World

Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has reacted to President Trump’s comments about her and three other congresswomen – in which he told them to ‘go back’ to ‘the totally broken and crime infested placed from which they came.’ Speaking at a town hall event in her own New York district, she said the remarks endangered millions […]

The minutes before landing were tense, as fuel ran low and connections frequently dropped out between the lunar module, Eagle, and mission control. Relive the tense moments as Neil Armstrong manually piloted Eagle towards the surface of the Moon. Join us on Saturday 20 July at 18:45 GMT (19:45 BST) as we count down the

Ritaj and Rital were born joined at the head. They’re reunited with the British doctors who saved their lives, by performing multiple complex surgeries eight years ago. The BBC has been given exclusive access to another set of twins, Safa and Marwa, who have just gone through a similar separation procedure at Great Ormond Street

Democratic congresswomen targeted by President Trump’s tweets have condemned them in an interview with CBS’s This Morning show. Rashida Tlaib called the US president “the biggest bully [she’s] ever had to deal with”. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined her colleague in condemning Republicans for not standing up to Mr Trump over his social media posts. The interview

The wife of a Norwegian pensioner convicted of espionage in Russia has told the BBC that she blames her country’s intelligence service for putting a civilian at risk – and called on Norway’s government to do everything in its power to bring him home. Frode Berg admitted to delivering ‘envelopes’ to a Russian source on

More than 30 orphaned or rescued chimpanzees from West and Central Africa have been given a new home at a sanctuary in Nanyuki in central Kenya. Timothy Mwangi is one of the animal carers at Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, which provides shelter to the animals, including chimpanzees who have been injured in the illegal wildlife trade.

Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and has imposed ever tightening sanctions on the country in a move designed to force Tehran to curtail their nuclear ambitions. The sanctions have led to increased prices and the local currency has fallen significantly. Iranians are being dragged into poverty and the poorest are

At 28-years-old, Joann Morgan was the only woman in the control room for the launch of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, 50 years ago. Morgan was the instrumentation controller – responsible for 21 channels of communications and the health and welfare of all the monitoring systems for the Saturn 5 rocket that carried

The BBC has been given rare access in Iran at a key time. Iranians remain angry that Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal in 2018 and has imposed crushing sanctions on the country. BBC Middle East correspondent Martin Patience, along with Cameraman Nik Millard and Producer Cara Swift were given a tour of

A group of men in Morocco have been exploring their femininity at night, paying tribute to the country’s female folk singers. They are challenging gender stereotypes through music and dance, with Kabareh Cheikhat. It comes as a survey carried out by the Arab Barometer for BBC News Arabic indicates that 65% of young Moroccan men