EU referendum: Leave and Remain clash in BBC Great Debate
Leading names from both sides of the EU referendum have traded blows in a live TV debate at Wembley Arena on the eve of the final day of campaigning.
The BBC's Great Debate featured almost two hours of questions on immigration, the economy and sovereignty.
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson repeatedly clashed with Boris Johnson in front of an audience of thousands and accused his Leave side of "lying".
Mr Johnson said Remain "keep talking down our country".
Voters go to the polls from 07:00 BST on Thursday, to decide whether the UK should stay in or leave the European Union.
Ms Davidson, who gave the closing statement for Remain, told the Wembley audience they had to be "100% sure" adding that there was "no going back on Friday morning".
Her side "refused to dismiss the experts" who all agree that "Britain is better-off in", she argued.
A 'black and smelly' job: the search for China's most polluted rivers
A Chinese government campaign asks the public to hunt down polluted waterways which can then be mapped and cleaned up
One sunny morning, Shi Dianshou sets off for China’s River of Happiness.
“It’s not very happy right now,” the 24-year-old environmentalist admits as he drives north from Beijing to inspect the poetically named waterway.
Forty two kilometres out of town, Shi’s car pulls up beside a putrid, rubbish-strewn creek. A black sofa pokes up from its murky waters; a landfill decorates its western bank; and beside another heap of refuse, a stray bra hangs lazily from the branch of a tree, lending a comic touch to the bleak scene.
“I’ve seen this kind of river so many times,” complains Shi, pacing along the sewage-scented canal to evaluate the grime. “It makes me feel bad. I’m not happy about it.”
North Korea expands missile capacity in new tests
The latest missile tests by North Korea represent progress in the regime's military capabilities. The tests drew ire from nations set to sit across from North Korea at an informal diplomatic gathering in Beijing.
North Korea's latest missile launches were conducted in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to South Korea's Defense Ministry and the US Department of State.
The tests are believed to be of medium-range Musudan missiles. The range of Musudan missiles is estimated to be between 2,500 to 4,000 kilometers (1,500 - 2,500 miles), but North Korea's missiles traveled far shorter distances. The first missile fell apart after traveling around 150 kilometers, but the second missile made it 400 kilometers. The theoretical range would mean a fully-operational missile would be able to strike South Korea, Japan and US military institutions on Guam.
22 June 2016
Corruption, politics, murder: anatomy of a Kenyan killing
On a wet Thursday night in early May, a well-known businessman and government critic was found dead in his armoured blue Mercedes by a busy road on the outskirts of Nairobi, five bullet holes in his chest, neck and arm.
Kenya's long history of state violence meant the murder of Jacob Juma, who was in his mid-forties, was quickly viewed as a political assassination.
His death dominated the country's newspapers as amateur sleuths picked holes in the police narrative of a business deal gone wrong, and opposition politicians cried foul.
It was a tricky case, the country's senior detective Muhoro Ndegwa told journalists, with no witnesses and no weapon. He promised his team would do their best, but in the six weeks since his death no arrests have been made.
Spectre of random street crime haunts Rio Olympics
June 22, 2016 - 4:59PMLia Timson
Foreign News Editor
I can never tell my elderly dad in advance that I'm going back to Brazil for a visit.
He worries, he loses sleep, he wishes I'd stay in what he calls paradise: Australia, a country where your kids can walk ahead of you on the street without having to have their hands held tight, or I can walk alone, even at night, knowing I will arrive at my destination in one piece, my wallet untouched, my iPhone still in my hand.
He believes I'll be robbed on the street (it happened once, when I was a teen); that I or my kids will be kidnapped (it has never happened to us); or that we will, somehow, be hurt.
My friends say my dad worries too much. But I understand. I have personally had some close calls, witnessing a murder in a Novotel lobby and chucking a pickpocketer out of a crowded bus.
Why the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mansour won’t bring peace to Afghanistan
Updated by Vanda Felbab-Brown
The US drone killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour in Baluchistan, Pakistan, in May 2016 was a significant break with US policy: For the first time, the United States struck a top Taliban leader enjoying shelter and a comfortable life in core parts of Pakistan.
The hope is that in the long term, taking out the leadership will cause the Taliban to fragment, weakening its capacity to sustain an insurgency and ultimately motivating it to negotiate a peace settlement with the Afghan government.
But the idea that the Taliban’s fragmentation and internal weakness will drive it to the negotiating table or to military defeat is far from guaranteed. In fact, internal divisions may actually cause the Taliban to become more aggressive on the battlefield and less likely to come to the negotiating
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