Getty Images Air strikes resumed between the US and Iran over the weekend as each side claimed to have hit military targets near the Strait of Hormuz.
The US Central Command (Centcom) said it conducted "self-defense strikes on Iranian radar and command and control sites for drones in Goruk, Iran and Qeshm Island this weekend".
Meanwhile, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had
AFP via Getty Images Polls have opened in Ethiopia's general election as conflict rages in parts of the country, meaning many people will not be able to vote.
In fact, the whole northern region of Tigray, which has been trying to recover from a brutal civil war that ended in 2022, has been totally excluded from the poll.
It is the seventh election since the downfall of the military regime in 1991 - an upheaval that led to
PKS GDYNIA/Reuters Coach operator FlixBus has announced the return of the 666 bus service to the Polish seaside resort of Hel.
It resurrects the controversial so-called "Highway to Hel" bus journey formerly run by local company PKS Gdynia.
Religious conservative groups fiercely opposed the "satanic" association of 666 with Hel, so in 2023 the number
Meji Alabi Meji Alabi has directed some of the biggest selling music artists on the planet: Beyoncé, Burna Boy, Davido and Stormzy. But nothing prepared the Grammy Award-winning director for his new documentary on Nigeria's civil war.
Warning: This article contains details some readers may find disturbing.
Surviving Biafra: Voices from the Nigerian Civil War, produced by BBC Africa Eye
Imtiyaz Ali When I called Imtiyaz Ali to ask if we could meet, nearly a year after a plane crash killed his brother Javed, his sister-in-law Mariam, and their two children, we first decided to speak at his home in Mumbai.
Hours later, he changed his mind. "Let's meet at the hotel instead," he said.
Later,
Getty Images Colombia's presidential election will go to a runoff on 21 June between a leftist and right-wing candidate on opposite ends of the political spectrum, after Sunday's vote produced no overall winner.
The right-wing Abelardo de la Espriella, an admirer of Donald Trump, came top in the vote, followed closely by the left-wing
BBC Warning, some of the details of this story are disturbing
Anatoly Dmytrov was driving his bus on Route 14 in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson earlier this month.
The bus was full and people were standing in the aisle, when it reached an intersection and it was hit by a Russian drone.
"All the windows got smashed. I barely
Getty Images In Shanxi, the province that sits at the heart of China's coal-mining industry, there's long been a saying: "Only go down a coal pit when you have no other way out."
For decades, life in these pits was intertwined with tragedy.
It became so common that it gave rise to other sayings: about how miners were
Walkerswood Hot pepper sauce in Caribbean cuisine is as pervasive as ketchup in the US.
The fiery flavouring is a staple of dining tables regionwide, the obligatory accompaniment for everything from rice and peas, to curries and stews.
And as international palates continue to heat up to the potent taste, a growing number of brands are exported to North America, Europe and Australia, appearing on the shelves of major supermarket chains, from the US's Walmart,
President Donald Trump has requested that edits be made to the US-Iran deal aimed at bringing an end to fighting that began earlier this year, US media reported.
The changes are related to the Strait of Hormuz and the removal of highly enriched uranium, CBS News, the BBC's US news partner, reported. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf,