BBC news with Stewart Macintosh. United Nations has managed to get a humanitarian convoy through to a rebel-held suburb of Damascus, Moadamieh. Food and emergency supplies were unloaded in the country's first day delivery since such missions were sus...
BBC News with Jerry Smit. The U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, has told the U.N. Security Council that all aircraft in northern Syria should be grounded in order to allow humanitarian aid to get through. He said Monday's attack on an aid convoy r...
BBC news with Illy Mckue. In his final address to the general assembly, the United Nations secretary general has blamed the Syrian government for the majority of civilian death during the countrys five-year civil war. But Ban Ki-moon also said those...
BBC News with Jerry Smit. A man wanted in connection with bomb attacks of the weekend in New York and New Jersey has been taken into custody after exchanging gunfire with police. Hes been named as Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old US citizen of Afghan...
BBC news with Marion Marhsall. The governor of New York Andrew Cuomo has said the bomb that exploded in New York City on Saturday night was a terrorist act. And Mr. Cuomo said no link to international groups have been found. An extra thousand police...
BBC news with Stewart Macintosh. The Russian military says air raids on a Syrian army position in northeastern Syria have killed dozens of soldiers. He said that US-led coalition planes have targeted the airport near the town of Dayr Az Zawr, killing...
BBC news. The UN special envoy to Syria says he's satisfied there's been a significant drop in the level of fighting since introduction of a temporary ceasefire on Monday. Staffan de Mistura said he hoped aid deliveries would start very soon and the...
BBC news. A new ceasefire is coming into effect in Syria, one of the men who brokered the deal, the US secretary of State, John Kerry, described it as possibly the last chance to obtain peace and a united Syria. Mr Kerry acknowledged that there would...
BBC News. Hillary Clinton has made an early exit from a ceremony in New York marking the 9.11 attacks, after feeling unwell. Footage posted on the Internet shows her buckling as she's helped into a car. A short time later, the Democratic Party's pres...
BBC news with Neil Nunes. North Korea has carried out its biggest nuclear-test yet. South Korean officials say it may have been twice as powerful as previous detonations, causing a 5.3 magnitude seismic event at the north main test site. Pyongyang sa...
BBC news with Jonathan Izard. Donald Trump says he would expand all areas of America's military if he becomes US president in November. The Republican called for more soldiers, planes, ships and marines. He's also promising he will quickly devise a p...
Thanks to the revelations about the Russian state's involvement in covering up doping, the Olympics in Rio will be watched more closely than ever. Our Brazil correspondent reports.Earlier this year, dozens of Russian wrestlers were exposed as drugs c...
BBC news with Justin Green. The World Health Organization has revised its guidance to people who have visited parts of the world affected by the Zika virus. It says men and women returning from these areas should practice safer sex or abstinence for...
BBC news with Jonathan Izard. The annual G20 meeting of the worlds major economies has closed in China with agreement to fight protectionism and to try to pump fresh life into the world economy. President Xi Jinping said that the first time the summi...
BBC news with Jonathan Izard. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have suffered a political setback in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Exit polls from regional elections indicate the anti-immigrant AFD party has be...
