A US court awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas $18m (£14m) in damages, after a jury said he was defamed by former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong. The case stems from comments Agyapong made about Anas after his BBC investigation in 2018 that exposed football corruption in Ghana and elsewhere. The court heard that Agyapong, … Read more
A powerful dust storm swept through central New Mexico on Tuesday, causing multiple crashes and poor visibility, according to local media reports. Footage captured by Alex Matthews shows a vehicle pileup along Interstate 40. Mr Matthews told the BBC he saw several vehicles on fire or in the wreckage, however there were no immediate reports … Read more
A man in his 60s has been arrested following the seizure of cocaine worth €10.6m (£8.4m) in the Republic of Ireland. Gardaí (Irish police) said 152kg of cocaine (subject to analysis), was found on Tuesday in “a sophisticated vehicle concealment”. A heavy goods vehicle was intercepted on the M9 in County Kilkenny shortly after 10:00 … Read more
A court in India has sentenced three men to death for the 1981 murder of 24 people from the Dalit (formerly untouchable) community. The men were part of a gang of bandits who shot the victims, including women and children, in Dehuli village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The special court said on … Read more
Mark Savage Music Correspondent BBC Aespa recently sold out Wembley Arena and will return in June to play the SM Town festival in Twickenham Six years ago, Amber Clare was a devoted One Direction fan. Scrolling through Twitter for information about the band’s solo projects, she saw a reply that said “Listen to Icy by … Read more
Wildfires in Los Angeles. Tornadoes in the South and Midwest. Flooding in North Carolina. From coast to coast, a wave of extreme weather events over the past year has destroyed homes and upended lives. As the planet gets warmer, it’s essential for home buyers to consider climate vulnerability. If you already own a home, how … Read more
At least 13 people have reportedly been killed in air strikes across Gaza overnight, after Israel said it was resuming combat operations in the Palestinian territory. Two civilians were killed and five others injured when an Israeli drone hit a tent near the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reports, citing Red Crescent … Read more
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame have called for an “immediate ceasefire” in eastern DR Congo, after having direct talks in Qatar. It is the first time two leaders have met since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels stepped up an offensive in the region, where authorities say 7,000 people … Read more
Russia and Ukraine have launched air attacks that damaged each other’s infrastructure, hours after Vladimir Putin said Russia would stop targeting Ukrainian energy sites. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s targets included hospitals and power supplies. He said the Russian leader had in effect rejected a comprehensive ceasefire in his call on Tuesday with US … Read more
The US government has begun releasing a trove of documents on the assassination of President John F Kennedy – a case that still sparks conspiracy theories over 60 years later. The release follows an executive order in January by President Donald Trump that required unredacted files in the case to be made public. Historians do … Read more