BBC boss Tim Davie says the corporation has been in touch with the family of a person at the centre of allegations surrounding Huw Edwards. Speaking at a pre-arranged Lords Communications Committee session on Tuesday, the director-general said: “We have been in touch with the complainant, we want to be engaged and appropriately listening and
Month: July 2023
A US man is believed to be in custody in North Korea after he crossed the border without permission during a tour. His identity has not been officially confirmed but South Korean newspaper Dong-a Ilbo said he is a US Army solider named Travis King. It happened as the man was visiting the Joint Security
Hollywood couple Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello have announced they are divorcing. In a statement to US publication Page Six, they said: “We have made the difficult decision to divorce. “As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we
Controversial plans to tackle the small boats crisis are poised to become law after the government crushed a series of renewed challenges by peers at Westminster. The Tory front bench saw off five further changes being sought by the upper chamber to the Illegal Migration Bill, including modern slavery protections and child detention limits. At
Artificial intelligence could be used to generate “unprecedented quantities” of realistic child sexual abuse material, an online safety group has warned. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said it was already finding “astoundingly realistic” AI-made images that many people would find “indistinguishable” from real ones. Web pages the group investigated, some of which were reported by
Metropolitan Police officers are using counter-terrorism tactics to catch some of the worst predators targeting women on the streets of London. The force is using the Cambridge Crime Harm Index to assess 35,000 offenders reported each year for crimes against women and girls in a bid to rank the 100 who are most dangerous to
Eurostar passengers leaving London will be able to avoid manual ticket and passport checks by UK officials through a new facial verification system. The launch of the technology at St Pancras station is aimed at easing congestion. To participate, passengers must use an app before travel to scan their identity document and verify their face
Lindsay Lohan has welcomed her first child with husband Bader Shammas. The Mean Girls star, 37, and her financier husband are “over the moon in love” after having a son they have named Luai, a spokesperson for the actress said. Lohan announced she was expecting her first child in March by posting a photo on
A desperate search is ongoing for two young siblings who were swept away with their mother and grandmother during flash flooding near the US city of Philadelphia. The two children, a nine-month-old boy and his two-year-old sister, were in a car with both of their parents, their brother and their grandmother, when a creek in
Music tourism generated £6.6bn of spending in the UK in 2022, attracting more than 14 million international and domestic tourists to live events, a report has found. Figures show a resurgence for the live music industry in the first full year of festivals, gigs and concerts following the suspension of events during the COVID pandemic.
The heatwave enveloping southern Europe is set to intensify even further today – with temperatures expected to reach as high as 46C. Spain, Italy and Greece will bake tomorrow and the European Space Agency has warned that France, Germany and Poland will also face extreme heat over the coming days. Sardinia and Sicily – among
A barge which will house 500 asylum seekers is on the move, with the first residents expected to board later this month. The barge – named the Bibby Stockholm – departed from Falmouth, Cornwall, to head to Portland Port in Dorset on Monday morning as Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman faced fresh criticism
Meteorologists are warning temperatures will hit new record highs across southern Europe this week. The latest forecasts show peaks of 44C (111F) on multiple days, with temperatures consistently in the high 30s and low 40s across the region. The European Space Agency has warned countries including Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland will face extreme
Hostile states are using organised crime gangs to carry out illegal activity in the UK, the head of the National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned. Director-general Graeme Biggar highlighted “the emerging links between serious and organised crime and hostile states” in a speech outlining the agency’s annual assessment of crime threats to Britain. Speaking in
The NHS is nowhere near ready to provide the first effective Alzheimer’s drugs to the huge numbers of people who need them. Estimates by Alzheimer’s Research UK and Alzheimer’s Society suggest 720,000 people in the UK would meet the treatment criteria used in the clinical trials of lecanemab and donanemab. These drugs work best when
Train drivers will refuse to work overtime for a week – threatening disruption to services at the height of the summer holidays. The action – part of a long-running dispute over pay – will begin from 31 July, the ASLEF union announced on Monday. It will affect services across 15 train operating companies, and marks
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