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BBCWho is Andy Burnham? There are plenty of labels to pick from.King of the north, the well-liked mayor of Greater Manchester. Ruthless plotter – the man who led a shadow revolt to oust the prime minister.Gig-goer. Everton fan and season ticket holder, who wants to try and sit in the stands even when he is running the country.Poetry lover. Experienced former cabinet minister. Cambridge graduate.Deeply proud family man and centrist dad, unafraid to display his moves to True Faith by New Order, the track he picked to play at an event to celebrate taking over the Labour Party.The 56-year-old is…
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England beat Argentina in thriller after late TMO callEngland hold on to beat Argentina in a chaotic match in the Nations Championship after the hosts have a last-gasp try controversially ruled out in Santiago del Estero.Just now
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Watch: Huge warehouse blaze in Moscow region following Ukrainian strikesEight people have been killed and 62 injured after Ukrainian drones struck two warehouses belonging to Russia’s biggest online retailer, Wildberries, according to Russian officials. Seven deaths and 25 injuries occurred at a warehouse in the city of Tambov, roughly 295 miles (475km) south-east of Moscow. One death and 37 injuries occurred at another Wildberries warehouse in Elektrostal in the Moscow region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attacks had struck “major logistics facilities” which had been used to “supply sanctioned components for drone production and navigation equipment”. He added that…
EPA/ShutterstockSince his party swept to power in April, Péter Magyar (left) has repeatedly called on Tamás Sulyok (right) to resignHungarian President Tamás Sulyok has agreed to step down, signing an amendment to the country’s constitution which will end his presidency at midnight on Sunday.Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s Tisza party had used its majority to steamroll the law change through parliament to oust Sulyok – widely seen as a loyalist of former prime minister Viktor Orbán who lost power in April after 16 years.Sulyok had five days to sign the amendment or risk a protracted constitutional crisis and impeachment proceedings.He confirmed…
Getty ImagesDonald Trump accuses the BBC of “intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring” his 6 January 2021 speechDonald Trump has removed the BBC’s commercial arm from his defamation lawsuit over a controversial episode of Panorama, but the US president is still pursuing his multi-billion dollar claim against the BBC as a whole.Last December, Trump sued the BBC and subsidiaries BBC Studios Productions and BBC Studios Distribution over a 2024 Panorama episode that edited together different sections of a speech he gave.The BBC argued that the Studios companies had “no role in creating or producing the documentary, and did not broadcast it…
Kylee Lynn PhotographyHannah (right) chose a combination of her mother’s maiden name and her husband’s surname after she got marriedFor more than a decade, Hannah had been known by two surnames.On social media, sports rosters, email and restaurant bookings, she was Hannah Leonard, sharing her surname with her mother.But legally, and at work and school, she had a different surname – the one she inherited from her father.Hannah’s parents divorced when she was a toddler and she hasn’t had much of a relationship with her dad since. She says she last saw him seven years ago and isn’t sure where…
Reuters46-year-old Jens Spahn announced he and his husband had become parents earlier this weekGerman centre-right politician Jens Spahn has resigned as parliamentary group leader of the country’s governing coalition after being accused of hypocrisy over his use of a surrogate mother in the US to have a child.Surrogacy is prohibited in Germany – a policy backed by his Christian Democrat party (CDU) and, several years ago, by Spahn himself – although raising a child born to a surrogate mother abroad is not.He wrote in a statement on Saturday: “I have realised that my personal happiness – founding a family together…