Minimalistic door handles became a signature feature of electric vehicles (EVs), but the controversial designs are now at the centre of China’s biggest car recall, affecting more than 4 million vehicles. The recall, which includes 2.98 million Chinese-made Teslas, follows safety concerns that the hidden door handles are difficult to locate and open in emergency situations. Other brands affected by the recall include Chinese carmakers XPeng, Xiaomi and Geely. The recalled vehicles will have a warning label stuck on the interior door and receive a software update to automatically lower the windows in a crash. The designs have come under…
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The football with which Diego Maradona scored his famous ‘hand of God’ goal at the 1986 World Cup has sold at auction for £2.5m. Maradona famously punched the ball past goalkeeper Peter Shilton in Argentina’s 2-1 quarter-final win over England. After the game, he told reporters it had been scored “a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God”. Maradona later scored what became known as the ‘goal of the century’ in the same game, dribbling past five England outfield players before slotting the ball past Shilton. Though it sold for $3.3m (£2.5m) at…
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja clarified that charges contained in the Nairobi City County Finance Act, 2026, do not target ordinary content creators, influencers or small-scale digital creators, following concerns and misinformation over new fees introduced under the Act. The Governor says the charges appearing under the “Tourism Levy and Entertainment Tax” schedule were intended to cover commercial film production and organised filming activities, rather than ordinary content creation. “These charges were never intended to target ordinary content creators, influencers or young people creating digital content. Our intention is to regulate professional and commercial film productions that require significant use of…
Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has criticised former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua over what he termed personal attacks targeting the families of political leaders. Murkomen accused Gachagua of shifting focus from substantive political issues to attacks on the spouses of leaders associated with the Kenya Kwanza administration. “The other day he was talking about MP Wamumbi’s wife, the next day he was talking about CS Ruku’s wife, and yesterday he woke up to talk about my wife. Let him look for an agenda,” Murkomen said. The CS also took aim at the United Opposition and the Linda…
A woman who has worn a different fancy dress outfit every day for 200 days is aiming to complete a full year in costume. For most people fancy dress is reserved for Halloween or parties, but for Lisa Hughes, 52, from Farnworth, in Bolton, dressing up has become a part of her everyday routine. After having the idea at the end of December, Lisa entered 2026 with a goal of dressing up in a different costume everyday, to raise money for charity. So far she has dressed up as Tommy Shelby from Peaky Blinders, Marge Simpson and Cupid. “I am…
US President Donald Trump has said Canada wants “the benefits of being a State, without being one” after trade talks between the two countries collapsed late on Friday. In his first comments since negotiations broke down, triggering new 50% US tariffs on a range of Canadian goods, Trump also said American farmers had been charged “massive amounts of Tariffs” for years. It comes after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called the fresh tariffs a “miscalculation” designed to “hurt and divide us”. Carney confirmed he would match Trump’s tariffs “dollar-for-dollar” from 8 September, including levies on steel, dairy, appliances and electronics.…
More than 50 co-ordinated arson and incendiary attacks “aimed at creating unrest” have been carried out across Thailand’s insurgency-hit south, the Thai military has said. At least two people were injured, with a local government office building, a convenience store, and a stolen vehicle among the targets set on fire. The incidents took place across the country’s southern border provinces between 20:00 local time (13:00 GMT) and midnight on Saturday, the military’s Internal Security Operations Command said in a statement. Most were reported in Narathiwat province, with others occurring in neighbouring Yala and Pattani. According to the Bangkok Post, two…
The Democratic Republic of Congo government and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group have agreed a roadmap for peace talks. In a joint statement after five days of talks in Switzerland, they said they had pledged to “pursue negotiations towards comprehensive peace and conflict resolution” and set up a mechanism to monitor the ceasefire. The roadmap sets out a timeline for talks under a US-brokered peace framework which they signed in 2025 – only for fighting to then continue in eastern DR Congo, which has been engulfed in conflict for decades. But disagreements remain over issues including sanctions against M23, the…
The Government has stepped up investigations into the deaths of 18 elephants in the Amboseli ecosystem, with preliminary laboratory findings pointing to the possible involvement of a toxic substance. Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano said the first 15 elephant deaths were recorded between June 24 and July 24, 2026, prompting the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), security agencies, investigators and scientific institutions to launch a multi-agency inquiry. The investigation has since expanded following the deaths of three additional elephants, bringing the total number of reported deaths to 18. Ms Miano said comprehensive field investigations, laboratory analysis and environmental sampling…
The editor-in-chief of US military newspaper Stars and Stripes has told the BBC of his concern over censorship a day after being dismissed by the US Department of Defense (DoD) for “insubordination”. “This is a time when we really need to hear what’s happening,” Erik Slavin said, adding that Pentagon officials appeared to be “less and less inclined to speak on the record”. Slavin says he believes he was fired for having stated in an interview that “in a hypothetical situation, censorship would be a red line”. A reporter and the paper’s publisher were also sacked. The Pentagon told the…
Seven people including two police officers have been killed in a crash with a car driving the wrong way down a dual-carriageway following a pursuit. A Volkswagen Passat with five occupants said to be in their late teens struck an oncoming marked Cleveland Police vehicle on the A66 near Middlesbrough at about 03:39 BST. The BBC understands a pursuit of the car had been called off before the crash, with the police vehicle just happening to be in the South Bank area. The occupants of both cars were pronounced dead at the scene. The officers have been named as PC…
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has said a fresh wave of US tariffs on Canada is a “miscalculation” designed to “hurt and divide us”, after trade talks broke down late on Friday. Carney said he walked away from a deal because he was not prepared to “compromise Canada’s sovereignty”. “They asked too much and they offered too little,” Carney said in a speech to Canadians on Saturday morning. The prime minister added that Canada will match US tariffs “dollar-for-dollar” from 8 September, including levies on steel, dairy, appliances and electronics. Donald Trump has yet to comment. Both countries were optimistic…
A Birmingham student who has won an Eton College scholarship is thought to be the first person of Sudanese descent to attend the famed school. Yusuif Ahmed, 16, who went to Lift Four Dwellings Secondary School in Quinton, was granted a conditional place after applying for Eton’s George Orwell Award – which offers a fully-funded place to boys who otherwise may not have been able to access it. After achieving outstanding grades in his GCSE exams, Yusuif is set to study maths, geography, physics and economics at Eton from September. “It’s a big honour for me, my family and my…
A Belgian car salesman has become a prince at the age of 26 after being acknowledged as the son of the king’sbrother, Prince Laurent. Clément Vandenkerckhove’s mother, a Belgian singer who had a relationship with Prince Laurent in the 1990s, only told him who his father was when he turned 16 a decade ago. It emerged this week that he was legally recognized as the son and heir of the 63-year-old younger brother of King Philippe, at a low-key town hall ceremony about six months ago after a DNA test proved his link to the royal family. Prince Laurent has…
One person has received medical treatment after a passenger’s laptop caught fire on an American Airlines flight. The pilot had reported a “cabin fire in the back of the airplane” to air traffic control, saying “the flight attendants are trying to put it out now”, according to audio obtained by the BBC’s US reporting partner CBS News. “I think we have about four to five passengers that were burned by the laptop. The laptop is contained about mid-aircraft.” One passenger received medical attention on site and was released after American Airlines Flight 2398 – coming from Atlanta, Georgia – landed…