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Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFile photo of wine from Italian company Marchesi AntinoriThieves have stolen 30,000 bottles of wine collectively worth about €5m (£4.2m) from a prestigious Italian winery, Italian media reports.Marchesi Antinori, one of Italy’s biggest family-owned wineries, said the theft at its storage facility in Tuscany took place on Saturday as the company was preparing to ship a consignment to customers abroad.At least seven masked men are believed to have deactivated the alarms, disabled the cameras and used company forklifts to load two large trucks of the company’s prized Tignanello, Solaia and Guado al Tasso Tuscan reds.Renzo Cotarella, the…
Listen: ‘I played dead’, Fort Hood survivor Alonzo Lunsford who was shot seven times tells BBC’s TodayA former US Army sergeant who survived the mass shooting on Fort Hood has said that while he supports the execution of the gunman by firing squad, he is concerned about it being livestreamed.Alonzo Lunsford, who was shot seven times, told the BBC that the “method is befitting” for Nidal Hasan because other methods like lethal injection would be “doing him a favour”.Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 unarmed US soldiers in a medical building at Fort Hood in 2009. But while…
LIVEWinner of Nobel Peace Prize to be announced in OsloSome 287 candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, which was won last year by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Charles-McClintock Wilson/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesPrices for gasoline and diesel have more than doubled since the US-Israel conflict with Iran began in February, affecting transport businesses, farmers and anyone who drives a vehicle in America.Ahead of the critical midterm elections, there have been growing calls for more to be done to reduce the price of fuel, and US President Donald Trump has made several comments and announcements aimed at getting costs down.The question is: what is he able to do with just a few weeks to go before election day – and will it work?Why does Trump want to reduce gas…
ShutterstockIn the aftermath of a by-election, the focus is usually on the winner. Not this time.Make no mistake, the new MP for Holborn and St Pancras in north London, Sagal Abdi-Wali, has quite the story to tell.She arrived in the UK as a child refugee from Somalia in the 1990s, grew up locally in Camden, became a councillor four years ago, the council leader in May and is now Sir Keir Starmer’s successor as the MP.But in the offices of Camden Council at three o’clock this morning, the focus of the press pack, me included, was on Zack Polanski, the…
Watch: Olena explains what she cannot live near in order to stay safeAs Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s cities intensify and autumn’s cooler temperatures hint at another tough winter to come, Ukrainians are wrestling with how to meet the twin challenges ahead: Russian drone and missile strikes and the biting cold.”It was a very difficult winter last year in Kyiv,” says mother of two Mariia Shostak, who is now packing her bags and leaving her small flat.With prolonged periods of sub-zero temperatures and frequent power cuts brought about by Russia’s attack on the country’s power grid, last winter was one of…
Federal Court of AustraliaAdidas tendered pictures of White Fox advertisements to support their claimAdidas is suing Australian label White Fox for selling and advertising clothes with a four-striped design, arguing it is “deceptively similar” to the German brand’s distinct logo.The sportswear giant said it had repeatedly asked White Fox to stop selling and promoting the clothes since March, but the Sydney-based company refused.The fast-fashion online retailer is popular with teenagers and young adults in Australia, the UK and the US, and has relied on billboards, bus advertising and influencers – often university-aged – to grow its profile.In the Federal Court…
What Americans think about the death penaltyThe BBC spoke to Americans and international tourists in Washington DC about their views on the death penalty following the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee.6 hrs agoUS & Canada
Watch: Protesters gather in New York where person was shot by ICEA US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot a man in the Bronx in New York City on Thursday.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which runs the agency, confirmed an ICE officer “discharged his weapon” during “a targeted enforcement operation… to arrest a criminal illegal alien”.In a statement, it added the man was alive and at a local hospital.New York mayor Zohran Mamdani said it was an “unconscionable and incredibly serious situation”.The BBC has approached DHS for comment about Mamdani’s remarks.Late on Thursday evening, New York Governor Kathy…
LIVESingapore and Malaysia shrouded in toxic haze from months-long Indonesia wildfiresForest fires that have been burning for months in Indonesia have blanketed parts of neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.