03-29 00:00 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Peters is accused of instigating a fight between two women and then posting a video of it online, authorities say.
Looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular arrested on battery charge in Florida
A controversial internet streamer who goes by the name Clavicular has been arrested in south Florida on a battery charge.
Braden Eric Peters was taken into custody on Thursday by police in Fort Lauderdale after a battery investigation stemming from an incident last month in central Florida, investigators said.
Peters is accused of instigating a fight between two women and then posting a video of it on social media, authorities said. The BBC has contacted Peters for comment.
A 19-year-old woman reported that she had been battered by Violet Marie Lentz, 24, on 2 February during a physical altercation in a residence rented out by Peters, 20, Osceola County Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies arrived at the home but Peters and Lentz would not meet them outside to speak about the incident.
A warrant was issued by the sheriff's office for Peters for charges of misdemeanour battery and criminal conspiracy to commit battery.
A warrant was also issued for Lentz for misdemeanour battery. Authorities are still searching for her, the sheriff's office told the BBC.
Peters' bond was set at $1,000 (£754), booking records show. He was released from custody late on Friday.
In a separate incident, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced on Thursday it was launching an investigation into a video showing an alligator being shot at multiple times in the Florida Everglades.
The video shows four people, including Peters, on an airboat in the Everglades appearing to discharge firearms at an alligator, US media report.
It was unclear whether the commission's investigation was related to Peters. The commission has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.
Clavicular is an influencer and streamer, known for his looksmaxxing content that chronicles him going to extreme lengths to try to enhance his looks – from using steroids and testosterone to hitting his face with a hammer.
Looksmaxxing has given rise to a whole new underground subculture, which is gradually migrating from the margins of the internet to the mainstream.
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03-29 00:00 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Tiger Woods, the 15-time golf major champion, is released on bail following his arrest on charges of driving under the influence following a car crash in Florida.
Golf legend Tiger Woods has been released on bail following his arrest on charges of driving under the influence after rolling his car in a crash in Florida.
The Martin County Sheriff's Office said the 15-time major champion was also charged with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test.
Woods, 50, rolled his Land Rover after clipping a truck in Jupiter Island on Friday afternoon, according to Sheriff John Budensiek, who said officers had not suspected him of impairment by alcohol but possibly by an unknown substance.
Woods, who had to crawl out of the passenger door, passed a breathalyser test after the crash before refusing a urine test. No-one was injured.
He was kept in jail for eight hours - the minimum allowed under state law - before being released on bail.
Budensiek said the crash happened after Woods allegedly attempted to overtake a pressure cleaner truck at a "high rate of speed".
DUI investigators came to the scene and "Mr Woods did exemplify signs of impairment", Budensiek said.
"They did several tests on him," Budensiek said. "He did explain the injuries and surgeries that he's had and we did take that into account, but they did some in-depth roadside tests."
Woods was placed under arrest after the incident, which took place on Beach Road just before 14:00 local time (19:00 GMT).
Budensiek said investigators at the scene and at jail were "really not suspicious of alcohol being involved" and Woods passed a breathalyser test with "triple zeros".
Budensiek said Woods was "co-operative but was trying not to incriminate himself".
"He has a right to refuse that test," Budensiek said.
"There is a statute which he will be charged with for refusing to take that test, but we will never get definitive results as to what he was impaired on at the time of the crash."
US President Donald Trump said: "I feel so badly. He has got some difficulty. There was an accident. That's all I know.
"He's a very close friend of mine. He's an amazing person - an amazing man."
The charges against Woods are misdemeanours, not felonies.
The BBC has contacted his representatives for comment.
More trouble for Woods
Woods has played a limited schedule since the serious car crash in 2021 that left him with extensive injuries and fortunate to be alive.
In 2009 he hit a fire hydrant, a tree and several hedges in a bizarre collision outside his home.
The incident sparked accusations of extramarital affairs which led to the end of his seven-year marriage and the loss of lucrative sponsorship deals.
In 2017 police officers found Woods slumped at the wheel of his parked Mercedes-Benz not far from his Florida home.
A toxicology report found he had several legal medications in his system and marijuana's active ingredient.
He was sentenced to a year's probation after pleading guilty to reckless driving.
Another setback to Woods' comeback plans?
Woods has been recovering from rupturing an Achilles tendon in March 2025 and back surgery in October.
This week he competed in the TGL indoor league finals - his first competitive golf for more than a year - and had not ruled out playing in next month's Masters, a tournament he has a huge affinity for.
Woods has triumphed five times at Augusta National, which was the scene of his first major title in 1997 and his most recent in 2019.
That victory was arguably his greatest achievement in golf given the number of injuries he had to overcome.
However, the sight of him grittily limping through four rounds on that same course in 2022, 14 months after a life-threatening crash, also lives long in the memory.
Woods, whose 82 career wins are level with Sam Snead for the PGA Tour record, has not competed at a major since missing the cut at The Open in July 2024.
He last made the cut at the 2024 Masters, where he finished 60th.
'Playing in Masters looks increasingly unlikely'
This is another huge setback for one of the all-time great sporting figures, who has suffered massive injury problems for the best part of two decades.
Woods is battling to be fit for the Masters, which starts in less than two weeks.
We saw him hitting golf shots competitively in the indoor TGL league at the start of this week - that was the first time since July 2024 we had seen him playing golf.
He did not seem overly optimistic that he would be fit, but he was really trying to be at Augusta for the Masters.
That looks ever more unlikely given the scenario that is playing out in Florida.
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03-29 00:00 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
One of the flagship No Kings rallies happened in Minnesota, where singer Bruce Springsteen preformed to crowds.
No Kings protests draw large crowds to rally against Donald Trump
Large protests against the Trump administration have taken place in cities across the US, marking the third iteration of No Kings rallies.
Event organisers for Saturday's protests estimate more than 8 million people attended to protest policies imposed by US President Donald Trump, and things like the Iran war, immigration enforcement and the rising cost of living.
"Trump wants to rule over us as a tyrant. But this is America, and power belongs to the people - not to wannabe kings or their billionaire cronies," organisers said.
A White House spokesperson called the protests "Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions" and said the only people who care "are the reporters who are paid to cover them".
The BBC is unable to verify attendance figures by organisers. Previous No Kings protests have similarly been estimated in the millions.
Throughout the day on Saturday, demonstrations took place in nearly every major US city. Crowds also gathered in smaller cities and towns across the country - and also in areas outside the US, like Paris and London.
Rallies took over the streets of downtown Washington DC throughout the afternoon, with throngs of people marching through the nation's capital. Protesters lined the steps of the the Lincoln Memorial and packed the National Mall.
One of the flagship No Kings protests on Saturday took place in Minnesota, where two American citizens - Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti - were killed by federal immigration agents in January. Their deaths sparked outrage and nationwide protests against the Trump administration's immigration tactics.
Thousands on Saturday filled the streets with signs and a plethora of high-profile Democrats also took a stage outside the State Capitol building in St Paul.
Bruce Springsteen also took the stage and performed his anti-immigration enforcement song titled, "Streets of Minneapolis".
Thousands also crowded New York City's Times Square, marching through Manhattan's Midtown neighbourhood. Police had to shut down the normally busy streets to make way for crowds.
Actor and director Robert De Niro, who attended the protest in New York City, told the BBC's Tom Brook that he felt it was imperative to get out and protest against Trump.
"I think more people are starting to see that with this guy, it gets worse and worse and worse every day," De Niro said of Trump. "Now we're in a war. The next thing is, what he'll do is put put troops on the ground. He's crazy."
De Niro added: "It's that simple, and we have to stand up to him, to the regime, fight it with everything. We just got to fight, you know, peacefully, but we have to resist. We have to. We have no choice."
Trump has often clashed with De Niro during his political career, last month calling the high-profile actor "a sick and demented person" with "an extremely Low IQ".
De Niro "has absolutely no idea what he is doing or saying — some of which is seriously CRIMINAL!" Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social.
At the last No Kings protest in October, the New York Police Department said more than 100,000 people had gathered across all five of the city's boroughs.
The protests weren't without incident. In Los Angeles, two people were arrested for assaulting federal law enforcement, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In a statement to X, it said that two officers had been hit with the cement blocks and were receiving medical care, after a group of what it described as "1,000 rioters" surrounded the Roybal Federal Building and began throwing things at DHS agents.
Elsewhere in the city, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said "multiple arrests" had been made after protesters did not obey dispersal orders in an area near a federal prison.
Police confirmed that federal authorities used "non-lethal measures" to move crowds in the area, after warning protesters not to "attempt to tear down the gate and not throw items".
Reuters reported that arrests were also made in Dallas, after "minor scuffles erupted" when counter-protesters blocked streets and disrupted the No Kings march.
American expats abroad also gathered for protests in cities such as Paris, London and Lisbon.
Saturday's estimated total of over 8 million protesters beats out the last No Kings rally in October, which estimates said drew crowds of nearly seven million people.
Several US states mobilised the National Guard, but organisers have maintained that the events are peaceful.
Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Trump has expanded the scope of presidential power, using executive orders to dismantle parts of the federal government and deploying National Guard troops to US cities despite objections by state governors.
The president has also called on the administration's top law enforcement officials to prosecute his perceived political enemies.
The president says his actions are necessary to rebuild a country in crisis and has dismissed
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03-29 00:00 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
The Israeli military confirms it killed Ali Shoeib from the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV.
Three Lebanese journalists killed in Israeli strike, say broadcasters
Three Lebanese journalists were killed in a targeted Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday, their employers have said.
Ali Shoeib, a reporter for Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV, and reporter Fatima Ftouni and her brother, cameraman Mohamed Ftouni, both from Al Mayadeen channel, were killed in the town of Jezzine, according to the stations.
The strike reportedly hit their car just before noon (10:00 GMT).
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it killed Shoeib and Mohamed Ftouni, describing them as "terrorists" from Hezbollah's military wing. It said they both operated "under the guise" of journalists. It also said it was aware of reports a female journalist was killed.
The IDF said Shoeib had worked to "expose the locations of IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon and along the border", including during the current fighting, and had used his position "to disseminate Hezbollah propaganda materials".
The IDF provided no evidence to support its claim that Shoeib, whom it said belonged to Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force, and Mohamed Ftouni had military roles.
It said the IDF "directs its strikes to target terrorists, and not journalists, and is operating to mitigate harm to civilians as much as possible".
Hezbollah denounced the strike as the "deliberate criminal targeting of journalists".
"The enemy's false claims are nothing but an expression of its weakness and fragility, and a desperate attempt to evade responsibility for this crime," the group said in a statement on Telegram.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun described it as a "brazen crime" that broke the "most basic rules" of international law by targeting reporters, "who are ultimately civilians performing a professional duty".
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam likewise condemned the attack in a statement on X, branding it a "flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and a clear breach of the rules that guarantee the protection of journalists in times of war".
Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the strike was "clearly a targeted assassination" and an attempt to "silence the voices of truth-tellers".
This is the second time Israel has been accused of targeting journalists in Lebanon since the US-Israel war against Iran began a month ago.
On 18 March, Al Manar reported its presenter Mohammad Sherri and his wife had been killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut while they were sleeping.
Responding to Saturday's strike, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Lebanon had become "an increasingly deadly zone for journalists".
"We have seen a disturbing pattern in this war and in the decades prior of Israel accusing journalists of being active combatants and terrorists without providing credible evidence," the US-based organisation's regional director Sara Qudah said.
"Journalists are not legitimate targets, regardless of the outlet they work for."
More than 1,100 civilians, including 120 children and 42 paramedics, have been killed in Lebanon during the conflict so far, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
More than a million people have also been displaced, worsening an existing humanitarian crisis in the country.
Many in Lebanon are worried Israel is using similar tactics it has been accused of deploying in Gaza - including the deliberate targeting of civilians, journalists and paramedics, which Israel denies.
Israel and Hezbollah had agreed a ceasefire in November 2024, under which both sides were meant to leave their positions in the south.
Progress was made, but it was partial. Israel maintained several military posts in the south and continued to carry out regular attacks on what it said were Hezbollah targets, accusing the group of trying to rearm and rebuild its presence.
After the killing of Iran's supreme leader at the beginning of the current conflict, Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel in retaliation - both for his death and Israeli attacks since the ceasefire.
Israel has since escalated its operations in the region, saying its aim was to protect communities in northern Israel from attacks by Hezbollah militants.
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03-28 00:00 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
The late-night vote was a step towards bringing the 40-day partial shutdown - and long security lines at US airports - to an end.
US House to vote on DHS funding as travel chaos deepens
The US House of Representatives has been called back to the Capitol to vote on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as airport travel delays sweep the country.
The vote, which would fund DHS including its immigration agencies through to 22 May, comes hours after Republicans rejected a deal passed by the Senate to fund the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
TSA agents, who manage security in US airports, have not been paid in more than a month due to the congressional impasse. Many airports have seen long delays.
The House bill is unlikely to be signed into law, as Democrats have pushed to halt funding to immigration agencies covered under DHS without reforms.
The House is planning to vote on the measure late on Friday. If approved, it would then head to the Senate for approval, though Democrats there have already signalled they will not support it.
With Congress about to take a two-week break, funding for the DHS - which includes TSA agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency - appears unlikely to pass any time soon.
As the impasse continued, President Donald Trump signed an order directing his administration to pay hundreds of airport security agents, many of whom have been working without pay, calling in sick or quitting.
The move, though, may be met with legal and political challenges, as the US Constitution tasks Congress with authorising spending for the federal government.
Democrats have refused to agree to a funding deal without reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but the Senate reached unanimous agreement to pass a bill early on Friday after stripping ICE and parts of border protection from the measure.
House Republicans have indicated they will not support legislation without funding for immigration enforcement and voter ID requirements.
"Republicans are not going to be any part of any effort to reopen our borders or to stop immigration enforcement," Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said.
But Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday that the House measure funding the department temporarily would be "dead on arrival".
"We've been clear from day one: Democrats will fund critical Homeland Security functions - but we will not give a blank check to Trump's lawless and deadly immigration militia without reforms," Schumer said.
Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the House, told reporters that Democrats were "working to maximise our attendance" for the expected vote on Friday evening, the BBC's US media partner CBS News reported.
Both Republicans and Democrats had attendance issues during a vote on Friday morning: Republicans had 11 absences, while Democrats had 9.
It was hoped that the fresh package the Senate passed could bring an end to widespread disruption at airports across the US, where travellers have faced hours-long queues due to a shortage of TSA officers at security checkpoints.
Around 50,000 agents with the TSA have been working without pay since mid-February due to the shutdown. This has reduced the number turning up to work each day and led to hundreds quitting.
A BBC reporter at Houston airport reported on Thursday night that, after waiting about two hours in a winding queue across one floor, frazzled travellers had gone up an escalator thinking they had reached the end - only to find another long line stretching towards security.
Currently, only a third to 50% of its TSA checkpoints are operating, according to Jim Szczesniak, director of aviation for the Houston Airport System.
A few hours before the Senate vote, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he would sign an executive order "to immediately pay out TSA Agents".
"Trump should never have had to step in to rescue TSA workers and US air travel," said the Republican Senate Majority Leader, John Thune, addressing the chamber after the vote.
"We're here because, thanks to Democrats' determined refusal to reach an agreement, there will be no Homeland Security funding bill this year," he said. "Instead... Republicans funded the Department of Homeland Security piecemeal. That is not the way to fund the department."
Schumer said the package included funding for the TSA, US Coast Guard and Federal Emergency Management Agency.
He told the chamber that "in the wake of the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Senate democrats were clear: no blank cheque for a lawless ICE and border patrol".
There has been mounting controversy over the actions of ICE agents, particularly in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where US citizens Good and Pretti were shot by federal agents during operations there earlier this year.
Democrats want any deal on DHS funding to include measures like an end to ICE agents wearing masks, a ban on racial profiling and a requirement for judicial warrants to be issued before agents can enter private property.
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03-28 00:00 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Mexico's navy launches a rescue mission for ships delivering aid to Cuba, strained by food and fuel shortages amid a US embargo.
Two Cuba-bound aid ships missing after leaving Mexico
A search and rescue operation for two missing sailboats filled with humanitarian supplies travelling from Mexico to Cuba is under way in the Caribbean.
Mexico has deployed naval search teams and military aircraft to locate the Friendship and Tigger Moth, which were carrying at least nine crew members, the Mexican navy said.
The vessels had been expected to arrive in the Cuban capital, Havana, on Tuesday or Wednesday, but there had been no communication from them and no confirmation of their arrival, the navy said.
They are among several vessels that have sought to carry supplies to the island nation since the US imposed an oil blockade in January, prompting a chronic fuel shortage.
The Mexican navy said it was committed to using all resources at its disposal to locate the boats and ensure the safety of the crews.
The two missing ships departed Isla Mujeres, in Mexico's easternmost state of Quintana Roo, on 20 March.
The nine crew members are from Poland, France, Cuba and the US. Mexico said it has established contact with maritime rescue co-ordination centres from each country along with their diplomatic representatives.
"The captains and crews are experienced sailors, and both vessels are equipped with appropriate safety systems and signalling equipment," the convoy's spokesperson told Reuters in a statement.
"We are co-operating fully with the authorities and remain confident in the crews' ability to reach Havana safely."
The captain of the Friendship, Adnaan Stumo, told the BBC they were "taking a whole bunch of aid, [a] bunch of solidarity activists, and we're sailing directly" in video messages as they were setting off.
"We are saying that we are not standing for the continued siege and destruction of the ability of the Cuban people to live a dignified life and have self-determination," he said.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel expressed concern over the missing vessels in a social media post, writing: "From our country, we are doing everything possible in the search and rescue of these brothers in struggle."
Earlier in the week, the Cuban government widely celebrated and warmly received another boat that had carried 14 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the island.
The vessel, dubbed "Granma 2.0" after the boat in which Fidel Castro returned to Cuba to launch its 1950s revolution, delivered solar panels, medicines, baby formula, bicycles and food.
Volunteers and NGOs have largely spearheaded efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Cuba since US President Donald Trump's oil embargo on the communist-run country began.
The United Nation has warned Cuba faced "dire" supply shortages, with more than 50,000 surgeries cancelled in Cuba as fuel supply constraints and aging infrastructure have caused multiple nationwide blackouts.
Coupled with shortages of food and medicine, the situation has triggered rare public dissent in the form of street protests.
Since the US seized former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January and cut off the supply of oil from Cuba's regional ally, Trump has turned his attention to the Caribbean island.
He has threatened tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba, mulled a "friendly takeover" of the nation and has urged it to "make a deal" or face unspecified consequences.
The Cuban government has since confirmed it was in talks with the US to resolve their differences, but its deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio has insisted that "the political system of Cuba is not up for negotiation".
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03-28 00:00 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Marco Rubio said US allies were open to helping escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has closed and threatened to charge fees for.
Rubio says US expects to finish Iran war 'in next couple of weeks'
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US expects to finish its operations in Iran "in the next couple of weeks".
The objectives were being achieved and were ahead of schedule, he said at the end of a meeting in France of foreign ministers from the group of major Western economies, known the G7.
Referring to peace talks that President Donald Trump says Iran wants - which Tehran denies - Rubio said there had been messages, but it was unclear who was left to represent the country.
Several top Iranian leaders have been killed since the US and Israel began the war on 28 February. In the meantime, the US is sending troops to the area to give the president options, Rubio said.
Trump and his top officials have consistently said their operations in Iran would last four-to-seven weeks.
As the fourth week is about to end, Rubio's time frame would fit with those predictions - although he also mentioned that it was a question of "weeks, not months" when he answered a series of questions from reporters.
Trump is widely reported to have passed on to the Iranians - via Pakistan - an outline of a 15-point plan to end the war.
However, when asked by reporters if the Iranians were going to give their response on Friday, the US secretary of state said: "We haven't gotten it yet. Look, we've got messages. We've had an exchange of messages and indications from the Iranian system, whatever's left of it, about a willingness to talk about certain things.
"We're waiting for further clarification about who was it that we would be talking to, what we would talking about, and when will we be talking."
Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff later said he was "hopeful" there would be meetings "this week".
"We have a 15-point deal on the table that the Iranians have had for a bit of time. We expect an answer from them and it would solve it all," Witkoff said.
Trump told reporters on Friday that he had paused a threatened attack on Iran's power plants to give talks a chance.
"Iran is being decimated," he said, adding: "We are talking now. They want to make a deal."
On Friday, Iran said that Israel had carried out attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities as well as two of the country's largest steel plants - prompting Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to threaten to exact a "heavy price".
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the country's powerful military force that underpins the regime, said it would retaliate by targeting industrial infrastructure connected to the US or Israel.
In their statement after the talks, the G7 foreign ministers called for "the absolute necessity to permanently restore safe and toll free freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz", which Iran has closed in retaliation.
It was a reference to Iran's threat to charge a fee, Rubio said.
There have been reports that IRGC has already been charging some vessels a fee in return for secure passage. Iranian MPs are also drafting a bill, although it is in its early stages.
About 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas typically passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
Its closure has caused the price of oil to skyrocket and has raised concerns that a prolonged blockage could raise energy prices - and even lead to a severe contraction in the economies of many countries.
Most of the G7 countries, except Japan, are members of the Nato transatlantic alliance, which have so far refused to answer a call by Trump to send ships to escort vessels through the strait, angering the US leader.
Instead, they have said ending the conflict was the best way to ensure freedom of passage.
After the talks in France, Rubio said the UK was leading the work to build a coalition to ensure the strait remained free. Such a coalition, he said, would be needed for the period after the war.
He added that US allies would be more affected than the US if the Iranian threat became a reality.
Referring to the war more generally, the G7 communique called for "an immediate cessation of attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure".
"There can be no justification for the deliberate targeting of civilians in situations of armed conflict as well as attacks on diplomatic facilities," it said.
The statement did not mention the warring parties by name, but its message appeared to be more targeted at Iran which, in addition to closing the strait, has also attacked civilian targets in Gulf countries allied to the US.
Tehran has sent drones and missiles towards Israel, but also most of the Arab Gulf countries where the US has military bases and other alliances.
In addition to targeting them, Iran has also hit airports, residential apartments, US embassies and energy sites in a region where most countries are world players in oil and gas production.
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03-28 00:00 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Noelia Castillo died on Thursday evening in a Barcelona hospital, after a protracted legal battle with her own father.
Spanish woman who died through euthanasia failed by state, say critics
Warning: This story contains references to sexual assault and suicide
The death by euthanasia of a 25-year-old Spanish woman after a protracted legal battle with her father has triggered debate about the role of the state in caring for her and why it took so long to implement her wish to end her life.
Noelia Castillo, who had been left paraplegic due to injuries suffered when she tried to take her own life in 2022, died on Thursday evening at a Barcelona hospital.
The Catalan regional government had granted her the right to assisted dying in 2024.
However, the process was suspended at the last moment after legal objections raised by her father, backed by campaign group Christian Lawyers.
The case has received enormous attention in Spain, with Christian Lawyers (Abogados Cristianos) attempting to block her death until the last moment.
After an 18-month legal battle, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled this week in Noelia Castillo's favour and her death was eventually confirmed late on Thursday.
Castillo had spent much of her childhood in care homes and had recounted the impact on her mental health of her father's problems with alcohol and of being sexually assaulted by an ex-boyfriend and also by several men in a nightclub.
In a TV interview this week, she said nobody in her family had supported her decision to die by euthanasia, and her father "hasn't respected my decision and never will".
"I want to go in peace now and stop suffering," she told Antena 3 TV the day before she died.
Her mother had disagreed with her decision but joined her at the Sant Camil Barcelona clinic.
A former friend of Castillo, Carla Rodríguez, tried to enter the hospital to persuade her to change her mind, but told Spanish media that police had barred her from entering.
British pianist James Rhodes, who lives in Spain, issued an appeal to Castillo via social media to reconsider and offered to pay her medical costs until she felt "able to take this decision from a slightly more tranquil place".
Christian Lawyers warned that her case had underlined failures in her care.
"For a girl who obviously has had a very tough life, which we all regret, the only thing that could be offered to her by the healthcare system is death," said José María Fernández, of Christian Lawyers.
The opposition conservative People's Party (PP), which voted against a 2021 euthanasia law, had a similar response.
"The institutions that should have protected Noelia failed her," wrote PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo on social media. He added: "I refuse to believe that the state did not have the tools to give her care."
In a statement, the Catholic Church, which is close to the PP, said that Castillo's story "reflects an accumulation of personal suffering and institutional failures".
However, other observers have taken issue with the fact that her wishes were thwarted by legal obstacles put in her way by her father and Christian Lawyers.
"The desire to put an end to her suffering by using the right to euthanasia was… sabotaged by a legal crusade that added nearly two years of pain to her existence," noted the left-leaning El País newspaper in an editorial.
Alberto Ibáñez, a member of Congress for the left-wing Sumar platform, said that "19 doctors have supported her decision and we should be respectful of it", while adding that it was a "deeply complex" issue.
Spain is one of a handful of European countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, that have passed laws allowing euthanasia to be carried out by physicians.
Under Spain's 2021 law, any Spanish adult over 18 requesting euthanasia must be suffering from an incurable disease or "serious, chronic and disabling condition" and their decision must be taken free of external pressure.
The decision needs to have been made twice in writing and has to be certified by a doctor who then consults with another doctor.
The request then passes to a Guarantee and Evaluation Commission, which has the task of assessing if the conditions have been met.
According to government data, 426 requests for assisted dying were granted in 2024, the most recent year for which data is available. This was the first time that a case went to court for a judge to decide.
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03-28 00:00 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Tiger Woods is charged with driving under the influence after rolling his car in a crash in Florida, police confirm.
Golf legend Tiger Woods has been released on bail following his arrest on charges of driving under the influence after rolling his car in a crash in Florida.
The Martin County Sheriff's Office said the 15-time major champion was also charged with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test.
Woods, 50, rolled his Land Rover after clipping a truck in Jupiter Island on Friday afternoon, according to Sheriff John Budensiek, who said officers had not suspected him of impairment by alcohol but possibly by an unknown substance.
Woods, who had to crawl out of the passenger door, passed a breathalyser test after the crash before refusing a urine test. No-one was injured.
He was kept in jail for eight hours - the minimum allowed under state law - before being released on bail.
Budensiek said the crash happened after Woods allegedly attempted to overtake a pressure cleaner truck at a "high rate of speed".
DUI investigators came to the scene and "Mr Woods did exemplify signs of impairment", Budensiek said.
"They did several tests on him," Budensiek said. "He did explain the injuries and surgeries that he's had and we did take that into account, but they did some in-depth roadside tests."
Woods was placed under arrest after the incident, which took place on Beach Road just before 14:00 local time (19:00 GMT).
Budensiek said investigators at the scene and at jail were "really not suspicious of alcohol being involved" and Woods passed a breathalyser test with "triple zeros".
Budensiek said Woods was "co-operative but was trying not to incriminate himself".
"He has a right to refuse that test," Budensiek said.
"There is a statute which he will be charged with for refusing to take that test, but we will never get definitive results as to what he was impaired on at the time of the crash."
US President Donald Trump said: "I feel so badly. He has got some difficulty. There was an accident. That's all I know.
"He's a very close friend of mine. He's an amazing person - an amazing man."
The charges against Woods are misdemeanours, not felonies.
The BBC has contacted his representatives for comment.
More trouble for Woods
Woods has played a limited schedule since the serious car crash in 2021 that left him with extensive injuries and fortunate to be alive.
In 2009 he hit a fire hydrant, a tree and several hedges in a bizarre collision outside his home.
The incident sparked accusations of extramarital affairs which led to the end of his seven-year marriage and the loss of lucrative sponsorship deals.
In 2017 police officers found Woods slumped at the wheel of his parked Mercedes-Benz not far from his Florida home.
A toxicology report found he had several legal medications in his system and marijuana's active ingredient.
He was sentenced to a year's probation after pleading guilty to reckless driving.
Another setback to Woods' comeback plans?
Woods has been recovering from rupturing an Achilles tendon in March 2025 and back surgery in October.
This week he competed in the TGL indoor league finals - his first competitive golf for more than a year - and had not ruled out playing in next month's Masters, a tournament he has a huge affinity for.
Woods has triumphed five times at Augusta National, which was the scene of his first major title in 1997 and his most recent in 2019.
That victory was arguably his greatest achievement in golf given the number of injuries he had to overcome.
However, the sight of him grittily limping through four rounds on that same course in 2022, 14 months after a life-threatening crash, also lives long in the memory.
Woods, whose 82 career wins are level with Sam Snead for the PGA Tour record, has not competed at a major since missing the cut at The Open in July 2024.
He last made the cut at the 2024 Masters, where he finished 60th.
'Playing in Masters looks increasingly unlikely'
This is another huge setback for one of the all-time great sporting figures, who has suffered massive injury problems for the best part of two decades.
Woods is battling to be fit for the Masters, which starts in less than two weeks.
We saw him hitting golf shots competitively in the indoor TGL league at the start of this week - that was the first time since July 2024 we had seen him playing golf.
He did not seem overly optimistic that he would be fit, but he was really trying to be at Augusta for the Masters.
That looks ever more unlikely given the scenario that is playing out in Florida.
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03-28 00:00 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
A hacker group shares Patel's purported resume and photos - information, the FBI says, is "historical in nature".
Iran-backed hackers breach FBI director Kash Patel's personal emails
FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email account has been hacked by an Iran-linked group, the agency has confirmed.
A group, known as the Handala Hack Team, shared Patel's purported resume and photos of him on its website on Friday along with a statement that says: "This is just our beginning."
The FBI said it was aware of "malicious actors" targeting Patel's email information. "The information in question is historical in nature and involves no government information."
The agency is offering up to $10m (£7.5m) for information that helps in identifying members of the Handala group.
Iranian-backed hackers were reported to have breached Patel's private communications in 2024, weeks before he was appointed to lead the FBI. It is not clear if that breach was different from the one claimed by the Handala group on Friday.
Photos Handala claims to have taken from Patel's email account have been circulating on social media with the group's logo added as a watermark.
The photos show Patel at various unidentified locations, including standing beside a vintage convertible, smiling next to a jet, smoking and sniffing cigars, taking a selfie next to a bottle of liquor, and posing in what appear to be restaurants and hotels.
The BBC has not independently verified the leaked documents.
Cynthia Kaiser, senior vice-president at Halcyon Ransomware Research Center, told the BBC that Friday's release was likely from a historical breach.
"The emails look very old and that makes me believe that this is likely a compromise that occurred from other groups in another time period, and is recycled today," Kaiser, who has worked at the FBI's Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, said.
The Handala group said in its statement announcing the hack that the "so-called 'impenetrable' systems of the FBI were brought to their knees within hours by our team. This is the security that the US government boasts about?! This is the cyber giant that thinks threats and bribes can silence the voice of resistance?!"
Experts say this kind of operation on a senior US government official may not take much sophistication to achieve.
"Personal accounts don't have the same level of protection and alerting as government systems, so these are often an attractive target for hackers," said Dave Schroeder, director of National Security Initiatives at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
"Handala consistently tries to gain this type of access because it serves their interests to claim hacks of prominent people and organizations," Schroeder added.
Last week, the US justice department seized several Handala domain names it says were involved in hacking schemes linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The department said Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) had been using the Handala websites to spread "terrorist propaganda", conduct "attempted psychological operations targeting adversaries of the regime", claim credit for hacking activity, and call for the killing of journalists and dissidents.
The domain used to carry out the hack against Patel was registered the same day the justice department announced it had seized the four domains associated with the group, on 19 March, CBS News, the BBC's US partner, reported.
Handala said its hacking of Patel's email account was in retaliation for the FBI's seizure of its websites, as well as for the FBI offering a reward of $10m for information on similar malicious attacks.
The incident saw the company's employee login defaced with a message claiming data had been erased in a "wiper" attack by the Iran-backed group of hacktivists.
In a post at the time on their now-suspended X account, Handala claimed it had wiped "over 200,000 systems, servers and mobile devices", and extracted "50 terabytes of critical data".
The group said the Stryker cyber-attack was "in retaliation for the brutal attack" on an Iranian girls' school at the start of the war, in which more than 160 people were killed, as well as "in response to ongoing cyber assaults against the infrastructure" of Iran and its allies.
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