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At around 01:30am local time (05:30 GMT), a 911 caller reported an incident in the Francis Scott Key Bridge area. Chief Kevin Cartwright, director of communications for the Baltimore City Fire Department confirmed to us that the bridge had been struck by “a large vessel” causing it to collapse into the Patapsco River. He also

EPA By Christy Cooney BBC News Israel has cancelled meetings in Washington after the US declined to veto a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution, which also called for the release of all hostages, followed several failed attempts at similar measures since the 7 October attacks. Israeli Prime Minister

ReutersCopyright: Reuters The Palestinian representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, has welcomed today’s resolution – but says it is overdue. “It has taken six months, over 100,000 Palestinians killed and maimed, two million displaced, and famine, for this council to finally demand an immediate ceasefire,” Mansour tells the UN. He says the draft resolution was

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Graeme Baker BBC News Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people. Three were marched blindfolded into a Moscow court while the fourth was in a

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe correspondent, Kyiv As news of the Moscow concert hall attack broke on Friday, Ukrainians knew what was coming: Kyiv would be blamed. The next thing they expected was more drones and more

Reuters By Daniela Relph, royal correspondent & Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News The Prince and Princess of Wales are “enormously touched by the kind messages” they have received following Catherine’s cancer diagnosis, a Kensington Palace spokesman has said. Saturday’s statement also added they were “grateful” that the public understood their request for privacy. Catherine revealed

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The attack on a Moscow concert hall on Friday was the worst in Russia for years. More than 100 people were killed as gunmen stormed the complex, days after President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term of

The statement from so-called Islamic State (IS) saying they were behind the attack came out on one of the group’s official accounts. That is not absolute confirmation – sometimes IS has issued false claims – however, a US official has told CBS, the BBC’s US partner, that it has intelligence confirming the IS claim that

ReutersCopyright: Reuters This week Israeli troops returned to al-Shifa – Gaza’s biggest hospital – with the Israeli military saying it had “concrete intelligence” of Hamas operatives having regrouped there. Israeli military said it had killed “over 140 terrorists” in ongoing fighting at al-Shifa and to have made some 600 arrests, including dozens of top Hamas

By Fergus Walsh Medical editor Thousands of patients in England with suspected lung cancer are being offered a blood test which can show if they can get early access to targeted therapies. The test looks for genetic variations to aid treatment decisions. Some tumours can be treated with pills rather than standard chemotherapy, often meaning

The US suit comes just two weeks after Apple faced a similar antitrust hit in the EU. The tech giant was fined €1.8bn ($1.9bn, £1.5bn) by the European Commission for breaking competition laws over music streaming. Apple was found to have stopped streaming services like Spotify from informing users of ways to pay outside of

Getty Images By Becky Morton BBC political reporter The House of Lords has inflicted fresh defeats on the government over its flagship Rwanda bill. Six proposed changes, including a provision to ensure “due regard” for domestic and international law, have been passed by peers so far. MPs will now have to vote on the bill

He says that his reasons for stepping down now are “personal and political, but mainly political.” With a reference to the forthcoming elections, he expresses confidence: “I believe my party, Fine Gael, can gain seats in the next Dáil”. “After careful consideration and some soul-searching, I believe a new taoiseach will be better placed than

Dany Abi Khalil / BBC By Feras Kilani in Sudan & Mercy Juma in Chad BBC News Civilians caught up in Sudan’s civil war have given graphic accounts to the BBC of rape, ethnic violence and street executions. Our journalists have managed to make it to the front line of the fighting close to the

Reuters By Tom Bateman BBC News, travelling with Antony Blinken Gaza’s two million people are experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. This was first time an entire population had been so classified, he said when questioned by the BBC about conditions in the territory. Mr Blinken

Reuters By Will Grant, Central America correspondent BBC News “Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country’s spiralling security crisis. More than a dozen bullet-ridden bodies lay in