Media captionThe toxic legacy of the Vietnam War The US has launched a multi-million dollar clean-up operation at an air base in Vietnam it used to store the notorious chemical Agent Orange. The ten-year programme, unveiled more than four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, will cost $183m (£141m). The site at Bien […]
Image copyright EPA Image caption The attack happened in a busy area of central Kabul Gunmen have attacked the Afghan ministry of information in the centre of the capital Kabul, officials say. An explosion was heard at 11:40 local time (07:10 GMT) while sporadic gunfire is continuing. A ministry source told the BBC that there […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Members of the group allegedly broke into North Korea’s Spanish embassy and stole several computers and hard drives US authorities have arrested a former US Marine who is allegedly part of a group that raided North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, reports say. Christopher Ahn appeared in a Los Angeles […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Blind sailor Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (L) celebrates with his navigator Doug Smith A blind Japanese sailor has completed a non-stop Pacific crossing, reportedly making him the first visually impaired person to do so. Mitsuhiro Iwamoto, 52, sailed the 8,700-mile (14,000 km) crossing with the help of a sighted navigator. His 12m […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Ranjan Gogoi was appointed chief justice last October India’s Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has been accused of sexual harassment by a former Supreme Court employee. The 35-year-old woman has filed an affidavit alleging two instances of misconduct in October last year, shortly after Mr Gogoi was appointed. She says her […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Members of the group allegedly broke into North Korea’s Spanish embassy and stole several computers and hard drives US authorities have arrested a former US Marine who is allegedly part of a group that raided North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, reports say. Christopher Ahn will reportedly appear in a […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Members of the group allegedly broke into North Korea’s Spanish embassy and stole several computers and hard drives American authorities have arrested a former US Marine who is allegedly part of a group that raided North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, reports say. Christopher Ahn will reportedly appear in a […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption This year marks the 30th anniversary of the pro-democracy protests A promotional video for camera company Leica has sparked backlash in China for featuring a famous Tiananmen Square image. The video depicts photographers working in conflicts around the world, including a photographer covering the 1989 protests. People on Chinese social […]
Image copyright Yogesh Kumar Singh Image caption Mr Kumar says he voted for the “wrong” political party An Indian voter says he chopped off his index finger after realising he had voted for the “wrong” political party. Pawan Kumar says he accidentally ended up voting for the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in a video […]
Image copyright Lynette Silver Image caption Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of the Bangka Island massacre In 1942, a group of Australian nurses were murdered by Japanese soldiers in what came to be known as the Bangka Island massacre. Now, a historian has collated evidence indicating they were sexually assaulted beforehand – and that […]
