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Libya floods: Flooded city buries its dead in mass graves
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Aoife Walsh BBC News Bodies recovered from a devastating flood which wiped out parts of the port city of Derna in eastern Libya have been buried in mass graves. At least 2,300 people died when a…
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Canadians officials investigate E. coli outbreak at Calgary daycares
By Max Matza BBC News, Seattle Officials in Canada are investigating a major paediatric outbreak of E. coli that appears to originate in a kitchen that makes meals for nursery children. Alberta’s chief medical officer, Dr Mark Joffe, told reporters on Tuesday the kitchen was inspected after a surge in children visiting emergency rooms. Doctors…
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Qantas illegally fired 1,700 workers at start of pandemic, court rules
By Hannah Ritchie BBC News, Sydney Australia’s highest court has rejected a bid by Qantas to overturn a ruling that it illegally outsourced 1,700 jobs during the pandemic. The court unanimously upheld that the carrier had unlawfully laid off staff at 10 airports in November 2020. The ruling found that Qantas breached Australia’s Fair Work…
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Ex-Secret Service agent reveals new JFK assassination detail
By Kayla Epstein BBC News Six decades later, new details are still coming to light in one of the most scrutinised events in American history: the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Paul Landis, an 88-year-old former Secret Service agent who witnessed the president’s death at close range, says in an upcoming memoir that he…
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Biden impeachment inquiry: What we know about the case
By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington Senior Republican Kevin McCarthy has announced a formal impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden claiming they have unearthed a “culture of corruption” surrounding the president. The inquiry will focus on accusations of improper business dealings on the part of the president’s son, Hunter Biden, and on whether the…
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Sea sponges offer lifeline to women in Zanzibar
As ocean temperatures rise, single mothers and divorced women in Zanzibar switch from seaweed to sea sponge farming to stay afloat. As a gentle morning breeze blows across the Zanzibar shore, Hindu Simai Rajabu walks through knee-deep water to reach a shallow lagoon off the coast of Jambiani, Tanzania, where her floating sponge farm is…
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How female Fauvists were some of history’s most audacious painters
An art movement of “Wild Beasts” had a woman problem in more ways than one, writes Deborah Nicholls-Lee. She almost always wore black, but in Woman with a Hat (1905) so many colours swirl around the canvas that Amélie Matisse’s dress is an indeterminate shade. She was a brunette, but her hair is a streak…
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Morocco earthquake: Young volunteers answer desperate calls for help
By Nick Beake & Kathy Long BBC News, Taroudant Morocco’s young are powering their country’s desperate relief effort. In Taroudant’s youth centre, volunteers from across the city and beyond have been answering calls for help on social media. Activists with rapidly rising numbers of followers are now coordinating the distribution of aid to the hundreds…
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Photographs that shaped the urban landscape
Images of the often brutal urban landscapes of late 1960s Britain – captured by photographers working for the Architectural Review – can now be seen at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London. Pictures by Ian Berry, Patrick Ward and Tony Ray-Jones, many of which have never been exhibited before, were taken as…
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The app teaching Somalis to read and write
By Sara Monetta BBC News Hodan Artan is patching up the roof of her home, sewing together pieces of fabric of different colours with a blue string. She works as a cleaner in Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa. With the little money she earns, a mud hut with a cloth roof flapping in the wind is all…