Seoul CNN  —  “Women and dried pollock need to be beaten every three days for better taste” – so goes an old saying that was common in South Korea in the 1960s when Choi Mal-ja was growing up in a small city in the country’s southeast. Back then, male violence against women was widely accepted.

Yasmine Shahine BBC Arabic BBC Rifaat Radwan filmed the incident in which he and 14 other emergency workers were shot dead by Israeli troops “My heart and soul died when Rifaat was killed,” says Hajjah Umm Mohammed, the mother of a Palestinian paramedic who was one of 15 emergency workers killed by Israeli troops in

Sakshi Venkatraman and Imogen James BBC News, Washington DC BBC Jorge Prudencio says the price of his Colombian-imported coffee is rising The price for a cup of coffee in the US is going up as tariffs put the squeeze on local café and bakery owners. Some US businesses say the queues for a morning latte

Paul Njie BBC News, Libreville Getty Images Gen Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema led the republican guard before overthrowing the man he was supposed to protect, Ali Bongo Every day, 40-year-old Landry Obame-Mezui drives a taxi in Gabon’s capital Libreville. But it’s not just any taxi. It’s a sparkling, brand-new white car with the inscription “Taxi

Paul Kirby Europe digital editor EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Imamoglu supporters gathered outside the jail complex at Silivri Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who’s Turkey’s biggest rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has appeared in court for the first time since he was arrested last month and placed in a high-security jail. Imamoglu is being held on corruption and

Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent Reuters European defence ministers pledged air defences, missiles and other gear Ukraine’s European allies have pledged €21bn ($24bn; £18bn) in a new tranche of military support for Kyiv in what they described as “a critical year” for the war. More than half of this – €11bn in aid over four years

“Pretty diabolical” – The BBC speaks to people in Sydney about Australia’s housing crisis Buying or renting a home has become unaffordable for the average Australian, driven by a perfect storm of astronomical house prices, relentless rental increases and a lack of social housing. With less than a month until the federal election, housing remains

Laneway Festival was one of the 2024/5 summer events which drew first-time audience members (photo by Charlie Hardy). AUSTRALASIA by Christie Eliezer AUSTRALIA Record Set For Summer Attendances A report from the TEG-owned ticket agency Ticketek showed 2 million Australians bought 6 million tickets to live events through the 2024/5 summer –  the highest sales

EXCLUSIVE: As a South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, his lawyer argues that the case is a matter of “appropriate punishment” rather than guilt as he seeks to stop his client’s execution. Mikal Mahdi, 42, is set to be executed on Friday at 6 p.m. at

A visit from Prince Harry to Ukraine this week brought a soft power sheen to Europe’s latest pledge of military aid to Kyiv, even as U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff prepared to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. At a meeting in Brussels, Ukraine’s NATO allies pledged an additional $23 billion in financial assistance to