‘One in, one doubt’ and ‘sick note’ crackdown
The majority of Friday’s papers lead with the UK-France “one in, one out” agreement to tackle migrant Channel crossings. The Daily Telegraph reports French President Emmanuel Macron said British people…
IVF pioneer Lord Robert Winston quits BMA over doctor strikes
Lord Robert Winston, a professor and TV doctor who was a pioneer of IVF treatment, has resigned from the British Medical Association (BMA) over planned strikes by resident doctors. Resident…
Delays and shortages in UK’s F-35 fighter jet fleet , watchdog says
Delays, infrastructure gaps and personnel shortages to Britain’s most advanced warplane programme are undermining the UK’s warfighting capability, the public spending watchdog has said. The F-35 stealth jet used by…
war crimes are being committed, says ICC
Tabby Wilson BBC News Digital – World Reuters 12 million people have been displaced by the conflict in western Sudan There are “reasonable grounds” to believe war crimes and crimes…
Smoke billows from luxury yacht fire in St Tropez
Social media videos show black smoke billowing from a luxury yacht on fire in St Tropez in the French Riviera on Thursday. The blaze took place on the Sea Lady…
Trump threatens 35% tariffs on Canadian goods
US President Donald Trump has said he will slap a 35% tariff on Canadian goods starting 1 August, even as the two countries are days away from a self-imposed deadline…
Srebrenica massacre’s tensions still felt 30 years on
Guy Delauney Balkans correspondent BBC More than 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica in July 1995. Today remembrance is fraught The silence is…
The secret of the perfect political slogan
Brian Wheeler Political reporter Getty Images Donald Trump did not invent the phrase but he made it his own Every political campaign needs a good slogan – a snappy phrase…
Row over language turns violent in India’s richest state
Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai EPA/Shutterstock Police in Mumbai detain a woman who was participating in a protest this week against alleged injustice to Marathi speakers For weeks, a battle…
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh says AI has made us dumbed down machines
BBC Irvine Welsh is pointing up to the second floor of a grey stone building in Leith, the port district of Edinburgh. As he gets ready to publish a sequel…