Katy Watson,Australia correspondentand Tiffanie Turnbull,Bondi Beach Reuters Mourners in Australia fell silent on Sunday in honour of the victims of the Bondi Beach attack. The memorial was part of a national day of reflection to mark a week since the shooting in which two gunmen opened fire on an event celebrating the Jewish festival of…
Work rules will look different in 2026, so retirees need to be prepared. Retirement doesn’t necessarily mean what it used to. Very few people get the proverbial gold watch after decades of working for the same company, and almost no private sector workers have a guaranteed pension from their employer to rely on when they’ve…
Yolande KnellMiddle East correspondent, Jerusalem BBC Itzik Gvili demands the return of his son Ran, the last dead hostage in Gaza, in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square In central Tel Aviv, the main stage has now been dismantled in Hostages Square, the focal point for the campaign over the past two years to bring back Israelis…
US intelligence reports seem to paint a starkly different picture about the Russia-Ukraine war than President Donald Trump, who has said that his counterpart in Moscow, Vladimir Putin, “wants to end” the conflict. US President Donald Trump and his Ukraine peace negotiators, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, have said Vladimir Putin wants to end the…
Watch: ‘You can’t let fear win’ – Bondi beachgoers return after fatal attack Katy Watson,Australia Correspondent at Bondi Beachand Harry Sekulich Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a review into the police and national intelligence agencies after last weekend’s Bondi Beach attack. “The ISIS-inspired atrocity last Sunday reinforces the rapidly changing security environment in…
Watch: Images, cassettes and high-profile figures – What’s in the latest Epstein files? The US justice department has released an initial tranche of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. The documents, which include photos, videos and investigative documents, were highly anticipated after Congress passed a law mandating the files be released in their entirety by Friday….
Watch: Images, cassettes and high-profile figures – What’s in the latest Epstein files? The release of thousands of pages of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse has left some who were anxiously awaiting the files disappointed. The documents’ release was prompted by an act of Congress that directed the US Justice…
Grace Tsoi,BBC World Serviceand BBC News Chinese,Hong Kong BBC Jimmy Lai, 78, faces life in prison for national security offences On a winter morning in 2022 Raphael Wong and Figo Chan walked into Hong Kong’s Stanley prison to meet Jimmy Lai, the media billionaire who had been arrested two years before and was awaiting trial…
Paul MellyWest Africa analyst AFP Faure Gnassingbé is cultivating a range of sometimes opposing alliances While some West African nations are choosing to cement old ties with France and others cultivate a new relationship with Russia, one country is trying to have the best of both worlds. As the 7 December attempted military coup in…
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A 31-year-old Pakistani man, who went missing in June 1997 in an ice cave, was found perfectly preserved by a local shepherd. The discovery puts an end to a painful three-decade-long search for a family that tirelessly searched for his body in the mountainous Kohistan region….