Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith is a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in London.
Contact this reporter at patrick.smith@buzzfeed.com
These Economists Just Won A Nobel Prize For Highlighting The Risks Of Climate Change And Unsustainable Development
William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer "designed methods that address some of our time’s most fundamental and pressing issues."
Patrick Smith
• 7 days ago
Three People Were Arrested After A Blockbuster UFC Match Ended In Chaos
The championship bout between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor ended in ugly scenes broadcast to millions worldwide.
Patrick Smith
• 8 days ago
This Company Stockpiled Massive Amounts Of Amputated Body Parts And Toxic Waste
Healthcare Environmental Services said that the backlog was created by a lack of incinerators in the UK.
Patrick Smith
• 11 days ago
Cristiano Ronaldo Will Miss At Least Two Portugal Matches As A Rape Investigation Continues
The 33-year-old faces an allegation that he raped a woman in a Las Vegas hotel in 2009, which he denies.
Patrick Smith
• 11 days ago
Russian Military Intelligence Services Tried To Hack The UK Foreign Office, Porton Down, And The OPCW
The remote attacks were carried out in addition to an attempted cyberattack against the OPCW in the Hague on April 13, which British and Dutch authorities revealed on Thursday.
Hazel Shearing
• 11 days ago
Vladimir Putin Called Former Russian Spy Sergei Skripal A “Traitor To The Homeland” And “Scum”
Skripal was poisoned with a Russian-made nerve agent by two Russian military agents, according to the UK security services.
Patrick Smith
• 12 days ago
The Indonesia Earthquake And Tsunami Death Toll Has Reached More Than A Thousand, As "Nightmarish" Conditions Continue
Witnesses have reported seeing cases of "liquefaction," where soil turns to liquid and swallows up entire buildings.
Patrick Smith
• 14 days ago
Four People Were Injured When A Plane Crashed Into The Sea After Missing The Runway
The Air Niugini flight from Papua New Guinea was attempting to land at Chuuk airport in Micronesia.
Patrick Smith
• 17 days ago
The Crazy Story Of How British Police Spent Three Years Hunting A Serial Cat Killer Who Didn’t Exist
After an investigation that spanned the UK, the Metropolitan Police have announced there was no evidence of human involvement in more than 400 cat deaths claimed to be linked to a single killer.
Patrick Smith
• 25 days ago
Trump Apparently Suggested Building A 3,000-Mile Wall Across The Sahara Desert
That's going to be a very, very big wall.
Patrick Smith
• 25 days ago
Apparently You Can Squash Oxo Cubes Before Opening Them And Life Will Never Be The Same
This is game-changing.
Patrick Smith
• 26 days ago
North And South Korea Now Want To Host The Olympics Together
And both sides have agreed to downgrade key military facilities, too.
Patrick Smith
• 26 days ago
A Former Cabinet Minister Has Called On MPs To Investigate 14 Suspicious UK Deaths Linked To Russia
"I worry that these historic deaths, about which there are still many, many questions, are now not going to be properly looked at."
Patrick Smith
• 27 days ago
The Woman Who Accused Brett Kavanaugh Of Sexual Assault Says She's Willing To Testify Before Congress
"She's taken a polygraph, she's a credible person, these are serious allegations and they should be addressed," the lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford said Monday.
Patrick Smith
• 28 days ago
Typhoon Mangkhut Has Torn Through The Philippines And Southern China, Killing At Least 69 People
The tropical cyclone Mangkhut was packing winds of up to 100 mph as it reached China on Sunday.
Stephanie K. Baer
• 29 days ago
US Open Champion Naomi Osaka Says She Apologized For Not Giving Fans The Final They Wanted
"I felt a little bit sad because I wasn't really sure if they were booing at me or if it wasn't the outcome that they wanted."
Patrick Smith
• One month ago
People Are Worried About Lorry Queues At Britain's Borders After A Hard Brexit But This Tiny Advert Has A Solution
The four-acre site near Ashford in Kent could be just the place to keep all those lorries — and goods — waiting for clearance to enter the EU.
Patrick Smith
• One month ago