Sarah Keith-Lucas Lead Weather Presenter Watch: How people on the US East Coast are coping with extreme heat Dozens of people have been hospitalised for heat-related illnesses as the summer’s first major heat wave descends on eastern North America. More than 150 people fell ill at an outdoor school graduation ceremony in Paterson, New Jersey … Read more
The parent agency of Voice of America said on Friday it had issued termination notices to over 639 more staff, completing an 85% decrease in personnel since March and effectively spelling the end of a broadcasting network founded to counter Nazi propaganda. Kari Lake, senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, said the … Read more
BBC Navratilova defected from communist Czechoslovakia 50 years ago because she had ambitions of becoming world number one Fifty years ago, Martina Navratilova left everything she knew in communist Czechoslovakia to start a new life in the US. Then an 18-year-old high school pupil, she was one of the Cold War’s most high-profile defectors – … Read more
Lana Lam and Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Reuters Australia would buy up to five Virginia-class attack submarines from the US – seen here in Western Australia earlier this year – under the Aukus deal The US has launched a review of its multi-billion dollar submarine deal with the UK and Australia, saying the security … Read more