Gaza man says Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in his evacuated house
Getty Images Yahya Sinwar, pictured in June 2021, was killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday A displaced Palestinian from Gaza has told the BBC that the house the former Hamas…
Russian cash-for-votes flows into Ukraine’s neighbour as nation heads to polls
Getty Images Ilan Shor – pictured here while running for election in 2019 – fled the country before being sentenced in absentia for money laundering and embezzlement The sniffer dogs…
Mozambique opposition lawyer and party official shot dead
The lawyer for a prominent Mozambique opposition figure has been shot dead in the capital, Maputo, along with an official from the same party. Elvino Dias was the attorney for…
Beirut rocked by fresh Israeli air strikes
Israel has carried out at least a dozen air strikes on Beirut on Saturday in the heaviest attack the Lebanese capital witnessed in more than a week. Huge plumes of…
Zayn Malik postpones US tour after ‘heartbreaking’ loss of Liam Payne
Zayn Malik has postponed the US leg of his upcoming tour after the “heartbreaking loss” of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne. Payne died, aged 31, after falling from…
One dead after ‘explosion’ and fire at Bedford house
Steve Huntley/BBC Residents have been asked to keep their windows open after a blaze in Cleat Hill, Bedford One person has died and another has been seriously injured after an…
Race cancelled over weather concerns
BBC Some 23,000 runners had been expected to take part in the 10-mile (16km) run on Sunday The annual Great South Run, due to take place in Portsmouth on Sunday,…
Trump says China respects him because Xi Jinping knows he is ‘crazy’
Getty Images Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2017 Donald Trump has said that if he returns to the White House China would not dare provoke him because…
Ministers explore handing Post Office ownership to sub-postmasters
Ministers are exploring plans to hand ownership of the Post Office to thousands of sub-postmasters across the UK, sources have told the BBC. The proposal is in its early stages…
Boeing strikers to vote on 35% pay rise offer
Boeing has offered striking machinists a 35% pay rise over four years in a new contract proposal they hope will end a month-long strike. About 33,000 unionised workers, mostly in…