By Matt Murphy BBC News People in the flood-hit city of Derna are living through “doomsday”, a Libyan reporter has told the BBC. More than 5,300 people died after floods burst two dams in the eastern city and swept away homes. Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, Johr Ali said survivors had reported scenes of…

By Samantha Jagger BBC News Skies gleamed pink, green and yellow as the aurora borealis illuminated parts of northern England. The natural phenomenon was captured by photographers in the Lake District and in Northumberland on Tuesday evening. The aurora appears when atoms in the Earth’s high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the Sun,…

By Bonnie McLaren BBC Newsbeat Ariana Grande has said she previously used filler and Botox as “something to hide behind”. The singer made the comments in an emotional video for Vogue, in which she also confirmed she stopped the cosmetic treatments in 2018. “Full transparency… As a beauty person, as I do my lips, I’ve…

By James Gregory BBC News A British soldier has been charged with second degree murder in Canada after an alleged assault left a man dead. Craig Gibson, 28, is accused of assaulting Brett Sheffield in Toronto city centre at 23:25 local time (03:24 GMT) on Monday 28 August. Mr Sheffield, 38, was taken to hospital…

France has ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12 for emitting too much electromagnetic radiation. On Tuesday, the French watchdog which governs radio frequencies also told the tech giant to fix existing phones. The ANFR has advised Apple that if it cannot resolve the issue via a software update, it must recall every iPhone…

By Paul Glynn Entertainment reporter Drew Barrymore has been dropped as host of the US National Book Awards after controversy about her TV show returning during the ongoing Hollywood strike. Earlier this week, the talk show host and actress said the programme’s return would be in line with strike rules. But the show’s writers were…

Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin are meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s far east hours after North Korea fired two short range ballistic missiles off its east coast. Here are some the of the key moments of the day so far. Catch up with the latest coverage here

By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Shakira crowd-surfed her way to a lifetime achievement prize at the MTV Video Music Awards, as she performed a career-spanning medley of hits. The Colombian star put on a spectacular show that saw her dance with knives, writhe in a fake cave and play a fiery guitar solo during…

By Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent At least eight people are known to have died and dozens injured in a huge fire that broke out in a high-rise apartment block in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi. State media said around 70 people had been rescued from the nine-storey building, with many taken to hospital. The fire,…

The southern Indian state of Kerala has issued an alert after it confirmed that two people have died from the rare Nipah virus. One of the deaths occurred earlier this month while the other took place on 30 August, both in the state’s Kozhikode district, officials said. Two relatives of a victim have also tested…