This is the BBC News. Hello, I'm Nick Kelly. President Barack Obama has made a scathing attack on the republican candidate Donald Trump, saying he is unfit to serve his president. He also questioned why the Republican Party is continuing to support M...
The US health authorities have stepped up warnings about the risks to pregnant women from the Zika virus in a district of Miami in Florida. Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, are heading to the city to reinforce eff...
A security law has come into force in Malaysia that gives the Prime Minister Najib Razak sweeping new powers. The Prime Minister said the legislation was necessary to combat terrorism, but others fear it will be used to silence government opponents....
Latest reports from the besieged Syrian rebel-held city of Aleppo suggest that only a small number of civilians and fighters have made use of humanitarian corridors set up by Russian and Syrian forces. About 300,000 people are still in the city. Russ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has announced that a gesture of good will he's withdrawing all lawsuits against individuals accused of insulting him. Almost 2000 prosecutions for insulting the president have been approved in the last two yea...
Plans to build the UK's first nuclear power plant in a generation have been delayed by the British government, hours after the French energy company EDF agreed to go ahead with it. The new British Business Secretary Greg Clark said he wants to carefu...
This is the BBC news. Hello, I am Johnson Izard. A riot between US Democrats and Republicans over emails has escalated, with Hillary Clinton's team accusing her rival Donald Trump of jeopardizing national security. It began when president Obama sugge...
This is the BBC News. Hello, I'm Johnson Izard. Hilary Clinton has become the first woman ever to lead a presidential ticket for a major party in the United States. Delegates of the Democratic Party national convention in Philadelphia officially nomi...
Reports from Japan say a man with a knife killed at least 15 people at the home for the disabled in the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo. Another 45 people have been injured. Mariko Oi reports. It's one of the worst mass murders that Japan has seen....
The World Anti-Doping Agency says it's disappointed about Olympic leaders have rejected his recommondation to ban Russia from the Rio Games next month. WADA's president Craig Reedie said the organization's investigators had exposed a state-run doping...
French prosecutors say five suspected accomplices of the Tunisian men, who killed more than 80 people in a truck attack in Nice last week, have been charged. The Paris Prosecutors' Office said the five were charged with terrorism-related offenses. Ea...
Hello, I am Jerry Smith with the BBC news. The elite presidential guardien in Turkey is to be disbanded, after nearly 300 of its members were detained following last week's failed coup attempt. The Turkish prime minister, Binali Yildirim told the TV...
Hello, I am Julie Candler with the BBC news. Police in Germany have launched a huge men hunt for a group of men who carried out a mass shooting at a shopping center in Munich. At least nine people have been killed, police say one of them may have bee...
The president of Turkey says he is imposing a three months state of emergency following last weeks failed military coup. The measure will enable Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government to bypass parliament and to limit or suspend rights. In a televis...
Donald Trump has been formally nominated as the Republican Party's candidate for the US presidential election in November. At the Party's convention in Ohio, a state by state vote confirmed that Mr. Trump had enough support to become the nominee. Jam...
