BBC News with Jerry Smit. The Ethiopian authorities say the army will be deployed across the country as part of a six-month state of emergency declared earlier on Sunday. Hundreds of people have been killed in unrest involving Ethiopia's two largest...
BBC News with Julie Candler. The Houthi rebel movement in Yemen has accused the Saudi-led coalition of killing at least 82 people in an airstrike that targeted a funeral ceremony. More than 500 people were injured in the attack. The victims were mour...
BBC news with Stewart Macintosh. Officials in Haiti say at least 800 people are now known to have been killed by hurricane Matthew which struck the country on Tuesday. The hurricane hit the country's southwestern peninsula, virtually destroying the m...
Now out of the clear blue seas off the islands of Polynesia where scientists have discovered an area teeming with sharks, normally there is a naturally balance with lots of prey and fewer predators, but not so in this case. Our science reporter Jonat...
BBC News with Neil Nunes. Colombias president Juan Manuel Santos has insisted that a ceasefire between the government and the FARC rebels will remain in place and inspite of the rejection by voters of the historical peace deal. Mr. Santos said he wou...
BBC news. An air raid on the rebel held eastern half of the Syrian city of Aleppo had struck the area's largest hospital for the second time in a matter of days. The French foreign minister Michele Alliot-Marie condemned the latest strike. He said hi...
BBC news with Debby Ross. Republican leaders in the US congress have said they want to reconsider a legislation allowing the families of victims of the 9.11 attacks to sue Saudi-Arabia. The White House had warned that the law could expose American tr...
BBC News with Jerry Smit. The human rights group Amnesty International says the government of Sudan has used chemical weapons against his own people in Darfur. It says since January more than 200 people, including dozens of children have died in agon...
BBC News with Jonathan Izard. The US Secretary of State John Kerry has told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Washington will suspend all contact with Moscow over Syria if Russia does not take immediate action to end the assault on Aleppo. I...
On a typically rainy Irish afternoon, I boarded an express train at Ireland's capital Dublin. Here we are, about an hour now out of Dublin and we've just crossed over the border from Ireland into the British north. But there has been and there will b...
BBC news with Johnathan Izard. Scientists in the United States say the first baby has been born using a new three-person-fertility technic. The baby boy who was now five months old was born to Jordanian parents who were treated by an American team in...
BBC news with Fiona MacDonald. A mass for peace is being taken place in the Cathedral of the Columbian city of Cartagena where a historic peace accord between the government and the Farc rebels is due to be signed in a few hours.It marks the end of a...
BBC news with Johnathon Izard. The US ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power has accused Russia of telling outright lies about its actions in Syria. She said the Russians were not involved in counter-terrorism there, but in barbarism. Russia...
The Nigerian government has launched a one-billion dollar project to clean the creeks of Ogoniland from oil pollution. The area in the Niger Delta is at the heart of the country's oil producing region. But for some, money is clearly not the answer. O...
BBC news with Johnson Izard. Rebel-held districts of the Syrian city of Aleppo have been pounded by warplanes for a second successive day. The latest raids came hours after the Syrian government announced a new offesive to retake the city. One rescue...
