(BBC)Hurricane Maria has strengthened to a major category 3 hurricane, US forecasters say, as it heads towards the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. Maria is moving roughly along the same path as Irma, the hurricane that devastated the region this month. ...
(BBC)University police in the US state of Georgia have shot and killed an LGBT student activist, sparking an inquiry. Police encountered Scout Schultz, 21, outside a campus dormitory in Atlanta after a call about “a person with a knife and a gunR ...
(BBC)A judge has imposed heavy fines on three people in the western German city of Essen for ignoring a pensioner who collapsed next to bank cash machines. The 83-year-old man hit his head on the tiles and died a week later. A fourth person had also ignor ...
(BBC)The United Nations is not living up to its potential, US President Donald Trump has said in his first speech at the United Nations. “Focus more on people, less on bureaucracy,” he told a special meeting on reform which was held at UN head ...
(BBC)North Korea has warned that more sanctions and pressure will only make it accelerate its nuclear programme. In a strongly worded statement, Pyongyang called new UN sanctions “the most vicious, unethical and inhumane act of hostility”. Mea ...
(BBC)Catalan separatists and supporters of the region’s right to hold a referendum on independence from Spain have held a rally backing more than 700 mayors facing the threat of arrest. The mayors have been called in for questioning by prosecutors f ...
(BBC)Bangladesh has announced wide-ranging restrictions on the movement of more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled neighbouring Myanmar since August. They must stay in fixed places allocated to them by the government and not travel elsewhere, pol ...
(BBC)US credit report giant Equifax has replaced two senior staff after revealing last week it had suffered a massive data breach. Data on up to 143 million Americans, about 400,000 Britons and a number of Canadians may have been stolen by hackers between ...
(BBC)North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to reach the country’s nuclear goals, according to state media. The aim was to establish “equilibrium” of military force with the US, the KCNA news agency quoted him as saying. Mr Kim’ ...
(BBC)Police have arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of a terror offence in connection with Friday’s attack on a London Tube train. Armed police are searching a house in Sunbury, Surrey, where residents close to the address are being evacuated. ...