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Turin: Girl, 5, killed after Italian military jet crash
By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News An Italian military jet has crashed while taking part in an acrobatic exercise in Turin killing a five-year-old girl in a car on the ground. Video shows the pilot, who survived, ejecting moments before impact followed by a huge fireball near Turin Airport. The girl’s nine-year-old brother was seriously hurt,…
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20mph: Wales first UK nation to drop speed limit from 30mph
By Hywel Griffith & Peter Shuttleworth BBC News Speed limits in built-up areas will be reduced from 30mph to 20mph in Wales on Sunday – a UK first that has caused controversy with some drivers. Welsh ministers said a 20mph (32km/h) limit would reduce deaths and noise and encourage people to walk or cycle. The…
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Mahsa Amini: Protesters mark one year since death of Iranian student
By Fiona Nimoni BBC News The death of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022 after being detained by Iran’s morality police sparked protests unlike any the country had seen before. To mark the one year anniversary of her death, thousands of people all around the world have taken to the streets to demonstrate. A really…
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Greece floods: Austrian honeymooners killed after holiday home swept away
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News An Austrian couple on their honeymoon in Greece are confirmed to have died after torrential rains swept away the house they were staying in. Their holiday home in the resort of Potistika,…
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‘This was a riverbed, it’s just a wasteland now’
The Libyan city of Derna has been left devastated after floods swept through it a week ago. There are fears for survivors in the city, with not enough medicine and clean water for those who have been made homeless. Thousands of people were killed when two dams burst in the wake of Storm Daniel, washing…
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Libya floods: A barren wasteland with a lingering smell of death
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Anna Foster BBC News, Derna The journey to eastern Libyan city of Derna takes twice as long now. Driving along the road from Benghazi, fields turn into rust-red lakes. As you get closer, the traffic begins…
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Rugby fans treat Nice to Welsh hymn
Wales fans following the team at the Rugby World Cup treated Nice to a rendition of the hymn Calon Lan ahead of the match against Portugal. The singers performed for a crowd of onlookers in cafes and pubs near the Stade de Nice. Calon Lan, which was written in the 1890s by Daniel James, means…
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Who is Russell Brand, the comedian and actor accused of rape and sexual assault?
By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Russell Brand, who has been accused of sexual assault by four women, is a comedian and broadcaster who helped shape pop culture in the late noughties. The 48-year-old, who was born in Essex, surged to fame as the host of Big Brother’s Big Mouth, and went on to star in…
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Derna: ‘There’s a smell of decay and death in the air’
Rescuers in Libya’s Derna have told the BBC that bodies are continuing to wash up in the sea, a week on from the devastating floods which swept through the eastern city. A Turkish team said they removed three bodies from the water just on Saturday morning. There are fears for survivors in the city, with…
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Russell Brand posts video denying ‘serious criminal allegations’
Russell Brand has released a video in which he denies “serious criminal allegations” that he says will be made against him. The actor and comedian said he had received letters from a TV company and newspaper, containing “a litany” of “aggressive attacks”. The BBC understands that a number of women will make serious allegations about…