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Boris Johnson has launched an attack on Labour during a hustings in Exeter. In a speech during his campaign to become the new prime minister, he described Jeremy Corbyn as “the leader of a cabal of superannuated Marxists”. It’s not the first time Corbyn has been associated with Marxism. But what does it actually mean […]

Demolition experts have blown up what remains of the Morandi bridge in the Italian city of Genoa nearly a year after the structure collapsed. Thousands of people were evacuated ahead of explosions to bring down two large towers consisting of about 4,500 tonnes of concrete and steel. Forty-three people were killed when part of the

Three years ago, tragedy struck for a group of children out on boats at Lake Syamozero in northern Russia’s Karelia region. Fourteen people, mostly children, died when their boats capsized in a storm. The children had been sent on an activity holiday organised by Moscow’s local government for children from low-income families. But evidence suggests

The use of military force is still an option to end the political crisis in Venezuela if President Nicolás Maduro continues killing protesters, the opposition leader Juan Guaidó says. The president of the National Assembly told the BBC’s James Menendez that another option would be a military transition as long as it lead to free

Two-thirds of children forced into online sex abuse videos in the Philippines are exploited by their own parent or family member, it is claimed. Much of the trade is driven by people in the West paying adults to make the films – many of whom say they need the money to survive. Watch the Victoria

Former Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko caught the world’s attention as a prisoner of Russia. Feted back home as a Ukrainian war hero, she was made an MP. The story of what has happened to her since – including being accused of plotting to blow up Kiev’s parliament – is as strange as the recent course

South Korea’s glamorous nightclub scene has been hit by allegations of drugging and rape. The BBC has been told that elite clients were prepared to pay tens of thousands of dollars to have women who were enjoying a night out drugged and taken to a nearby hotel room. The Korean National Police Agency has set

Five zoo-born eastern black rhinos have been transported from Europe to Africa. The three females and two male rhinos, aged between two and nine years old, came from Flamingo Land in Yorkshire, the Czech Republic’s Dvur Kralove safari park and Ree Park Safari in Denmark. The 6,000km (3,700 miles) journey began at Dvur Kralove –

Polo is widely seen as a men-only-game in northern Nigeria, but one woman is trying to change the story. Aisha Ahmad Suleiman, a polo player from Kaduna State, says being a Muslim woman, she faced many challenges when she first started to play the game. In this BBC Africa One Minute Story, Aisha says she

A passenger train derailed on a bridge in north-east Bangladesh on Sunday evening, killing at least five people and injuring more than 100. Six carriages of the passenger train derailed on a bridge at Baramchal in Moulvibazar, around 140 miles from the Capital, Dhaka. All train services between Sylhet and other districts were suspended after