Month: August 2026

Independent ballistic experts have told the BBC that injuries sustained by some Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) supporters during last week’s protest in the Indian capital were caused by pellet guns. Warning: This story contains images some might find distressing Central Delhi witnessed overwhelming violence on 20 July when tens of thousands of protesters tried to […]

Houghton and Vartarian had just been assigned to Elgin’s new cold case unit in 2024 when the chief informed them that the job would also involve podcasting. “We’re already starting this new unit,” Houghton recalls. “Why are we adding something else new on top of that?” Houghton and his partner begrudgingly began figuring out how […]

There was desperation in the voice of the young Ethiopian man when he managed to get through to the BBC from a phone in his prison cell on death row in Saudi Arabia. Habtom, whose name – like the other prisoner featured in this article – has been changed to protect his identity, has been […]