France’s Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of misappropriating European funds to finance her far-right National Rally (RN) party. The judge has not yet said what the sentence will be. Prosecutors last year said Le Pen’s punishment should be not just a €300,000 (£250,000) fine and prison term, but also ineligibility from running for … Read more
Ten years ago, this was just a big hole in the ground behind a Lowe’s home improvement store in southern New Jersey, an unlikely place to find what might be one of the world’s most important fossil sites. But 66 million years ago, tantalizingly close in time to when the dinosaurs went extinct, a multitude … Read more
The BBC is in Myanmar’s capital Nay Pyi Taw to see the destruction caused by a powerful earthquake that struck on Friday. It hit central Myanmar, near the city of Mandalay, more than 200km (125 miles) from Nay Pyi Taw. One local resident described a lack of sleep and the inability to rebuild because of … Read more
More than 350,000 Canadians faced power cuts in Southern Ontario as an ice storm moved through the region over the weekend. Footage shows ice-coated trees, parks and homes in Orillia, a city that declared a state of emergency on Sunday because of the storm. City officials described the situation as “very serious”.
Stephen Dempster and Tim Robinson BBC News NI Paul Williams/Stephen Breen (L-R) Daniel Kinahan, Christopher Kinahan Snr and Christopher Kinahan Jnr The extent to which the Irish Kinahan cartel has flooded the streets of the UK with drugs and guns has been revealed by police. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said the cartel had … Read more
Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe correspondent Reporting fromMunster and Berlin BBC Germany has voted to hugely boost investment in its military A missile launcher sends a cloud of brown dust into the air as it hurtles across a field towards the firing line. Moments later comes a soldier’s countdown, from five to ‘Fire!’, before a rocket … Read more
Regan Morris BBC News, Los Angeles Getty Images Countless signs during the historic Hollywood strikes decried using AI. It’s now creeping further into the entertainment industry Inside a soundstage once used by silent film stars Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, Hollywood executives, actors and filmmakers sipped cocktails as they marvelled at what some say is … Read more
Getty Images Lawyers for Elon Musk argued that Wisconsin’s attorney general was curtailing his free speech in trying to block the cheque giveaway Billionaire Elon Musk has given away $1m (£770,000) cheques to voters in Wisconsin after the state supreme court refused to intervene. Musk announced the prize earlier this week, ahead of Wisconsin’s tightly … Read more
MaryLou Costa Business reporter Happy Visuals Goteborg Gothenburg’s local authority is seeking to highlight its green credentials Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city, is highlighting its environmental credentials by continuing to put its money on the line. Back in 2022, the City of Gothenburg, became what is believed to be the first local government in the world … Read more
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is “outraged” at the deaths of eight medics killed on duty in Rafah in southern Gaza. The nine-person ambulance team came under heavy fire in al-Hashashin on 23 March, said the IFRC. Their bodies were retrieved on Sunday after access was … Read more