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BBC News - World

Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say -- Preliminary investigations by scientists have pointed to a collapsed glacier as the cause, highlighting the issue of rapidly melting Himalayan ice.

11 hours ago

Board of Peace's Gaza envoy criticises Israeli strikes and Hamas actions -- Nickolay Mladenov warns that a collapse of last October's ceasefire would be "a point of no return" for the region.

4 hours ago

LIVE - 'Everything is under mud': Nepal death toll rises to 389 amid fears of new flood - The US Geological Survey says "glacial collapse" triggered the wall of water and mud that tore through Nepal and Tibet. Hundreds of people are still missing.

2 hours ago

Norwegians lay flowers at palace as King Harald's condition worsens -- The 89-year-old's condition is described as "extremely serious" and members of his family have visited him in hospital.

3 hours ago

What we know about deadly Nepal-Tibet floods -- Hundreds have died in flooding and landslides on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

10 hours ago

Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Mladić dies aged 84 -- He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the ex-Yugoslavia in 1992-95.

5 hours ago

Jury considering verdicts for US mother accused of murdering her three children - Lindsay Clancy does not dispute killing her three children, but her lawyers say she had postpartum psychosis at the time.

56 minutes ago

Two killed in 'domestic violence incident' at school near Berlin -- Police have arrested a 19-year-old male suspect after an incident in which two people were killed near the German capital.

2 hours ago

Man who attacked nun on CCTV in Jerusalem acquitted on grounds of mental health -- A Jerusalem court said the Jewish attacker was having a psychotic episode when he assaulted the nun, in an incident which caused outrage.

7 hours ago

Thieves steal Bronze Age artifacts from Spanish museum in four-minute heist -- The Treasure of Villena is a unique trove of almost ten kilos of gold, bowls, bottles and bracelets dating back to the Bronze Age.

6 hours ago

Optimus Prime and Eeyore voice actor Peter Cullen dies -- Cullen voiced the heroic Optimus Prime in the Transformers TV series and then the Hollywood films.

3 hours ago

'Silence is complicity' - top footballer hits out over Cameroon femicides -- The killing of at least eight women in a week has sparked outrage in Cameroon.

6 hours ago

Allan Little: I met dangerously fanatical Mladić early in Bosnian war -- BBC special correspondent Allan Little met the "Butcher of Bosnia" in the early months of the Bosnian war.

56 minutes ago

'The flood took everything': Nepal survivors describe horror of loved ones being swept away -- One woman says her father, mother, sister and sister's children were carried away before her eyes.

12 hours ago

What we should make of CIA boss's secret trip to Moscow -- There is nothing routine about John Ratcliffe making a secret, 10,000-mile return dash to Moscow, writes Frank Gardner.

2 hours ago

Key moments in trial of Lindsay Clancy, the mother accused of murdering her three children -- A jury is deliberating in the trial of the Massachusetts mother charged with murdering her three small children

56 minutes ago

Tracing the deadly path of the Nepal-Tibet flash flood -- BBC Verify traces the path of the destructive Nepal-Tibet flash flood using verified video.

2 hours ago

What caused the Nepal-Tibet flash floods? -- At least 270 people have died in the massive flash floods, while more than 800 others are missing.

8 hours ago

People pulled from mud in Nepal after deadly flash floods -- At least 160 people have been killed along the Nepal-Tibet border as rescuers struggle to reach the disaster zone.

13 hours ago

Video shows scale of flash flood hitting Nepal-Tibet border -- This video has been edited by the BBC with white flashes, due to the distressing content.

1 day ago

Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America -- Trump's order comes after the trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed late last week.

56 minutes ago

France relaxes strict cheese-making rules after prolonged drought -- Makers of some of France's most famous cheeses get waivers on where herds graze due to the lack of grass.

56 minutes ago

Mali music star Salif Keïta cancels South African concerts over 'xenophobic violence' -- He says his decision is "a rejection of hate" rather than a rejection of South Africans.

56 minutes ago

Jury deliberating in trial of Lindsay Clancy, US woman accused of killing her children -- Prosecutors argued Clancy made a calculated decision to murder the children, while the defence argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

1 hour ago