Newark Fire Station Children were spotted playing on Simpsons Pond in Newark which had frozen over amid a cold spell A warning has been issued to parents, schools and children after pupils were spotted playing on a frozen pond in Nottinghamshire. A group of children were spotted on Simpson’s Pond in Newark by an off-duty

Priti GuptaTechnology Reporter Impex Butterfly pea grows wild across India “Until a few years ago, the butterfly pea flower was just another climbing plant in my village,” says Nilam Brahma who lives in Anthaigwlao, a village in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Butterfly pea, also known as aparajita in India, grows as a vine

Alice Cuddy,reporting from Cúcuta, on the Colombia-Venezuela borderand Vanessa Buschschlüter,Latin America editor, BBC News Online Reuters Police guarded the National Assembly where Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in Monday At least 14 members of the press were detained in Venezuela on Monday as they were covering the aftermath of the seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro

EPA Protests have broken out in at least 17 of Iran’s 31 provinces, presenting the largest challenge to the country’s clerical establishment since 2022, a BBC Verify and BBC Persian analysis has found. The BBC’s analysis of protests includes only those for which we have verified video footage – the true number is almost certainly

Patrick Jacksonand Kayleen Devlin,BBC Verify senior journalist EPA Oil equipment in Cabimas, Venezuela, last month Russia has deployed navy assets to escort an oil tanker also being pursued by US forces across the Atlantic, CBS News, BBC’s media partner in the US, reported. The ship, which currently isn’t carrying anything, historically has transported Venezuelan crude

Novo Nordisk’s new GLP-1 pill highlights the risk that Eli Lilly faces, as investors reward it for being at the forefront of the weight loss market. Eli Lilly‘s (LLY +2.13%) stock price has increased by approximately 35% over the past year. It has risen nearly 200% over the past three years. And it has rallied

Watch: Ski bar not checked for five years and sparklers now banned, mayor says The Swiss bar that was the scene of a fire which killed 40 people and injured 116 had not undergone safety checks for five years, authorities have said. The mayor of Crans-Montana, Nicolas Feraud, told a Tuesday news conference that he

‘We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security,’ Trump says The White House says Donald Trump and his close advisers are discussing options for taking over Greenland, as the US president continues to argue it would benefit his nation’s security. His demands have been rejected by the island’s leaders and by Nato member Denmark,

Katya AdlerEurope editor BBC Earlier today, the so-called Coalition of the Willing, largely made up of European leaders, met in Paris with envoys of US President Donald Trump, to try to make further progress on a sustainable peace deal for Ukraine. With Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky insisting a plan to end the war with Russia

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Police have released CCTV images believed to be of a convicted murderer and a second prisoner who absconded from prison

A man matching the description of convicted murderer Matthew Armstrong was seen in Bristol over the weekend CCTV images appearing to show a murderer walking city streets days after he absconded from open prison has been released as the search to find him continues. Three men failed to return to HMP Leyhill, South Gloucestershire, on

Getty Images Hundreds of people were stranded at Amsterdam airport Intense snowfall and icy weather conditions have caused widespread travel disruption across Europe, with six reported killed in weather-related incidents on the continent. Five people died in two separate regions of France as a result of treacherous driving conditions, authorities said, while one woman was