Getty Images By Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto Canada has been left out as China lifted a restrictions on group tours to multiple countries, including the US and the UK. It suggests a deterioration of relations following Canada’s recent accusations that Beijing meddled in its politics. Chinese officials said Canada was excluded over the foreign…

Getty Images By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter The family of Leonard Bernstein have defended actor Bradley Cooper in a row over his biopic of the late composer. The first trailer for Maestro, which Cooper both directs and stars in, was released earlier this week. It attracted some criticism over the size of Cooper’s nose, which…

PA Media The British Museum in London has sacked a member of staff and police are investigating after treasures were reported “missing, stolen or damaged”. Items including gold, jewellery and gems of semi-precious stones were among those found to be missing, stolen or damaged. The majority of the items were kept in a storeroom, the…

By Steven McIntosh and Luxmy Gopal BBC News Two critics who reviewed a book by Jordan Peterson have said their articles were quoted on its cover in a misleading way. Quotes from reviews published in the Times and the New Statesman were used on the cover of the paperback edition of Peterson’s Beyond Order. The…

Long queues formed at cash machines across the Republic of Ireland, after technical faults led to customers being able to withdraw large sums while having little or no funds in their accounts. The glitch, which affected some Bank of Ireland ATMs, lasted for several hours on Tuesday, and it now appears to have been resolved.…

Getty Images US retail giant Target saw sales fall in-store and online for the first time in years after a backlash over its Pride Month offering. Sales dropped 5% in the April to June period compared with the same time last year – its first fall in six years. The decline followed controversy over some…

Police in China have shared footage of a child playing on a window ledge – in an effort to urge parents to carefully watch children playing on high rise buildings. A neighbour in Zhengzhou, Henan, captured the video of the child, who was reportedly playing hide and seek, and shouted to them to go back…

Reuters By Oliver Slow BBC News A merchant ship has left the Ukrainian port of Odesa, despite concerns Russia could target vessels in the Black Sea. The Hong Kong-flagged Joseph Schulte had been trapped in the port since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Kyiv has announced a “humanitarian corridor” in…

Getty Images By Paul Glynn Entertainment reporter A new report into the fatal shooting on the set of the movie Rust appears to cast doubt over star and producer Alec Baldwin’s accounts of events. Mr Baldwin denies pulling the trigger of the prop gun which went off, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Weapons experts have now…