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Watch: Burnham welcomes Zelensky to No 10 with military ceremonial guardPresident Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to London follows a well-trodden diplomatic path in a war now in its fifth year.For months, US President Donald Trump had been a largely benign presence in the conflict, promising Ukraine greater access to American air defence technology and threatening more sanctions on Russia.Then last week Trump carried out an abrupt U-turn, lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and calling for Zelensky to be replaced.Once again Ukraine’s leader got on his plane to shore up support among European allies. Today London, tomorrow Brussels.For the prime minister there…
Watch: What we know about Russia’s overnight strikes on UkraineNew restrictions on the speed at which some of Ukraine’s weapons can travel and stay connected to the Starlink internet network have disrupted Ukraine’s battlefield “missions”, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser has warned.Serhiy Beskrestnov said Ukraine had not been told about speed limits set overnight at 100mph (160km/h) by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.Starlink is a vital tool allowing Kyiv to effectively guide drones to Russian targets and also protect Ukrainian skies. Beskrestnov said SpaceX’s move “cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation”. The firm has not commented.In…
AFP via Getty ImagesLouis Prevost, Pope Leo’s eldest brother, is also undergoing cancer treatmentThe wife of Pope Leo XIV’s brother says her husband is also receiving treatment for cancer after the Vatican announced the Pope has the disease.Deborah Prevost, the wife of the Pope’s eldest brother, Louis Prevost, told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, on Tuesday that her husband has a form of blood cancer. It is unclear how advanced it is. Her comments came on the same day that Pope Leo, 71 – the first US-born head of the Catholic Church – underwent what the Vatican described as…
Getty ImagesUS inflation rose by more than expected in the year to September, according to official figures, in the final data release before the midterm elections next month.The pace of price rises increased to 3.7%, up from 3.4% in the 12 months to August.Inflation was above forecasts, driven by higher gasoline prices which have risen following disruption to Middle East energy supplies due to the US-Israel conflict with Iran.The elections are being fought over cost of living pressures across the US.Inflation is the rate at which the price of products or services increase over time.For example, if a bottle of…
Artefacts from the ship were found just off the coast of Kekova IslandThe world’s oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey, archaeologists say.They have dated it to between 4,400 and 4,700 years old, which is the Early Bronze Age, and is around the same time that the Great Pyramid was being built.The ship’s wooden structure has not survived, but the ceramic storage pots it was carrying were lying on the sea floor and, remarkably, some still contain traces of what they held inside.The archaeologists who found the ship say it was about 10m in length and was…
Sergey Krasovskiy and Pedro SalasInvictibellatrix amberina is thought to have lived in the Early Cretaceous period about 120 million years agoA new species of dinosaur – a long-clawed predator the size of a large tiger – has been identified from a fossil found on the Isle of Wight more than 100 years ago.The dinosaur, named Invictibellatrix amberina, is described in a new paper in the journal Royal Society Open Science and belongs to a group of agile, two-legged carnivores called megaraptorans.Megaraptorans were closely related to tyrannosaurs including Tyrannosaurus rex but had slender heads and attacked prey with their large arms…
Anadolu via Getty ImagesPope Leo is expected to remain at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital for a week as he recovers from surgeryVatican transparency about papal health has come a long way from the secrecy of the past.But that does not mean Catholics were prepared for such seismic news about cancer and removal of a large section of Pope Leo XIV’s lung – even after he announced on Sunday that doctors had discovered a nodule.On Tuesday, the 71-year-old was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma following 90-minute surgery to remove a lower lobe of his right lung.Part of the shock has, of course, been…
LIVERussell Brand was ‘ruthless’ and a ‘sexual predator’, prosecutors allege as rape trial beginsThe actor and comedian has pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.
ReutersSerhii K was extradited to Germany from Italy late last yearFour years after one of the most dramatic acts of sabotage in modern European history, a Ukrainian is on trial in Hamburg accused of blowing up Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines to Germany.Serhii K, as he is identified by German prosecutors, is accused of plotting with other Ukrainian military personnel to destroy the pipelines and stop Russia financing its war with gas revenue.The case is highly sensitive in Germany, seen as one of Ukraine’s closest allies since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, seven months before the attacks…
Watch: What we know about Russia’s overnight strikes on UkraineBBC Ukraine Correspondent Dan Johnson is in Kyiv, where at least three people were killed in overnight strikes.36 mins agoEurope