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More than 20 aircraft across Europe have been targeted by bomb threats. It’s the second time this week, which the UK has called a “malicious hoax”. BBC Verify has been analysing the messages sent by an aircraft to find out what happens when a flight receives a bomb hoax – as Thomas Copeland explains. Additional […]

Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX have plunged as tech and artificial intelligence stocks more broadly plummeted a day after the Democrats swept to victory in the midterms. Those losses dragged the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite stock index down, which had fallen by more than 5% at one point in early trading. The market has been reacting […]

Noble said they remained on board for two-and-a-half hours while police and military personnel carried out checks, including searches with sniffer dogs. The passengers were later told they would be taken to an airport in Paris and another plane would fly them on to Rome. Philip Baum, professor of aviation security at the University of […]

Two months after the police investigation began, Brand was interviewed under caution for the first time. He was interviewed on two further occasions in the following months. In each interview he provided officers with a prepared statement, which said he did not recognise the complainants or recall the alleged incidents and that if any sexual […]

Six people have died after a large fire broke out in a residential building in Brooklyn, New York City, officials say. Several others were hurt in the blaze, which occurred early on Thursday morning, the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) said in a statement. More than 230 fire and emergency medical personnel were sent […]

Russell Brand has been found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. The comedian and actor, 51, has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced on Monday. The charges dated from 1999 to 2009 and concerned six women. They are all entitled to lifelong anonymity BBC correspondent Sima Kotecha […]

ER launched in 1994, based on original screenplay written by Crichton. It starred George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle and Maria Bello, and aired 331 episodes over the next 15 years. The show, which followed a group of doctors working in an emergency room in Chicago, was a hit with viewers and critics, and […]

Italian chef Davide Tamburella was fired from a Brisbane restaurant in May after the establishment’s management expressed concerns about a string of complaints about the chef’s behaviour. Among them were Tamburella’s refusal to provide ham and pineapple pizza for guests at a function. It was the third time Tamburella had refused to use the fruit […]

It was at a hospital appointment with her dad when a doctor told Laura she had a 50/50 chance of developing the same type of early onset Alzheimer’s known as the “London variant”. “All I could think was, that’s a toss of a coin,” she says. “I was still so involved with what was going […]

Walter Kazadi Mulombo, the WHO representative in Guinea-Bissau, told the BBC they became concerned after receiving questions about the study and finding no publicly available protocol. He said the main ethical concern was that the trial would withhold an intervention already proven to protect newborns against hepatitis B. “The vaccine has been used for more […]