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Biden: ‘Record corporate profits should be shared’
US President Joe Biden will send two of his aides to Detroit to serve as mediators between the striking United Auto Workers and the ‘big three’ automakers – General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. Biden said the corporations should ‘go further’ in the negotiations.
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UWA strike: Biden says striking car workers deserve ‘fair share’
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Joe Biden has sided with workers who have gone on strike in a pay dispute with three of America’s biggest car-makers. Nearly 13,000 staff walked off the job on Friday at three plants owned by…
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Morocco earthquake: The teacher who lost all 32 of her pupils
By Yassmin Farag BBC World Service The thoughts of one Moroccan schoolteacher immediately turned to her pupils when she felt the 6.8-magnitude earthquake strike a week ago. Nesreen Abu ElFadel was in Marrakesh – but Adaseel, the mountain village that was home to her school and pupils, was closer to the epicentre. The Arabic- and…
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Colombian artist Fernando Botero dies aged 91
Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who gained worldwide fame with his sculptures and paintings of corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91. His works feature outsized people and animals. But Botero also tackled politics and other serious subjects. President Gustavo Petro called him “the painter of our traditions and defects, the painter of our…
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Hurricane Lee heads towards New England and Canada
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Chloe Kim BBC News Hurricane Lee is heading north up the Atlantic and is expected to make landfall around Maine and Nova Scotia by this weekend. Lee was a category one storm as of Friday morning,…
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Gretchen Whitmer: Three men cleared of plotting to kidnap governor
A jury in the US state of Michigan has acquitted three men of involvement in a plot to kidnap the state’s governor. William Null, Michael Null and Eric Molitor were found not guilty of providing support for a terrorist act and a weapons charge. They were among 14 accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor…
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Wagner group formally banned as terror organisation in the UK
By Matt Murphy BBC News The UK has officially banned Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group as a terrorist organisation, weeks after the death of its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. The order was approved on Friday, making it illegal to be a member of, or to support, Wagner. Those found guilty of aiding the paramilitary could face steep…
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CCTV shows cars swept away in Libya flooding
Surveillance footage shows the moment cars were swept away by flooding in the Maghar neighbourhood of the Libyan city of Derna. Large parts of the city were devastated when two dams burst in the wake of Storm Daniel. Figures for the number of dead vary from around 6,000 to 11,000 – with thousands still missing.…
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Why is the UK banning American XL Bully dogs?
By Jo Couzens BBC News American Bully XL dogs are to be banned in the UK by the end of the year, the country’s Prime Minster Rishi Sunak has announced. It comes after a man in England died following what Mr Sunak described as “another suspected XL bully attack” on Thursday. It was the latest…
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How grisly thriller Dead Man’s Shoes captured British small-town violence
Now being re-released, Shane Meadows’ 2004 film told a brutal story of warped masculinity and revenge that is still shocking, two decades on. Christina Newland talks to its director. With its seething menace and bleak realism, punctuated by the occasional dose of the surreal, Shane Meadows’ Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) is a uniquely British story of…