Turkey has finally deployed its jets in the crisis-hit region and bombed, um, Turkey. According to a report on the Hurriyet news website, Turkish jets bombed Kurdish militants in the south-east of the country. Turkey’s […]
When silence is not an option… The young North Korean defector has spoken out against the brutal regime she escaped and has urged the world to take action to help people in her home country. […]
The number of people in work in the UK has finally returned to pre-recession levels. But is everything as rosy as it seems? As this map shows, the growth in jobs has regional variations, despite […]
Sister act? BBC journalist Martina Purdy has quit her job to join a religious congregation as a nun. What is she leaving behind? With 25 years in journalism, 15 of which were with the BBC, […]
The dog belonging to Spanish Ebola patient Teresa Romero Ramos, Excalibur, was put down last week for fears it may transmit the disease, while Bentley, the dog belonging to US patient Nina Pham, was rehoused […]
Alcohol-related health problems affect thousands of families and individuals across the country and cost the NHS an estimated £3.5bn a year. As this map from Statista shows, Kent has been found to be the local […]
The only district in Sierra Leone as-yet untouched by Ebola now has two confirmed cases. Residents in Koinadugu had managed to escape the outbreak for months thanks in part to the efforts of businessman Momoh […]
Tony Blair is calling for an urgent global agreement to teach religious respect as he warns that action against extremist groups will otherwise “count for nothing”. In an essay for the BBC, the former prime […]
A Canadian man claims to have found a dead mouse in his McDonald’s coffee – after he finished drinking it. Ron Morais told CBC News he picked up the takeaway coffee on the way to […]
This inflatable “Christmas tree” erected in Paris is making passers-by feel a little uncomfortable. The 80ft-high object is raising eyebrows because of its uncanny resemblance to a sex toy, but is actually an installation by […]
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