'France faces most severe crisis since the Second World War'
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, has promised to commit every available resource to contain the flames from the raging wildfires. In Spain, the prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has warned of diffi...
28 Jul 26min
Wildfires in France and Spain force mass evacuations
Firefighters have warned they are still not in control of a major wildfire near Bordeaux and fears grow that the situation in France and Spain will worsen as a fresh heatwave arrives. More than 300,00...
27 Jul 28min
German police shoot dead Berlin Pride attack suspect
German police have shot dead the man accused of carrying out a deadly attack at a Pride event in Berlin. Abdul Ballout's death brings a huge manhunt to an end. Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese ...
27 Jul 28min
The Global Story: British CPAC - Can MAGA politics be exported to the UK?
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is a mainstay of the US political calendar, a barometer of the Republican party mood, and has become, in recent years, a pro-Trump event, with a big...
26 Jul 28min
A vehicle ploughs into a gay pride event in Germany
A vehicle has ploughed into a crowd at a gay pride event in central Berlin, killing one person. At least sixteen others were wounded, some with life-threatening injuries. A search is under way for the...
26 Jul 31min
The Happy Pod: My best friend turned out to be my brother
Dave and Andrea met by chance at work. They got on so well they could complete each other's sentences - which made sense when they discovered they were actually siblings. Dave was Andrea's biological ...
25 Jul 26min
ICC chief prosecutor dismissed over sexual misconduct claims
Member states of the International Criminal Court have voted to remove its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, by an overwhelming majority. The court's oversight body concluded in June that he had committed...
25 Jul 30min
First human trial of experimental Ebola vaccine
Oxford University conducts the first human trial of an Ebola vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain, which has already killed more than 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. If successful, immu...
24 Jul 24min
