BBC news with Marion Marshall. A BBC reporter has reached a remote Himalayan village in Nepal that was almost completely destroyed by last month's earthquake. Nantan village was engulf by a landslide and avalanche. More than 300 people are thought to...
Coming back to these shores having spent some weeks in America, its been fascinating to compare the general election campaign here with the presidential campaign just launched there. There are some striking differences. For instance, in America one o...
The British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says an agreement on Iran's nuclear program is possible, but an atomic bomb has to be put out of Tehran's reach. Foreign Ministers from six major powers and Iran arrived in Switzerland for talks ahead of T...
However rich you are, however secure and successful, the decision to have invasive surgery, cutting away your breasts and your ovaries must be an agonising one. The actor and UN ambassador Angelina Jolie has just announced that thats what shes done....
Anti-smoking groups in Indonesia have threatened to take legal action against the countrys social affairs minister for distributing free packets of cigarettes to members of indigenous tribe. As a goodwill gesture, she gave gifts including packets of...
The shortest verse in English translations of the New Testament is also one of the most perplexing. Jesus receives a message that Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, is ill in Bethany near Jerusalem. When Jesus eventually arrives, Lazarus has be...
French investigators say they've obtained usable sounds and voice recordings from one of the black boxes of the German aircraft that crashed in the Alps. But Remi Jouty, the director of the French Air Investigation Bureau, told reporters that it woul...
Investigators have described a scene of devastation where a German passenger plane crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. After flying over the area, the German Foreign Minister, Frank Steinmeier, spoke of a picture of horror. V...
The leaders of Greece and Germany have been stressing the need to work together,following talks in Berlin on how to do with the Greek debt crisis. 希腊和德国领导人强调在柏林会谈后有需要合作解决希腊的债务危机, The Greek...
The powerful Shia Muslim rebel group in Yemen known as the Houthis says it's mobilized its forces in order to step up the fight against Al-Qaeda and Islamic State. 也门强大的什叶派穆斯林胡塞叛军称已集结兵力准备加大对基地组织...