India’s luxury airline flies into the sunset
Getty Images Vistara will become fully integrated with Air India starting Monday Indian full-service carrier Vistara will operate its last flight on Monday, after nine years in existence. A joint venture between Singapore Airlines and the Tata Sons, Vistara will merge with Tata-owned Air India to form a single entity with an expanded network and […]
Slaughtered pigs outnumber Spanish population
Getty Images Fifty million pigs were slaughtered in Spain in 2017 – 3.5m more than the Spanish population New statistics on the number of slaughtered pigs in Spain have stirred fears in the country’s media that the animals may soon outnumber the human population and end up hogging local resources. The Ministry of Environment released […]
Britain’s ‘best new building of 1996’ to be demolished
Salford University’s Centenary Building, which won Britain’s most prestigious architectural award when it was first built, is to be demolished. The building was the inaugural winner of the Stirling Prize in 1996, but has been vacant for the past eight years. Judges had once declared it Britain’s best new building, saying it was “a dynamic, […]
Floods ‘spreading oil pollution’ in South Sudan
Getty Images Herders scooping murky water from a small pond in grasslands in South Sudan are well aware of the dangers they face if they drink it. “The water is dirty because this place has oil – it has chemicals in it,” says their chief, Chilhok Puot. Nyatabah, a woman from this community raising cows […]
What is a prohibition notice?
Getty Images/miodrag ignjatovic Bars, restaurants and cafes reopened in Northern Ireland on 3 July There have been 35 prohibition notices served on licensed premises in Northern Ireland since the reopening of the hospitality industry on 3 July. But what actually is a prohibition notice and what can bars do to stay open? BBC News NI […]
The ancient practice reviving North America’s birds, bears and berries
Brandon Withrow The destruction a fire brings can be crucial for certain species to thrive. Meet the conservationists reviving the ancient art of “good fire”. Every spring, more than 600,000 sandhill cranes migrate through Nebraska following the Platte River. Having arrived from as far as the southern US and Mexico, the birds linger in a […]
Bristol festival worker to become Antarctic postmaster
George Clarke will run the most southerly post office in the world A man whose usual job involves setting up big tops at music festivals is preparing to run the world’s most southerly post office in Antarctica. George Clarke, 34, from Bristol, who has never worked in a post office, said: “I’m used to working […]
Michael Gove rejects DUP claim about food production
BBC Mr Gove said the bulk of the bill was to do with farming The environment secretary has rejected a suggestion by a DUP MP that food production is not prominent enough in the Agriculture Bill. Michael Gove was replying to David Simpson at a Westminster committee on Wednesday. Mr Simpson said it was his […]
‘By far the best popcorn film of the year’
Aidan Monaghan (Credit: Aidan Monaghan) Paul Mescal is the “mesmerising centre” of Ridley Scott’s long-awaited Gladiator sequel, which balances emotional drama and social themes with all-out action spectacle. How can you not love a film that has swords, sandals, sharks in the flooded Roman Colosseum, Denzel Washington in flowing robes and Paul Mescal biting a […]
‘I was moderating hundreds of horrific and traumatising videos’
Getty Images Social media moderators check for distressing or illegal photos and videos which they then remove Over the past few months the BBC has been exploring a dark, hidden world – a world where the very worst, most horrifying, distressing, and in many cases, illegal online content ends up. Beheadings, mass killings, child abuse, […]