Warchild Olivia Rodrigo is one of more than 30 artists appearing on the Help 2 album for Warchild Damon Albarn is standing in the doorway of Abbey Road’s canteen, deep in conversation with The Libertines’ Carl Barat. Nearby, Pulp are queueing for a fresh batch of lasagne. Around them, half a dozen of children are…
Madina MaishanuBBC Africa, Kurmin Wali BBC Sarah Peter managed to escape from the kidnappers despite being hit on the head by one of the attackers There was a huge plaster on Sarah Peter’s head to staunch the bleeding caused by the blow of a gunman’s weapon. Sarah, not her real name, was in church in…
Labour and Conservative MPs criticise Trump Afghanistan remarks Donald Trump has sparked fresh outrage in the UK after saying Nato troops stayed “a little off the front lines” during the war in Afghanistan. Labour MP Emily Thornberry, the chair of the foreign affairs committee, called it an “absolute insult” to the 457 British service personnel…
US President Donald Trump took to the stage in Davos, Switzerland to speak at the annual World Economic Forum, and gave a speech featuring topics ranging from Europe’s green policies to Greenland. Trump told the room he would not use force in Greenland – but also launched a long argument for why the US should…
The United Nations (UN) says it will take over management of a camp in north-eastern Syria holding holding thousands of people with alleged links to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). It comes after Kurdish-led forces that had been running the camp withdrew in the face of an advance by Syrian government forces, triggering unrest…
Getty Images The US plan for “New Gaza” was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos The US has unveiled its plans for a “New Gaza” that would see the devastated Palestinian territory rebuilt from scratch. Slides showed dozens of skyscrapers stretching along the Mediterranean coast and housing estates in the Rafah area, while…
South Africa’s Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has said that the security forces are not yet able to defeat deadly criminal gangs, in a stark admission that underscores the scale of the country’s crime crisis. Gang violence, alongside robberies, accounts for many murders in South Africa, which has one of the world’s highest homicide rates. Cachalia…
Ian YoungsCulture reporter Warner Bros Sinners stars Miles Caton (left) and Michael B Jordan Vampire horror film Sinners has broken the record for the most Oscar nominations received by a single film, after being nominated for 16 of Hollywood’s most coveted honours. The film beat the previous record of 14 nominations, and emerged ahead of…
An ex-nurse convicted of murdering 10 patients in western Germany may be linked to more than 100 additional deaths, an official has said. The chief public prosecutor in Aachen, Katja Schlenkermann-Pitts, told the BBC that there was “a correspondingly high number of suspicious cases” under review. She cautioned that the cases represented preliminary suspicions and…
Emmanuel Macron/X The Grinch had set sail from Murmansk in northern Russia, French officials said France says it has seized an oil tanker in the Mediterranean suspected of being part of Russia’s sanction-busting “shadow fleet”. French President Emmanuel Macron said the tanker, named the Grinch, was “subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a…