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Ana de Armas: Judge throws out lawsuit over Yesterday film trailer
By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter A US judge has dismissed legal action brought by fans of Ana de Armas after the actress was edited out of a film despite appearing in the trailer. The Knives Out star was in the trailer for 2019’s Yesterday, a film Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza said they paid…
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Hurricane Idalia strengthens to Category 4 as it nears Florida – live updates
Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to be more active than average, and we’re still two weeks away from the peak of the season. The main driving factor is that oceans are a lot warmer than average and it’s these warm waters that fuel the development of hurricanes. Idalia poses…
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Disengaging with China not credible, says James Cleverly
By Stephen McDonell & Kate Whannel BBC China correspondent Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has defended holding talks with Chinese officials in Beijing, saying it would not be “credible” to disengage. Meeting China’s vice president, Mr Cleverly said the trip, the first by a such a senior UK figure in five years, would help avoid “mistrust…
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Coffee Meets Bagel: Dating app users rue missed connections amid outage
Users of the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel have expressed frustration over an ongoing, multi-day system outage. The app – which sells itself as “the dating app for serious daters” – first went down on 27 August, blocking users from their budding romances. It has now been down for three days with firm engineers saying…
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Africa Live: Police arrest hundreds at ‘gay event’ in Nigeria
ReutersCopyright: Reuters The UN and a host of humanitarian agencies are calling on the West African regional bloc, Ecowas, to grant exemptions to the sanctions imposed on Niger in the wake of the coup as they are threatening the health of some of the people. “There is no way to bring humanitarian aid into the…
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Chandrayaan-3: What has India’s Moon rover Pragyaan been up to since landing?
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Exactly a week ago, India set down a robotic probe on the Moon, becoming the first country to land near the lunar south pole. Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander – carrying a rover in its belly – touched down on the lunar soil after a 20-minute, nail-biting finale watched by millions…
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G20: Delhi tries to scare monkeys away from summit
Authorities in India’s capital, Delhi, are taking steps to scare away monkeys from venues linked to the G20 summit. Life-size cut-outs of grey langur monkeys – which scare smaller monkeys – have been put up at various places and there are plans to deploy people trained to mimic the animal’s sounds. Delhi has a huge…
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Why won’t the US call this coup a coup?
The military takeover in Niger has caused an international outcry with mounting pressure for the West African nation’s democratically elected president to be reinstated. Although the US has cut some aid, it’s still skirting around calling this crisis a coup. Why? The BBC’s Barbara Plett Usher explains Produced by Alexandra Ostasiewicz and Tom Santorelli Edited…
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Hundreds of thousands forced to scam in SE Asia: UN
By Kelly Ng BBC News, Singapore A new UN report estimates that hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have been trafficked to Southeast Asia to run online scams. At least 120,000 people in Myanmar, and another 100,000 in Cambodia, have been forced into working these scams. Most victims are men from Asia,…
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Canada warns LGBT travellers of US risks
By George Wright BBC News Canada has issued a new travel warning to its LGBT citizens planning to visit the United States. Anti-LGBT protests in the US rose 30-fold last year compared with 2017, while legal moves to restrict LGBT rights are on the rise. Global Affairs Canada warned that some state laws may affect…