James Melley Senior Social Affairs Producer BBC In the early days of the pandemic, care home staff donned full personal protective equipment The Covid inquiry will start examining the impact of the pandemic on care services for elderly and disabled people on Monday. Bereaved families say they have been waiting for this moment for years, […]
Getty Images Ian Murray said he was “100%” confident the prime minister would be in his job come the next election The UK’s welfare system will “explode” and become unaffordable if it is not reformed, Scottish Secretary Ian Murray has said. Sir Keir Starmer’s government has been forced into a series of climbdowns on its […]
Esme Stallard Climate and science reporter, BBC News Karol Serewis/Getty Images Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas produced from oil and gas production, farming and landfill An $88m (£65m) satellite designed to detect releases of the planet-warming gas methane from oil and gas production, has been lost in space in a major setback for climate […]
A trade deal between the United States and Vietnam has marked the first full pact President Donald Trump has sealed with an Asian nation, but has also raised fears that it could provoke a new standoff between the US and China. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, who came to power last month on a platform […]
A variety of forecasters say the tax cut and spending bill passed by the Senate this week would add trillions of dollars to the federal debt over the next decade. The bill extends many of the 2017 tax cuts while reducing spending on Medicaid and food stamps. Derek White/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle […]
Investigations into historical child grooming cases were significantly delayed because a city council heavily redacted pages of evidence, a report has found. His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) found some material provided by Manchester City Council contained pages with only a few words visible on them. The watchdog said this […]
Madeline Halpert BBC News, courthouse in New York REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg A disgraced hip-hop mogul fell to his knees and buried his head in a chair at the defence table where he had just spent two months on trial for sex trafficking and racketeering. Twelve New York jurors gathered at 10:00 on Wednesday in the wood-paneled […]
Former health secretary Matt Hancock has denied claims the government’s attempt to throw a protective ring around care homes in 2020, early in the Covid pandemic, was empty rhetoric. In an irritable exchange he urged the Covid Inquiry to focus on the substance of what the government was doing at the time. Mr Hancock said […]
Bangladesh’s interim government says the conviction shows commitment to justice. Bangladesh’s self-exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court by the country’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). The three-member tribunal, headed by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, handed down the verdict in Hasina’s absence on Wednesday. The […]
The United States Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending bill on Tuesday, following intense negotiations and a marathon voting session on amendments. The bill, which still faces a challenging path to final approval in the House of Representatives, would impose deep cuts to popular health and nutrition programmes, among other measures, […]