Now some of the world's biggest tobacco companies are buying their products from farms which employ child workers. The BBC has found evidence of children working at every stage the tobacco production process in Indonesia,the world's fifth-largest pro...
The US State Department has issued a travel warning to all Americans heading to Europe over the summer, citing the risk of potential terrorist attacks. RT Anastasia Churkina has the details. we're now learning that the US State Department has issued...
You are listening to a programmes from BBC Radio 4. Good morning. In one of the best known stories about the Queen she is speaking to a person whose mobile phone then starts ringing. Pausing briefly, the Queen apparently says Youd better answer that....
You are listening to a program from BBC Radio 4. Good morning. Twenty years ago football came home in Euro 96, and in the coming weeks, even fifty years of hurt will not stop me dreaming that Wayne Rooney lifts the Henri Delaunay Cup in winning the E...
British football supporters have a particularly bad reputation so much so nine crimes that only applied to the sport have been enforced. Elsa Ali finds find out why fans are given the red card. Scenes like these are not uncommon during football match...
Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a referendum proposal to introduce a guaranteed basic income. Under the proposal, adults,whether they work or not,would receive some twenty five hundred dollars per month and more than six hundred dollars for...
Refugees are risking their lives trying to get to Britain by crossing the channel in small boats. While this is raising fears of a similar situation to that in the Mediterranean where thousands have died. It's starting to become a very similar situat...
Psychiatrists have struggled with their diagnoses of depression; patients often present with overlapping symptoms. But researchers have made a breakthrough. In a new study published in Psychological Medicine, discovery which shows a distinct differen...
It's hard to imagine that there are a lot of Australians worrying every day about where the next meal is going to come from. This year's Hunger Report has been released, showing one in six Australians experienced exactly that over the past year. The...
The latest survey of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia reveals that an average of 35 percent of coral is now dead or dying in the northern and central sections. Experts from James Cook University say its the most extreme case of mass...
A fragment of elbow bone, a relic thought to be part of the body of Thomas Becket was due to arrive here in London from Hungary on Monday to make a journey that will include visits to Westminster Cathedral and Houses of Parliament. As Archbishop of C...
I am Stewart Macintosh with the BBC News, hello. Eurozone finance ministers agreed to unlock about 11.5 billion dollars in bailout fund to Greece after late night talks in Brussels. They also agree to phase in debt relief in two-years-time, a key dem...
Tributes are being paid around the world to Mohammad Ali, considered by many to be the best boxer of all time and three times the heavyweight champion of the world. Hes died at the age of 74 in Arizona. President Obama called Mohammad Ali A man who f...
London is one of the busiest financial centers of the modern world. And historians have revealed evidence that two thousand years ago, business deals were being struck on exactly the same spot. Archeologists have unearthed the oldest handwritten docu...
Italy invented Opera but its opera house in Rome has been in crisis. Its been losing money and in recent years, its musicians have gone on strike. So the opera house came up with an ideainvite a member of a famous Italian and American film directing...
