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Polls in Myanmar have closed after a third and final stage of voting in what are widely viewed as sham elections.Many popular parties are banned from standing and voting has not been possible in large areas of the country...

Getty ImagesUnusually for a foreign national, Tully was accorded two of India's top civilian honours: the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan. Britain too gave him recognition. He was knighted for services to broadcasting and journalism in the 2002...

American climber Alex Honnold has successfully scaled a Taiwan skyscraper without a rope, harness or safety equipment. The building, named Taipei 101 for the number of its floors, stands at 508m (1,667ft) of steel, glass and concrete and is...

Bystander footage has captured the moments before the killing of 37-year-old Minneapolis man Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers.Federal and state officials have conflicting accounts of the events which lead to Pretti's death.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says agents...

Climber Alex Honnold has completed a free solo ascent of Taipei 101 in Taiwan, not using any ropes to scale the massive 1,667-foot skyscraper — and he did it live, as the world watched on...

EPA/ShutterstockAnalysts says India's parade stands apart from similar military displays elsewhere in the world for a number of reasons. The fact that India has a guest almost every year is one of them.Also, for most countries, these parades commemorate...

2026 has brought a huge range of important news stories from Venezuela and Greenland to Minneapolis and Washington DC. The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins has been looking at how Americans feel about what's been happening and about their...

President Trump shocked NATO partners in an interview with Fox News this week about U.K. veterans and fallen soldiers in Afghanistan. He walked back the comments on Truth Social. Haley Ott has more details. Source link

President Trump insults the Canadian prime minister, calling him "Governor Mark Carney," as he threatens new tariffs against the country. Willie James Inman has the details. Source link

Allan LittleSenior correspondentBBCI had been asked to give a key-note speech at a conference at Columbia University's Journalism School. It was January 2002. Two planes had been flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre months earlier...