Blocked drains in the UK are costing over £100 million a year with the vast majority being blamed on wet wipes. It is not however just wet wipes that are causing the problem, with people…
A letter to my father who took his…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Mallappa, a farmer in a village in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, told his family in August last year that he was going to a nearby city…
Texas town bans abortion in all-male council vote
Image copyright Courtesy KTAL News TV 6 Image caption Waskom city council passes its ban All five members of the entirely male, entirely white Waskom city council have declared their East Texas town a "sanctuary…
US Founding Fathers records could return
Image copyright Library of Congress Image caption Benjamin Franklin's father Josiah was born in Ecton, Northamptonshire Papers revealing the family links of a Founding Father of the United States to a village church in Northamptonshire…
UK warned over sending bad signal to China
China's ambassador to the UK has warned that excluding Huawei from Britain's 5G network "sends a very bad signal". Speaking to BBC's Newsnight, Liu Xiaoming said Chinese businesses planning to invest in Britain may be…
MPs reject Labour plan for no-deal vote
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionTellers read out the result with a win for the government by 309 votes to 298MPs have rejected a Labour-led effort to take control of Parliament's timetable,…
Seventh victim of Cyprus serial killer found
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Authorities have been criticised for the way the case has been handled Police in Cyprus have discovered the seventh victim of what is believed to be the island's first serial…
Chernobyl selfies lead to writer warning
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption File photo: a visitor to the Chernobyl exclusion zone in the abandoned city of Pripyat this month poses for a selfie Tourists visiting Chernobyl must be respectful, the creator…
Dangerous gang leader thanks police
Image caption Carlus Grant was described by a police officer who caught him as "about as dangerous as you could get" An ex-gang leader who served 10 years in prison for a shooting has thanked…