Daniel Thomas ,
Ben Hatton and
Peter Hoskins
Getty Images Global oil prices have risen after at least three ships were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran continues to launch strikes across the Middle East in response to ongoing attacks by the US and Israel.
Two vessels have been struck, and an "unknown projectile" was reported to have "exploded in very close proximity" to a third, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre (
Jacob Boswall BBC Monitoring
Christoph Greztmacher When Marin Petrović arrived in Bamako in early September last year, he was elated. The Bosnian national had spent years applying for tourist visas to Mali, only to be repeatedly denied on security grounds.
The West African country has long been afflicted by civil war, foreign military interventions, and Islamist insurgencies.
Petrović declined to speak to the BBC for this article.
The plan was
Jake Kwon , Seoul correspondent and
Leehyun Choi , Seoul
KCNA VIA KNS via AFP As North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened Seoul and vowed to continue expanding his sanctioned nuclear weapons programme at the party congress, the big question was whether his 13-year-old daughter would be anointed as his heir.
That news, or any unquestionable indication of it, didn't materialise this week.
But it has launched a debate about the young Kim
Frank Gardner BBC security correspondent
Reuters In the clear blue skies above Abu Dhabi, white contrails streak high above the sand-coloured villas and well-watered gardens.
These are no incoming Dreamliners or Airbuses bringing in the next manifest of tourists and guest workers. They are incoming ballistic missiles, launched by the Emirates' giant neighbour just across the Gulf: Iran.
As of Sunday afternoon, the United Arab
BBC/Arrow International Media/Steve Organ Tributes have been paid to the war photographer Paul Conroy who has died at the age of 61.
Their fateful assignment was depicted in the 2018 movie A Private War, with the actor Jamie Dornan playing Conroy.
The Liverpool-born photographer died from a heart attack on Saturday in Devon, where he had lived, his brother Alan told the BBC.
"He did all his life what he wanted
Amir Azimi BBC News Persian
EPA/Shutterstock The killing of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, in the opening wave of joint US-Israeli strikes has pushed the Islamic Republic into its most precarious moment since 1979.
By Saturday night, reports about Khamenei's death were circulating widely, setting off scenes few would have imagined possible just days earlier.
Videos showed . Similar scenes unfolded among large parts of the Iranian diaspora
Getty Images Two people were killed and several injured in a shooting outside a bar in Austin, Texas, in an incident the FBI says may be related to terrorism.
Police said they were called to the scene near Buford's bar in the capital of the southern US state around 2 am (0700GMT) on Sunday, following reports of a "male shooter".
In addition to the two deceased victims, the suspected gunman was also dead at the scene, police said. Fourteen people were taken
Gordon Corera Security analyst
Getty Images The attack that killed Iran's Supreme Leader came not in the middle of the night, as might have been expected, but in the middle of the morning.
That was because the US and Israel decided to take advantage of a piece of crucial intelligence that had arrived hours before.
For months, they had been watching for a moment of opportunity when senior Iranian figures might be meeting and they learnt Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was going to be at a compound in central
Tom Bennett and Robert Greenall and
Barbara Plett-Usher , Doha
EPA At least nine people have been killed and 27 injured in a missile strike on the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, emergency services say.
The attack comes as Iran launched strikes across the Middle East in response to a massive and ongoing attack against it by the US and Israel.
One person has been killed in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, and and a death has also