Sports,Football
Chelsea kicked off their Fifa Club World Cup campaign against Los Angeles FC to tens of thousands of empty seats in Atlanta.The game started at 3pm local time on a working Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.The attendance for Chelsea’s 2-0 win was announced as 22,137, in a ground which can ...
World,Politics
The leaders of G7 nations have urged a "de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza" - but stopped short of calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, during their summit in Canada.The joint statement was signed by US President Donald Trump - who th...
Newly crowned European champions Paris St-Germain cruised past Atletico Madrid for a winning start to their first ever FIFA Club World Cup campaign when Bayern Munich showed no mercy to Auckland's amateurs with a ruthless 10-0 walloping.The French side dominated the early stages in searing heat ...
World
BBC News, Tehran: At least 128 Iranians have been killed in Israeli attacks as of mid-Saturday, with around 900 injured as Iran and Israel continue to trade strikes after Israel attacked Iran early on Friday, hitting nuclear facilities, military sites and populated areas. Iran has responded with dro...
Satellite imagery shared with BBC Verify has provided a clearer picture of damage inflicted on two of Iran's key nuclear sites as well as other military targets.Imagery from two different providers shows damage to the Natanz nuclear facility as well as a missile site south of the city of Tabriz ...
National,World,Business,Politics
Global oil prices have jumped after Israel said it had struck Iran, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East.The price of the benchmark Brent Crude was up by more than 10% shortly after the news emerged, reaching its highest level since January.Traders are concerned that a conflict be...
North Korea says it has successfully relaunched its new 5,000-ton naval destroyer, less than a month after it capsized during the first attempted launch, state media reports.The country's leader, Kim Jong Un, had reacted furiously to the warship's failed launch in May, and demanded it be qui...
Democratic US Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles on Thursday and placed in handcuffs.Noem was giving an update on immigration enforcement after nearly a week of protests in the city, when Senator Padilla int...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday confirmed that several senior military figures and scientists were killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting Tehran.Iran’s former national security chief Ali Shamkhani has been killed in Israel’s strikes on Iran, according to Iran...
National,Politics
Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus has refused to meet Labour MP Tulip Siddiq to discuss corruption allegations against her during his visit to London.Yunus told the BBC the allegations were a "court matter" and said he had confidence in Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commiss...
Non-essential US embassy staff and their dependants in Baghdad are to be evacuated from Iraq due to heightened security risks, US government sources have said.Officials did not say exactly what prompted the removal, but have been told Israel was ready to launch an operation into Iran, the BBC's ...
Singapore and Taipei: A Chinese national has been sentenced to three years in prison for damaging an undersea cable connecting Taiwan's main island and the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait.The man, identified by his surname Wang, was the captain of the Togolese-registered vessel Hong Tai 58.T...
Police have been attacked with fireworks, bottles and bricks as violence erupted for a third night in Northern Ireland.The worst of the disorder was in Ballymena, but unrest also spread to other towns on Wednesday evening.In Larne, masked youths attacked a leisure centre and set it on fire. The cent...
A federal judge said on Wednesday that the Trump administration cannot deport or continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University activist who was arrested by immigration officers in March.But Judge Michael Farbiarz put a pause on his injunction until the morning of 13 June to give the feder...
The new group backed by Israel and the US for aid distribution in Gaza says Hamas attacked a bus transporting some of its Palestinian workers, killing at least five people.The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said the attack happened on Wednesday night as the bus carrying more than two-dozen worke...
World,Business,Politics
Delhi is "hopeful" of reaching a trade agreement with the US before the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs ends on 9 July, India's foreign minister has said.In an interview with French daily Le Figaro on Tuesday, S Jaishankar, who is on a four-day visit to Belgium and France, said Indi...
World,Business
Billionaire Elon Musk has said he regrets some of the posts he made about US President Donald Trump during their war of words on social media."I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far," he said on his platform X.The two were embroiled in a public ...
World,Travel & Tourism
Africa is the continent worst affected by the travel ban announced by US President Donald Trump, with seven of the 12 countries on the list, which comes into effect on Monday.The order prohibits people from Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia and Sudan - as well as Af...
New Zealand's parliament has voted to suspend three Māori MPs for their protest haka during a sitting last year.Opposition MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who started the traditional dance, was suspended for seven days, while her party's co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer wer...
World,Education & Culture
Donald Trump has suspended for an initial six months the entry of foreign students seeking to study or participate in exchange programmes at Harvard University.The US president issued the proclamation on Wednesday, citing "national security" concerns and declaring it "detrimental"...
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