BBC At least 21 people have been killed in a road accident in central Mexico, according to a local official. The three-vehicle crash happened on the highway between Cuacnopalan and Oaxaca in Puebla state on Wednesday morning, said Samuel Aguilar Pala, a local government official. Mr Pala said 18 people died at the scene and...
A woman has been killed and a man has been severely injured in an axe attack at the University of Warsaw on Wednesday, according to Polish police. A 22-year-old Polish man has been arrested in connection with the attack which the university has called a “huge tragedy”. Both victims worked at the university. In a...
The Pakistan-based leader of a militant group has said 10 of his relatives have been killed in a missile strike by India. Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), said his older sister and her husband, his nephew and his nephew’s wife, his niece and five children from his family were killed in a strike on...
Tributes have been paid to an 18-year-old man who died in a crash in Devon. Mali Dubois, from Bradworthy, died at the scene of the crash near Otterton in the early hours of 29 April. His family described him as a man with such a “bright future”, who was “kind and gentle” and that he...
The Peruvian government has imposed a night-time curfew in Pataz province, where 13 kidnapped mine workers were killed last week. President Dina Boluarte also ordered that mining activities be suspended for a month while extra police and soldiers are deployed to the region. The incident has shone a spotlight on the activities of criminal gangs...
Handout Layton Carr, 14, died after a fire broke out in an industrial estate in Gateshead The family of 14-year-old Layton Carr, who died at the scene of a fire at a former industrial estate, have described him as “our bright and beautiful boy”. A blaze broke out at a building on Fairfield Industrial Park...
Lucy Williamson Middle East correspondent Reporting fromNorthern Syria BBC General Security Forces personnel have been deployed in Latakia city One of the men accused of taking part in a wave of sectarian violence against Syria’s Alawite minority two months ago has told the BBC that he and other armed civilians who travelled to the area...
A British nursing student studying in the US has been found stabbed to death in an apartment in Houston, Texas, just days before she was due to graduate, say police and her family. Elizabeth Tamilore Odunsi, 23, was discovered on 26 April by officers who had gone to her flat to check on her, Houston...
At least seven people have been killed and 20 others injured after a hospital and market were bombed in South Sudan, medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says. The charity said helicopter gunships dropped a bomb on the pharmacy of the hospital it runs in Old Fangak, Jonglei state, burning it down, before firing on...
A collision between a tour bus and a truck near Yellowstone National Park killed seven people and injured eight others on Thursday. Police were alerted to the crash at 19:15 local time (02:15 GMT), when a Chevy pickup truck and a van carrying 14 tourists collided on a highway in eastern Idaho, state police said....
Aoife Walsh & Greg Mckenzie BBC News Alan Carter The husband of a British-South African woman found dead at her house in France has said he cannot imagine “the terror and the fear she must have gone through”. Karen Carter, 65, was found by her friend lying near her car with stab wounds in the...
Albert Alfonso/Flickr Yostin Mosquera, 34, Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, pictured on a boat in Colombia A man murdered a couple, dismembered their bodies and then froze some of their remains before taking the rest in suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, a court has heard. Yostin Andres Mosquera filmed himself...
Swedish police have arrested a teenager after a fatal triple shooting in the city of Uppsala on Tuesday. The shooter reportedly fled on a scooter following the attack in a hair salon in the centre of the city, triggering a manhunt. Police confirmed on Wednesday that the person arrested for the shooting is under the...
At least 14 people, including two children, have been killed after a massive fire broke out at a hotel in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Two people were also seriously injured in the fire, which started on Tuesday night at Rituraj Hotel in Kolkata city. The blaze is now under control, but authorities...
The dad of a 14-year-old boy killed in a crash on the M6 has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Ryan Liam Morgan, from Morecambe, was killed on 20 April after the Peugeot van in which he was a passenger left the carriageway between junctions 34 and 33 southbound and crashed into a...