Papua New Guinea: Many feared dead in landslide Emergency services are racing to reach villages hit by a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea’s isolated Enga province, where hundreds of people are feared to be dead. A rapid response team made up of medics and military personnel has managed to reach the isolated landslide site,...
Kenyan president ‘confident’ in police deploying to Haiti “I have a team already in Haiti as I speak to you,” Mr Ruto tells the BBC. “That will give us a frame of what things look like on the ground, the capabilities that are available, the infrastructure that has been set up, and once we have...
The tenor of questioning does not surprise Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. “The survivor may be blamed for behaving in some way which ‘provokes’ the offender; she may be blamed for destroying the family, for disrespecting her husband, or the parents and in-laws,” he told the BBC. “It...
A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week. Yara Nardi/REUTERS Rawdah Mohamed poses on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the film Marcello Mio at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in France Anselmo Cunha/AFP An aerial view shows an aircraft on the tarmac of the flooded Salgado Filho...
13 minutes ago Phil McCausland, reporting from New York,BBC News Elizabeth Williams Elizabeth Williams, the court artists, said this piece showed the number of obstructions that she and other artists had in capturing the legal proceedings. It is only through their deft hands and keen eyes that the world gets a peek into the courtroom...
54 minutes ago Sam Cabral ,Jessica Murphy Reuters A US judge has denied a motion by Alec Baldwin to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge over a deadly film set shooting in 2021. Halyna Hutchins, 42, was shot with a gun Mr Baldwin was using during a rehearsal on the set of Rust, a Western being...
Police have arrested a teenager who is accused of attacking pro-Palestinian protesters at an encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The attack three weeks ago led to brawling that ended after more than two hours, when police cleared the site. The arrest of Edan On, 18, appears to mark the first arrest...
Thirty years after apartheid, South Africa is a very different country. But while democracy has endured, and the fear and racist brutality of the past is gone, there is widespread disillusionment. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) have been in power since Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black president. Back in 1994, a woman...
In a suburb on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, a family is processing the news that their pet was taken by a lioness during the night. CCTV footage reveals the animal jumping up across the house gate, later leaving the same way while clutching a Rottweiler in her mouth. The BBC caught up...
As he returned to the throne in a colourful ceremony, Nigeria’s influential Emir of Kano addressed the people who deposed him four years ago. Those who expelled Muhammadu Sanusi II from his role as a traditional Muslim leader in the northern state of Kano were not worth talking about, he said on Friday. Mr Sanusi...