DUP to meet NI business groups over deal
PA A number of the DUP’s senior members will meet the business groups on Monday at Stormont Senior DUP politicians are to meet a number of NI business groups at Stormont later over the withdrawal Brexit deal, BBC News NI has learned. The DUP has said the agreement is “worse than no deal” and that […]
London Mayor Sadiq Khan speaks out about racist abuse
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, reads out online racist abuse and death threats The Mayor of London read out some of the racist online abuse he receives as he demanded action from social media firms to tackle hate speech. Sadiq Khan suggested the level of abuse could deter other people from minority backgrounds from entering […]
Women’s Six Nations: Vicky Irwin to make Irish debut against Scotland
Ireland sit fourth in this year’s championship with their sole win so far coming at home to Italy in round three. Scotland are out to avoid the wooden spoon as they currently occupy sixth in the table without a victory. They can draw from recent success against Ireland, having secured a dramatic last-gasp win in […]
Why fathers need to watch what they drink too
Serenity Strull/Getty Images/BBC There is growing recognition that how much men drink before conception plays a role in foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (Credit: Serenity Strull/Getty Images/BBC) A father’s alcohol consumption has long been overshadowed by the focus on what a mother drinks. But that could be about to change following new research. But as the […]
Russian gains accelerate as Ukraine’s Kursk gamble falters
Getty Images The Russian military is accelerating its gains along the front line in Ukraine at a crucial time for the conflict. Data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) shows that Russia has gained almost six times as much territory in 2024 as it did in 2023, and is advancing towards key […]
Who wants to follow in Merkel’s footsteps?
Getty Images Angela Merkel, here with one of the candidates Armin Laschet, will not run in next year’s German elections The race is on to succeed Angela Merkel, by becoming leader of Germany’s centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and potentially chancellor. She will not run again in Germany’s next general election, due by October 2021. It […]
Anne Boden, the steelworker’s daughter who started her own bank
BBC Anne Boden started her career on the counters at Lloyds Bank The daughter of a steelworker and a department store worker from Bonymaen in Swansea, Anne Boden had a fairly ordinary Welsh childhood. Now she’s part of a revolution in the financial world – and has set up her own online bank. As a […]
Girl, 12, victim of bullies’ ‘deepfake’ porn
Getty Images The girl and her parents were left traumatised as the fake image was shared widely among children in part of West Yorkshire A family have said that police did not do enough to protect their 12-year-old daughter after school bullies posted a “deepfake” pornographic image of her on social media. West Yorkshire Police […]
How to survive a pandemic as a young entrepreneur
Keaton Rich/ Trailer Trash/ Emily Hale Starting your own business as a young person can be a gamble. It might be just you and a friend taking a risk to build your idea into something sustainable. So what happens when a pandemic comes along? Three entrepreneurs tell Radio 1 Newsbeat how they managed to adapt […]
Stay home, female Kabul government workers told
AFP Some women held a protest in Kabul against the restrictions they are facing The new Taliban mayor of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul has told female municipal employees to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by a man. Hamdullah Nomany said the Taliban “found it necessary to stop women from working for a while”. […]