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Hundreds of women took to the streets of Mexico City on Friday to demand protection from the police after a number of recent high-profile sexual assault cases involving officers. The initially peaceful rally ended with some protesters lighting a fire on the second floor of a police building and vandalising a bus station. The protests […]

A Russian passenger plane has made an emergency landing in a cornfield near Moscow after striking a flock of birds. At least 74 people were injured in the incident, which saw the plane land with its engines off and landing gear retracted, emergency officials said. The Ural Airlines Airbus 321 was travelling to Simferopol in

Police are locked in a lengthy stand-off with a gunman, after at least six officers were injured during a shootout in Philadelphia. The shooter opened fire as officers served a drugs warrant at a home in the US city. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said they had made several attempts to contact the armed suspect

A team of German-Swiss researchers has found that microscopic particles of plastic are falling out of the sky with snow in the Arctic. Researchers collected snow samples from the Svalbard islands using a low-tech method – a dessert spoon and a flask. They found more than 10,000 of them per litre of melted snow. The

The BBC has obtained pictures from inside the Grace 1, which was seized in July. The ship was raided by Royal Marines off the coast of the British overseas territory, triggering a standoff with Tehran. Judges in Gibraltar are expected to decide within days whether to extend the detention of the supertanker. and on Tuesday

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg will spend two weeks travelling across the North Atlantic on a boat with no toilets, kitchens or privacy. Greta, 16, has stopped flying due to environmental reasons, but is due to attend a crucial climate change conference in New York. She told the BBC that travelling by boat sends a

A study published in the American Psychologist suggests there are more Good Samaritans out there than we might think. After studying hundreds of incidents captured on CCTV around the world, the researchers conclude the so-called bystander effect – that people will not usually help a stranger in distress – may not tell the whole story.

Hong Kong International Airport has suspended check-in for departing flights after protesters blocked access to the departure gates. This is the second day in a row that departing flights have been disrupted at the airport, which is one of the busiest in the world. The BBC’s South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, is at the

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has been pressed on whether she has enough autonomy from Beijing to withdraw a controversial extradition bill. Mass demonstrations have gone on for more than two months. They were sparked by the bill that would have allowed suspected criminals to be sent to mainland China for trial. It has now

Pescueza in Extremadura, western Spain, is adapting to provide for the needs of its older population through a non-profit project called Stay With Us. It aims to provide elderly residents, who make up two thirds of its population, with the services they need in the hope they can remain independent. Could this pensioner-friendly village be