Today, by a majority of 8 to 3, the Supreme Court rules that the government cannot trigger Article 50 without an Act of Parliament authorizing it to do so. Put briefly, the reasons given in a judgment written by all 8 justicers majority are as follow...
BBC News with Stewart Macintosh. Several major news organisations have been excluded from a press briefing at the White House, including the New York Times, CNN and the BBC. They were refused entry to an off-camera briefing with President Trumps spok...
BBC News with David Austin. Astronomers say they've made a major discovery of planets orbiting a distant star which may hold the right conditions to support life. They say they've found seven earth-sized planets orbiting a star called Trappist-1. The...
BBC News with David Austin. The Mexican Foreign Minister, Luis Videgaray, has expressed concern about violations of the human rights of Mexican nationals in the United States. After a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and the head...
BBC News with Elly Mecue. The Trump administration has released new guidelines aimed at speeding up the removal of illegal immigrants from the United States. Undocumented immigrants with a criminal record will be targeted first along with those deeme...
BBC news with John Macintosh. The US vice president Mike Pence has sought to reassure Americas European allies that president Trump is committed to transatlantic cooperation. On his visit to Brussel, he reaffirmed the support from both the European U...
BBC News with Elly Mecue. Thousands of Iraqi government forces have advanced into a handful of villages on the opening day of an offensive to recapture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group. A BBC correspondent saw weapons and ammunition aba...
BBC News with Julie Candler. A fierce critic of the US Environmental Protection Agency has been sworn in as head of the organization. Scott Pruitt, the former Attorney General of Oklahoma, has sued the agency more than a dozen times over its regulati...
BBC News with Marion Marshall. President Donald Trump has used a hastily-arranged White House news conference to claim that he's inherited a mess, both America and overseas. He told reporters that jobs were pouring out of the United States, and the D...
It's been reviewed that a one-month old baby boy has become the youngest lung donor in the UK. The parents of Theodore Omondi released the details saying they were proud that their son's organs had helped to save the lives of two other people. One of...