Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images Twenty-one Italian cities are on the highest alert, including Rome, Milan and Venice Two people have died in Italy as temperatures continue to soar amid an intense heatwave across Europe. In Bologna a 47-year-old died after falling ill on a construction site while a 70-year-old man was reported drowned...
A key witness in the corruption case of a former mayor of Peru’s capital, Lima, has been found dead at his home, Peruvian prosecutors say, less than three months before the trial is due to start. José Miguel Castro, who was living under house arrest, was a municipality official during Susana Villarán’s term as mayor...
Two people have been fatally shot in the western US state of Idaho while responding to a brush fire, say officials. Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office Robert Norris said at least one active shooter was firing at law enforcement with high-powered rifles in the city of Coeur d’Alene. “We don’t know if there’s one, two, three...
The BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet reports from Tehran, where a mass state funeral took place on Saturday. Crowds gathered to mourn the deaths of about 60 people, including military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed during the 12-day conflict with Israel. The conflict ended with a ceasefire earlier this week, after the US became...
Twenty-nine children who were taking their school exams in the Central African Republic have been killed in a crush after a nearby explosion caused panic, a hospital director told the BBC. The blast, on the second day of the high-school finals on Wednesday, occurred at an electricity transformer, said Abel Assaye from the Bangui community...
A Brazilian tourist who fell while hiking near the crater of an active volcano in Indonesia has been found dead, her family and rescuers said. Juliana Marins survived the initial fall from a cliff during an early morning group hike along a steep trail on Mount Rinjani, with rescuers reporting hearing her screams for help...
A bride was shot dead on her wedding night in a village near the south-east French city of Avignon after masked gunmen opened fire, local officials say. One suspected attacker was also killed in an apparent exchange of fire, and the groom and a child of 13 were seriously wounded during the incident in the...
Six people were killed when a boat capsized in Lake Tahoe, a popular tourist destination on the border of California and Nevada. Two others are still missing following the accident on Saturday, which occurred as fierce winds battered the lake, kicking up 8ft-tall (2.5m) waves. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said two survivors were...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News The Hostages and Missing Families Forum Ofra Keidar was kidnapped by Hamas from the kibbutz during the 7 October attacks The bodies of two Israeli hostages and a soldier have been recovered from the Gaza Strip, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. He confirmed that Yonatan Samrano, Sgt Shai Levinson...
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News BBC At least eight people have died in a hot air balloon accident in Brazil, a state governor has said. There were 21 people on board the balloon in the city of Praia Grande on Saturday morning, Governor of Santa Catarina Jorginho Mello said in a post on X. Mello...
Joel Gunter Reporting from Kyiv BBC Oleksandr Bondarchuk was unable to make it to a shelter when the strikes hit Kyiv. “It was terrible,” he said. “Everything was destroyed.” Evhen Povarenkov was standing at a line of police tape that separated the public from the intensive search and rescue operation around his building. He stared...
Bali police have arrested two people over a shooting which killed one Australian and seriously injured another. Zivan Radmanovic, 32, was shot dead just after midnight on Saturday after two men broke into his villa in Munggu, in the south of the Indonesian tourist island. One of the suspects was arrested in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital,...
Ukraine and Russia have completed an exchange of dead bodies – the final stage of a deal to bring home fallen soldiers. Kyiv said Moscow handed over 1,245 bodies on Monday, bringing the total to 6,057 in the past few days. It said it was now verifying whether all the bodies were indeed of Ukrainian...
Gunmen have killed the mayor of the Mexican municipality of San Mateo Piñas in the latest deadly attack on local officials. Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema GarcÃa Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli...
Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82. The announcement was made by Wilson’s family on his Instagram page.    Wilson wrote all of the Beach Boys’ many hits and was considered one of the great pop songwriters alongside the Beatles in the 1960s. Born in Inglewood, California, Brian Douglas Wilson formed the band—then...