LA fires live: Death toll rises to 16 as firefighters brace for intense winds
‘Everything is gone’: Agony on a tight-knit LA street razed by infernopublished at 08:09 Greenwich Mean Time 08:09 GMT Max Matza & Christal HayesReporting from Altadena, Caifornia It all started on Tuesday night. The Santa Ana winds had been fierce much of the day. Professional chef Daron Anderson was in his front yard just after […]
The parents who insist home-education is the answer for their children
BBC “Toby was so tremendously unhappy in school,” says his father, Daniel. “We were standing outside the classroom door for an hour every morning and he just didn’t want to go in. “[It reached the point where] we thought ‘this doesn’t work.’” Daniel says he tried everything to settle him. Toby, who is now eight, […]
More people in late 20s still living with parents
Getty Images An impression – or possibly a fear – that 20-somethings are still hanging about in the family home is based on fact, an influential think-tank has concluded. The proportion of 25 to 34-year-olds still living with their parents has increased by more than a third in nearly two decades, according to the Institute […]
LA firefighters desperately try to contain monster Palisades fire
Watch: Palisades Fire spews ‘fire devil’ Firefighters are making an all-out assault to prevent the largest of the deadly wildfires that is threatening Los Angeles from spreading into one of the city’s most exclusive neighbourhoods. Aerial crews have been bombarding the flaming hills with water and fire retardant to hold back the Palisades fire, which […]
Canada’s immigration debate soured and helped seal Trudeau’s fate
BBC Immigration has long been a polarising issue in the West but Canada mostly avoided it – until now. With protests and campaign groups springing up in certain quarters, some argue that this – together with housing shortages and rising rents – contributed to Justin Trudeau’s resignation. But could Donald Trump’s arrival inflame it further? […]
Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe backs Farage amid Musk snub
Reform MP Rupert Lowe said he was standing by party leader Nigel Farage after US tech billionaire Elon Musk called for him to be replaced. The entrepreneur said on X that Farage “doesn’t have what it takes” to lead the party – but did not explain his reasoning. When asked by a follower about the […]
Why wildfires are becoming faster and more furious
Getty Images It was terrible timing. In the late morning of Tuesday 6 January, a “life-threatening and destructive” windstorm was heading for the northern suburbs of Los Angeles. The local office of the US National Weather Service published a strongly worded alert at roughly 10:30am local time. At almost that exact moment, a fire erupted […]
The woman using AI to bring aid to civilians in war-torn Lebanon
Caroline Bazzi/Jinha Agency Hania coded a chatbot to use on WhatsApp that helps displaced people in Lebanon Last autumn Hania Zataari, a mechanical engineer who works for Lebanon’s Ministry of Industry put her skills to use as war in the country raged on. Hailing from Sidon, South Lebanon, she created a chatbot on WhatsApp that […]
‘He could have killed me and the police didn’t care’
Getty Images Darcy – not pictured – is still angry at the delay A young woman said police had put her at serious risk of harm after failing to tell her about her partner’s violent past. The woman’s mother used a scheme, known as Clare’s Law, to request information from Thames Valley Police (TVP) about […]
Taxpayers still not refunded after £1m Aberdeen council fraud
Facebook Michael Paterson was jailed last year Aberdeen City Council is still to contact or refund taxpayers after an employee was able to embezzle more than £1m over a period of 17 years, the public spending watchdog has said. Michael Paterson exploited his position as a council tax and recovery team leader to keep taking […]