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US President Donald Trump and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth will on Tuesday address American military top brass in person, for an unusual event at a base near Washington DC. Hundreds of military leaders, including generals and admirals stationed around the world, are expected to attend. It represents a rare gathering of so many senior personnel […]

Jon Kaypresenter of Fairy Meadow podcast & BBC Breakfast and George Sandeman Family handout Cheryl Grimmer was three when she disappeared from Fairy Meadow beach in January 1970 The family of a toddler who disappeared from an Australian beach more than 50 years ago have criticised police for not formally interviewing potential eyewitnesses during a […]

Akisa WanderaBBC Africa, Nairobi Hassan Lali / BBC Joan Wambui’s family relies on the money she earns from working at Shona EPZ At Shona EPZ, a garment factory in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the tension is inescapable. The industrious thrum of the heavy-duty sewing machines, along with the workers’ chatter, normally fills the plant with a […]

The US is hurtling towards a government shutdown on Tuesday night, and there appears to be little appetite on either side of the partisan divide to avoid it. A last-ditch meeting between President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders in Congress made little progress. If anything, both sides have been digging deeper into their positions. “I […]

Astudestra AjengrastriBBC Indonesian, Jakarta, Rony FauzanBBC Indonesian, Sidoarjo and Kelly NgSingapore Watch: Rescuers search for dozens missing after Indonesia school collapses Rescuers are racing to pull dozens of students and workers from under the rubble of a school building that collapsed in East Java, Indonesia. Three people have been killed and 99 others hospitalised, some […]

Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter, Singapore and Liv McMahonTechnology reporter Metropolitan Police Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, was convicted on Monday A Chinese national has been convicted following an international fraud investigation which resulted in what’s believed to be the single largest cryptocurrency seizure in the world. The Metropolitan Police says it recovered 61,000 bitcoin […]

Mahfouz ZubaideAfghanistan producer Getty Images Fahima Noori had big dreams when she graduated from university in Afghanistan. She had studied law, graduated from a midwifery programme and even worked in a mental health clinic. But all that was taken away when the Taliban swept into power in 2021. They banned girls over the age of […]

An entire family – a married couple and their two young sons – have been killed in an overnight Russian drone attack in Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy region, local officials have said. Regional head Oleh Hryhorov said a residential building was hit in the village of Chernechchyna. The bodies of the two children, aged four and […]

An aide who worked for a leading member of Germany’s far-right AfD party has been given a jail term of four years and nine months for spying for China. Jian Guo had worked in Brussels for Maximilian Krah, a member of the European Parliament for five years until last year. Krah is now an MP […]

Patrick Fee & Guy GrandjeanBBC Spotlight BBC Ruby, a fighting dog, was left with visible scarring on her face Dog fighting is as secretive as it is barbaric. The people behind the illegal bloodsport carefully conceal their identities, fearful of arrest and prosecution. However, one dog fighter’s IT mix-up led an undercover BBC investigation to […]