image copyrightAFP image captionKelly Craft, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, is scheduled to arrive in Taipei on Wednesday A top US diplomat’s upcoming trip to Taiwan as Washington ends decades-old curbs on contacts with Taipei has again escalated Sino-American tensions. Kelly Craft, the US ambassador to the UN, is due to arrive in
Trump National hosted the 2017 US Women’s Open Trump National in Bedminster has been stripped of the US PGA Championship in 2022 as its organisers felt using the course as host would be “detrimental”. The PGA of America voted to terminate the agreement on Sunday. President Donald Trump has been accused by Democrats and some
India’s Mohammed Siraj alerted the umpires to further alleged abuse on day four Australian cricket’s governing body has apologised to India and is investigating claims that visiting players were subjected to racist abuse by spectators during the third Test. India made an official complaint after day three on Saturday that bowlers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed
image copyrightReuters image captionLocal fishermen retrieve suspected debris and hand it to search and rescue teams Indonesian authorities say they have found the location where they believe a Boeing 737 passenger plane crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from the country’s capital Jakarta on Saturday. The Sriwijaya Air jet was carrying 62 people when
By Reality Check teamBBC News image copyrightGetty Images India produces 60% of the world’s vaccines, but it’s also one of the countries with the largest number of coronavirus cases globally, second only to the US. It must not only provide for its own vaccine needs, but also meet its commitments to producing a share of
By Patience Atuhaire BBC News, Kampala image copyrightGetty Images Ugandans under the age of 35 – and that is more than three-quarters of the population – have only known one president. Yoweri Museveni, who came to power on the back of an armed uprising in 1986, has defied the political laws of gravity which have
By Fernando DuarteBBC World Service image copyrightUNHCR image captionInnocent Havyarimana lowered the prices of his products when the pandemic struck When Innocent Havyarimana started his soap-making business in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp in early 2015, he was trying to move on from the traumatic events that had made him flee his native Burundi a year
Benzema was not selected by France in their squad for the 2018 World Cup, which they won in Russia Karim Benzema will face trial for his alleged involvement in an attempted blackmail case linked to a sex tape featuring a former France team-mate. Real Madrid forward Benzema is accused of paying individuals to extort money
By The Visual Journalism Team BBC News image copyrightGetty Images The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden’s election victory. Lawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in
The Tokyo Olympics were originally scheduled for 24 July to 9 August 2020 but were postponed last March Tokyo 2020 organisers say they will be ready to host the Olympic Games – despite the city declaring a state of emergency over Covid-19. The rescheduled Games are set to take place between 23 July and 8
