By Laurence Peter BBC News German prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man with complicity in the murder of some 3,300 people at a Nazi concentration camp in World War Two. The man, not yet named, was an adolescent when he served as a guard at Sachsenhausen between July 1943 and February 1945, the indictment says.…

By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News A controversial NZ$500m ($298m) housing development plan in New Zealand has been scuppered by Lord of the Rings director Sir Peter Jackson. He and his wife Dame Fran Walsh, who co-wrote the film trilogy, have bought the former Air Force Base at Shelly Bay in the country’s capital, Wellington. It…

By Rebekah Wilson & Amy Murray BBC News NI Two members of Snow Patrol are leaving the band, but the other three will continue as a trio. On Facebook, frontman Gary Lightbody paid tribute to Jonny Quinn and Paul Wilson and said the band wishes them nothing but happiness and success. The remaining members are…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Paul Kirby BBC News A popular female bear has been shot dead on the outskirts of a town in central Italy and a man has claimed he opened fire out of fear. The bear, named Amarena,…

By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington A massive manhunt is under way in Pennsylvania for a prison inmate who escaped just a week after being sentenced to life in prison for murder. Brazilian national Danelo Cavalcante, 34, escaped from Chester County Prison in West Chester on Thursday morning. A week ago, he was sentenced…

BBC reporter George Torr takes you through key CCTV clips shown in the murder trial of TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari and her mother Ansreen. They – and five others – have been found guilty of killing two men, Saqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin, who died when their car was rammed off the road. Follow live…

China has issued its highest typhoon warning as Typhoon Saola approaches its south-eastern coast. Tropical Storm Haikui has also been forecast to strengthen into a typhoon and is expected to make landfall on China’s Zhejiang Province around 3 September. The scene was captured by the GOES satellite, by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the…

Footage shows the moment a family of bears surprised a crowd in the village of San Sebastiano Dei Marsi, in Italy’s Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park. The mother bear has since been shot dead by a man with a rifle, who told park rangers that he was scared after the animal strayed onto his…

By Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris A ban on rental electric scooters has come into effect in Paris in response to a rising number of people being injured and killed in the French capital. Almost 90% of those who took part in April’s vote over the issue were in favour of the ban – but…

By Samantha Granville BBC News, Johannesburg South African firefighters have gone back inside the Johannesburg building destroyed by fire on Thursday to see if they can find any more bodies. The blaze, in the overcrowded and condemned five-storey building, claimed 74 lives, including 12 children. The fire service says it wants to be sure that…