Military planners have been called in to help tackle the mounting piles of rubbish on Birmingham’s streets after a month-long strike by refuse workers. The all-out strike, which began on 11 March as part of a dispute over pay, has meant thousands of tonnes of rubbish have gone uncollected and prompted warnings of a public…
US stock markets were expected to stage a recovery on Monday after Donald Trump excluded imports of smartphones and laptops from his tariff regime late on Friday night. Shares in Apple and chip maker Nvidia were on course to soar after tariffs on their products imported into the US were lifted for 90 days. The…
A body has been found in the River Thames in the search for 11-year-old Kaliyah Coa, who entered the river in North Woolwich on 31 March, police have said. According to the Metropolitan police, officers were alerted to a body in Maritime Quay in east London at about 9am on Sunday. While the body is…
A Palestinian paramedic who has been missing since a massacre of medics and rescue workers by Israeli troops in Gaza last month is being detained in Israel, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The whereabouts of Assad al-Nsasrah, a Palestinian paramedic, had been unknown for weeks since an incident on 23…
The Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has been kicked out of the Celebrity Big Brother house over “instances of unacceptable behaviour” and “inappropriate language”. The 72-year-old Bafta winner is understood to have used behaviour and language that was considered to be threatening and aggressive during a task, directed towards housemate Chris Hughes, a former Love Island…
An arrest warrant for the former City minister Tulip Siddiq has been issued in Bangladesh with a new allegation accusing her of illegally receiving a plot of land from her aunt, the ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Bangladeshi media reported the warrant was issued by a judge for 53 people connected to Hasina, including…
At least 31 people have been killed and dozens injured in a Russian ballistic missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people were going to church for Palm Sunday. Two missiles landed in the crowded city centre. One hit a trolley bus full of passengers. Footage from the scene showed bodies lying in…
A 63-year-old British man has died after falling from a viewing platform overlooking the historic aqueduct of Segovia in central Spain, according to local authorities. In a brief statement on Saturday, officials described the man as a British passport holder who had arrived in the city on Thursday with two other people. Initial reports suggested…
Zimbabwe has started to make compensation payments to white former farm owners, 25 years after Robert Mugabe’s government began confiscating land. The government paid $3.1m (£2.3m) to a “first batch” of 378 farms, the ministry of finance said in a statement on Wednesday, the first payout under a 2020 agreement to pay $3.5bn in compensation….
Foreign secretary David Lammy said he was deeply concerned after a British politician was denied entry to Hong Kong, and that he would urgently raise the issue with Chinese authorities. Wera Hobhouse was denied entry to Hong Kong on Thursday for a personal trip to visit her son, who has lived there since 2019, and…
