that killed two of his close friends. The former world champion was deemed fit to recuperate at home, the […]