This is the BBC News. Hello, I'm Johnson Izard. Hilary Clinton has become the first woman ever to lead a presidential ticket for a major party in the United States. Delegates of the Democratic Party national convention in Philadelphia officially nomi...
Reports from Japan say a man with a knife killed at least 15 people at the home for the disabled in the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo. Another 45 people have been injured. Mariko Oi reports. It's one of the worst mass murders that Japan has seen....
The World Anti-Doping Agency says it's disappointed about Olympic leaders have rejected his recommondation to ban Russia from the Rio Games next month. WADA's president Craig Reedie said the organization's investigators had exposed a state-run doping...
French prosecutors say five suspected accomplices of the Tunisian men, who killed more than 80 people in a truck attack in Nice last week, have been charged. The Paris Prosecutors' Office said the five were charged with terrorism-related offenses. Ea...
Hello, I am Julie Candler with the BBC news. Police in Germany have launched a huge men hunt for a group of men who carried out a mass shooting at a shopping center in Munich. At least nine people have been killed, police say one of them may have bee...
The president of Turkey says he is imposing a three months state of emergency following last weeks failed military coup. The measure will enable Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government to bypass parliament and to limit or suspend rights. In a televis...
Donald Trump has been formally nominated as the Republican Party's candidate for the US presidential election in November. At the Party's convention in Ohio, a state by state vote confirmed that Mr. Trump had enough support to become the nominee. Jam...
The national convention of the Republican Party in the United States has been disrupted after delegates were not allowed to register their opposition to the candidacy of Donald Trump. Delegates are due to adopt Mr. Trump as their nominee later this w...
Thousands of Turks, singing and waving the national flag, have turned out on the streets of the main cities in support of the government. As night fell, the main squares in Istanbul were packed with people, chanting that neither their land nor democr...
Gunfire and explosions have been heard in the two biggest cities in Turkey, where an attempted coup is underway. A statement from a section of the army has been read out on television saying the military is in control of the country. President Recep...