President Trump declares national emergency over border wall - BBC News
President Trump has confirmed he will use emergency powers to build a wall on the US border with Mexico, saying "walls work".Building the wall was a key pledge of Mr Trump's campaign, but Democrats have described the emergency as a "gross abuse of…
- 14 hours ago 15 Feb 19, 5:20pm -
Andy Jordan: ‘I used to lie to sell on social media’ - BBC News
A former Made in Chelsea star says he used to lie on social media to sell products.Andy Jordan promoted things like teeth whitening and protein supplements - he was even offered money to have liposuction and document it on social media.He told Ca…
- 18 hours ago 15 Feb 19, 1:04pm -
Pulwama attack: India will 'completely isolate' Pakistan - BBC News
India has said it will ensure the "complete isolation" of Pakistan after a suicide bomber killed 46 soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir.Federal Minister Arun Jaitley said India would take "all possible diplomatic steps" to cut Pakistan off from…
- 19 hours ago 15 Feb 19, 11:46am -
Nigerian migrants: Why are numbers to Europe dropping? - BBC News
From a peak in 2016, the number of Nigerians successfully reaching Italy across the Mediterranean has dropped significantly. Many are them are being repatriated to Nigeria or held in detention centres in Libya. Reality Check investigates these changi…
- 20 hours ago 15 Feb 19, 11:04am -
Toxic alcohol kills dozens in India - BBC News
At least 74 people have died after consuming toxic alcohol in northern India, triggering a crackdown on bootleggers by police.The BBC spoke to a woman who lost five members of her family, including her husband, after the illegal alcohol was served…
- 21 hours ago 15 Feb 19, 9:47am -
'Trump will declare a national emergency' - BBC News
Top Democrats react after Republican Senator Mitch McConnell says President Trump will declare an emergency on the border.Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUogUS President Donald Trump is to invoke rare national emergency powers to secure f…
- 23 hours ago 15 Feb 19, 7:54am -
The moment a journalist found British IS schoolgirl in Syria - BBC News
A journalist has described how he recognised the London accent of a veiled young woman in a Syrian refugee camp and realised who she was."I said 'you're a London girl aren't you?' She said 'I'm a Bethnal Green girl'... and then I knew."Anthony Lo…
- 2 days ago 14 Feb 19, 5:14pm -
The village built from missiles - BBC News
Residents of Qezelabad in Afghanistan have lived for years with unexploded weapons built into their walls and holding up their ceilings.After Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan 30 years ago, following a decade-long war, the villagers could not…
- 2 days ago 14 Feb 19, 1:56pm -
Woman and duvet tie the knot - BBC News
A woman and her duvet have got hitched after an "intimate and reliable" relationship.Pascale Sellick "married" her duvet in a ceremony attended by more than 100 people, all dressed in their pyjamas.Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
- 2 days ago 14 Feb 19, 12:09pm -
Inside the illegal world of organised dogfighting - BBC News
A BBC investigation into the dark world of organised dogfighting discovered an illegal trade of fighting dogs stretching from Eastern Europe to Wales.The BBC secretly filmed and then confronted a Bulgarian man who trades fighting dogs.Please sub…
- 2 days ago 14 Feb 19, 10:51am -
El Chapo: Five things to know - BBC News
From incredible escapes to bribe allegations, smuggling drugs in plastic bananas to spying on his wife and mistresses, here are five astonishing things about El Chapo.The Mexican drug kingpin has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug traff…
- 3 days ago 13 Feb 19, 4:32pm -
Mothers' fury: The cost of challenging Putin - BBC News
Women in Russia have taken to the streets in support of the political activist and single mother Anastasia Shevchenko, whose daughter died in January while she was under house arrest.She is the first person to face criminal prosecution under a law…
- 3 days ago 13 Feb 19, 12:11pm -
El Chapo trial: Lawyers react to guilty verdict - BBC News
Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug trafficking trial at a federal court in New York.At a news conference outside the court, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Richard Do…
- 3 days ago 13 Feb 19, 10:58am -
Venezuela crisis: Maduro condemns 'extremist' Trump - BBC News
Venezuela's embattled President Nicolás Maduro has called Donald Trump's government a "gang of extremists" and blamed the US for his country's crisis.In an interview with the BBC, Mr Maduro said he would not allow humanitarian aid into Venezuela a…
- 4 days ago 12 Feb 19, 3:42pm -
Corbyn: PM 'playing chicken with people's livelihoods' - BBC News
Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn says the "country facing biggest crisis in a generation" and Ms May is "recklessly running down the clock".The prime minister has "more excuses and more delays", he adds.The Labour leader asks what progress Mrs May…
- 4 days ago 12 Feb 19, 1:16pm -
Theresa May promises meaningful vote after more talks with EU - BBC News
Theresa May has promised MPs a final, decisive vote on her Brexit deal - but not until she has secured changes to the Irish backstop clause.Speaking in the Commons, the PM said she had a "mandate" to seek changes to the backstop as MPs had voted for…
- 4 days ago 12 Feb 19, 1:15pm -
Invasion of the polar bears - BBC News
A remote Russian region has declared a state of emergency over the appearance of dozens of polar bears in several towns and villages in the Arctic.Footage from the Novaya Zemlya archipelago shows the animals roaming through building and exploring p…
- 4 days ago 12 Feb 19, 12:19pm -
Trump supporter shoves BBC cameraman - BBC News
A camera is almost knocked to the ground to the ground while filming at Trump's "Finish the Wall" rally in El Paso, Texas.Security staff later removed the crowd member who attacked a BBC cameraman and his equipment.The incident came after the US…
- 4 days ago 12 Feb 19, 11:12am -