For some mainlanders, Hong Kong's independent bookstores are a window into a different, freer world. Three activists were accused of inciting others to subvert state power under the China-introduced ...

The overloaded boat was taking people, including many children, to farms to harvest rice. An eagerly anticipated gathering of women will not be taking place following recent aerial strikes. Officials ...

Donald Trump's Middle East envoy and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is seeking to gain Israeli backing for the US-backed Gaza peace plan. Iran claims they have been held since Qatar downed two fighter ...

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E-commerce, rising income levels and the world's largest youth population are fuelling India's beauty boom. Twisha Sharma, a model and actor, had been married for just five months when she was found ...

At least 169 people are dead and a state of emergency has been declared after Colombia was hit by one of its largest earthquakes in years. Orla Guerin speaks to a gang leader about violence, drugs and ...

Ghana has become Africa's leading voice in telling the world that Western nations owe reparations Zimbabwean novelist Sue Nyathi self-funded her debut novel and now asks who can afford to write at all ...

Bangladesh thrash Australia by nine wickets on the fourth day of the series-opener in Darwin to complete one of Test cricket's greatest upsets. New South Wales, where the attack took place, will offer ...

The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford writes. Young guns for hire - the teenage hitmen recruited to ...

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Seven World Central Kitchen workers were killed in the Israeli strike on their convoy in 2024. The body of Lily Hooper, 18, has been airlifted from a national park in the Southern Highlands following ...