AFP via Getty Images The debate about tipping culture in the US has reignited in recent years, with social media posts about waiting staff angry that they haven't been left enough money going viral. Is this increased pressure to tip, and to do so generously, now spreading around the world?
Lillian Price thinks that tipping in the US is "out of control". "It's too much," she says.
"You might
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Ten years ago Luis Castilleja was a free-wheeling creative, seeking his fortune as an actor in Hollywood, and enjoying the liberal Los Angeles lifestyle. Now he is better known as El Temach, Latin America's biggest manosphere influencer, whose misogynistic and hyper-masculine content has gained him more than 11 million social media followers
Dave J Hogan/Getty Images "Hey, I know you!" exclaims Paul McCartney, gripping my hand as we walk into his office in central London.
I'm instantly disarmed. All my nerves evaporate. And while I'm realistic enough to know he doesn't really hold treasured memories of our , I'm impressed by his ability to defuse the tension of Meeting A Beatle.
We gather in Soho at lunchtime. Instead of
Global carmakers are facing a reckoning as US, European and Japanese brands lose ground to Chinese rivals setting the pace not only in electric vehicles, but also in batteries, design and software.
The BBC visited factory floors in Beijing and Hefei on the sidelines of Auto China 2026 - the world's largest car show - and found striking levels of automation and software development speed, leaving foreign brands that once dominated the Chinese market struggling to keep
Former US First Lady Jill Biden says she thought her husband, President Joe Biden, was having a stroke during his infamously faltering presidential debate in 2024.
"I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never," Jill Biden told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
"I don't know what happened," she said. "As I watched
The live-in personal assistant to Friends star Matthew Perry has been sentenced to 41 months in prison, capping a multi-year legal saga surrounding the actor's death.
Kenneth Iwamasa, 60, who injected Perry with ketamine, worked with two doctors to provide the actor with more than $50,000 (£38,000) of the drug in the weeks
EPA/Shutterstock US President Donald Trump has said he is "not satisfied" yet with the terms of the deal being negotiated with Iran.
He said Tehran was "very much intent" on reaching an agreement to end the conflict, but added "so far they haven't gotten there", repeating Washington's willingness to resume strikes if one is not reached.
His remarks came after Iranian state TV reported what it said were
AFP The Israeli military has carried out air strikes on Hezbollah targets in Tyre in southern Lebanon, after ordering the evacuation of the entire city.
The military told residents that it was "compelled to act forcefully" in Tyre because the Iran-backed armed group was violating a US-brokered ceasefire that began five weeks ago.
Earlier on Wednesday, Lebanese media reported a wave of Israeli strikes across the south and the eastern Bekaa Valley,