Crumbling English museums get £270m funding from government
Museums, galleries and other cultural venues in England are to receive £270m funding to stay afloat and fix their crumbling buildings, the government has said. The money will go to…
Newcastle man’s eye saved with help of placenta
Sharon Barbour BBC North East and Cumbria health correspondent BBC Paul Laskey’s eye has been saved with the help of a donated placenta A donated placenta has been used to…
Buckinghamshire Ukrainian families worry about UK temporary visas
BBC Viktoria Shtanko founded the charity Ukraine Appeal which helped those who arrived in Milton Keynes after fleeing Ukraine A charity is calling on the government to rethink the visas…
Grief in Morogoro as scrap metal thieves target crosses
Alfred Lasteck BBC News, Morogoro BBC Grave after grave after grave in this cemetery in the eastern Tanzanian city of Morogoro has been vandalised. In some, there is a gap…
Office raids and arrests shock aid workers in Yemen
Getty Images About half of Yemen’s population needs humanitarian assistance, including nearly 10 million children When Hanaa arrived at work a few months ago, she found “drawers and doors smashed,…
Hamas to hand over first dead bodies of hostages
EPA It is not known how Shiri, Kfir and his brother Ariel – if confirmed – died Hamas is to transfer to Israel the bodies of four hostages who have…
Georgia’s richest man said to be moving funds to avoid sanctions
Rayhan Demytrie South Caucasus correspondent Getty Images The US sanctions against Georgia’s richest man, Bidzina Ivanishvili, aim to freeze his assets Last spring, when tens of thousands of Georgians were…
Ancient remains of woman may have been sacrificial
Robbie Meredith BBC News NI education correspondent PSNI The body of the young woman is thought to be more than 2,000 years old Ancient human remains discovered in peatland in…
‘Shameful’ Trump attack on Zelensky and ‘Tearful Emma’
Most of Thursday’s papers lead with Donald Trump’s fresh attack on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling him a “dictator” and warning that he “better move fast or he is not…
S Korea’s impeached president fans communist fears and conspiracies
Jean Mackenzie Seoul Correspondent BBC/Hosu Lee Some of Yoon’s supporters believe the opposition party wants to unify with the North and turn South Korea into a communist country On a…