PA Media Sandie Peggie complained about sharing changing facilities with a transgender doctor A nurse who complained about sharing a changing room with a transgender doctor has been cleared of gross misconduct following disciplinary proceedings by NHS Fife. Sandie Peggie was suspended from her role last year after she objected to Dr Beth Upton, who […]
The Senate considers the rescissions package that would strip $9.4 billion for public boradcasting and foreign aid. AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Senate is taking up a package of $9 billion in spending cuts requested by the Trump administration. The cuts target foreign aid programs and public broadcasting. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans are […]
Manila, Philippines – When former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in March, Sheerah Escuerdo spoke to a local television station, welcoming the politician’s detention on charges of murder linked to his war on drugs. Escuerdo, who lost her 18-year-old brother, Ephraim, to Duterte’s war, clutched a portrait of […]
Mike Waltz, former US national security adviser and US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg/via Getty Images Former National Security Advisor Mike […]
Defence Minister John Healey says about 4,500 people are in Britain or in transit under the secret programme. The United Kingdom set up a secret plan to resettle thousands of Afghan people in Britain after an official accidentally disclosed the personal details of more than 33,000 people, putting them at risk of reprisals from the […]
Sun shines on the U.S Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP The Senate is moving to vote this week on the Trump administration’s request to claw back federal funding for public media and foreign assistance programs. The House approved the package last […]
Muhammadu Buhari, who was the country’s democratic leader between 2015 and 2023, died aged 82 in London on Sunday. Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari will be buried in his hometown of Daura in the northern state of Katsina, once his body is repatriated from the United Kingdom, the state governor has said. The remains of […]
At least nine people have died and more than 30 others injured after a deadly fire swept through an assisted living facility in Massachusetts, officials say. Authorities responded to the fire at Gabriel House, in the town of Fall River, at approximately 21:50 local time on Sunday (02:50 GMT on Monday). On arrival, they discovered […]
Stewart Whittingham & Ewan Gawne BBC News, Liverpool Getty Images Seventeen children have been treated at Alder Hey for the disease since June A child has died at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital after contracting measles, the BBC understands. The hospital said the highly contagious virus was on the rise among young people in the […]
Yūsuf Akínpẹ̀lú & Natasha Booty BBC News, Lagos & London Anadolu via Getty Images “We already have over 230 million people,” says Yusuf Tuggar Nigeria will not bow to pressure from the Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees or third-country prisoners from the US, foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar has vowed, quoting 1990s American rappers Public […]