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Global oil prices have jumped after Israel said it had struck Iran, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East.The price of the benchmark Brent crude was up by more than 10% shortly after the news emerged, reaching its highest level since January.Traders are concerned that a conflict between Iran and Israel could disrupt supplies comin…

Fevzi Turkalp, the Gadget Detective, joins Cherry Healey on BBC Radio London with the latest tech news and reviews. On the show this time; Avoiding the pitfalls of buying an Apple product with insufficient ram or storage and how to expand your storage later. First Gadget of the Week is the Acasis Tool-free TBU405 ProM1 M.2 NVMe external SSD enclosu…

With 64 sold out shows across North and South America, Shakira has played to more than two million fans – the biggest stadium tour of the year.The tour is titled Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women No Longer Cry) after Shakira's latest album, which was inspired by some of the most intense heartbreak and personal upheaval she'd ever experienced.With exc…

Israel has carried out waves of strikes on Iran overnight, hitting nuclear sites and killing Revolutionary Guard chief Hossein Salami and other commanders.Iran fired about 100 drones towards its territory, many of which were intercepted, Israeli military said.Iran said six scientists had been killed, with state TV reporting that civilians, includin…

Israel has carried out strikes on nuclear sites in Iran, the IDF has said, with blasts heard in Tehran.The strikes were part of Operation Rising Lion, Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu says, adding that adding Iran was a threat to "Israel's very survival".Israel has declared a state of emergency, saying the country expected counter-attacks "in the imm…

More than 240 people are known to have been killed when an Air India passenger plane crashed seconds after take off from Ahmedabad in Gujarat, western India. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner came down in a densely-populated area of the city shortly after clearing the runway, causing devastation and many deaths on the ground. All but one of the 242 people …

Today, at least 200 people have been killed when a London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India.Adam speaks to BBC Correspondent Archana Shukla in Mumbai about the scenes in Ahmedabad, the news of one British passenger surviving the crash, and the official response to the crash. He is a…

Air India has confirmed that 241 passengers and crew have died after a London-bound plane crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India. In a statement the airline said that the "sole survivor" - a British citizen - is being treated in hospital. There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian on…

Hundreds of thousands of people are "slowly starving" in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels, a United Nations official has told the BBC. The impact is starkly visible at a hospital in the sprawling Kakuma camp in the north-west of the East African nation, home to roughly 300,000 refugees who …

The new group backed by Israel and the US for aid distribution in Gaza says Hamas attacked a bus transporting some of its Palestinian workers, killing at least five people. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said the attack happened on Wednesday night as the bus carrying more than two-dozen workers travelled to a distribution centre in southern Gaza,…

A leisure centre was set on fire in Larne, Northern Ireland, after two nights of disorder which initially began as a peaceful protest over and alleged sexual assault in Ballymena. The centre had been providing emergency shelter for families following the clashes earlier this week, the council said. Masked youth attacked the leisure centre and the v…

The police chief in Ahmedabad said there appears to be no survivors from the plane crash in India which was heading to London Gatwick, according to reports from the AFP and AP news agencies. The Air India flight was carrying 242 people and crashed shortly after take-off. Videos show scenes of devastation in the residential area where the plane came…

A curfew is in place for a second night in Los Angeles after nearly a week of unrest in the city over US immigration raids. Multiple people were arrested for violating the downtown curfew shortly after it came into effect at 20:00 local time on Wednesday (03:00 GMT on Thursday). Nearly 400 people have been arrested in LA since protests began on Fri…

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A London-bound plane has crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India. "Flight AI171, operating Ahmedabad-London Gatwick, was involved in an incident today," Air India said. The plane is understood to have been carrying more than 200 passengers. Tracking website Flightradar24 says it received the last signal from the aircraft at 625 f…

Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out the government spending plans until the end of the decade.She says spending on the NHS will rise by 3% a year after inflation. And also confirmed £39bn for social and affordable housing, an end to "costly" asylum hotels by 2029, and an extension of the £3 bus fare cap in England to 2027.You an read the Spendi…

A third night of violence broke out in Northern Ireland as a leisure centre in the town of Larne providing emergency shelter for families who had fled the violence came under attack. It follows rioting in Ballymena by masked men who attacked police and set homes and cars on fire. Police condemned their actions as “racist thuggery” targeting ethnic …

Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of sexual assault in a six-week trial in New York, after his first conviction in the state was overturned last year. A panel of seven female and five male jurors deliberated for five days before unanimously voting to convict the disgraced film mogul of one of three counts. The jury found him not guilty of an a…

Thousands of people in Austria have held a candlelight vigil for the victims of a school shooting, in which 10 people were killed and a further 12 injured. Police said the 21-year-old suspect, a former student, took his own life in a school bathroom shortly after the gun attack in Graz on Tuesday, the deadliest in the country's recent history. In a…

Los Angeles police said they have made "mass arrests" after a fifth day of protests over US President Donald Trump's immigration raids. Mayor Karen Bass declared an overnight curfew within a relatively small area of the city's downtown district, saying businesses were being vandalised and looted. Trump's row with state officials ramped up after he …

The UK has sanctioned two far-right Israeli ministers over "repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities" in the occupied West Bank. Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich will both be banned from entering the UK and will have any assets in the UK frozen as part of the measures announced by the foreign secretary. Israeli Foreign M…

Billionaire Elon Musk has said he regrets some of the posts he made about US President Donald Trump during their war of words on social media. "I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far," he said on his platform X. The two were embroiled in a public fallout, after the Tesla owner called Trump's tax bill a "…

LA Mayor Karen Bass has declared a curfew for parts of downtown Los Angeles in response to looting and violence during protests against immigration raids.In a televised address, California Governor Gavin Newsom attacked Donald Trump for inflaming the situation in LA.The US president said the protests were an "assault on peace and public order" as h…

The clash between Governor Newsom and President Trump escalates as LA protests enter day four.A defence official has told the BBC's US partner CBS that approximately 2,100 members of the California National Guard are now on location in the greater Los Angeles area, with 700 Marines also in and around the city. Newsom called it “the deranged fantasy…

Ten people have died following a shooting at a secondary school in the Austrian city of Graz, police said. Six females and three males are among the dead, the interior minister said, plus the suspect who police believe killed himself in a school bathroom. The suspected gunman was a 21-year-old former pupil from Graz who did not finish school and wh…

US President Donald Trump is deploying more National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles as protests in the city continue. California Governor Gavin Newsom has said he will take legal action against the deployments, calling President Trump "deranged" and "dictatorial". Demonstrations in the city continued into a fourth day on Monday, with new r…

Today, the UK Labour party confirms 75% of pensioners will keep their winter fuel payments, reversing a widely criticised policy.Nine million pensioners in England and Wales with an annual income of £35,000 or less will now be eligible. The payment, worth up to £300 to help with energy bills during the coldest months, was paid only to those on pens…

Donald Trump has defended his decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles despite criticism from California official. The US president says LA would have been "completely obliterated" otherwise and hits out at California Governor Gavin Newsom, who said he's suing the Trump administration. Demonstrations began outside in downtown LA on Frid…

Nato needs a "quantum leap" in defence to deter threats to the alliance, its secretary general has said, as he called for Western allies to invest more in their armed forces. In a speech in London, Mark Rutte said Russia could be ready to use military force against Nato within five years. Rutte said Nato needed a "400% increase in air and missile" …

Protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles have appeared to die down overnight, with LA Mayor Karen Bass taking to social media to tell Angelenos "don’t engage in violence and chaos. Don’t give the administration what they want". Vehicles have been set on fire and there have been some reports of looting, whilst a British photographer needed …

How did one of the most powerful alliances in American politics blow up?The falling out between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has been playing out very publicly on social media, with back and forth insults and threats. The BBC's Sarah Smith, Marianna Spring, Justin Webb and Anthony Zurcher unpack how the row intensified with Trump threatening to revok…

Israeli forces have intercepted a yacht carrying activists and a small quantity of humanitarian aid that was trying to reach the Gaza Strip. Climate activist Greta Thunberg and French lawmaker Rima Hassan, are among 12 people aboard the Madleen, with Thunberg saying they have been "kidnapped" in a video posted to social media. Israel's foreign mini…

The governor of California has said that President Trump is “hoping for chaos” by deploying National Guard forces in Los Angeles. Gavin Newsom condemned the move as “purposefully inflammatory”. It comes after three days of protests against immigration raids in the city. The Los Angeles Police Department have said the protests are largely peaceful a…

The Prince of Wales has described the challenge of protecting the world's oceans as "like none that we have ever faced before." In a speech delivered to the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco, Prince William said life on the ocean floor was "diminishing before our eyes" and called for ambitious action "on a global, national and local level". …

We’re looking at what’s going on in the Treasury as the final decisions are being made ahead of the government’s Spending Review on Wednesday.The home secretary and deputy prime minister are both still in dispute with the department over the amount of cash they'll have to spend.Business editor Simon Jack and Paul Johnson, director of the Institute …

US President Donald Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants. Tear gas was used to disperse crowds as residents of the predominantly hispanic Paramount district clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. As many as 118 arrests were made in LA this week as a…

Six people have been killed near a US-backed aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, the Hamas-run Civil Defence Agency said. A number of people are also reported to have been injured by Israeli gunfire while gathering to collect food supplies. The Israeli military said it fired warning shots at suspects who approached them in a threatening manne…

US President Donald Trump has said he is “not interested” in making up with tech billionaire Elon Musk in the wake of their online feud. Since leaving the White House, Musk has been voicing opposition to Trump’s budget bill, which in turn led to Trump suggesting that he may cancel contracts with Musk’s companies. Tesla shares were sent into freefal…

At least three people have been killed and another 21 injured in the biggest Russian drone attack on Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, the mayor has said. Ihor Terekhov said that overnight Russia launched 48 drones, as well as two missiles and four gliding bombs in an attack he described as "open terror". It comes after a massive wave of dr…

Ukraine dubbed its operation inside Russia on 1 June "Spider Web". New information continues to emerge about the daring series of drone attacks at multiple locations inside Russia. BBC Analysis Editor Ros Atkins and the BBC Verify team have been assessing a range of material - from satellite images to drone footage - to build up a picture of what h…

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer could face pressure to commit to more defence spending ahead of a Nato summit later this month - that's after the Strategic Defence Review earlier this week. Also, the Spending Review looms large - with Chancellor Rachel Reeves facing some difficult choices in the upcoming review, which sets the budgets for all govern…

US President Donald Trump does not intend to talk to Elon Musk after their feud erupted on social media, the White House has said. The confirmation came after reports the pair would speak on the phone later on Friday. The rift between the president and his former adviser reached breaking point on Thursday after both exchanged insults, mostly on soc…

Ukraine has struck deep into Russia with a massive drone attack - targeting multiple airbases and destroying strategic bombers thousands of miles from the front line. Former senior British military officer Mikey Kay joins BBC News Chief Presenter Christian Fraser on The Security Brief, to untangle Operation Spider’s Web - how it worked, what was hi…

Israel has carried out air strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, saying it was targeting Hezbollah's drone production. The attack on the eve of Eid Al Adha, one of the most important celebrations in Islam, followed evacuation warnings for several buildings in the area, where Hezbollah is based in the capital. The attack occurred despite a ceasefire…

The key political partnership between Donald Trump and Elon and Elon Musk has exploded in spectacular fashion with a bitter war of words.It began when Mr Trump said he was “surprised and disappointed” at Elon Musk’s criticism of his flagship budget bill. He said they had had a “great relationship” but “I don’t know if we will any more”. Elon Musk r…

Today, Zia Yusuf has resigned as the chairman of Reform UK, posting on X: "I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time".What does that mean for Nigel Farage and the future of his party? Adam and Alex discuss. And former Conservative Chancellor Jeremy Hunt joins Adam to discuss his new book, Mel Stride dis…

President Trump and Chinese teams will meet shortly, after Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed trade, in a phone call earlier today. Adding that there should no longer be any questions on rare earth products. The conversation was focused on trade and did not include Russia, Ukraine or Iran - Donald Trump wrote on this social media. Subscr…