National / International News

VIDEO: Tornado clean up begins in Oklahoma

BBC - 39 min 56 sec ago
Police cordons have been removed for the first time since the Tornado in Oklahoma allowing families to return to their homes and survey the damage.

Japan man climbs Everest at 80

BBC - 58 min 51 sec ago
An 80-year old Japanese man has reached the summit of Mount Everest, his team say, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest peak.

PM flies back after Woolwich attack

BBC - 1 hour 5 min ago
David Cameron cuts short a foreign trip and returns to London to lead the government response to the suspected terror attack near Woolwich Barrracks.

Chimney dismantled to rescue boy, 14

BBC - 1 hour 19 min ago
Firefighters in North Lanarkshire dismantle a 20ft chimney stack, brick by brick, to rescue a boy, 14, who got wedged inside.

UN chief begins DR Congo visit

BBC - 1 hour 37 min ago
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon begins a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo as fighting continues near the eastern city of Goma.

Cave paintings uncovered in Mexico

BBC - 1 hour 52 min ago
Archaeologists in Mexico find 4,926 cave paintings in red, yellow, black and white in the north-eastern region of Burgos.

Refugees 'facing rising dangers'

BBC - 2 hours 51 sec ago
Amnesty International says the world has become an increasingly dangerous place for refugees and migrants in its annual report.

Edward VIII was bugged, files show

BBC - 2 hours 8 min ago
King Edward VIII was bugged by the government at the height of the 1936 abdication crisis, files released by the National Archives show.

How the men from the ministry saved England's heritage

BBC - 2 hours 24 min ago
The story of how historic UK sites were saved for wider public viewing

Ford to shut Australian production

BBC - 2 hours 33 min ago
Ford Motor says it will shut all its Australian manufacturing plants by October 2016, after more than 85 years making cars in the country.

Why has the UK gone up in people's estimations?

BBC - 3 hours 17 min ago
Why has the UK risen in global public affections in the past year?

Allies planned D-day assassinations

BBC - 3 hours 28 min ago
Wartime archives reveal the secret plans to kill Rommel

Churchill and Stalin's 'merry' night

BBC - 3 hours 38 min ago
Wartime talks between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin went slowly until a drinking session lasting until 3am, newly released files reveal.

US reveals four citizen drone deaths

BBC - 3 hours 40 min ago
US Attorney General Eric Holder confirms four American citizens have been killed in US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan since 2011.

In pictures: Masseurs of Mumbai

BBC - 4 hours 2 min ago
The lives of the male masseurs of Mumbai

GPs 'will not shore up unsafe NHS'

BBC - 4 hours 4 min ago
Family doctors are not prepared to shore up an emergency health care system left unsafe by "political meddling", a GP leader is to warn in a speech.

US 'faith healers' 'killed' own baby

BBC - 4 hours 26 min ago
A US couple who reject medicine in favour of faith healing are charged with murder in their infant son's death, four years after another son's death.

Community nursing service under fire

BBC - 4 hours 26 min ago
Health unions say the state of NHS services for people who can't get to a GP in many parts of England is "lamentable".

In pictures: Kabul kids on wheels

BBC - 4 hours 33 min ago
Why Afghan children are learning the art of skateboarding

Tuition fee 'could be cut to £6,000'

BBC - 4 hours 34 min ago
Tuition fees in England could be limited to £6,000 per year and remain cost-neutral to universities and the Treasury, research suggests.
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