A criminal court in Cairo has postponed the retrial of the prominent Egyptian journalist Lina Attalah, whose case has drawn international condemnation. Wednesday's opening hearing was adjourned until 18 November after defence lawyers representing the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada...
Businesses owned by Asian nationals are being closed across Eswatini as the government cracks down on foreign-owned enterprises. The crackdown follows Parliament's approval of the Citizen Economic Empowerment Act, which seeks to increase ownership and participation by emaSwati, as citizens...
Usman Khawaja is "100% accurate" in his recounting of the Australia ball-tampering scandal in 2018, says former team-mate David Warner. Ex-opener Warner also said Cricket Australia's investigation process following the incident was "rushed and botched". Australia were found to have used sa...
Rukayat Taiwo Suleimon only took up sambo this year, but the Nigerian has already secured her place in the history of the martial art. The sport shares strong roots with judo and wrestling, combining techniques such as hip and leg throws to take opponents to the mat, where they can be pinn...
Goalkeeper Jesus Owono will miss Equatorial Guinea's 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers this month following the death of Tenerife forward Jesus de Miguel. De Miguel, 30, died after suffering a serious injury in a collision with Owono during a Spanish second division match on Mo...
When he started running, Yiech Pur Biel had to compete barefoot. Far from home in a new country, it was the first step towards rebuilding his life as a refugee. "That's when I decided now it is time to depend on myself and also to start a new life with determination," he tells BBC Newsbeat...
In May 2024, Francis Mogambi arrived in the United States after winning the Diversity Visa lottery, a programme that gives people from around the world a chance to become permanent residents. Just over two years later, the Kenyan national found himself at the centre of a US investigation i...
Episode details World Service , 30 Oct 2026 , 26 mins Available for over a year Rosemary Nyirumbe became a nun when she was just in her mid-teens – and she felt her true vocation lay in rehabilitating children who had been through some of the worst trauma imaginable. So that’s what she did...
'If I tell you to run, run': BBC joins a Ukrainian drone unit as it protects a front-line city. Video, 00:01:36 Subsection Europe Published 15 hours ago...
Arno Yafunga Botay was six when his family fled the Democratic Republic of Congo after threats to his father's life culminated in an attack on their home which claimed the life of his seven-month-old sibling. Following a spell living in the Kakuma refugee camp in north-west Kenya, the fami...
Navi Pillay, a former International Criminal Court judge and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement announcing the award, the Nobel Committee praised Pillay's "efforts to promote peace and international law". BBC correspondent ...
He's a millionaire footballer but Nigeria and Coventry City striker Taiwo Awoniyi still hasn't forgotten the lesson his father taught him - education is important. Awoniyi has just graduated with a diploma designed to help him go on to become one of football's future leaders. The Premier L...