RNC 2020: Republican Party convention nominates Trump - full schedule

Image copyright Getty Images
Image caption Mr Trump accepts the Republican nomination alongside his wife and son in 2016

The Republican National Convention has kicked off with a roll call formally nominating Donald Trump to run in the 3 November election.

How will the four-day event unfold?

Let's back up first.

There's an obvious question...

What is the Republican National Convention?

OK, good question.

Party conventions take place once every four years - they are the ceremonial crowning of the party'


Hong Kong reports 'first case' of virus reinfection

Image copyright Getty Images

Hong Kong scientists are reporting the case of a healthy man in his 30s who became reinfected with coronavirus four and a half months after his first bout.

They say genome sequencing shows the two strains of the virus are "clearly different", making it the world's first proven case of reinfection.

The World Health Organization warns it is important not to jump to conclusions based on the case of one patient.

And experts say reinfections may be rare and not necessarily serious.

There have been


Kenosha shooting: US police shooting of black man sparks protests

Protests have erupted in the US state of Wisconsin after police shot a black man many times in the back.


Kellyanne Conway: Key moments from her White House career

Image copyright EPA
Image caption Kellyanne Conway announced she was stepping down from her role as senior counsel

Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, has announced that she is resigning from her post.

She says she will step down from her role to focus on her children.

Here's a look back at her career, from helping Mr Trump to clinch the 2016 election victory to controversies surrounding "alternative facts" and endorsing products by Mr Trump's daughter, Ivanka.

The first female campaign

Continue reading...

South Korea on brink of nationwide virus outbreak, officials warn

Image copyright EPA
Image caption The latest outbreak in South Korea is linked to a church

South Korea, a country held up as a model for its response to Covid-19, is on the brink of a new nationwide outbreak, according to officials.

The latest outbreak of coronavirus cases centred around a right-wing Presbyterian church has spread to all 17 provinces throughout the country for the first time.

Each day brings a new three digit virus total.

Social distancing rules have been stepped up. Masks are now mandatory

Continue reading...

Christchurch shooting: Survivors and relatives face killer in court

A mother who lost her son in the 2019 attack tells the shooter 'I can't forgive you'.


Ten countries kept out Covid. But did they win?

Image copyright Palau Hotel
Image caption The Palau Hotel, Koror

Covid-19 has infected almost every country in the world – apart from 10. So what do they do now?

The Palau Hotel opened in 1982, before mass tourism but since then, this tiny nation, surrounded by the sky-blue Pacific Ocean, has enjoyed something of a boom.

In 2019, 90,000 tourists came to Palau, five times the total population. In 201

Continue reading...

Paris: 'World’s largest urban rooftop farm' in progress

A company in Paris is transforming roofs and abandoned urban areas into spaces covered in plants.


Panorama investigation: The detainees held 'hostage' in Iran

Anoosheh and Nizar were arrested on separate occasions for spying in Iran, charges they both deny.


Coronavirus in South Africa: Whistleblower questions winter tent deaths

Image caption Jeanette Mlombo says corruption and carelessness are responsible for her son's death

Suspected Covid-19 patients were routinely left for hours in an open tent, in sub-zero temperatures, outside a South African hospital during the mid-winter peak of the pandemic, leading to "many" people dying of suspected hypothermia, according to an exclusive investigation by BBC News.

The revelations have emerged as South Africa's government has acknowledged and condemned widespread corruption and mismanagement during its response to the pandemic.

"It

Continue reading...