[ad_1] Theo Leggett International business correspondent BBC Listen to Theo read this article “What you have there is about £250,000 worth of gold,” Emma Siebenborn says as she shows me a faded plastic tub filled with old, shabby jewellery – rings, charm bracelets, necklaces and orphaned earrings. Emma is the strategies director of Hatton Garden…
[ad_1] Paul Kirby and Jessica Parker In London and Berlin Conservative colleague Johann Wadephul: “I’m sure [Merz] will be the next chancellor” Germany’s conservative leader has unexpectedly fallen short of a majority in a parliament vote to become chancellor. Friedrich Merz needed 316 votes in the 630-seat Bundestag but only secured 310, in a significant…
[ad_1] Watch: Trump says he is not looking to serve a third term US President Donald Trump has denied that he is considering a third presidential term, a move which experts agree is banned under the US Constitution. “I’ll be an eight-year president, I’ll be a two-term president. I always thought that was very important,”…
[ad_1] Brazilian police said they thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga’s concert on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro state, in co-ordination with the justice ministry, said suspects had recruited participants to carry out attacks using improvised explosives and the plan was aimed at…
[ad_1] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to retaliate against the Houthis after a missile fired by the group struck the grounds of Israel’s main airport. In a video posted on social media, Netanyahu threatened strikes, saying: “We attacked in the past, we will attack in the future”. The missile, fired from Yemen by…
[ad_1] Wellington Airport The giant birds will be unfastened from the airport ceiling to make way for a new mystery exhibit For more than a decade, a pair of Hobbit-inspired eagle sculptures have cast a watchful eye over visitors at New Zealand’s Wellington Airport. But the giant birds will be unfastened from the ceiling on…
[ad_1] Lucy Williamson Middle East correspondent Reporting fromNorthern Syria BBC General Security Forces personnel have been deployed in Latakia city One of the men accused of taking part in a wave of sectarian violence against Syria’s Alawite minority two months ago has told the BBC that he and other armed civilians who travelled to the…
[ad_1] On Saturday night Lady Gaga performed for her biggest audience ever, two million people on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. However, the evening could have ended in disaster for the huge crowds in Brazil. Police said they thwarted a bomb attack that was planned to take place at the concert. The BBC’s Mimi…
[ad_1] Catherine Ellis Business reporter Reporting fromLa Guajira, Colombia Catherine Ellis José Luis Iguarán says that the sound of the turbines disturbs his dreams When José Luis Iguarán steps outside his home in La Guajira, northern Colombia, he is met with a line of 10 towering wind turbines stretching across the cactus-strewn terrain toward the…
[ad_1] Thirteen miners have been found dead inside a mine in Peru after being kidnapped several days earlier. They were working at a gold mine owned by Peruvian mining company Poderosa, which is based in Pataz province, north of the capital Lima. The victims had been sent out to confront a group of people involved…