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Drive-thru worker draws gun on ‘missing fries’ customer
CCTV footage of a fast food restaurant drive-thru shows the moment a worker allegedly shot at a customer’s car after an argument over missing fries. The incident took place in March 2021 in Houston, Texas. The driver’s family has since filed a lawsuit against Jack-in-the-Box and its employee, Alonniea Ford-Theriot. Ford-Theriot pled guilty to a…
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Rosebank: Biggest untapped UK oil field approved by regulators
PA MediaCopyright: PA Media The government has welcomed the regulator’s decision to approve the Rosebank development. Energy Security Secretary Claire Coutinho said the government was still investing in “world-leading renewable energy,” but that oil and gas were still needed as part of the mix to reach net zero. (Net zero means no longer adding to…
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S Jaishankar: India asks Canada for information on Sikh leader’s murder
India is open to looking into any “specific” information Canada provides on the killing of a Sikh separatist leader, the country’s foreign minister said. S Jaishankar was referring to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada in June. Tensions flared up after Canada recently said it was investigating “credible allegations” linking the Indian state…
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Ukraine war: Cannabis in focus for veterans treatment
By Paul Adams BBC Diplomatic Correspondent in Kyiv In a modest Kyiv apartment, off-duty soldiers meet to smoke cannabis and forget, for a moment, the things they have seen. They don’t want to be identified. The drug is frowned upon in the military, even here, far from the front. One of the soldiers is being…
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Peter Nygard: Fashion mogul begins trial facing sexual assault charges
By Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington Canadian prosecutors began laying out arguments against former fashion mogul Peter Nygard as his sexual assault trial opened in an Ontario court. In opening remarks, they alleged Mr Nygard, 82, used his “power and status” to assault five women in incidents dating from the late 1980s to 2005. He…
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Hollywood writers’ strike to end on Wednesday
By Mariko Oi Business reporter Hollywood writers will end their strike at midnight Pacific time (07:01 GMT) on Wednesday, after nearly five months. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) said in a statement that union leaders “voted unanimously to lift the restraining order and end the strike”. Its 11,500 members will then vote on whether…
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Fifa to EA Sports FC: Name change is big gamble for UK’s best-selling game
By Steffan Powell Gaming correspondent For 30 years, the name Fifa has been as synonymous with video games as it has with real-life football. But that is set to change. EA Sports FC, the new incarnation of the football simulator made by Electronic Arts (EA), hits the shelves this week. The games maker is stepping…
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Taking off the hijab: ‘My dream was to wear what I wanted’
By Faranak Amidi BBC World Service For some Muslim women, choosing to stop wearing the hijab, or headscarf, can be a difficult decision to make. They may face a backlash from their family or be shunned by their community. And in some countries, laws add to this pressure. Iran’s parliament has just passed a controversial…
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Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court
By Selin Girit BBC World News “What I felt was fear,” says Claudia Duarte Agostinho as she remembers the extreme heatwave and fires that ripped through Portugal in 2017 and killed more than 100 people. “The wildfires made me really anxious about what sort of future I would have.” Claudia, 24, her brother Martim, 20,…
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‘They bombed everywhere’: Survivors recount Karabakh attack
By Grigor Atanesian and Tural Ahmedzade in London, Siranush Sargsyan in Stepanakert (Khankendi) BBC Global Disinformation Team and BBC News The BBC has been given eyewitness accounts of a bombing incident in a remote village in Nagorno-Karabakh that killed three children and two elderly people. Azerbaijan insists it only focused on “legitimate military targets”, but…