World
At least 24 people were killed and 47 others injured when Myanmar’s military dropped two bombs from a motorised paraglider on a crowd protesting against the junta, a spokesperson for the government-in-exile told BBC Burmese.The attack took place on Monday evening as around 100 people gathered ...
Drones have been seen near military facilities including Denmark's largest, following a series of incidents that caused air disruption earlier this week.The devices were observed above Karup airbase, among others, forcing it to briefly close its airspace to commercial traffic. Possible sightings...
The US has for the sixth time vetoed a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would have demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages.US deputy Middle East envoy Morgan Ortagus said the text did not go far enough in condemning Hamas or recog...
Opinion
An analysis of hundreds of pre-modern states suggests that civilisations tend to have a 'shelf-life' – a pattern that holds lessons for today's ageing global powers.The rise and fall of great powers is a cliche of history. The idea that civilisations, states, or societies grow and ...
France has been plunged into a new political crisis with the defeat of Prime Minister François Bayrou at a confidence vote in the National Assembly.The defeat – by 364 votes to 194 – means that Bayrou will on Tuesday present his government's resignation to President Emmanuel M...
A landslide has killed at least 1,000 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, according to the armed group the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army.Days of heavy rain triggered the landslide on Sunday, which left just one survivor and "levelled" much of the village of Tarasin, the...
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...
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