BBC News. The United Nations has renewed its warning of the scale of the humanitarian crisis facing four countries in Africa and the Middle East, Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen. Its Chief Humanitarian Coordinator Stephen O'Brien said more th...
BBC News with Marion Marshall. E.U. leaders have voted by 27 - 1 to reelect Donald Tusk as President of the European Council, despite strenuous efforts by his home country, Poland, to thwart his bid. Mr. Tusk expressed gratitude on social media, and...
BBC news with Marian Marshall. Volkswagen has pleaded guilty in a American court to 3 criminal charges linked to the diesel emission scandal. The plea is part of a deal with the US Justice Department. Volkswagen has admitted between 2009 and 2015 veh...
BBC news with Marion Marshall. Fire fighters in Guatemala say at least 19 children have died in a blaze at a government-run childrens home southeast of the capital Guatemala City. Many others were injured. Its not yet clear what caused the fire but o...
BBC News. Wikileaks has published thousands of confidential documents detailing what it says are top secret hacking tools used by the American Central Intelligence Agency. The alleged cyber weapons include malware that targets Android devices and iPh...
BBC news with Marion Marshall. The former Director of National Intelligence in the United States James Clapper has denied there was any wiretap on President Trump or his election campaign team. President Trump has asked Congress to examine the issue....
BBC News with Marian Marshal. President Trump has signed a new executive order imposing a 90-day ban on travelers from six mainly Muslim countries. Iraq has been taken off the list after additional vetting measures were agreed. Most of the controvers...
BBC News. 12 Iraqi civilians have been injured in what appears to be a chemical weapons attack in the city of Mosul. Two shells were fired into the government held east of the city from the Islamic State controlled west, releasing a foul smelling gas...
You were born in a different generation. I wasn't brought up in the EU. They just talked about their England and what's happening to it. We're still a family and we always will be a family. But I just feel there is a bit of divide. When I was young,...
BBC News with Cathy Clarkston. President Donald Trump says he has total confidence in the U.S. Attorney-General, Jeff Sessions, amid controversy about his meetings with the Russian envoy during last year's presidential campaign. Mr. Sessions has come...
Here in London, several government MPs have strongly criticized the politician in charge of the House of Commons, the speaker John Bercow after he said President Trump shouldn't address parliament when he visits the UK. The position of speaker is sup...
BBC News with Eileen McCue. President Trump has promised what he called a historic increase in defense spending. White House officials say he wants the Pentagon budget to go up by $54bn, almost 10 per cent. The administration hopes to pay for the inc...
BBC News with Eileen McCue. In a rare show of opposition to the authorities, thousands of Russians have marched in Moscow and other cities to commemorate the murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. They are the biggest protests since those held on...
Today, by a majority of 8 to 3, the Supreme Court rules that the government cannot trigger Article 50 without an Act of Parliament authorizing it to do so. Put briefly, the reasons given in a judgment written by all 8 justicers majority are as follow...
BBC News with Stewart Macintosh. Several major news organisations have been excluded from a press briefing at the White House, including the New York Times, CNN and the BBC. They were refused entry to an off-camera briefing with President Trumps spok...
