33 minutes ago Will Grant and Nick Davis in Kingston and Brandon Drenon Watch: Before and after footage shows the destruction Hurricane Melissa caused to St John’s Anglican church, a 300-year-old church At least 19 people have died in Jamaica as a result of Hurricane Melissa, Information Minister Dana Morris Dixon has said, as search…
US chip giant Nvidia will supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to South Korea’s government, as well as Samsung, LG, and Hyundai. The companies will all deploy the AI chips in factories to make everything from semiconductors and robots to autonomous vehicles and meant that South Korea can “now…
Latvian MPs have voted to withdraw from an international accord aimed at protecting women from violence, including domestic abuse, after a long and intense debate in parliament. Several thousand people protested against the vote this week in Riga. It is now up to President Edgars Rinkevics to decide whether to approve the law or not.…
India and the US have signed a framework agreement to expand defence cooperation over the next 10-years. The pact was announced after a meeting between US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh in Kuala Lumpur. The agreement will enhance “coordination, information sharing and tech cooperation” and advance “regional stability and deterrence”,…
US space agency Nasa has rejected reality star Kim Kardashian’s claim that the 1969 space mission to land the first man on the Moon was faked. “Yes, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” Nasa acting administrator Sean Duffy wrote on social media. Kardashian made the comments on the latest episode of her long-running…
9 hours ago Tabby Wilson Watch: Moment Spain’s Sagrada Familia crowned world’s tallest church The Sagrada Família has become the tallest church in the world, after workers placed the first part of a cross at the top of its central tower. Now measuring 162.91 metres tall, the Spanish basilica has officially pipped the record from…
The Trump administration will limit the number of refugees admitted to the US to 7,500 over the next year, and give priority to white South Africans. The move, announced in a notice published on Thursday, marks a dramatic cut from the previous limit of 125,000 set by former President Joe Biden and will bring the…
Five people have been charged in connection with the 2023 overdose death of Robert De Niro’s grandson and two other 19 year olds. New York authorities accuse the suspects, Bruce Epperson, Eddie Barreto, Grant McIver, John Nicolas, and Roy Nicolas, of running a fentanyl distribution network that sold counterfeit prescription opioid pills through social media…
12 hours ago Steve RosenbergRussia Editor in St Petersburg BBC Tens of thousands of Stalin’s victims are buried in this wood outside St Petersburg In a wood on the edge of St Petersburg they’re reading out a list of names. Each name is a victim of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror. In this…
14 hours ago Barbara Plett UsherAfrica correspondent BBC Ezzeldin Hassan Musa was beaten with sticks before he managed to flee Shaken, scratched and left with just the clothes he is wearing, Ezzeldin Hassan Musa describes the brutality of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the wake of the paramilitary group taking control of el-Fasher city…