Meet Karol G, Colombia’s Taylor Swift
Getty Images Karol G had four sold out shows at Madrid’s Bernabéu Stadium this summer We have all heard of Taylor Swift, but what about Colombian singer Karol G? While…
vote for strike action over return to office working
Metropolitan Police staff have voted to go on strike over office working. A Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) ballot showed overwhelming support for industrial action, with 85% of members…
10,000 civil service jobs could go due to saving targets
More than 10,000 civil servants jobs could be cut as part of Labour’s push for 5% savings across its departments, a government source has said. Headcount in the civil service…
BBC sees crowd surge over rumoured execution of Assad henchman
Decades of rule by the Assad family came to an end over the weekend following the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad. But as the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen explains, there are…
Doing the GCHQ Christmas challenge? Let these experts help you
GCHQ Still scratching your head over this year’s GCHQ Christmas challenge? This year the public have been challenged to decode the names of UK landmarks, testing skills including codebreaking, maths…
Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp down in mass Meta outage
Users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are reporting difficulties accessing them due to a mass global outage. “We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access…
FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign before Trump takes office
BBC Christopher Wray, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), says he will resign from his post before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month. Mr Wray announced…
Man jailed for murdering friend at his flat
Family Craig Moult, 45, was found dead at his Sutton Coldfield flat on 3 September last year A man has been jailed after murdering his terminally ill friend and taking…
LGBT veterans to get up to £70,000 in gay ban compensation
ANN GANNON/BBC Stephen Close lived for three decades as a convicted sex offender before his pardon in 2013 LGBT veterans who were dismissed from the armed forces for being gay…
Syrian asylum seekers ‘terrified’ after Home Office pauses claims
BBC Hussam Kassas, who fled Syria in 2016, says he is at risk of losing his job Asylum seekers who have been waiting more than a year for an outcome…