BBC news with Jerry Smit. The American film star Carrie Fisher who played princess Leia in the Star Wars film has died aged at 60 days after suffering a heart attack on a transatlantic flight. Fellow passengers on the plane from London to California...
BBC news with Rosemary Crick. Russia has been observing a day of mourning after a military plane crashed on Sunday in which all 92 people on board were killed. Prayers have been said in the country's Orthodox churches and a makeshift shrine has been...
BBC news with David Austin. The Russian authority say the location of a military plane with 92 people on board which crashed into the Black Sea has been pinpointed. The defense ministry said more than 100 divers were inspecting the seabed in an opera...
BBC News with Marion Marshall. The UN Security Council has passed a resolution demanding a halt to Israeli settlement building on occupied Palestinian land which it calls a flagrant violation of international law. The vote passed after the United Sta...
BBC News with Stewart Macintosh. The Syrian army has declared its victory in Aleppo as state media said the last convoy evacuating rebel fighters and civilians had left the city. The army said it would return security to Syrias second city after libe...
Now the BBC News with Steward Macintosh. Police forces across Europe are hunting a 24-year-old Tunisian man in connection with the Berlin lorry attack. Officials in Germany say Anis Amri could be armed and dangerous. He had been suspected of planning...
BBC News with Marian Marshal. German police have freed a man detained on suspicion of carrying out the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, saying they have insufficient evidence to link him to the crime. 12 people were killed and more than...
BBC News with Marian Marshal. The Russian ambassador to Turkey has been shot dead by an off-duty police officer at an Art Gallery in Ankara. TV pictures showed the ambassador Andrey Karlov making a speech when the gunmen wearing a suit and tie opened...
BBC news with Marian Marshall. Gunmen in Jordan have carried out a series of attacks in the historic town of Karak, killing 9 people including a Canadian tourist and 5 police. The gunmen also opened fire at the ancient crusader castle that dominates...
BBC news with Steward Macintosh. President Obama says he told President Vladimir Putin in September to stop meddling in the American electoral process, warning of serious consequences if he continued his alleged cyber attacks. Mr.Obama said the hacki...
BBC News with Marion Marshall. US defense officials say a Chinese warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American navy research vessel in the South China Sea. The Pentagon says the unmanned vehicle has been collecting unclassified data...
BBC News with Marion Marshall. Two convoys evacuating civilians and rebel fighters have left the last rebel enclave in the Syrian city of Aleppo under a deal designed to end years of fighting. About a thousand people were in the first convoy, which i...
Indian films and TV programmes are hugely popular in Pakistan. But as a result of growing tensions between the two south Asian neighbours, Pakistan has imposed a complete ban on TV and radio content from over the border. The authorities have raided s...
BBC news with Charles Carroll. Both the Syrian rebels and Russia say that the ceasefire has been agreed in Aleppo. The deal came as advancing Syrian government troops appeared poised to capture the remains of a rebel enclave in the east of the city....
BBC news with Steward Macintosh. The advancing Syrian army says its battle with rebels for control of the city of Aleppo has entered its final phase. Earlier the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rebels have withdrawn from another six neig...
