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Pentagon official denies report of Charlie Kirk military recruitment drive | Gun Violence News
An NBC news report said the military planned to invoke the activist’s memory to recruit a ‘generation of warriors’. Published On 19 Sep 202519 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media Share The United States Department of Defense has denied reports that it plans to launch a recruiting drive to […]
Ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, report says | London
Ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, a report from the London assembly has said, to boost cleanliness of the capital’s waterways and increase access to the outdoors. Other cities are cleaning up their rivers for swimming: Paris has opened a swimming site in the Seine in the city centre and […]
Premier League: Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal black market tickets
A black market selling thousands of Premier League tickets has been revealed by a BBC investigation. Companies based at a number of overseas locations, including in a Swiss town with a population of 4,000, are behind it. They are thought to be using memberships and computer software to obtain tickets at scale through clubs’ […]
Play: Cooler Than Me? – BBC Weather
Britain’s true national sport is complaining about the weather. But does the Sun really shine brighter everywhere else, or is this quite a green and pleasant land after all? Compare your location to cities across the world, and find out if you’re forecast to become the BBC’s next star meteorologist. You can find the […]
Ireland commits to co-operate with reformed UK legacy body
Julian O’NeillCrime and justice correspondent, BBC News NI Getty More than 3,500 people lost their lives during the 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland The Republic of Ireland has committed to new legislation that will ensure full co-operation with a reformed UK legacy body dealing with cases related to the Northern Ireland Troubles. […]
Trump says TV networks ‘against’ him should ‘maybe’ lose licence after Kimmel suspension
Watch: Ros Atkins on… What Jimmy Kimmel being taken off air means for free speech in the US US President Donald Trump has suggested some TV networks should have their licences “taken away”, as he backed America’s broadcast watchdog in a row over the suspension of late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel. ABC has pulled […]
China issues warning to Papua New Guinea over defence deal with Australia | Papua New Guinea
China has urged Papua New Guinea not to sign a treaty that could restrict or prevent it from cooperating with another country, days after Australia failed to secure a defence pact with the Pacific nation. In a statement on Facebook late on Thursday, the Chinese embassy in Papua New Guinea said it respected the […]
Convicted rapist Gareth Ward argues he should receive lighter sentence due to ‘enormous fall from grace’ | New South Wales politics
Lawyers for convicted rapist Gareth Ward have argued in court that he should receive a lighter sentence because of his “enormous fall from grace”, including the loss of his political career. Ward resigned as a New South Wales MP last month, just hours before he was to be kicked out of parliament. He is […]
For comedians around the world, the laughs often end as democracy fades | Freedom of speech
The exiled Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef has experienced firsthand how intolerant governments can silence political satire. And he had a short message this week for those living in an age of Donald Trump’s free speech clampdown: “My Fellow American Citizens,” he wrote on X. “Welcome to my world.” In his attacks on the most […]
Seven teenagers charged with murder after stabbing deaths of two boys in Melbourne | Melbourne
Seven teenagers have been charged with murder after the stabbing deaths of 15-year-old Dau Akueng and 12-year-old Chol Achiek in Cobblebank in Melbourne’s west earlier this month. The seven males, aged between 15 and 19, were arrested on Friday morning after raids on homes in Melbourne’s north and west by homicide squad detectives. They […]