Tag: bbc.com

  • How is the US economy really doing under President Trump?

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/711c/live/8e797e10-cbd7-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] BBC President Donald Trump has been boasting about the performance of the US economy ahead of the midterm congressional elections, claiming he has boosted incomes, reduced inflation and created jobs. Trump has repeatedly said: “We have the hottest country anywhere in the world.” While the overall US economy is faring better than…

  • King Charles sends Aung San Suu Kyi books – Myanmar government

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/796a/live/b24b5350-cc35-11f1-80e1-0b704274f993.jpg”] Myanmar President Spokesperson Office Nay Pyi Taw has released rare photographs of the detained ex-leader receiving the package King Charles III has sent two books to detained Burmese leader Aung San ​Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s military government said, as it released photographs of officials delivering the books and a sealed letter to her…

  • Canadian tourist guilty of animal cruelty after stealing Las Vegas flamingo

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/8f1e/live/5b9b0010-cc2f-11f1-aeea-f9fa95687445.png”] CBS Fairbarn was seen on CCTV in an elevator on the way to his hotel room with the flamingo Max Matza A Canadian man has been found guilty of animal cruelty after he took a flamingo from its enclosure in Las Vegas and brought it back to his hotel room during an…

  • Protesters and police in Albania fight in seventh day of violent clashes

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/b732/live/2812da60-cc20-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] Reuters Protesters in Albania have fought with riot police on the seventh consecutive day of violent clashes. The protesters, many of them high school and university students, are trying to oust embattled Prime Minister Edi Rama. Official figures said 295 people have been injured, 186 of whom are police officers, before Monday’s…

  • Police cleared in fatal shooting of one-year-old in Mississippi parking lot

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/3973/live/e4ca5820-cc1d-11f1-b747-bb04ed9a5852.jpg”] Courtesy of family attorney Benjamin Crump Mississippi police used “justified” force when they shot at a car during a shoplifting investigation, killing a one-year-old boy inside, the state’s attorney general has ruled. Kohen Wiley was killed in June while sitting on his mother’s lap in the passenger seat of a car that…

  • Fatima El Mansouri: What can Morocco’s first female prime minister change for women?

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2a92/live/3903b230-cbc7-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] Reuters El Mansouri (left) was named by King Mohammed VI (right) as the country’s first female prime minister The Islamic saying “a people who entrust their affairs to a woman will never succeed” has resurfaced in Morocco since King Mohammed VI named Fatima Zahra El Mansouri as the country’s first female prime…

  • I have a condition people are too embarrassed to talk about

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/773a/live/b4f88090-c8d5-11f1-874f-2bba45330ab3.jpg”] Monica Thomas Monica is the founder of charity Women’s Health Hope This report contains detailed descriptions of medical symptoms. Monica Thomas was in her teens when she started experiencing intimate itching and soreness, but despite numerous trips to the doctors it was dismissed as thrush. Her symptoms got worse, with sores and…

  • In pictures: Dussehra celebrated across India as a symbol of good over evil

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ecf1/live/af489e70-cbe4-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] AP The festival includes a variety of celebrations involving actors playing deities – pictured here an actor portraying Lord Ram prepares ahead of a procession in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh Millions of people across India are marking Dussehra, one of the country’s most widely celebrated Hindu festivals, with processions, prayers and the ceremonial…

  • The singles choosing IRL dating events over apps

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6ca8/live/4a070320-cbc7-11f1-9a39-31b474234113.jpg”] BBC Olivia says she chose to attend this dating event because she has “app fatigue” Checking in at a dating event in a bar in Guildford, Olivia Miller-Davis is understandably apprehensive. Even bringing a friend with her doesn’t remove the awkwardness at the start of the night. “It’s always nerve-wracking when you’re…

  • Spurs 3-1 Coventry: James Maddison shines on Tottenham return

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/611a/live/fdd65490-cc09-11f1-838e-3908c706e890.jpg”] Maddison’s magic moment for Spurs – 18 months in the making To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Spurs beat Coventry to earn first league win of the season By Phil McNulty Chief football writer at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium…