Spain: Moment fire crews rescue two people from burning tower block
A 14-storey residential block in the Spanish city of Valencia has been engulfed in a fire, and has spread to an adjoining building. More than 20 fire crews are attempting to contain the blaze. In video captured by a camera crew at the scene, two people can be seen being rescued by fire crews in […]
Darryl George: US teen segregated in school over hairstyle gets choked up
A US teenager who has been in in school suspension since August over the length of his locs hairstyle has said he is filled with “anger, sadness, disappointment”. Ahead of a trial looking into whether the school’s rules broke the law, Darryl George got choked up speaking to reporters about his six-month isolation from his […]
Watch: Cottam power station building demolished
The moment part of a decommissioned power station building was demolished has been captured on camera. A pre-planned demolition of Cottam power station’s boiler house took place earlier, with people on social media saying they could feel and hear the demolition over a wide area. Dee Dickens, who filmed it from near Rampton in Nottinghamshire, […]
Watch: Moments of drama from Commons Speakers
Tensions flared in the House of Commons on Wednesday night when a debate on Gaza “descended into farce”. The upheaval came after Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle broke with convention to allow a vote on a Labour amendment to a SNP motion. The Speaker, who must remain politically impartial at all times, then faced accusations that […]
Thwaites: Ice robot reaches under mighty Antarctic glacier
A robotic submersible called Icefin has revealed new details about the melting processes occurring under Thwaites Glacier, one of the biggest and fastest flowing rivers of ice in Antarctica. The BBC was given special access to film the deployment of the sub. Source: BBC News
Satellite radar spies big Antarctic iceberg
The continent’s new mega-berg, A81, is observed by Finnish company Iceye’s satellite radar system. Source: BBC News
Footballer Dani Alves guilty of nightclub rape
A court in Spain has sentenced Alves, who played for Barcelona and Brazil, to four and a half years. Source: BBC News
Moment car crashes into living room, causing £30,000 of damage in Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire Police have released footage of a driver crashing into the living room of house in Wisbech in 2021 causing nearly £30,000 of damage. After the collision, the suspected drink driver, Michael Wilson, ran off, and then called the police to inform them that his car had been stolen. Emergency services arriving to the scene […]
Wrong-way driver calls police on himself by mistake
A driver in Nebraska phoned police to report that he was almost hit by a driver who he said was going in the wrong direction, seemingly unaware that he himself was the one on the wrong side. A deputy was able to arrest the driver before anyone was seriously injured. Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office released […]
Moment giant Antarctica drone takes off
The first pictures of a giant drone flying in Antarctica have been released by the British Antarctica Survey. Scientists want to use the drone to reach inaccessible parts of the continent to understand the impacts of climate change. The drone is operated remotely and engineers with company Windracers monitor it from a computer. BBC climate […]