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‘I was raped by a Metropolitan Police officer but saw him jailed
By Sonja Jessup & Liz Jackson BBC London Lauren Taylor was just 16 when she was raped by a Metropolitan Police officer in 2010. Adam Provan was almost twice her age but he lied to her, telling her he was 22 and promising a date at the cinema. But first, he explained, he wanted to…
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Watch: Moment first child rescued from Pakistan cable car
See the moment one child was rescued from a dangling cable car in Pakistan. Dramatic footage shows the moment a child – reportedly the first – was rescued by helicopter. A group of six children and two adults have been trapped in a cable car dangling above a ravine. This video has no sound.
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Moscow sewer: All eight members of tour party confirmed dead in floods
Getty Images A tour guide and all seven members of their party have been found dead after being trapped underground by flood waters in Moscow’s sewer system, Russian media say. Sunday’s floods, caused by heavy rain, were so rapid people could not escape. The group was exploring the underground Neglinka, a tributary of the city’s…
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Threads: Meta launches web version of flagging app
Meta By Tom Singleton Technology reporter, BBC News Meta is releasing a web version of Threads, as it attempts to revive the social media platform. The rival to X, formerly known as Twitter, enjoyed meteoric growth when it launched in July. However, users then abandoned it just as rapidly, partly due to its limited functionality.…
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Crispin Dye: New person of interest identified in AC/DC manager death
NSW Police By Antoinette Radford BBC News New forensic evidence has identified a person of interest in the 1993 death of Australian rock band AC/DC’s former manager, Crispin Dye. The 41-year-old died on Christmas Day, two days after he was found with severe head injuries in an inner city Sydney suburb. New testing found DNA…
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South China Sea: Philippines resupplies Spratlys shoal troops
Reuters The Philippines says it has delivered fresh supplies to a remote outpost it claims in the South China Sea. Manila says Beijing’s attempts to “block, harass, and interfere with the supply mission” were unsuccessful. Chinese ships fired water cannon at a Philippine supply mission to the Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed Spratly Islands…
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Pakistan cable car: Helicopters sent to rescue eight trapped
Welcome to our live coverage of a rescue operation in northern Pakistan, where six children and two adults are trapped in a cable car suspended hundreds of metres above a ravine in Battagram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The eight passengers were on their way to school when some of the cables snapped earlier this morning, leaving…
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Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato part ways with manager Scooter Braun
Reuters By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Scooter Braun, the music mogul who made headlines for a long-running dispute over Taylor Swift’s master recordings, has reportedly been left by two of his biggest clients. According to Billboard, both Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato have parted ways with the manager. Colombian star J Balvin, who signed…
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Greece wildfires: Hospital evacuated as fire intensifies in Alexandroupolis
Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters By Paul Kirby BBC News Dozens of patients have been moved out of a hospital in north-eastern Greece as wildfires burn out of control for a fourth day near the city of Alexandroupolis. The flames approached the grounds of the university hospital and many of those evacuated were taken to a ferry in…
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North Korea airline flies first international flight since Covid
Getty Images By Nicholas Yong BBC News, Singapore North Korea’s flagship carrier has flown its first international flight since the pandemic. Air Koryo’s JS151 left Pyongyang Tuesday morning and landed at Beijing Capital Airport at 09:16 local time (01:16 GMT), data from real-time flight tracking service Flightradar24 showed. It is unclear who was on board…