Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has said she is “moving towards retirement right now” and being selective with the projects she takes on. Speaking to People magazine, Mr... Read more
Myanmar’s military rulers have accused the ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi of illegally accepting $600,000 (£430,000) and gold. The allegation is the strongest yet levelled by the milit... Read more
China’s legislature has approved a controversial resolution, paving the way for Hong Kong’s electoral system to be overhauled in its latest move that will tighten control over th... Read more
Brazil has exceeded 2,000 Covid-related deaths in a single day for the first time, as infection rates soar. The country has the second highest death toll in the world, behind the US. Experts... Read more
Boris Johnson has “corrected” European Council President Charles Michel over his claim that the UK had imposed a “outright ban” on the export of Covid-19 vaccines. Sp... Read more
Russia’s media watchdog has said it is slowing down the speed of Twitter, accusing the US social media company of failing to remove 3,000 posts relating to suicide, drugs and pornograp... Read more
Police officers from Myanmar have told the BBC they fled across the border into India after refusing to carry out the orders of the military which seized power in a coup last month. In some... Read more
Health systems in most of Brazil’s largest cities are close to collapse due to Covid-19 cases, a report by the country’s Fiocruz institute warns. The Rio de Janeiro-based institu... Read more
Crisis meetings involving senior royals have taken place following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. BBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph said Buckingham... Read more
The death toll from a series of explosions in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday has risen to 98, officials say. Another 615 people were injured, with 299 still in the hospital. The blasts hit a mi... Read more
The Duchess of Sussex has said she found life within the British Royal Family so difficult that at times she “didn’t want to be alive anymore”. In a deeply personal TV inte... Read more
Pope Francis has arrived in Iraq for the first ever papal visit there, and his first international trip since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Covid and security fears have made this h... Read more
The Italian government has blocked the export of an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia. The decision affects 250,000 doses of the vaccine produced at an AstraZeneca facility in... Read more
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into whether Apple’s terms for app developers are anti-competitive. It follows a series of complaints, in... Read more
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