Hank Aaron set a Major League Baseball record for home runs in 1974 Hank Aaron, Major League Baseball’s second-highest home run scorer of all time, has died at the age of 86. Aaron’s 715th career home run – for the Atlanta Braves on 8 April 1974 – broke the record which the legendary Babe Ruth
Google has threatened to pull out of the Australian market if a new law governing its relationship with news publishers goes ahead. So what’s the row all about? Why would Google pull out of Australia? The government is introducing a law to address a long-bubbling row over whether tech giants should pay for news that
Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto believes more of the Japanese public will be in favour of hosting the Olympics as more people are vaccinated against Covid-19 Olympic organisers hope the Covid-19 vaccine will mean the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Games can take place in July – despite a newspaper report on Friday casting doubt on
image copyrightGetty Images image captionDrilling into the mine is extremely difficult Chinese rescue teams say it might be more than two weeks until they can save a group of miners trapped hundreds of metres underground. From the group of 11 miners authorities made contact with last weekend, one has since died after falling into a
By Helen BriggsScience correspondent, BBC News image copyrightGetty Images One of US President Joe Biden’s first acts in office was to start the process of rejoining the Paris climate deal – reversing Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw. The historic agreement, which came into force in 2016, united nearly 200 countries in a global pact to
image copyrightAFP image captionJoe Biden and his wife Jill attended a church service ahead of the inauguration Joe Biden is preparing to be sworn in as the 46th US president, ending one of the most dramatic political transitions in American history. He is due to take the oath of office at about 12:00 local time
image copyrightGetty Images image captionSecurity is tight around the US Capitol where the inauguration ceremony will be held Joe Biden is to be sworn in as US president, taking the helm of a nation wracked by political division, economic anguish and an unrelenting pandemic. Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris will take the oath of office alongside him
By Lucy WilliamsonBBC Paris correspondent image copyrightGetty Images image captionOlivier Duhamel has resigned as head of the National Foundation of Political Sciences, which oversees the prestigious Sciences Po university Tens of thousands of people have responded to a social media campaign in France designed to shed light on the problem of sexual abuse within families.
The International Ice Hockey Federation has said the 2021 World Championship will not be held in Minsk this year for safety and security reasons. The men’s tournament was scheduled to be staged in Minsk – and Latvia’s capital Riga – from 21 May to 6 June. The governing body consulted with experts and stakeholders about
Novak Djokovic – the men’s world number one – is quarantining with other top players in Adelaide, where they are allowed out of their hotel to practise Players living under strict quarantine rules after arriving for the Australian Open will get “no special treatment”, says Victorian premier Daniel Andrews. Seventy-two players are confined to their
