Raids to detain and deport migrants living in the US without permission are set to begin on the first full day of the new Trump administration, US media report. The operations – threatened by Donald Trump’s “border tsar” Tom Homan – could begin in Chicago, a city with a large migrant population, as early as…
TRUMP VANCE TRANSITION TEAM HANDOUT/EPA Serious. Ominous. A “message picture”. Those are some of the descriptions of Donald Trump’s newest official portrait, captured by his chief photographer, Daniel Torok. In the photo, the president-elect wears a stern expression, eyebrow cocked. “The official portrait of the president is the most printed, most seen image of the…
Watch TikTokers weigh in on potential US TikTok ban For online sensation Erika Thompson, TikTok is the most powerful social media platform to educate her 11 million followers about her life’s passion: bees. The loss of the platform in the US – made more likely after the Supreme Court upheld a ban that is set…
Getty Images The Israeli and Hamas negotiators never came face to face – but by the end, just one floor separated them. Ceasefire talks via middlemen from Qatar, Egypt and the US had been dragging on for several months, at times without hope. Now the key players were all inside one building in Doha and…
Four people have been killed in a Russian air strike on Kyiv overnight, local officials say. The city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said air defences were in operation around the Ukrainian capital. Windows were shattered in Shevchenkivskyi district, including at a metro station, and a fire broke out in a non-residential building, he added. It is…
Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen, have announced plans to study the deepest parts of Earth’s oceans in order to understand the strange phenomenon. Their mission could “change the way we look at the possibility of life on other planets too,” the researchers say. The initial discovery confounded…
Getty Images The Brihadishvara temple, built in the 11th Century by King Rajaraja Chola, is a Unesco World Heritage site It’s 1000 CE – the heart of the Middle Ages. Europe is in flux. The powerful nations we know today – like Norman-ruled England and the fragmented territories that will become France – do not…
EPA Trump gives economy speech in Pennsylvania Donald Trump has promised big changes for the world’s largest economy. An “end to the devastating inflation crisis”, tariffs and big cuts to taxes, regulation and the size of government are all on the agenda. This combination, he says, will ignite an economic boom and revive withering faith…
BBC TikTok has said it will be forced to “go dark” in the US on Sunday unless the government steps in before a federal ban takes effect. In a statement, it said “both the Biden White House and the Department of Justice have failed to provide the necessary clarity and assurance to the service providers…
BBC Volunteers Mzwandile Mkwayi (R) and Mandla Charles (L) were greeted as heroes after descending the mineshaft As Mzwandile Mkwayi was lowered into the South African mine in a red metal cage attached to a hoist above ground, the first thing that struck him was the smell. “Let me tell you something,” he tells the…
