Botswana’s new president sworn in after historic election upset
Botswana’s new president took office yesterday in a whirlwind transfer of power following elections that saw a historic defeat handed to the party that had...
Month : November 2024
Shadow secretary says he hasn’t visited NI due to lack of funds
Conservative MP Alex Burghart has defended not visiting Northern Ireland during his time as shadow secretary....
Badenoch is favourite, but will she clinch Tory leadership crown?
BBC political editor Chris Mason gives the run down on how the Tory Party leadership result could play out....
Search for Spain flooding survivors continues
More than 200 people are dead and dozens more still missing after torrential rain earlier this week....
Instagram-famous squirrel seized by US authorities
Environmental authorities said they were responding to complaints of “potentially unsafe housing of wildlife”....
Botswana’s politician who did the unthinkable
Duma Boko is elected the country’s first president not from the ruling party, in power for 58 years....
Andy Warhol artworks stolen in Dutch gallery heist
Two works in the Reigning Queens series were taken, according to the gallery’s owner....
£30,000 limit on disabled adaptions grants reviewed
A court challenge means the government will look again at the cap on the Disabled Facilities Grant....
Designer Rohit Bal, who dressed Uma Thurman and Naomi Campbell, dies at 63
Bal was one of India’s biggest fashion designers, whose innovative creations were worn by stars and supermodels....
US election weighs on Ukraine’s frontline soldiers
Ukrainians on the front lines tell the BBC’s James Waterhouse that their country’s survival is in the hands of Americans....