Ukraine war: The Russian student under arrest for an Instagram story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64625127?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 5:11 PM
Olesya posted online about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Now, she can only leave home to go to court.
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BBC India offices searched by income tax officials
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-64634711?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 12:26 PM
The searches come weeks after a documentary in the UK looked at PM Modi's role in 2002 riots.
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Chinese balloon sensors recovered from ocean, says US
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64633705?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 7:11 PM
Crews found "significant debris" from the suspected spy craft off the South Carolina coast, say the US military.
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Republican Nikki Haley enters 2024 presidential race in challenge to Trump
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64636641?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 2:48 PM
The ex-UN ambassador is the first Republican to challenge Donald Trump for the presidency.
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Turkish earthquake: They came to be healed, but died in the rubble
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64641010?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 7:08 PM
The hospital building, which had 300 people inside, failed a 2012 earthquake resistance test.
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Turkey-Syria earthquake: Satellite images show Jindayris devastation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64643790?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 8:24 PM
More than 500 bodies have been pulled from the rubble of 200 destroyed buildings in Jindayris.
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Pierre Palmade: French comic faces charges over drug-fuelled crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64642641?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 6:58 PM
Pierre Palmade faces charges after a head-on collision led to a woman losing her unborn baby.
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Video released of captured NZ pilot by Papua separatists
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64639712?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 2:37 PM
Philip Mehrtens was kidnapped by Papuan separatists after his plane landed in the remote Nduga region.
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Sara Khadem: Top Iran chess player exiled for refusing headscarf
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64631354?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 5:31 AM
Sara Khadem, now living in Spain, supports protesters back home but faces arrest if she returns to Iran.
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Air India in record order for new planes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64639663?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 5:46 PM
The airline orders a total of 470 aircraft from Airbus and Boeing as it targets a major expansion.
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Israeli soldier jailed for assaulting Palestinian activist in Hebron
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64637908?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 12:28 PM
A US journalist filmed the soldier throwing Palestinian Issa Amro to the ground and kicking him.
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South African rapper AKA was assassinated - police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-64631713?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 3:43 PM
Police say the rapper was shot dead at close range in an apparent contract killing.
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Cyclone Gabrielle: New Zealand declares national state of emergency
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64630183?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 11:51 AM
A national state of emergency is declared after Cyclone Gabrielle hit the North Island.
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How has China reacted to the balloon saga?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-64633990?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 10:37 AM
From complaints to fevered speculation, responses from Chinese officials and netizens have shifted.
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Ukraine war: Migrants in Russia forced to fight in Putin's war
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64582985?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 5:58 AM
Recruiters are targeting Central Asian migrants in prisons and at work centres to join the war.
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Turkey earthquake: Little boy rescued after 105 hours in quake rubble
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64632874?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2023, 10:48 PM
Aras, aged five, lost his two siblings and his father when the quake hit Turkey's city of Kahramanmaras.
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Scammers profit from Turkey-Syria earthquake
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64599553?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 12:03 AM
BBC News investigates the tactics used by scammers to make money when natural disasters strike.
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Ismail Mashal: Family fears for outspoken professor in Taliban custody
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64623868?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 12:11 AM
Professor Ismail Mashal is a critic of the Taliban's restrictions on women's education.
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Nigeria's naira shortage: Anger and chaos outside banks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-64626127?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 12:23 AM
A plan to replace Nigeria's banknotes leads to a shortage of money weeks before general elections.
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Valentine's Day: How fake dates help Indians find love and intimacy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-64624991?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 12:13 AM
From dating surrogates to relationship coaches, Indians are turning to new ways to navigate love and desire.
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Turkey earthquake: Being buried alive with my newborn son
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64620357?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2023, 2:12 AM
Necla Camuz was trapped under rubble with her newborn son for almost four days - and then she heard dogs barking in the distance.
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Drone footage shows Turkey earthquake destruction - before and after
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64634793?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 10:14 AM
Drone footage shows the immense scale of the damage in Hatay, in the south of the country.
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Michigan State University: People flee as police run towards building
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64636504?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 14, 2023, 10:05 AM
At least three people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at Michigan State University.
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'I named a cockroach after my ex for Valentine's Day'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64377368?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2023, 11:39 PM
A Texas zoo allows naming the critters after former lovers before they are fed to other animals.
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No aliens insists White House before ET joke about shot down objects
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-64630505?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2023, 7:15 PM
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reassures the US population over shot-down objects.
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The China-US mind-boggling balloon mystery in 61 seconds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-64629499?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2023, 4:35 PM
The BBC's security correspondent explains why the US is downing multiple unidentified flying objects.
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Turkey earthquake: Nurses rush to protect baby incubators as quake strikes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64630282?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2023, 4:14 PM
CCTV from inside a hospital in Gaziantep, Turkey shows the neonatal unit in the minutes after the deadly earthquake.
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