Month: September 2025

Thousands have been evacuated in the Philippines as the nation braces for a super typhoon that has been described by regional authorities as potentially “catastrophic”. Super typhoon Ragasa, packing 230km/h (143mph) wind gusts, is forecast to make landfall over sparsely populated northern islands on Monday, before barrelling west towards southern China. Ragasa brings a “high […]

Robin Levinson-King and Sarah SmithNorth America editor in Arizona Watch: Key moments from Charlie Kirk’s memorial service US President Donald Trump hailed the conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a “great American hero” and “martyr” during a speech to tens of thousands of mourners at a memorial service in Arizona. Trump was the headline speaker at […]

Australian officials have promised telecommunications giant Optus will face “significant consequences” over a systems outage linked to multiple deaths. The incident last week left hundreds of people across more than half of the country unable to call emergency services for 13 hours. Optus – one of the country’s two major providers – says at least […]

Tens of thousands of Americans gathered at State Farm Stadium in Arizona to attend the memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The event was expected to draw over 100,000 attendees and was held under heightened security measures comparable to those used during the annual Super Bowl game. The BBC spoke to attendees about the […]

Padraig BeltonBusiness reporter Alina Kalcheva Natalia Grishko’s balcony, top right, was badly damaged by the blast from a Russian missile With conflict continuing in Ukraine and the Middle East, a little-explored global industry has never been more in demand – the war risk insurance market. When a Russian missile damaged Natalia Grishko’s apartment in a […]

Tens of thousands of people gathered at State Farm Stadium for Charlie Kirk’s memorial in Glendale, Arizona. President Donald Trump, Vice-President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr all took the stage to pay tribute. Before Trump took the stage, Erika Kirk addressed the crowd and said she […]

Yogita LimayeSouth Asia and Afghanistan correspondent Aakriti Thapar/BBC Gusts of wind blew dust up off the ground as Ghulam Mohiddin and his wife Nazo walked towards the graveyard where all their children are buried. They showed us the graves of the three boys they lost in the past two years – one-year-old Rahmat, seven-month-old Koatan […]

Jean MackenzieSeoul correspondent Watch: South Korean president tells BBC he would accept a Trump-Kim deal to freeze NK’s nuclear programme South Korea’s president has said he would accept a deal between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un under which North Korea would agree to freeze production of its nuclear weapons for now, rather than get […]

Getty Images Trump called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political foes on Saturday President Donald Trump has called on the country’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Pam Bondi, to more aggressively investigate his political adversaries. In a social media post addressed directly to Bondi, he said: “We can’t delay any longer, […]

The United Kingdom now formally recognises a Palestinian state, the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said in a video statement on social media. Ahead of the announcement, Canada became the first G7 nation to make the same move, followed by Australia. Starmer said it keeps “alive the possibility of peace” and insists the UK […]