Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi Getty Images India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday Days after India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire, questions remain over what lies ahead for the two South Asian neighbours. Early on 7 May, India launched air strikes into Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir in response to a deadly … Read more
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A long-awaited resentencing hearing on Tuesday is set to determine whether two brothers who killed their wealthy parents in their Beverly Hills mansion could be freed from prison after three decades. After months of delays, a judge will begin hearing two days of arguments both for and against Erik and Lyle Menendez’s bid to receive … Read more
More than 200 marine species off the coast of South Australia (SA) have been killed by a weeks-long toxic algae explosion, in what conservationists have described as “a horror movie for fish”. The algal bloom – a rapid increase in the population of algae in water systems – has been spreading since March, growing to … Read more
A volcano in the Philippines has erupted, spewing ash 3km (1.8 miles) in to the air. The eruption of the Mount Kanlaon volcano on the Negros island was caught on a thermal camera, showing debris falling. A four-mile evacuation radius has been in place around the volcano, following an earlier eruption in December. There have … Read more
Nissan has said it will cut another 11,000 jobs globally as it shakes up the business in the face of weak sales in its key markets of the US and China. It brings the total number of layoffs announced by Japan’s third-biggest car maker in the last year to about 20,000, or 15% of its … Read more
US President Donald Trump has landed in Saudi Arabia, for the first major diplomatic trip of his second term. The president is hoping to secure significant new investment in the US in the four-day trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE. Saudi Arabia was also the first country that Trump visited during his first term … Read more
An Israeli air strike on the emergency department of Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza has killed a well-known Palestinian photojournalist, medical sources and eyewitnesses say. Hassan Aslih, who was being treated for injuries from a previous Israeli strike, was targeted in what witnesses described as a drone attack on the hospital’s surgical wing. A doctor … Read more
Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent Getty Images Vice-President Sara Duterte faces an impeachment trial in the Senate As the noise and colour of a two-month election campaign subsides, a game of thrones between the two most powerful families in the Philippines resumes. President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, and his Vice-President, Sara Duterte, are embroiled … Read more
Jeremy Bowen International editor, BBC News Watch: Jeremy Bowen questions Unrwa commissioner on food aid in Gaza How do you measure misery? For journalists the usual way is to see it, to feel it, to smell it. Beleaguered Palestinian colleagues in Gaza are doing that, still doing invaluable reporting at great risk to themselves. More … Read more