Image copyright Reuters Image caption A commuter ponders his options at Nice station France's rail network has been severely disrupted, as a wave of strikes against President Emmanuel Macron's labour reforms gets under way.The start of the strike has been dubbed "Black Tuesday", but the action will spread over three months, affecting two days in…
Image copyright Henry Vaughan Image caption Police found the 17-year-old girl with a bullet wound in Chalgrove Road, Tottenham Two shootings in London in the space of an hour have left a 17-year-old girl dead and a boy, 16, critically ill.The teenage girl was found with a bullet wound in Tottenham on Monday night and…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Girl group Red Velvet are among the South Korean bands that have headed to the North South Korea's K-pop stars are due to perform in North Korea for the first time in more than a decade as the two countries on the divided peninsula prepare for a rare summit.More…
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Most of the victims of the Winter Cherry mall fire were children The long-serving governor of the Russian region where a shopping mall fire left dozens of people dead has resigned.Aman Tuleyev said stepping aside from governing Kemerovo was "the right, conscious and only true decision" following the disaster. He…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Palestinians march to mark Land Day east of Gaza City Palestinians in Gaza have marched in their thousands to the Israel border at the start of a six-week-long protest.Palestinian officials say one farmer and one protester have been killed and dozens of demonstrators wounded by Israeli gunfire.The Israeli military reported…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Andrew Bosworth says his memo was intended to be provocative A Facebook executive's memo that claimed the "ugly truth" was that anything it did to grow was justified has been made public, embarrassing the company.The 2016 post said that this applied even if it meant people might die as…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionChinese TV showed footage of the two leaders with their wives After days of speculation, it has been confirmed that North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un did pay a visit to Beijing.The visit, confirmed by China and North Korea, was Mr Kim's first known foreign trip since taking…
Image copyright LNP Image caption John Worboys was jailed in 2009 for a string of sex attacks on women A decision by the Parole Board to release the rapist John Worboys has been quashed, as the Board's chairman Nick Hardwick resigns. The legal challenge by two victims was upheld by the High Court which said…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionStormy Daniels: 'I was threatened' An adult film actress has said she was threatened to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006.Stormy Daniels told CBS News' 60 Minutes programme that a man approached her in a Las Vegas car park in 2011.The…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionFirefighters tackle fatal shopping centre fire At least 64 people have died in a fire that engulfed a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo.Many of the victims are children. Ten people are still listed as missing.The blaze started on an upper floor…
