Max Whitlock & Daniel Keatings win European titles in Russia
GB’s Daniel Keatings made up for missing London 2012 through injury with victory on the pommel horse. Whitlock, 20, was part of the GB men’s side that won their first team medal in 100 years at London 2012 and, after winning silver in the all-around final on Friday, he completed his set of European honours […]
Scorn as PM Sheikh Hasina weeps at train station damage
Bangladesh’s leader has been accused of crying “crocodile tears” after she was photographed weeping at a train station that was destroyed during anti-government protests. At least 150 people have been killed as a result of nationwide clashes between police and university students, with security forces accused of execessive force. Protesters had been calling for quotas […]
We’ve hit YouTube limit so are moving to Netflix
Anthony Stanley/WENN/Alamy The Sidemen have been among Britain’s most popular YouTubers for the past decade The Sidemen are used to making content for YouTube, but say they’ve now “hit the limit” on what they can achieve on the video sharing platform so are moving “to something even bigger”. The British YouTube superstars have announced that […]
Frustration over disabled man’s 48-hour ordeal
Getty Images Aneurin Bevan health board says delayed discharges and winter viruses have led to longer waits at A&E at the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran A care agency boss has described the NHS as “a joke” after a disabled man was forced to wait for 48 hours in A&E. One of David Williams’ clients, who […]
Liz Cheney faces vote to remove her from Republican leadership
‘Our election was not stolen and America has not failed.’ US Republicans are to vote on whether to oust one of their leaders, Liz Cheney, over her repeated criticism of former President Donald Trump. The Wyoming lawmaker, daughter of ex-US Vice-President Dick Cheney, is expected to lose her third-ranking post in the House of Representatives. […]
More images of hands needed to help identify child sex offenders
Scientists building a database of images of hands as a way to identify child sex abusers are appealing for 500 more volunteers to come forward to help complete their research. Researchers led by Lancaster University wanted 5,000 “citizen scientists” to help create a database of images to train machines to identify child abusers by analysing […]
Executive calls for extension of furlough scheme
PA Media Conor Murphy will seek an extension to the furlough scheme – but Boris Johnson and his government have previously ruled this out Stormont’s finance minister has written to the Treasury calling for an extension to the job retention scheme. The executive supported Conor Murphy’s proposal following its meeting on Thursday. Deputy First Minister […]
Should reality be virtual or augmented?
BBC Stream or download the latest Tech Tent podcast Listen to previous episodes on the BBC website Listen live every Friday at 15:00 BST on the BBC World Service What kind of reality do we want to live in – a virtual or augmented world? Two of the most powerful men in the technology world […]
Netball World Cup 2019: Tales from the netball changing room
England Netball created the biggest netball open day ever, external by hosting more than 200 netball sessions across the country the day after the World Cup finished. On the final day of the tournament, England Netball experienced a 1,000% increase in visits to the England Netball session finder compared to two weeks before the World […]
How an Icelandic firm became a global food giant
The cod father of the global food production Hundreds of freshly caught cod are moving at pace down a conveyor belt, before automated paddles pop out to send the fish splashing, one by one, into storage tanks below. From there the cod, pulled from the cold water of the North Atlantic just a few hours […]