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Eight people have died overnight while trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French police say. Rescue services were alerted after the boat got into difficulty in waters north of Boulogne-sur-mer in the northern Pas-de-Calais region after 01:00 local time (00:00 BST). The rubber vessel had around 60 people on board, from countries […]
Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated as a powerful typhoon made landfall near China’s financial hub, Shanghai. Typhoon Bebinca hit at about 07:30 local time (23:30 GMT) on Monday in the coastal area of Lingang New City in Shanghai’s east, the China Meteorological Administration said. It is the strongest storm to hit Shanghai in […]
Tito Jackson, an original member of the Jackson 5 pop group and brother of the late Michael Jackson, has died aged 70, US media report. An official cause of death is yet to be determined. Tito performed in the iconic ensemble with brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael, who died in 2009. He was recently […]
Isata, a single mother in her early twenties, epitomises the horrors of the lives of sex workers in Sierra Leone. She has been beaten, robbed, kidnapped, trafficked to another country, rescued, trafficked and rescued again. Amidst all of this, she became hooked on a dangerous street drug, kush, that is wreaking havoc in the West […]
When I started at BBC News three years ago, a work friend gave me some advice about my new colleague Huw Edwards. “You can be funny,” they said. “But don’t be funnier than Huw. “You can be clever, but don’t be too clever.” It was a light-hearted warning about a presenter who, back then, was […]
Emergency services are shoring up flood defences in Central and Eastern Europe after torrential rainfall swelled rivers and damaged thousands of homes. Storm Boris proved deadly in Romania, where four people were killed during floods in the south-eastern region of Galati. In the Czech Republic, flooding has led to evacuations and 51,000 households in the […]
Ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who performed with Beyoncé and was seen by many as a trailblazer, has died at the age of 29. A spokesperson announced her death on her personal Instagram page and in a statement her family said she was an “unforgettable inspiration to everyone who knew her or heard her story”. The […]
The government of South Sudan is holding an emergency cabinet meeting hours after it announced that long-delayed national elections would be postponed by two years. The polls were due to take place this December. A 2018 peace deal that ended a civil war allowed president Salva Kiir to remain in charge of a transitional government […]
The man who was arrested for attacking the Comoros president with a knife on Friday has been found dead in prison, the authorities there say. The attack took place during a funeral for a well-known religious leader and injured President Azali Assoumani’s hand. National prosecutor Ali Mohamed Djounaid said that after being arrested the attacker […]
Botswana’s former President Ian Khama has unexpectedly returned to the country after three years of self-imposed exile, appearing in court to face charges, including money laundering and owning illegal firearms. The 71-year-old had only recently claimed there was a plot to poison him if he set foot on home soil. The government called those allegations […]