Authorities in China have stepped up precautions after a city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region confirmed one case of bubonic plague. According to state reports, the Bayannur patient... Read more
A jet aircraft suspected of carrying illegal drugs has been destroyed by fire after landing on a highway in southern Mexico. A lorry packed with 390kg of cocaine was found nearby in the stat... Read more
Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer whose credits include the “spaghetti” Westerns that made Clint Eastwood a star, has died in Rome aged 91. According to Italian news agency A... Read more
The head of the US drugs regulator has cast doubt on President Donald Trump’s prediction that a Covid-19 vaccine will be ready this year. “I can’t predict when a vaccine wi... Read more
The mayor of a town in Colombia has been praised after he turned his own son in to the police for breaking a curfew imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Carlos Higgins Villanueva s... Read more
A US woman has been shot while trying to remove a Nazi flag from someone’s front yard in the state of Oklahoma. Garfield County Sheriff’s office said the woman had been at a part... Read more
Facebook says it has removed and banned hundreds of accounts to disrupt a “violent, anti-government” US network. It said the network was loosely linked to the broader far-right B... Read more
A teenager has been killed and another critically wounded in a shooting in Seattle’s autonomous zone. One teenager, 16, was fatally shot and died after being taken to hospital. The oth... Read more
The UK, EU and Nato have expressed concern and anger after China passed a controversial security law giving it new powers over Hong Kong. President Xi Jinping signed the law and it is being... Read more
Belgium’s King Philippe has expressed his “deepest regrets” to the Democratic Republic of Congo for his country’s colonial abuses. The reigning monarch made the comme... Read more
A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say. The r... Read more
China has passed a controversial security law giving it new powers over Hong Kong, deepening fears for the city’s freedoms, the BBC has learned. It is set to criminalise secession, sub... Read more
The US Supreme Court has ruled that a law restricting abortions in Louisiana is unconstitutional in a landmark decision. The law required that doctors providing abortions have admitting priv... Read more
French ex-Prime Minister François Fillon and his Welsh wife have received jail sentences in a “fake jobs” case. The conservative politician was found guilty of paying Penelope Fi... Read more
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