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Thursday, 04 November 2021
Major coal users including Poland, Vietnam and Chile are committing to shift away from the fossil fuel, in pledges made at the COP26 climate summit, the UK government says.
Coal is the single biggest...
Thursday, 04 November 2021
A four-year-old girl missing for 18 days in a remote part of Western Australia has been found alive and well in a locked house, police have said.
Cleo Smith disappeared from her family's tent at a campsite...
Tuesday, 02 November 2021
More than 100 world leaders will promise to end and reverse deforestation by 2030, in the COP26 climate summit's first major deal.
Brazil - where stretches of the Amazon rainforest have been cut down...
Monday, 01 November 2021
Extreme weather events - including powerful heat waves and devastating floods - are now the new normal, says the World Meteorological Organisation.
The State of the Climate report for 2021 highlights...
Sunday, 31 October 2021
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has urged richer countries to share their vaccines with poorer ones, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
Mr Widodo said it "shouldn't be just a few countries...
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
National plans to cut carbon fall far short of what's needed to avert dangerous climate change, according to the UN Environment Programme.
Their Emissions Gap report says country pledges will...
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
One of the world's most criticised polluters, Australia, has promised it will achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
PM Scott Morrison made the long-delayed pledge after bargaining with resistant...
Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Heightened tensions with Taiwan have focused attention on China, with many wondering where President Xi Jinping sees his country on the world stage. Perhaps the past can provide some clues, writes Rana...
Saturday, 23 October 2021
President Joe Biden said the US would defend Taiwan if China attacked, in an apparent departure from a long-held policy.
"Yes, we have a commitment to do that," he said when asked during a townhall if...
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
North Korea has successfully tested a new submarine-launched ballistic missile, state media say, confirming earlier reports by South Korea.
North Korea's KCNA news agency said the missile had "lots of...
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
At least 26 people have been killed in floods in southern India after heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, cutting off towns and villages.
Five children are among the dead. There are fears the death...
Monday, 18 October 2021
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged on Sunday to criminalise prostitution in the country.
Speaking to supporters at the end of his Socialist Party's three-day congress in Valencia, Mr Sanchez...
Thursday, 14 October 2021
The World Health Organization (WHO) says a new taskforce may be the last chance to find the origins of Covid-19.
It has nominated 26 experts to join the body, the Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins...
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
North Korea's leader has vowed to build an "invincible military" in the face of hostile policies from the United States, according to state media.
Kim Jong-un added that weapons development was for self-defence,...
Monday, 11 October 2021
The old habits of secrecy haven't left Kim Kuk-song.
It has taken weeks of discussions to get an interview with him, and he's still worried about who might be listening. He wears dark glasses for the...
Thursday, 07 October 2021
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a controversial new law in Texas that effectively bans women from having an abortion in the state.
US District Judge Robert Pitman granted a request by the Biden...
Wednesday, 06 October 2021
A former Facebook employee has told US lawmakers that the company's sites and apps "harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy".
Frances Haugen, a 37-year-old former product manager turned...
Tuesday, 05 October 2021
Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says.
The company says the cause was a faulty configuration change.
All...
Monday, 04 October 2021
The family of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, that has dominated the country's politics since independence, secretly owned a network of offshore companies for decades, according to a huge leak...
Friday, 01 October 2021
After years of controversy, Japan’s Princess Mako will marry her former classmate, a commoner, this month - thus giving up her royal status.
The Imperial Household Agency said the date had been...
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