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…

Ukraine and Russia have both reportedly carried out night attacks on ports. A missile attack by Ukraine caused a large fire in Sevastopol, Crimea, injuring 24 people, Russian-installed governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said. Mr Razvozhayev said the attack had hit a shipyard in the port city, home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. And Russian drones reportedly…

By Peter Hoskins Business reporter The former chairman of China Life Insurance, Wang Bin, has become the latest high-profile boss to be imprisoned as Beijing’s crackdown on the financial industry continues. Mr Wang was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, according to a court ruling seen by the BBC. After two years, the sentence…

Hello and welcome back to our live coverage of Kim Jong Un’s visit to Russia. North Korea has just fired a ballistic missile off its east coast, even as Kim is believed to be on his way to the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s far east. Kim is expected to meet Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Aoife Walsh BBC News Bodies recovered from a devastating flood which wiped out parts of the port city of Derna in eastern Libya have been buried in mass graves. At least 2,300 people died when a…

By Max Matza BBC News, Seattle Officials in Canada are investigating a major paediatric outbreak of E. coli that appears to originate in a kitchen that makes meals for nursery children. Alberta’s chief medical officer, Dr Mark Joffe, told reporters on Tuesday the kitchen was inspected after a surge in children visiting emergency rooms. Doctors…

By Hannah Ritchie BBC News, Sydney Australia’s highest court has rejected a bid by Qantas to overturn a ruling that it illegally outsourced 1,700 jobs during the pandemic. The court unanimously upheld that the carrier had unlawfully laid off staff at 10 airports in November 2020. The ruling found that Qantas breached Australia’s Fair Work…

By Kayla Epstein BBC News Six decades later, new details are still coming to light in one of the most scrutinised events in American history: the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Paul Landis, an 88-year-old former Secret Service agent who witnessed the president’s death at close range, says in an upcoming memoir that he…