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BBC News - World
Copilot in deadly Florida jet crash identified in reports as 20-year-old -- In air traffic audio, a crew member can be heard shouting: "We are going to crash into the ground!"
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Legal challenge to Australia's social media ban to start in High Court -- A rights group will argue the world-leading policy robs under-16s of their right to free communication.3 hours ago
Man guilty of stealing cash from farm owned by South African president -- The case, part of the "Farmgate" scandal, has left President Cyril Ramaphosa mired in an impeachment saga.3 hours ago
Shop freezers in seven European countries hit by cyber-attack -- The temperature of freezers in several shops across Europe reportedly rose to as high as 50C.8 hours ago
Fighting returns to Kherson region after longest Ukraine war ceasefire -- Though unprecedented, the six-day truce has done little to alter the wider trajectory of a war that continues to grinds on.6 hours ago
LIVE - Supreme Court rejects Trump's California ballot demands as Democrats rally on midterms eve - The Trump administration had requested to sideline 20,000 ballots that it alleged may have been issued to non-American citizens in the state.9 minutes ago
Dutch police offer record €2m reward in hunt for drug lord -- Jos Leijdekkers has been found guilty in absentia of cocaine smuggling and is believed to be in Sierra Leone.6 hours ago
Trump to remove Rwanda and South Africa from US trade deal -- The move comes barely a week after Rwanda's defence ministry was hit with sanctions by the US Treasury.3 hours ago
Fake nuclear warning from hacked app sparks unease but not panic in Ukraine -- Many Ukrainians, who have faced years of Russian attacks, did not take the messages seriously and doubted their veracity.4 hours ago
Prosecutors indicate plan to retry Lindsay Clancy for deaths of her three children -- She has not denied killing Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months, but her defence argues she had postpartum psychosis.6 hours ago
Five arrested after South African farmer shot and tortured -- The attack on Donovan Marx, 50, comes as right-wing groups say there is a genocide of white people - a claim widely discredited.12 hours ago
What Florida jet audio and flight data tells us about its final moments -- A private jet crashed in Florida on Sunday, killing all nine people on board, according to US authorities.2 hours ago
'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack -- Dozens of supermarkets in seven European countries dumped huge quantities of food after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack.6 hours ago
What we know about the alert app hack in Ukraine and Russia -- Both Ukraine and Russia say their air raid alert apps were cyber-attacked - Joe Tidy explains what we know so far.9 hours ago
'I couldn't be silent': Iranian teen's mother seeking justice after daughter shot dead -- BBC Panorama follows grieving Samira who - after the killing of Sevda - faces up to the Tehran regime.8 hours ago
What are Americans voting for in this election? -- The BBC's Maddie Gerber explains what's on the ballot in the 2026 midterm elections in the United States.13 hours ago
If hackers can take control of a supermarket freezer, how vulnerable is other tech? Dozens of shops across European countries have been hit by a cyber-attack affecting their fridges. 5 hrs ago40 minutes ago
Democrats have high hopes for midterms - but are the polls right? -- Polls have been predicting a Democratic surge, but last-minute deciders and sampling issues mean there's no guarantee. -- US & Canada14 hours ago
US midterms campaign 'shattering' spending records to be most expensive ever -- The 2026 campaign is projected to cost nearly $12bn - BBC Verify looks into where all that money has come from.9 minutes ago
Iran killed her teenage daughter - now she is facing up to the regime -- Samira's 16-year-old daughter Sevda was shot dead as they took part in mass protests in January.11 hours ago
Trump targets midterm voters with final campaign speech at Reflecting Pool -- In his last public speech before crucial midterm elections, the president gave a detailed recounting of the Washington landmark's troubled renovation.9 minutes ago
Indonesia's toxic haze is giving its neighbours a political headache -- Governments in Singapore and Malaysia are split between anxious citizens and an irascible neighbour.9 minutes ago
Russian bombing kills 26 people at Ukraine aid centre, Kyiv says -- Officials say at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit a southern Ukrainian village in what the president called an "utterly horrific" attack.2 hours ago
Three years before crash, young co-pilot spoke of earning pilot licence -- US media have reported that one of the victims was the plane's 20-year-old copilot.3 hours ago
Prosecutors hint at retrial for Lindsay Clancy on murder charges -- Judge William Sullivan said if the case is headed to a retrial, that could happen as soon as March 2027.3 hours ago