US and Iranian forces have been searching for a missing American crew member after a US warplane was shot down.Iran claimed to have shot down two US warplanes, one F-15 flying over the southwest of the country and a...
How Bombay went from a fort city to a bustling metropolisDAGThe city's name was officially changed from Bombay to Mumbai in the mid-1990s. Authorities said that was to shed its colonial legacy, making the older name politically charged for...
6 hours agoNadine YousifSenior Canada reporter, Montreal, QuebecBBCThe Canadian government has said it intends to go ahead fully with the buy-back scheme despite criticism around their policy. More than 67,000 firearms have been voluntarily declared by more than 37,000...
33 minutes agoBernd Debusmann Jrat the White House Getty ImagesThe US Air Force's pararescue teamsWhile each US military branch has their own limited CSAR capabilities, the US Air Force has the primary responsibility for finding and rescuing military personnel.This...
Adaobi Tricia NwaubaniNow in her 80s, Lami Ezekiel remembers construction crews arriving in her ancestral home in Maitama, as it was destroyed to build Nigeria's capital, Abuja."We just saw big trucks and construction vehicles destroying our farms," she recalls.This...
25 minutes agoAdela SulimanandAleks PhillipsReutersVenezuela had been providing Cuba with oil under highly preferential terms, something the US stopped while threatening tariffs on products from nations found to be sending oil to the Caribbean island - exacerbating an existing...
Nasa/Reid WisemanAfter the burn was completed, the crew were "glued to the windows" taking pictures, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen told mission control in Houston."We are getting a beautiful view of the dark side of the Earth, lit by the...
WirestockTwo floors of the Palazzo Pitti normally house the "Medici Treasure", so-called because the powerful Renaissance banking family spent their summers there, and Corriere claimed the hack had led to parts of the palace being closed since 3 February...
31 minutes agoTom Bateman,State department correspondentandImogen JamesGetty ImagesIn a statement, the White House accused the Iranian authorities of "maiming and killing Americans, acting as the number one state sponsor of terror, and brutally murdering its own people for merely...
Myanmar's coup leader who set off a brutal civil war becomes president3 hours agoJonathan HeadSouth East Asia correspondent, Nay Pyi Taw and Yangon, Myanmar
