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For several days, media outlets have watched every move outside the arena. They spotted trucks with cryptic labels like “GP” and “garden party” on it and crews unloading tons of equipment and things like large white staircase prop and large mirror ball. Earlier in the week, workers were seen rolling out a red carpet, which was hastily withdrawn.New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an astute student of both politics and pop culture, has coyly alluded to the wedding chatter during press conferences. City officials confirmed to the BBC that somebody applied for street closure permits in the area, but did…

The Home Secretary has vowed to “right the wrongs” identified by an inquiry into the “senseless killing” of three young girls and violent attacks on others in Southport.Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were killed by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in June 2024.Inquiry chairman Sir Adrian Fulford said there had been a “fundamental failure” by any organisation to take ownership of the risk Rudakubana posed in the years leading up to his attack.Shabana Mahmood said the government accepted these findings, adding: “We will do whatever is needed to…

Dakar, Senegal – The silence came before kickoff. Not from fear but anticipation, a nation holding its breath.Across Dakar, radios crackled from open windows. Men gathered shoulder to shoulder in cafes, their eyes fixed on flickering television screens. Families crowded into living rooms. Friends leaned over phones, tea growing cold as conversation gave way to concentration.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe city’s usual rhythm horns, its markets, its arguments, its laughter – did not disappear. It simply yielded to something larger.Senegal were in the first knockout round of the World Cup, playing against Belgium.On the 25th-minute mark of…

Andy Burnham has said he would take his responsibilities to fund the defence investment plan “extremely seriously” if he becomes prime minister.The plan, published on Tuesday, provided a £15bn spending boost to defence but is projected to leave the next prime minister with a £4.7bn funding gap to fill.Burnham told LBC he had not seen all of the details of the plan prior to its publication but insisted there would be “no compromise on the security of the nation”. The Makerfield MP also rejected attacks on his economic stance, insisting he would not be “indisciplined” on public finances.He has faced…

Mickey Blank, a celebrity photographer who has been working in New York for over 10 years, told BBC Newsbeat that Madison Square Garden is currently surrounded by members of the press but there’s not actually much to see.Despite rumours of a red-carpet reception for the expected A-list guests, Blank said she’s not expecting a parade of big-name arrivals.”It’s like Pentagon-level secrecy,” she said.”You cannot go in, you cannot see anything.””They have an underground parking lot. All the high-profile guests are expected to arrive underground.”The same applies to seeing Swift herself. “Your chances of seeing Taylor Swift are, like, lower than…

A former US Olympian has been charged with vandalising the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after authorities say he was seen reaching into the water after renovations to the pool.President Donald Trump blamed vandals for the peeling of newly applied coating on the bottom of the attraction in Washington, DC.David “Davey” Hearn, 67, a three-time Olympic canoeist, previously told the BBC he did not do anything wrong, but was detained by the pool’s edge as he was finishing a long bike ride.US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said at a press conference on Thursday that he caused $1,000 worth of damage.Pirro said Hearn…

As RSF troops encircle the strategic Sudanese city, half a million trapped civilians face mass atrocities.The UN Human Rights Council is scheduled to hold an urgent debate on Friday about the crisis in el-Obeid, the capital of Sudan’s North Kordofan state. International groups fear it is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) tighten their siege on the city.With attack drones raining down on civilian areas and military reinforcements massing outside the city, there are mounting concerns of more mass killings by RSF forces as seen in el-Fasher.The strategic importance of el-ObeidThe city is…

McMahon said the government wanted to “close the loophole” in the 1971 act, but said legal advice was needed to say whether any change could apply retrospectively and therefore allow Ahmed to be deported.The BBC understands the government is considering whether the 1971 law could be changed through an amendment to the Immigration and Asylum Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament.Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told the BBC he was planning to lay his own amendment to the bill to remove the provisions preventing Ahmed’s removal.He said McMahon and Waugh had “both agreed with me that…

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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced she and her department are leaving Elon Musk’s X platform.Explaining her decision in what seemingly will be her last post on X, external, Nandy said the platform “isn’t healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don’t want to support it”. “A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate,” she wrote.The culture department becomes the second government department to stop using X after the attorney general’s office, while several MPs also left the platform earlier this year over reports its AI tool was being…