Australia election: Anthony Albanese signals climate policy change
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61539426?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 22, 2022, 6:55 AM
Anthony Albanese vows to take the nation in a new direction, creating a renewable energy superpower.
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Zelensky: Only diplomacy can end Ukraine war
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61535353?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 7:42 PM
Only a negotiated solution will work, says Ukraine's president, as fighting intensifies in Donbas.
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Turkey: Huge rally for opposition's Canan Kaftancioglu
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61538980?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 9:43 PM
Canan Kaftancioglu has been convicted for insulting President Erdogan and the Turkish state.
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Covid in North Korea: No response to US vaccine offer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61533715?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 11:39 AM
On a visit to the region, President Joe Biden said the US could provide Covid-19 jabs "immediately".
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Spain heatwave brings record May temperatures
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61533719?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 5:01 PM
Temperatures in southern Spain reach 40C, up to 15 degrees higher than average for this time of year.
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Roger Angell: Baseball's reluctant poet laureate dies at 101
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61535345?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 1:23 PM
Although he disliked the accolade, Roger Angell was hailed for his innovative writing about the game.
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'Nobody takes my husband away from me, not even the war'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61538300?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 5:16 PM
Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska in rare interview with husband
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Governments should subsidise food and energy, says IMF boss
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61523624?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 22, 2022, 12:27 AM
Managing director Kristalina Georgieva says state subsidies can help with the cost of living.
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Monkeypox: 80 cases confirmed in 12 countries
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61532083?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 11:12 AM
Another 50 suspected cases of the rare disease are being investigated, the WHO says.
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Tornado in Germany injures 43 people, police say
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61533713?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 8:39 AM
Officials said the tornado cut a path of destruction during violent storms in the west of the country.
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Elon Musk denies sexual misconduct allegations
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61526898?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 20, 2022, 9:33 PM
A report claims Musk's company SpaceX paid an employee $250,000 to settle the claim against him.
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Spain lifts Covid ban on unvaccinated travellers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61535204?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 4:13 PM
UK holidaymakers without a jab will be allowed entry with a negative test or proof of recovery.
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Ukraine war: Against the thud of artillery, miners struggle on
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61523010?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 22, 2022, 5:10 AM
Miners in eastern Ukraine on how a difficult job has become even more dangerous.
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Afghanistan: Policing faces, bodies and beards on Kabul streets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61480248?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 11:03 PM
The BBC goes on patrol with the Taliban's "moral police", whose job it is to enforce hard-line rule.
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Australia election: How Scott Morrison ran out of miracles
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61503379?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 8:49 PM
Australia's defeated PM had a carefully cultivated image, but it failed him in the end.
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What beauty parlours reveal about Somali women
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61379487?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 11:09 PM
Somali women are usually expected to cover up and keep quiet - beauty parlours are a welcome relief.
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'My first court case: Prosecuting my father's killers'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-61507258?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 22, 2022, 12:03 AM
Shagufta Ahmed's first job was to get justice for her father, a lecturer murdered after he blew the whistle on a colleague.
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Monkeypox: Time to worry or one to ignore?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61524508?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 20, 2022, 11:24 PM
We are facing an unusual and unprecedented monkeypox outbreak but how worrying is it?
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Your pictures on the theme of 'on the water'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-61464176?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 11:15 PM
A selection of striking images from our readers around the world.
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Israeli police accused of violence towards shot Palestinian's family
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-61512663?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 20, 2022, 11:41 PM
Relatives say police used unjustifiable force on them inside the hospital treating the wounded man.
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Ukraine war: The volunteer drivers risking their lives to save others
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61511446?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 20, 2022, 11:46 PM
Drivers describe evacuating people from Russian-held areas under threat of mines and military attack.
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Nigeria's facial scars: The last generation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61229617?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 20, 2022, 11:19 PM
The marks were a way of identifying the lineage of people, but the practice has been outlawed.
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Aurangzeb: Why is a Mughal emperor who died 300 years ago being debated on social media?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-61519088?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 20, 2022, 11:43 PM
Aurangzeb ruled India 300 years ago - but a modern day dispute has seen hatred for him boil up again.
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North Korea: Fighting Covid with traditional medicine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/61508440?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 19, 2022, 11:24 PM
As Covid spreads in North Korea, state media urges the use of traditional medicine against the virus.
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Ukraine war: What might tip the balance?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61524175?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 20, 2022, 7:44 PM
The conflict has become a grinding and bloody affair, with both sides making gains and losses.
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Anthony Albanese vows government of unity, not division
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61538301?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 6:16 PM
Australia's new PM will be the country's first Labor leader in nearly a decade.
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Femicide: Keeping the memory of murdered women alive with maps
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-61500136?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 11:09 PM
Geraldina Guerra tracks cases of femicide in Ecuador and maps victims' lives online so people can learn about their life as well as their death.
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Dying of cold on the streets of São Paulo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-61533540?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 21, 2022, 6:53 AM
A deadly cold snap hits Latin America's biggest city as the number of homeless people grows.
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Non-binary in Iraq: ‘People get killed’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-61473241?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 20, 2022, 11:15 PM
For Iraq's non-binary community, life is difficult and dangerous.
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The desperate journey Cubans make by water to the US
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61516794?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
May 20, 2022, 11:10 PM
Elian Lopez hoped his life-changing journey would go smoothly - then the wind changed and sun went down.
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