Here are the key events on day 1,263 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is how things stand on Sunday, August 10: Fighting Russian forces launched a drone attack on a bus in Ukraine’s Kherson region, killing at least two people and wounding 16 others, according to Ukrainian officials. Another drone hit the bus as […]
Frankie McCamley reporting from Parliament Square Emma Rossiter and Adam Hale BBC News PA Media At least 365 people have been arrested at a demonstration in London in support of proscribed group Palestine Action, police say. Scores of people simultaneously unveiled handwritten signs with the message “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” at the […]
BBC As a Ryanair flight from London approached Vilnius, Lithuania, on 17 January, its descent was suddenly aborted. Just minutes from touching down, the aircraft’s essential Global Positioning System (GPS) suffered an unexplained interference, triggering an emergency diversion. The Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 had already descended to around 850ft (259m) when the disruption occurred. Instead […]
BBC Listen to this article on BBC Sounds There are some scientific discoveries that do much more than advance our knowledge: they create a shift in our psyche as they show us the scale of the Universe and our place in it. One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth […]
Maddie Molloy Climate & science reporter Getty Images The Soviet Union launched a number of missions to explore Venus – this probe was from an earlier flight Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere after being stuck in orbit for more than half a century, the European Space Agency […]
Getty Images The UK could experience a record UV level of nine on Thursday as the temperature continues to rise. So what is UV and why could records be broken now? What is the UV Index? The UV Index (or UVI) is a standard international measure of ultraviolet radiation emitted by the Sun – which […]
Do noise-cancelling headphones protect our hearing? Other Side of the Story spoke to Claire Benton, president of the British Academy of Audiology, to find out more abut noise-cancelling headphones. Claire explained that they can help protect people’s hearing as focusing on one sound with all others cancelled out, means it doesn’t need to be listened […]
Getty The measures will be in place for all future home fixtures at the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium Derry City Football Club are changing the way fans access their stadium following violent scenes during a match against Bohemian FC last month. Rival fans must now enter and leave through different gates at the Ryan McBride […]
Israel’s security cabinet has approved a plan to seize control of Gaza City, triggering growing international condemnation, with world leaders warning of dire humanitarian consequences. The plan to take over Gaza’s largest city was announced on Friday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel intended to take military control of the entire Gaza […]
Alison Francis Senior Science Journalist Stockton Rush’s wife Wendy asks “what’s that bang?” in footage that appears in new BBC documentary The moment that Oceangate’s Titan submersible was lost has been revealed in footage recorded on the sub’s support ship. Titan imploded about 90 minutes into a descent to see the wreck of the Titanic […]