Four ill with sepsis after food poisoning outbreak at Stockholm restaurant
Four people have been diagnosed with sepsis after eating at a luxury restaurant in Stockholm as part of a suspected listeria outbreak. Health authorities say at least 15 people have…
Aftermath of Delta planes colliding at LaGuardia
Two Delta planes collided on the taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, with the wing of one aircraft striking the cockpit window of the other. Delta Air Lines…
Benidorm cracks down on display of ‘offensive’ items in shop windows
The Spanish tourist resort of Benidorm is clamping down on shops that display lewd or “offensive” items in their windows – fearing that they tarnish the area’s image and upset…
Inside the lab melting the world’s oldest ice
The ice cores were drilled from 2.8km down in the Antarctic ice sheet, and they arrived at the British Antarctic Survey at the start of the summer. Over the last…
Police say two shot dead in ‘self-defence’
At least two people have been killed in Morocco after police opened fire to prevent protesters from storming a police station in Lqliaa, near the coastal city of Agadir, state…
Senegal’s fishermen blame BP gas plant for dwindling catch off Saint-Louis
Paul NjieBBC Africa, Saint-Louis Michel Mvondo / BBC Every day, Gora Fall, a fisherman in Senegal’s northern city of Saint-Louis, heads to sea with a mix of emotions: hope and…
China launches a new visa to attract tech talent, but locals aren’t happy
Getty Images When China first announced a new visa targeting foreign professionals in science and technology in August it largely went unnoticed. But the K visa, which went into effect…
Kenyan activists abducted in Uganda, Bobi Wine says
Two Kenyan human rights activists have gone missing in Uganda after reportedly being abducted by armed men while attending opposition leader Bobi Wine’s campaign event. Bobi Wine strongly condemned the…
Dozens feared dead in school collapse, officials say
There are “no signs of life” under the wreckage of a collapsed Indonesian school where 59 people are still missing, rescuers have said. Hundreds of students, most of them teenage…
White House says layoffs to begin ‘imminently’
Watch: Shutdown blame game as GOP and Dems point fingers Mass layoffs of US federal workers will begin within two days, the White House says, as lawmakers trade blame over…