Joe Inwood & Tom Gerken BBC World correspondent & technology reporter Ian Aikman & Eve Webster BBC News EPA The Bayesian, pictured sailing near Palermo, in a photo released by manufactures Perini Navi A luxury superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, killing the tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch along with six others, was knocked

Nikhil Inamdar, BBC News, London & Archana Shukla, BBC News, Mumbai BBC Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir Last week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $1bn (£756m) bailout to Pakistan – a move that drew sharp disapproval from India as military hostilities between the nuclear-armed neighbours flared, before a

President Donald Trump met with Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharra, today in an effort to forge a new relationship with the country, the first time a U.S. president has met with its leader in decades. But what kind of relationship the U.S. will have with a person they once called an Al-Qaeda terrorist remains unclear.  “We’re living in a very unusual world where

Khanyisile Ngcobo BBC News, Johannesburg Ulrich Janse van Vuuren Ulrich Janse van Vuuren has made it his passion to share and showcase some of South Africa’s best features with his legion of social media followers. The 38-year-old white South African often takes snapshots capturing scenes such as a cold Johannesburg morning, the purple Jacaranda trees

FILE – Dozens of snakes can be seen slithering and curling in a rookery, or snake den, in Colorado. They are just a few of hundreds of snakes in the rookery.  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – An Arizona homeowner’s discovery of a rattlesnake exhibiting an unusual color pattern left some snake experts rather amazed. The western diamondback

Barbara Plett Usher BBC News Reuters Port Sudan, which was once considered a relatively safe city, has been hit by a series of drone attacks targeting key infrastructure Paramilitary fighters appear to have opened a new phase in Sudan’s civil war after being driven from the capital, in a move which some experts have described

Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Icelandic boyband VÆB were the first act to perform on the Eurovision stage this year Thirty-five seconds. That’s all the time you get to change the set at Eurovision. Thirty-five seconds to get one set of performers off the stage and put the next ones in the right place.

President Trump arrives in the Qatari capital Doha on Wednesday. Trump touched down at Hamad International Airport, with relations between the two governments in the spotlight over Qatar’s offer to Trump of a $400 million luxury aircraft to serve as a new Air Force One. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan

Reuters US President Donald Trump and Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at a signing ceremony in Doha on Wednesday In his eagerness to accept a plane from Qatar, Donald Trump has achieved a remarkable feat, uniting many partisans across America’s bitter political divide. The problem for the White House is that unity is

Getty Images Erik and Lyle were aged 18 and 21 when they killed their parents In 1989, brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez killed their parents by shooting them multiple times at close range at their mansion in Beverly Hills. They were found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder in 1996, and sentenced to

Reuters Several homes in the northern Jabalia area were reportedly destroyed in the overnight strikes At least 80 people have been killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza, hospitals and first responders say. The Indonesian hospital said 22 children and 15 women were among 50 people who died when several homes in the northern Jabalia area

Bloomberg/Getty Qatar Airways has agreed to buy up to 210 jets from American manufacturing giant Boeing, according to US President Donald Trump, who announced the $96bn order as part of his tour of the Middle East. The White House said the deal would support 154,000 jobs in the US each year of production and marked

Andres Kudacki/Getty Images Being an air traffic controller is such a mentally demanding job that it has a mandatory retirement age of 56. Now, imagine being the only person who shows up for work. One air traffic controller managed all the flights at Newark-Liberty International Airport for