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Alex Bailey/Focus Features/StudioCanalAndrew Scott plays chief meteorological adviser James Stagg, who advised General Eisenhower during World War TwoAndrew Scott says he loved his latest acting role as Group Captain James Stagg, the meteorologist key to the success of World War Two’s D-Day – the largest seaborne invasion in history.”He may not have been the most charming person, but I think he had a huge amount of humility in the face of nature. And that’s one of the themes I think of the film,” Scott tells the BBC.”He appeared to me to be an extraordinarily interesting cinematic character, as well as…
Video shows damaged Amazon cargo plane after crashAn Amazon Air cargo plane overshot the runway while attempting to land at Miami International Airport, killing five people and seriously injuring five more.The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft crashed just before 14:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after departing from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The flight also hit several vehicles on the ground.Amazon said that it is “working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened”.All flights were ordered grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as fire crews raced to the smoking crash site.…
Ahmad Dhani for BBCFahrin Ramadhianto has been fighting Borneo’s wildfires for a month – and noticing the impacts on his body.The sky grows heavy in Borneo, though not with rain. The air, amber-hued and treacle-thick, is smudged under a blanket of smog that has spilled across international borders – to Singapore, Manila, Kuala Lumpur. Down on the ground, smoke steams from the soil.It’s like tear gas, says Dwi Sujatmoko.”It hits your nose straight away, your eyes burn – that’s more or less what it’s like,” he says. “People say these fires are extraordinary because of the flames and the smoke.…
Maryam MoshiriMaryam Moshiri is one of the most well-known anchors at BBC NewsBBC News presenter Maryam Moshiri has revealed she is living with blood cancer. Moshiri, who joined the BBC in 2003 and is one of the news channel’s best-known anchors, told the BBC she wanted to share her diagnosis to raise awareness about the disease. “It’s been two years since my diagnosis and I’ve felt that I’ve started to understand the disease a lot better and the way it affects my life. I’ve got a handle on it to a degree now, so I felt it was really important…
ReutersThe talks in Kyiv were rich in symbolism. The sight of Donald Trump’s envoys setting foot on Ukrainian soil for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion. The fact they had to travel by train because they could not risk flying and running the gauntlet of Russian drones – weapons launched on the orders of the man at whose table they sat in the Kremlin only hours ago. The symbolism of Ukrainian President Zelensky greeting Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Cathedral, not only an icon of Ukraine’s ancient history, but also just a few yards from…
Masked men chanting “stop the boats” at Port of DoverPolice were slow to react to an “exceptionally well organised” protest that ground the Port of Dover to a halt for hours, a council boss has said.Kevin Mills, who leads Dover District Council, told the BBC that demonstrators “caught several agencies on the hoof” when they arrived on Saturday.Hundreds of masked men chanting “stop the boats” blocked roads, causing miles of tailbacks and preventing access to the port.Kent Police is yet to comment, but cabinet minister Jonathan Reynolds said officers “did deal with it swiftly”.”The protesters knew what they were doing,…
LIVEAmazon cargo plane overshoots runway and hits multiple vehicles at Miami airport, officials say”Multiple patients” are being treated, according to the local fire service, and Miami airport has issued a ground stop on flights.
Watch: US envoys Witkoff and Kushner say they are “encouraged” by Ukraine talksUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he expects the war with Russia to continue into the winter, following a round of talks with Donald Trump’s top envoys in Kyiv.The discussions finished without an announcement of a major breakthrough, after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travelled to Ukraine for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion. The previous day, the pair had held talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.Witkoff said he was “encouraged” by what he called “substantive” and important talks in Kyiv. Zelensky stressed that he wanted a…
US Central Command released footage on Saturday showing strikes on Iran-linked tankers Iran’s top negotiator has warned of “a faster, heavier, and more painful response” to US attacks, as hostilities between the two sides escalate.Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday that Americans must understand “before it is too late” that the “rules of the game have changed”, according to a translation of his comments on state media. His comments come nearly a week into renewed fighting between Iran and the US, and a day after Washington said it struck Iranian oil tankers in response to Tehran attacking American…
ReutersAfD leaders were overjoyed as exit polls projected a big lead in the Saxony-Anhalt voteGermany’s AfD is heading for a big victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of its mainstream rivals, according to initial projections. It is not yet clear if that would be enough to take power in the state but the AfD says it has won a mandate to govern.The far-right party is set to win more than 44% of the vote, well ahead of the conservative CDU on 18.4%.The AfD has hailed the result as a “historic outcome” and the charismatic leader in the…