Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“We are not nation building again. We are killing terrorists,” President Trump said President Donald Trump has said a hasty US withdrawal from Afghanistan would leave a vacuum for terrorists to fill. He said his original instinct was to pull US forces out, but had instead decided […]

Image copyright Athena Pictures A rare blue lobster has been saved from the cooking pot after a Swansea fishmonger discovered it was a one in two million specimen. Adrian Coakley-Greene, 70, has named the crustacean Chelsea because it is the same colour blue as the Premier League football team. It was caught off North Berwick […]

The UK sets out plans for goods and services after Brexit as it seeks to push EU into trade talks. Source

Image copyright Club Natacion Cadiz Image caption Fernando Alvarez was competing in the FINA World Masters Championships As the buzzer signalled the start of the 200 metre breaststroke final in the FINA World Masters Championships in Budapest, one competitor stood still as others raced away. But Fernando Alvarez had not frozen, overawed by the occasion. […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Lewis shot The Day the Clown Cried in France and Sweden in 1972 The death of US comedy legend Jerry Lewis has prompted renewed interest in his notorious “lost film”, The Day the Clown Cried. The unreleased movie follows a clown who is sent to a concentration camp and […]

Image copyright Facebook Image caption Rocío Cortés Núñez, a mother of three, died at a Seville hospital soon after giving birth to her third child A Spanish woman has died after being crushed in a freak accident involving a hospital lift, local media report. Rocío Cortés Núñez, 25, had just given birth by Caesarian section […]

People hug and chant “no terrorism” on the street where people were killed in last week’s attack. Source

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Monuments to Confederate figures are symbols of “modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism”, the college said The University of Texas has removed four Confederate monuments overnight in the wake of violent clashes in Virginia earlier this month. A statue of General Robert E Lee was among those taken down from the […]

Lukas Podolski scored 31 goals in 82 appearances for Arsenal Former Arsenal forward Lukas Podolski is considering legal action after a right-wing website printed a photo of him with an article about illegal immigration. The ex-Germany international was pictured by Breitbart under the headline: “Spanish Police Crack Gang Moving Migrants on Jet-Skis”. The website has […]

Image copyright PA Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest publishing house, has reversed a decision to censor content in China. The publisher had agreed to suppress access to hundreds of its own articles that dealt with subjects sensitive to the Chinese authorities, such as those about the Tiananmen Square massacre. The Chinese had said that […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Australians watch the government’s long-awaited apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008 It’s one of the most sensitive topics of modern Australia: the country’s past treatment of its indigenous peoples. And its capacity to divide non-indigenous Australians has again been thrust into the spotlight, this time because of a […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe timing of this incident is awkward for the United States The US Navy has ordered a worldwide “operational pause” of its fleet after a destroyer collided with a tanker near Singapore, leaving 10 sailors missing. Five other sailors were injured in the crash involving the guided […]

Eniola Aluko speaks to BBC sports editor Dan Roan Footballer Eniola Aluko has spoken publicly for the first time about the “bullying and discrimination” she says she was subjected to by England head coach Mark Sampson. In her first broadcast interview since details of the controversy emerged earlier this month, the Chelsea Ladies striker – […]

Image caption Gustavo Dudamel angered President Maduro by speaking out against his government Venezuelan star conductor Gustavo Dudamel has confirmed media reports that his US tour with Venezuela’s National Youth Orchestra has been cancelled. Dudamel said the cancellation, which came just days after President Nicolás Maduro publicly criticised him, was “heartbreaking”. In May, the conductor […]

Vincenzo Nibali won the Vuelta in 2010 Britain’s Chris Froome has taken the red jersey and leads the Vuelta a Espana, as Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali won the third stage. The four-time Tour de France champion finished third on the stage, with Spain’s David de la Cruz in second. The Team Sky rider is aiming to […]

Image copyright AFP Image caption The incident is alleged to have happened in Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city Four suspects have been arrested in Morocco after a video emerged on social media showing a group of men sexually molesting a woman on a bus. The footage, posted on Sunday, caused outrage online. It shows the young […]

The US witnesses the spectacular effects of its first coast-to-coast solar eclipse in 100 years. Source

Image copyright AFP Image caption A witness near a petrol station tipped off police Spanish police have shot dead the main suspect in last Thursday’s Barcelona attack, Younes Abouyaaqoub. Police believe he was the driver of a van which careered down the Las Ramblas avenue, killing 13 and injuring more than 100 others. He was […]

A health clinic in Thailand is handing out masks to encourage more women to attend their cervical smear tests. Source

Shoko Takahashi is a rare example of a female boss in the Japanese bio-tech sector. The founder and owner of Gene Quest, she says her parents would not have approved of her starting her own business, so she didn’t tell them for six months. As part of the BBC’s Jumpstarting Japan series – meeting the […]