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Finding Anwar – born while his mother fled for her life
Anwar Sadiq was just hours old when a BBC team first met him in a refugee camp in Bangladesh in September 2017.
A thin cotton cloth was all his mother Mohsena had to cover him, as she cradled her tiny baby under a flimsy makeshift tent,…
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Tory donor’s link to massive money laundering probe
A top businessman whose foreign companies were part of a global money laundering investigation is a major donor to the Conservative Party.
Javad Marandi, who has an OBE for business and philanthropy, can be named after losing a 19-month…
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AI creator on whether it will make humans ‘boring’
"Humans are a bit boring - it will be like, goodbye!" That's the personal prediction - that artificial intelligence (AI) will supplant humans in many roles - from one of the most important people you've probably never heard of.
Emad…
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Cyclone could hit world’s largest refugee camp
About half a million people are being evacuated to safer areas in south-eastern Bangladesh, ahead of a cyclone that could be extremely dangerous.
Mocha is predicted to make landfall on Sunday, with 170kph (106mph) winds and storm surges…
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Family lose toy elephant with son’s ashes inside
A family lost a toy elephant with their son's ashes inside during a trip to Disney World in Florida.
Gabryel Atkinson died before the trip to Florida having spent time in intensive care after undergoing more than 50 surgeries and…
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Police arrest fake ‘Boris Johnson’
Dutch police who arrested a man on suspicion of drink driving discovered he had a driving licence naming him as "Boris Johnson".
The fake Ukrainian document featured a picture of the former prime minister, as well as his correct…
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Man kept father’s dead body in freezer ‘so he could talk to him’
A man has been caught storing his dead father's body in his freezer.
Police in the town of Landgraaf, in the Netherlands, reportedly discovered the corpse after concerns were raised by a family doctor who was worried about the…
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Prince Harry leaves alone after attending Coronation
The Duke of Sussex has attended his father's Coronation, sitting two rows from his brother at Westminster Abbey.
The prince had arrived without his wife Meghan, who stayed in the US, and he left immediately afterwards for a return flight…
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Afghanistan: ‘Nothing we can do but watch babies die’
Three-month-old Tayabullah is quiet and motionless. His mother Nigar moves the oxygen pipe away from his nose and puts a finger below his nostrils to check if she can feel him breathing.
She begins to cry as she realises her son is…
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No water, no light as Sudan conflict rages on
A resident in Sudan's capital has told the BBC that she has no more drinking water as fighting between rival forces rages in Khartoum for a fourth day.
"This morning we ran out," Duaa Tariq said, adding that she was saving one bottle…
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