By The BBC The Dutch government has stepped down after thousands of families were wrongly accused of child welfare fraud and told to pay money back.…
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By BBC News Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said his government will not buy a Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccine, a day after his health minister said…
US authorities say the pilot of a helicopter fighting fires in California has died after his aircraft crashed. The pilot was the only person on…
By Julie Yoonnyung Lee Digital technology has helped South Koreans cope with the pandemic. But the elderly have been left behind in the new contact-free…
A number of Beirut port officials are being placed under house arrest pending an investigation into Tuesday’s huge explosion, Lebanon’s government says. The blast…
A number of Beirut port officials are being placed under house arrest pending an investigation into Tuesday’s huge explosion, Lebanon’s government says. The blast…
Bells have tolled in Hiroshima, Japan, to mark the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the world’s first atomic bomb. But memorial events were scaled…
A man in eastern China has been acquitted of murder and freed after spending 27 years in prison. Zhang Yuhuan maintained he was tortured by…
Three people accused of hanging LGBT rainbow flags off statues in Warsaw have been arrested and charged. Polish police charged them with desecrating monuments…
Fleetwood Mac co-founder and influential blues rock guitarist Peter Green has died aged 73. Solicitors acting on behalf of his family said in a statement:…
The US and UK have accused Russia of testing a weapon-like projectile in space that could be used to target satellites in orbit. The US…
By Tara McKelvey In the midst of the pandemic, a small piece of cloth has incited a nationwide feud about public health, civil liberties and…
UK spies will need to use artificial intelligence (AI) to counter a range of threats, an intelligence report says. Adversaries are likely to use the…
Saudi Arabia put to death 184 people in 2019 – a record number for the kingdom – despite a decline in executions worldwide, Amnesty International…
A Russian comedian who made jokes about President Vladimir Putin and Christianity says he has fled the country over fears for his safety. Aleksandr Dolgopolov,…
Scores of fires are burning out of control across Australia amid a heatwave that has seen temperatures exceed 40C (104F) in every state. The most…
A former CIA agent has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiring to spy for China. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 55, left the…
A widely used method of encrypting emails has been found to suffer from a serious vulnerability, researchers say. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a data…