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Egypt fire: At least 38 injured in blaze at police complex
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A huge fire at a police complex in Egypt has injured at least 38 people, according to emergency services and local media. Firefighters managed to contain the blaze at the facility in Ismailia, and local hospitals have…
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‘Huge’ fire breaks out at police facility in Egypt
Videos are being shared across social media of the blaze which local media says has injured more than 20 people. The fire erupted at a police facility in the city of Ismailia in the early hours of Monday morning. Emergency services say it’s now been contained.
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Laphonza Butler of EMILY’s List to replace Dianne Feinstein as senator
By Alex Binley BBC News A strategist who runs an organisation devoted to electing Democratic women who support abortion rights is to replace US senator Dianne Feinstein, who died last week at the age of 90. California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed 44-year-old Laphonza Butler to the role. She will be the only black female in…
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Indonesia opens China-backed high-speed railway Whoosh
By Derek Cai BBC News, Singapore Indonesia has inaugurated its first high-speed railway, a $7.3bn (£5.9) project backed by China under its Belt and Road Initiative. President Joko Widodo launched the service, which connects the capital Jakarta to Bandung, a top economic hub. The railway is named Whoosh, a Bahasa Indonesia acronym that translates to…
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Golden Week: Budget travel takes off in China
By Kelly Ng BBC News China’s gloomy economy has not dampened its people’s wanderlust. It is seeing record travel for the annual “Golden Week” holiday despite slow growth, high youth unemployment and a property market in crisis. More than 21 million people will fly during the 10-day break, which began on Friday, according to China’s…
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Aukus: UK defence giant BAE Systems wins £3.95bn submarine contract
By Peter Hoskins Business reporter Britain’s biggest defence firm, BAE Systems, has won a £3.95bn ($4.82bn) contract to build a new generation of submarines as the security pact between the US, UK and Australia moves ahead. In March, the three countries announced details of the so-called Aukus pact to provide Australia with nuclear-powered attack submarines…
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From Scotland to Canada, a totem pole finally returns home
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Nadine Yousif & Eloise Alanna in Toronto and Nass Valley After almost a century and a journey of thousands of miles, an artefact taken from Canada is now home. It is the first totem pole to…
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Can India-Europe corridor rival China’s Belt and Road?
By Nikhil Inamdar BBC News A new transport corridor announced on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Delhi will become the basis of world trade for hundreds of years to come, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a recent radio address. Can it really? US President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed…
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Migrants trying to reach the UK cross the Alps on foot
By Mark Lowen BBC Rome correspondent, Italy-France border In a corner of the Italian Alps, a queue of Sudanese and Afghans are swapping their sandals for hiking boots and replacing flip-flops with sturdy trainers, preparing, they hope, for their trek to freedom. They are today’s arrivals – around 150 – at a makeshift camp in…
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Can a map of the ocean floor be crowdsourced?
Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. The race is on to properly chart them by 2030 – and crowdsourcing could be part of the answer. Tucked inside a federal government building in the American Rockies is the world’s best collection of seafloor maps. Occasionally a hard drive arrives in the mail, filled…