Texas police face anger for delay in tackling school gunman  - BBC News

Texas police face anger for delay in tackling school gunman – BBC News

Police in Texas are facing criticism after it emerged that it took up to an hour for them to tackle a gunman who entered an elementary school and shot dead 19 children and two teachers. Witnesses said police gathered outside…

14 children and teacher shot dead at Texas elementary school - BBC News

14 children and teacher shot dead at Texas elementary school – BBC News

14 children and a teacher have been killed in a shooting at a primary school in Texas. The attack happened at Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde. The state’s Governor Greg Abbott said the gunman was 18-year-old Salvador…

We’ve Lost Two Years to Covid. It’s Time to Grieve. | NYT Opinion

We’ve Lost Two Years to Covid. It’s Time to Grieve. | NYT Opinion

That’s right: We’re all two years older than when we first shut ourselves inside for lockdown. If we assumed the Covid pandemic would be brief, we were wrong. So if you feel like a withered old sloth these days wallowing…

Anger and grief of families of soldiers killed in Afghan war - BBC News

Anger and grief of families of soldiers killed in Afghan war – BBC News

It’s 20 years since US forces first launched airstrikes against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, in response to the attacks of 9/11. For military families of coalition troops who lost relatives in the conflict, it will be a…

Half a million Covid deaths in Brazil as calls grow for President to be impeached - BBC News

Half a million Covid deaths in Brazil as calls grow for President to be impeached – BBC News

Brazil has now recorded more than half a million coronavirus deaths, making it only the second country, after the US, to pass that figure. More than 2,000 people each day have been dying of Covid. It’s led to protests over…

Palestinian community mourns 7 children killed in Gaza airstrike - BBC News

Palestinian community mourns 7 children killed in Gaza airstrike – BBC News

Palestinians and Israelis are counting the cost of the latest conflict, which claimed the lives of more than 250 people, almost all of them in Gaza. In one Palestinian community near Beit Hanoun a young man and seven children were…

Princes William and Harry pay tributes to their grandfather the Duke of Edinburgh - BBC News

Princes William and Harry pay tributes to their grandfather the Duke of Edinburgh – BBC News

Prince William and Prince Harry have paid separate tributes to their grandfather the Duke of Edinburgh. William described Prince Philip as an extraordinary man from an extraordinary generation. Harry wrote of him as a master of the barbecue, and a…