he s the president s nominee for the supreme court but democrats say he s too hardline and unlikely to command confidence. three generations of one family killed in a terror attack in tunisia. the inquest hears from the grandson who survived. why building new homes on green belt land would ease the housing crisis, according to one of britain s biggest builders. a nice view. the best seat in the house. and not everywhere s like the emirates. the premier league is told to stop making excuses about disability access at football grounds. coming up in sportsday on bbc news, we ll have the results from tonight s premier league matches as manchester city looked to close the gap on the top four with a win at west ham. good evening. members of parliament at westminster have taken the first step towards invoking article 50 of the lisbon treaty the start of the process of leaving the european union. the house of commons voted by an overwhelming majority 498 to 114 in favour of t
forward to his new role. i have a few folks in the room that are with me that have helped me over the last month to get to this point in the confirmation and they represent a larger category of people who have worked enormously long hours tirelessly guiding me through the confirmation process and to them i will always be eternally grateful to the sacrifices they have made of their time these past week. i have also received over the last month so many messages and letters and phone calls of best wishes, encouragement and prayers from family, friends and colleagues who know me well. but i have also received an enormous outpouring of wonderful messages from people all over the country whom i do not know. it is their messages that are going to stand instead fast reminder to me asi to stand instead fast reminder to me as i enter the responsibilities as secretary of state, that as i serve this president, i serve their interest and will always represent the interest of all the ameri
well on the way to 2 billion friends facebook gets more popular, more profitable and more powerful than ever before. plus, driving a brexit bargain why britain s the place to snap up a cut price supercar. welcome to world business report. i m sally bundock. also in the programme: a rare bit of good news for mexico s car industry but first. we start with facebook because despite predictions of a slowdown, the world s biggest social network keeps getting more popular, more profitable and more powerful. late on wednesday it reported quarterly numbers that were much better than expected. they round off another year of rapid growth that has seen it become one of the biggest advertising businesses on earth. its massive reach has also of course raised concerns about the amount of influence it can have and the reliability of information that s shared on it. so let s give you an idea of how big facebook now is. by the end of last year, over 1.86 billion people around the world
A large police presence is expected in the area as investigations continue. howard johnson, bbc news. the white house has expressed frustration at record profits posted by the us oil giant exxon mobil. they reached more than $55 billion last year largely attributed to the war in ukraine. a government statement said the figures were particularly galling when americans were paying high fuel prices. 0ur north america correspondent david willis reports. this has antagonised the white house beyond belief, as you can probably imagine. they have called these record profits recorded by exxon mobil outrageous. this is $56 billion in the last year alone, in terms of net profit, and that is not only a company record, in the sense that exxon mobil has never seen profits quite as large as that, it s also a record for any of the big oil companies in the western oil industry.