Kevin Keane BBC Scotland’s environment correspondent BBC The banks of Loch Long at Arrochar are strewn with plastics from the River Clyde At the head of beautiful Loch Long in Argyll sits one of Scotland’s biggest plastic problems. A combination of prevailing winds and the rotation of the earth drive litter up the loch to […]
Maxine Collins/BBC It’s towards the end of our interview that Bill Gates reveals new numbers on how much his charitable Foundation has now spent in its efforts to combat preventable diseases and reduce poverty. “I’ve given over 100 billion,” he says, “but I still have more to give.” That’s dollars, just to clarify, worth about […]
Last week, Julie Stewart-Binks sat in an empty lounge on the rooftop of a hotel near her apartment in New York City. She is about to watch a clip from her time as a Fox Sports host and reporter. It is a moment that she thinks about often, but one that she has never wanted […]
President Trump’s move this weekend to slap sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China is threatening to fracture the global trading system and a world economic order that once revolved around a U.S. economy that prized open investment and free markets. The speed and scope of the import duties that Mr. Trump unveiled in executive […]
Georgina Rannard Climate and science reporter Watch: Lift-off for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin as rocket New Glenn launches into orbit Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space company has blasted its first rocket into orbit in a bid to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The New Glenn rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station […]
Robin van Persie’s Heerenveen side were held to a 2-2 draw by Fortuna Sittard. Getty Heerenveen boss Robin van Persie was left exasperated after match officials mistakenly allowed Fortuna Sittard to field 12 players against his side on Saturday. The incident took place in the 88th minute with Heerenveen 2-1 up, when Fortuna made a double-substitution […]
Oleksandr Zinchenko had failed to read the room. Last summer, on vacation in the south of France, the Arsenal left-back had nowhere to run. Not in a metaphorical sense: he needed to find a pitch to maintain his fitness for a couple of hours a day before returning to Premier League duty. Fortunately, he thought, […]
Erica Donnelly, Jessica Tse, Jack Latham The BBC spoke to six people – including Erica, Jessica and Jack – who have had their first cervical screening in the last six months People not knowing about options to make their cervical screening easier and more comfortable is “costing lives”, a cancer charity warned last month. To […]
A variety of stories feature on the front pages of the Sunday papers. The Sunday Mirror leads with the story that the government is introducing new laws to tackle the threat of child sexual abuse images generated by artificial intelligence (AI). It says Labour vowed to crackdown on the content after an increase in cases […]
Unai Emery wants two deals sealed ahead of Deadline Day with Marco Asensio and Marcus Rashford potentially headed to Aston Villa, while Juventus are plotting a summer move for Victor Osimhen. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors and gossip from around the globe. Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s January grades | […]