Nepal-Tibet floods: River water smashed into tunnel and chased me, hydropower engineer says
BBC Newsby Ashok Dahal; Kamal Pariyar·1 Sept 2026
- Published Nepalese hydropower workers have told the BBC about the catastrophic moment water from the Trishuli River crashed into their tunnel as the region was inundated by deadly flash floods...
Teen girl charged with murder over recording of San Diego mosque attack
BBC Newsby Florence Freeman·1 Sept 2026
- Published A 17-year-old girl has been charged with murder by aiding and abetting after prosecutors say she recorded a livestream of an attack on a San Diego mosque that left three people dead.
Uniqlo, Muji: Japan Inc is betting big on India as China risks deepen
BBC Newsby Nikhil Inamdar·31 Aug 2026
- Published India's commerce minister Piyush Goyal led the country's largest-ever business delegation to Japan last week in a bid to expand trade and investment ties between the two countries.
US singer D4vd's celebrity lawyers withdraw from murder case
BBC Newsby Sareen Habeshian; Nardine Saad·31 Aug 2026
- Published The celebrity lawyers hired to represent US musician D4vd in his upcoming murder trial have withdrawn from his case.
Trump pushes Apple to change 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' on its maps
BBC Newsby Nadine Yousif·31 Aug 2026
- Published US President Donald Trump has asked tech firm Apple to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America on its Maps platform to comply with his executive order changing the name of the Great Lake...
JKIA strike: Passengers stranded as strike disrupts flights at Kenya's main airport
BBC Newsby Basillioh Rukanga·31 Aug 2026
- Published Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Kenya's main airport in the capital, Nairobi, as flight disruptions continued for the second day amid a workers' strike.
Algeria forest fires: President Abdelmadjid Tebboune seeks death penalty for arsonists
BBC Newsby Basillioh Rukanga·31 Aug 2026
- Published Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said he wants to reinstate the death penalty for arsonists, following a wave of forest fires that have killed at least 12 people.
US strikes launchers on Iran's Larak Island in first known attack in weeks
BBC Newsby Ruth Comerford; Ghoncheh Habibiazad·30 Aug 2026
- Published US forces have struck two Iranian launchers on Iran's Larak island, a US official said, the first known American strikes on Iran since late July.
Head teacher evacuated 900 children minutes before Nepal floods hit
BBC Newsby Ashok Dahal; Kamal Pariyar; BBC Nepali·30 Aug 2026
- Published A headteacher has told how he saved 900 pupils' lives from the Nepal floods - by quickly evacuating them just 10 minutes before the waters hit.
Niger attempted coup: Russia says it helped to repel attack
BBC Newsby Makuochi Okafor·30 Aug 2026
- Published Russia has said its forces helped to repel Saturday's attempted coup in Niger. Explosions and gunfire rang out across capital, Niamey, early in the morning, including at a key military...
Iceland EU referendum on a knife edge as counting continues
BBC Newsby Chris Graham·30 Aug 2026
- Published Iceland's closely fought referendum on whether to resume membership talks with the European Union is going down to wire, with the result too close to call.
Why Australia's giant cuttlefish mating season has gone silent
BBC Newsby Lana Lam·29 Aug 2026
- Published Every winter, a sliver of the South Australian coast hosts the world's largest mating event for giant cuttlefish.
Landlady to 9/11 hijackers reveals their links to alleged Saudi spy
BBC Newsby Jane McMullen·29 Aug 2026
- Published Holly Ratchford still cannot believe that the man who moved into the residential complex she once managed would go on to be accused of involvement in the darkest day in recent US...
What tariffs will really cost Canadians and Americans
BBC Newsby Michael Race·29 Aug 2026
- Published A raft of new tariffs have been announced during the latest escalation of the trade war between the US and Canada.
Canada poaches dozens of top US researchers for its universities
BBC Newsby Nadine Yousif; Nardine Saad·28 Aug 2026
- Published Canada is hiring dozens of researchers away from US universities, including top research institutions such as Harvard as its relationship with its neighbour continues to sour.
Tibet-Nepal floods: Shocking footage isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there
BBC Newsby Laura Bicker·28 Aug 2026
- Published The dramatic footage was almost impossible to miss. A torrent of water tearing through Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away all in its...
Norway mourns King Harald as Haakon VIII ascends throne
BBC Newsby Mallory Moench·28 Aug 2026
- Published Norwegians, politicians and royals are grieving the death of beloved King Harald V, as a period of national mourning begins and his son King Haakon VIII assumes the throne.
Violence breaks out in Ceuta as migrant crisis continues
BBC Newsby Guy Hedgecoe·28 Aug 2026
- Published A month after tens of thousands of migrants entered the city of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa, there have been outbreaks of violence as tensions mount between locals and...
Sudan conflict: Two-year curfew lifted in Khartoum
BBC Newsby Barbara Plett Usher·28 Aug 2026
- Published Sudan's military-led government has lifted a curfew and state of emergency in Khartoum imposed more than two years ago, state media says.
Shootings surge as drug gangs torment Brussels
BBC Newsby Bruno Boelpap·28 Aug 2026
- Published Last Monday night, drug gangs turned Salvatore's pizzeria in Brussels into a crime scene. "We dropped to the floor. I had clients eating on the terrace with children.
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