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Reuters By Christy Cooney BBC News The United States has restricted travel for its employees in Israel amid fears of an attack by Iran. The US embassy said staff had been told not to travel outside the greater Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Be’er Sheva areas “out of an abundance of caution”. Iran has vowed to

Getty Images OJ Simpson, the former American footballer who was controversially cleared of double murder, has died aged 76, his family says. Orenthal James Simpson rose to fame as a college footballer before playing in the NFL. In 1995, he was acquitted of the murder of his former wife Nicole Brown and a friend in

Reuters By Max Matza & Will Vernon BBC News President Joe Biden has promised Israel “ironclad” US support amid fears that Tehran could launch reprisals for an attack that killed senior Iranians. Mr Biden warned that Iran is threatening to launch a “significant attack” after Israel struck the Iranian consulate in Syria ten days ago.

Reuters By Vicky Wong BBC News Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh has confirmed that three of his sons and at least two of his grandchildren were killed in an air strike in Gaza. Hamas-linked media said the car his sons were travelling in was hit in Al-Shati camp near Gaza City. Haniyeh said that the

Getty Images By Josh Parry, LGBT & identity producer, and Hugh Pym, health editor BBC News Children have been let down by a lack of research and “remarkably weak” evidence on medical interventions in gender care, a landmark review says. The Cass Review, published on Wednesday by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, calls for gender services

UK Parliament William Wragg, the MP who admitted sharing MPs’ personal phone numbers with someone on a dating app, has “voluntarily” given up the Conservative whip. He will now sit as an independent MP in the House of Commons. Mr Wragg has also given up his roles on the 1922 backbench committee and the Public

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Holly Honderich in Washington Across Mexico, the US and Canada, inside a ribbon of land stretching 155 miles wide but more than 4,000 miles long, tens of millions of people craned their necks, tilted their heads

BBCCopyright: BBC Happy solar eclipse day to all who may get to see it. Today this astrological phenomenon will span Mexico to the very eastern tip of Canada, with hundreds of events planned to catch a glimpse of this rare event. But what is it, you ask? A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves

Reuters By Ian Aikman BBC News A new drone attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant has raised the risk of a “major nuclear accident”, the UN’s atomic watchdog has warned. Russia said Ukraine was behind the attack, which it said injured three people. Ukraine has denied involvement. The giant Russian-held nuclear plant, with six reactors,

ReutersCopyright: Reuters As anti-government protests continue in Israel calling for the release of all hostages still held in Gaza, let’s consider how popular Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is by now. Netanyahu has been a dominant political figure for the last 40 years. He was re-elected for a fifth time in November 2022, leading a

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Ido Vock BBC News Opponents of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu say 100,000 people have rallied against the government and to demand a Gaza hostage deal. The rallies in Tel Aviv and other cities came after the

AFP Israel’s military says it has recovered the body of a man taken hostage and held in Gaza, in an overnight raid on Khan Yunis. Elad Katzir was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas attacks on southern Israel on 7 October. His body has been brought back to Israel, the Israel Defense Forces

Reuters By Sean Seddon BBC News An aid organisation has called for an independent investigation into the killing of seven of its workers by Israeli drone strikes in Gaza. It comes after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said “grave mistakes” led to the fatal targeting of staff from charity World Central Kitchen (WCK). An Israeli

In the end, Benjamin Netanyahu was left with no other option. After months of apparently ignoring Washington’s concerns about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, he was forced to make concessions, or face the threat of a shift in the US policy towards his country. The port of Ashodod, about 30km from Gaza, will be used

Getty Images By Fiona Nimoni BBC News Israel says it has approved the opening of three humanitarian routes into Gaza, to allow more aid into the territory. The Erez Gate in northern Gaza will be temporarily re-opened for the first time since the start of the war. Ashdod Port will be opened for humanitarian deliveries

International pressure is growing on Israel to carry out a full and transparent investigation into the strike on the World Central Kitchen convoy, an attack that has raised fresh questions about the way the Israeli military has conducted its war in Gaza. We still do not know details of the misidentification that, according to the