India has the third highest Covid death toll in the world, and numbers are still rising.
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Did US election polling get it wrong in 2016? Reality Check considers whether polls can predict who'll be the next US president.
Ros Atkins explains why despite calls for a ceasefire, fighting over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh continues to intensify.
Driverless taxis are now available in China’s biggest city, Shanghai. The BBC took a ride.
The two countries are locked in a row over energy resources and borders in the Mediterranean.
Among those who tuned in for the first US presidential debate, there is a clear and growing consensus that the first on-air face-off between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was a mess.
For some 90 minutes, the candidates shouted, bickered and largely ignored the topics at hand, despite repeated pleas from moderator Chris Wallace.
And it looks like the Commission on Presidential Debates - the nonpartisan charity that sponsors
Voters in America will decide on 3 November whether Donald Trump remains in the White House for another four years.
The Republican president is being challenged by Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden, who is best known as Barack Obama's vice-president but has been in US politics since the 1970s.
As election day approaches, polling companies will be trying to gauge the mood of the nation by asking voters which candidate they prefer.
We'll be keeping track of those polls here and trying to work out
Hundreds of millions of people in China are marking this year's National Day holiday with gatherings and quick getaways.
National Day, which marks the founding of the People's Republic of China, coincides with this year's Mid Autumn Festival.
It is estimated that 550 million people will travel domestically during the eight-day holiday referred to as "Golden Week". It's thought that 13 million passenger trips were made on Thursday - the highest figure since February, according to state media .
Image copyright Getty Images Some 73 million people tuned in to the first debate between US President Donald Trump and his White House challenger Joe Biden.
The TV viewership for Tuesday's clash was lower than the 2016 debates, but final streaming counts are pending.
The 2016 showdown between Mr Trump and Hillary Clinton broke TV records, pulling in 84 million viewers.
That one shattered the previous viewership record of 80.6