World
More than 2,500 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats in the 11 days since the new "one in, one out" agreement with France took effect, figures from the Home Office show.The plan proposes that for each migrant the UK returns to France, another person with a strong case for asylu...
The Kremlin has played down Donald Trump's orders to move two nuclear submarines closer to Russia, saying Moscow did not want to be involved in polemics.In the first official reaction since the US president's comments last Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said American submarines were...
A massive oil depot fire raging near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi has been blamed by Moscow on an overnight Ukrainian drone attack.Krasnodar region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said drone debris hit a fuel tank and 127 firefighters were tackling the blaze on Sunday morning.The airport near...
A planned pro-Palestinian protest across the Sydney Harbour Bridge has gone ahead after it was authorised by the Supreme Court just one day prior, in what organisers called a "historic" decision.Tens of thousands turned out for the March for Humanity on Sunday despite torrential rain - wit...
Reuters, Beijing: Extreme weather killed at least 60 people in northern China over the past week, with 31 deaths in an elderly care home in Beijing's hilly Miyun district in one of the deadliest floods to have hit the Chinese capital in years.In Beijing, 44 people were killed and nine were missi...
New Delhi: A court in India has acquitted all seven accused in a deadly bombing that struck a Muslim-majority town in Maharashtra state nearly 17 years ago.At least six people were killed and nearly a hundred injured in the blasts that hit Malegaon in September 2008.Among the seven acquitted are Sad...
World,Back Page
Clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops at their disputed border have killed at least 12 people, Thai authorities say.The fighting marks an escalation of a dispute between the two South East Asian neighbours that dates back more than a century.Most of the casualties were civilians from three Thai ...
Thousands of Afghans have moved to the UK under a secret scheme which was set up after a British official inadvertently leaked their data, it can be revealed.In February 2022, the personal details of nearly 19,000 people who had applied to move to the UK after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan...
World,Business,Oil & Energy
US President Donald Trump has confirmed he will meet Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in Aberdeen later this month.The US President told BBC News the city was "the oil capital of Europe" but added it should "get rid of the windmills".The Scottish government previously confirmed Tr...
Donald Trump has said that he is disappointed but not done with Vladimir Putin, in an exclusive phone call with the BBC.The US president was pressed on whether he trusts the Russian leader, and replied: "I trust almost nobody."Trump was speaking hours after he announced plans to send weapo...
At least 30 people have been killed in armed clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribal fighters and Druze militias in southern Syria, the country's interior ministry says.The violence erupted in the predominantly Druze city in the province of Suweida on Sunday, two days after a Druze merchant was rep...
Entertainment
Fans of Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) will have been left disappointed after finding out they won't get to sing along to Mr Blue Sky below a blue summer sky.BST Hyde Park has cancelled the final day of its festival after Lynne, 77, withdrew from the band's headline slot at ...
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he is ready to match any tariffs imposed on Brazil by the United States.Lula was responding to Wednesday's threat by his US counterpart, Donald Trump, to impose a 50% import tax on Brazilian goods from 1 August.In a letter, Trump...
A convicted bishop and a former vicar of the Church in Wales are being investigated by detectives over allegations of historical sexual abuse, the BBC can reveal.Four people have told BBC Wales Investigates about abuse being ignored at the crisis-hit Church and have called for an independent inquiry...
World,Politics
The UK faces a "rising" and unpredictable threat from Iran and the government must do more to counter it, Parliament's intelligence and security committee has warned.The call comes as it publishes the results of a major inquiry which examined Iranian state assassinations and kidnap, es...
World,Art & Glamour
A school principal and an attendant have been arrested in India after allegations that female students were stripped naked to check if they were menstruating after blood stains were found on a toilet wall.The police action came after the mother of one of the "10 to 15 girls" who were put t...
The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on the UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, an outspoken critic of Israel's military offensive in Gaza.Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the move to her support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), some of whose ...
US President Donald Trump said he was planning to impose a 50% tax on goods made in Brazil, escalating his fight with the South American country.He announced the plan in his latest tariff letter, which was shared on social media.In it, Trump accuses Brazil of "attacks" on US tech companies...
President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine has been hit by the biggest ever aerial attack from Russia - 728 drones and 13 cruise or ballistic missiles hit cities around the country in multiple waves.Zelensky condemned the "telling attack", adding: "It comes precisely at a time when so ...
National,Politics
A deadly crackdown on student-led protests in Bangladesh last year was authorised by then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, according to audio of one of her phone calls verified by BBC Eye.In the audio, which was leaked online in March, Hasina says she authorised her security forces to "use lethal ...
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