Scottish Budget to get green light in final Holyrood vote
Angus Cochrane BBC Scotland News PA Media First Minister John Swinney has won the support of three opposition parties for his spending plans MSPs are set to approve the Scottish…
Elen Wyn says GPs laughed at her endometriosis fear
Elen Wyn says she suffered with pain before her diagnosis which she was told were “just period pains” The Traitors contestant Elen Wyn has said she was laughed at by…
The disturbing rise of ketamine abuse among young people
Jane Deith BBC File on 4 Investigates BBC At the urology department of Burnley General Hospital, 26-year-old Ryan (not his real name) is having a drug solution inserted through a…
Abandoned girl’s progress ‘astonishing’, court hears
PA Media Baby Elsa was found in a shopping bag near the Greenway footpath in east London in January 2024 A baby girl who was abandoned more than a year…
Macron suggests Ukraine truce could be weeks away after talks with Trump
Bernd Debusmann Jr at the White House, BBC News Max Matza and Peter Bowes, North America correspondent BBC News Reporting fromWashington DC Watch: Trump and Macron cite ‘progress’ in Ukraine…
Trump threats dominate Liberal leadership debate in Canada
Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto Getty Images Candidates vying for Liberal Party leadership pose before Monday’s debate Candidates vying to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the Liberal…
Confusion over Musk demand that federal workers justify their jobs
US government workers faced widespread confusion on Monday following conflicting advice over compliance with an Elon Musk-backed order to list their last week’s work in an email or face termination.…
Singapore’s biggest bank DBS to cut 4,000 roles as as it embraces AI
Singapore’s biggest bank says it expects to cut 4,000 roles over the next three years as artificial intelligence (AI) takes on more work currently done by humans. “The reduction in…
China woos Bangladesh in Beijing trip
A 22-member Bangladeshi delegation of political leaders, civil society activists, academics and journalists have begun a 10-day visit to China. They will be having talks with Chinese government officials and…
US Secret Service agent during Kennedy assassination dies aged 93
A US Secret Service agent who leapt on to John F Kennedy’s limousine as it came under fire in Dallas, and was pictured in famous photos of one of the…