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Gary O’Donoghue Chief North America correspondent BBC It was a warm, late May afternoon in 2024 in lower Manhattan. The jury in Donald Trump’s trial over hush money paid by his former lawyer to adult film star Stormy Daniels was out deliberating for a second day. Assuming we were in for a long wait, I…

Sam Gruet Technology Reporter Getty Images Digital trucking apps look to minimise trucks without cargo When Jared first started out in trucking more than two decades ago, he didn’t anticipate he’d be on tour with a country music star, hauling guitars, amps, and other pieces of on-stage equipment. “It just happened, right place, right time,”…

Pumza Fihlani BBC News, Johannesburg Pumza Fihlani / BBC Mark Moodley (L) says that the lack of a consistent power supply endangered his mother’s life South African Mark Moodley believes that installing a domestic solar power system has helped keep his 81-year-old mother alive. She spent three weeks in intensive care last year, and now…

Russia and Ukraine will hold a new round of peace talks in Istanbul on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. “Today, I discussed with [Ukrainian Security Council chief] Rustem Umerov the preparations for a prisoner exchange and another meeting in Turkey with the Russian side,” Zelensky said in his daily address on Monday. “Umerov…

The BBC’s David Sillito looks back at the life of Ozzy Osbourne, the frontman of heavy metal band Black Sabbath, who has died at the age of 76. Source link

Getty Images Ozzy Osbourne, who has died at the age of 76, helped forge the sound that became known as heavy metal – and on top of that, the frontman practically invented the image of the wild rock star. Ozzy’s band Black Sabbath made an indelible mark on music by pioneering heavy metal – and…

Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Ozzy Osbourne said at his final gig: “You have no idea how I feel. Thank you from the bottom of my heart” Ozzy Osbourne, one of the most recognisable and influential musicians in rock, has died at the age of 76. As frontman of Black Sabbath, the Birmingham-born musician…

BBC / Jon Donnison The outbreak of violence in southern Syria’s Druze-majority Suweida province has caused alarm in recent days Syrian government forces have been accused of carrying out a massacre at a hospital during sectarian clashes which erupted just over a week ago. The BBC has visited Suweida’s National Hospital where staff claim patients…

A crackdown against those keeping big cats as illegal pets has been launched in the province of Punjab in Pakistan. This comes as a pet lion escaped in the city of Lahore, attacking a woman and two children. The moment was captured on film two weeks ago and triggered outrage amongst the public. The BBC’s…

Two years ago, Hamas was putting the finishing touches to its plan to attack Israel. In Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believed that the Palestinians were a problem to be managed. The real threat, he insisted, was Iran. Netanyahu’s rhetoric opposing Hamas was undimmed, but he had also given permission for Qatar to funnel money…