The UKIP interim leader Nigel Farage has said he and his companions are “just tourists” as they visited Trump Tower. UKIP has since said Mr Farage has become the first British politician to meet Donald Trump since Mr Trump became president-elect of the US. US election: Farage is ‘just a tourist’ on Trump visit
With the Syrian civil war now having raged for more than five years, hundreds of thousands of children have known nothing but a country in conflict. Many young Syrians started their lives in the various camps and shelters that have sprung up across Europe and the Middle East, where they were born as refugees. The […]
Funerals for some of the victims of Wednesday’s earthquake are being held in Italy, while rescuers continue the search for more survivors. Hopes of finding any more survivors are fading, and nearly 300 people are now known to have been killed. Funerals held in Italy as search for survivors continues
The BBC witnesses a raid in one of Manila’s biggest prisons – the latest offensive in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. It is a battle that is, so far, mainly fighting the foot soldiers rather than the generals of the country’s drug trade, the BBC’s Jonathan Head reports. Inside a Philippines prison drugs […]
27 August 2016 Last updated at 01:04 BST London has just held the UK’s only Halal Food Festival. BBC News looks at how the so-called Muslim pound is changing the British high street. How is Halal changing the British high street?
The humanitarian situation in Aleppo continues to be difficult. The UN has called for a 48-hour pause in the fighting to allow aide to enter the city, where residents are desperate for a solution. In Lebanon, Syrian refugee Fatima Tarasho communicates with her family in Aleppo through mobile messaging. Aleppo residents communicate with family
Donald Trump has polled at exceptionally low levels among black and Latino voters. Now he’s making a direct pitch to them. Will it work? And is Trump talking to minority voters or about them? Rajini Vaidyanathan reports. Video by Olivia Lace-Evans Is Trump’s pitch to black voters a lost cause?
The rebel-held city of Darayya near Damascus is being evacuated by government forces after the last rebel fighters agreed to hand over their weapons and leave. Darayya was among the first cities to report protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s government. The city has been besieged without food aid for 4 years. Only 8,000 people remain […]
A Czech hiker who went missing a month ago in the snowy mountains of New Zealand has described the “harrowing” ordeal in which her partner died. Pavlina Pizova said she and Ondrej Petr began hiking the Routeburn track in Fiordland National Park on 26 July, but got lost in bad conditions. After one night in […]
The ancient village of Pescara del Tronto was one of the areas all but destroyed by the deadly earthquake which struck central Italy on Wednesday. Damian Grammaticas reports from there. Italy quake: The ancient village destroyed
