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119 more people have been rescued in Nepal following the deadly flash floods, according to the country’s armed forces. It comes nearly a week after the disaster that hit both Nepal and neighbouring Tibet. The number of people known to have died in the disaster has passed 1,000, with more than 3,900 missing. More than 600 of those missing are workers who are…

The BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet reports from the Pakistani border, as refugees are sent back to Afghanistan. Six million Afghan nationals – some of whom have never set foot in their ancestral homeland – have been deported by Pakistan and Iran since 2023. They now face an uncertain future under the Taliban government. Also in the Glob…

US President Donald Trump said the United States has carried out a new wave of strikes on Iran, in response to attempted Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and against US service personnel stationed in the Middle East. Ahead of the strikes, the Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had said his country was willing to return to the conditions of the Memor…

After standing down as UK Prime Minister earlier this summer, Keir Starmer has decided to announce his resignation as MP for Holborn and St Pancras. It comes on Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first day addressing MPs in the House of Commons. Was the timing deliberate, or coincidental? Prime Minister Burnham has returned to the House of Commons after Summer R…

Former gang boss Duane "Keffe D" Davis has been found guilty of orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur - the first conviction in a cold case that has intrigued hip-hop fans for nearly 30 years. The jury found him guilty of one count of murder with a deadly weapon for the rap superstar's death in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996. In thi…

Summer 2026 was the UK's hottest on record, according to provisional data from the Met Office. Figures for the months of June, July and August show that the average mean temperature - which includes day and overnight temperatures - was 16.5C, the warmest on record in a dataset going back to 1884. The highest temperature recorded this summer was 38.1C (100.6…

The death toll in Nepal from devastating floods on the border with Tibet has crossed 1,000, according to the country's disaster agency. More than 3,900 people remain missing - of whom more than 600 are workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of mud-filled tunnels at hydropower sites along Trishuli River. Engineers have been pumping air into the tun…