Solar power ‘key to peace’ in Rio favela

Pol Dhuyvetter from Belgium believes solar panels are the key to peace in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. He hopes the Babilonia favela can even turn a profit from their panels by selling excess energy back to the Brazilian power grid. Impressions of Rio through the eyes of foreigners living in the city is […]

Skateboarding leaps into the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

The International Olympic Committee has announced that five new sports will be added to the Tokyo 2020 Games, including surfing and skateboarding. Skateboarding has long been seen as a counter-culture sport, so can it really fit into the clean-cut world of the Olympic Games? The BBC’s Howard Johnson went to a skateboard event in Malmo, […]

Iraqi police apprehend boy in explosive vest

An Iraqi TV station has aired footage showing a police officer removing an explosive vest from a boy, reportedly in Kirkuk on Sunday. Courtesy Kurdistan 24 TV Iraqi police apprehend boy in explosive vest

Life as an obstetrician in a war zone

In Aleppo, Syria, Doctor Farida – an obstetrician and gynaecologist – faces a daily battle to deliver babies amid war. In a video diary for the BBC, she performs an emergency caesarean section, partly during one of the city’s many power blackouts. Life as an obstetrician in a war zone

Fireworks light up Rio sky as 2016 Games end

The first Olympic Games to be hosted in a South American country have ended in Rio De Janeiro. At the closing ceremony, Brazil passed the Olympic baton to Japan, whose capital Tokyo will stage the Summer Games of 2020. The BBC’s Tim Allman reports. Fireworks light up Rio sky as 2016 Games end

The church no one may enter

A Ukrainian village church has had its doors locked for the past two years because of a community dispute over the right to worship there. Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have also fuelled divisions in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which split into a Moscow-led branch and a Kiev-led branch when Ukraine originally gained independence in […]

Crocodiles let loose in Australian school by vandals

Vandals set three saltwater crocodiles loose in an Australian school office on Sunday. CCTV footage shows the crocodiles being pushed through a broken window at Taminmin College, located in the Northern Territory town of Humpty Doo. A gang of masked intruders then vandalises the office. Wildlife rangers who captured the reptiles said they were in […]