São Paulo’s food pellets plan for poor children divides Brazil
Image copyright Reuters Image caption A woman holds up a placard reading "food pellets are not a meal" during a protest Plans to feed poor children reconstituted food made from leftovers near expiry have sparked a growing row in the
Suicide bomb in Kabul Shia mosque kills dozens
A suicide bomber has killed at least 30 people inside a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.An eyewitness told the BBC the scene at the Imam Zaman mosque, in the west of the city, "looks like a frontline".
New Zealand to hold cannabis referendum within three years
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ms Ardern was given a rapturous welcome by Labour Party members on Friday, after she clinched a deal to rule in coalition New Zealand will hold a referendum on legalising the recreational use of
Players ‘applaud’ Xi Jinping in Tencent game
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Users "clap" for Mr Xi by tapping their phone screen A smartphone game in which players can "applaud" Chinese president Xi Jinping has gone viral.The app, released in the week of the Communist Party
Catalonia crisis: Spain plans for elections as independence row grows
Image copyright AFP Image caption Catalan authorities have refused to drop their campaign for independence from Spain Spain's conservative government has agreed with the socialist opposition to hold regional elections in Catalonia in January, the socialists say.The elections are part
A populist billionaire
Image copyright EPA Image caption Andrej Babis's centrist, anti-establishment ANO movement leads the polls Voters in the Czech Republic are likely to hand power to controversial billionaire Andrej Babis, the country's second-richest man who ran on an anti-corruption platform but
EU paves way for post-Brexit trade talks
EU leaders have agreed to start preparing for trade talks with the UK - as Theresa May admits there is "some way to go" in negotiations.As expected, her 27 EU counterparts agreed at a Brussels summit that not enough progress
MH370: Malaysia in deal with US firm to restart plane search
Image copyright EPA Image caption The search for the Malaysia Airlines plane was suspended in January Malaysia has struck a "no find-no fee" deal with a US company to locate the wreckage of downed flight MH370.The government accepted an offer
CIA chief: North Korea ‘on cusp’ of nuclear capability
Image copyright Reuters Image caption North Korea has ramped up its missile testing in recent months CIA director Mike Pompeo has warned that North Korea is on the cusp of being able to hit the US with a nuclear missile.He
Pollution linked to one in six deaths
Image copyright Getty Images Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in The Lancet has found. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution could account for up to