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The 29-year-old was set to wed Kei Komuro in 2018 until reports his family was in financial difficulty.

International travel will be open to vaccinated travellers for the first time in 18 months.

This is its fourth weapons test in under a month, highlighting its push towards weapons development.

A Turkish man joined a search party without realising he was the person they were looking for.

Most of those not making the target of 10% of people fully vaccinated by the end of September are in Africa.

An award-winning US playwright talks about his new Princess Diana and Tom Jones stage shows.

Michelle is pregnant and has chosen to get an abortion. In Texas, that has become much harder to do.

Everyone has been talking about Squid Game, the hyper-violent thriller that has become a massive hit.

Eighty women and girls were videoed by secret cameras at a festival, but a judge dismissed the case.

Families are in a desperate search for loved ones after the deadly fight in the Guayaquil jail.

A series of spending packages have put the White House and the Democrats in crisis mode this week.

Organisers say the world fair will be the largest global gathering since the start of the pandemic.

Piles of rubbish are one of the problems facing Rome as its residents vote for a new mayor this weekend

Jew Uriya Rosenman and Arab Sameh Zakout expose hidden prejudices on both sides in their hit song.

Randall Goosby is a rising star of classical music, who performed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony.

The singer reveals she was molested by a family member when she was a child at music school.

The measure must now pass the lower chamber of Congress before funding lapses at midnight.

The man took his life before he could be questioned about the case and provide a DNA sample.

It is the first such trip since the two countries established diplomatic relations last year.

The artist was given around $83,000 to recreate old artworks, but then produced two blank canvasses.

Two companies are hoping to move the quantum industry in two different directions.

A tornado strikes the city of Kiel, throwing people from boats and ripping roofs from homes.

After the jeers of Greta Thunberg, minsters meet in Italy for the last UN talks before a major climate summit.

However, he condemned the US' offer of dialogue, saying it was a "petty trick" of deception.

As the Bond film is released, some of Britain's real-life spies reveal something of life inside MI6.

A judge removes Britney Spears' father from the legal arrangement that gave him control of her life.

The government had hoped to avoid compensating children discriminated against in the welfare system.

In a US first, a citizen-convened jury will decide whether a violent encounter warrants rape charges.

Maria Kolesnikova calls the case against her "absurd" in her first interview since her conviction.

Businesses are under intense scrutiny as President Xi attempts to narrow China's wealth gap.

Zaid Ait Malek had always been a good runner. Now it would make the difference between capture and escape.

Jamie Spears was removed after the singer alleged abuse, but another conservator remains in charge.

Jack, Wesley and Darcy, who are all 14 and 15, set up CovidBaseAU anonymously to track data in Australia.

The February 2020 deal set a date for the US to pull out and strengthened the Taliban, generals say.

Roberto Cingolani tells the BBC politicians have not done enough and COP26 aims to change that.

Videos saying vaccines cause autism, cancer or infertility are among those banned from the platform.

Ms Kay has quit Ozy Media after reports one of its executives deceived potential investors.

Politicians have just over 24 hours to avoid a potentially disastrous government shutdown.

France has accused the north African countries of failing to co-operate over returning nationals.

Athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics who are not fully vaccinated will have to serve a 21-day quarantine on arrival in Beijing.

Brady Mistic alleges he was slammed to the ground and tasered during a 2019 incident in Colorado.

Clouds of steam rise as the red-hot current makes contact with the Atlantic on the Spanish island.

It is the latest in a series of deadly incidents as rival gang members fight for control of prisons.

The House committee investigating Donald Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol is quietly devising plans to pressure hostile witnesses to spill their secrets. The select panel’s leaders are preparing a narrow set of legal and tactical options as they brace for Trump allies to invoke a wide range of constitutional protections to avoid testifying — from claiming executive privilege to invoking their constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination. Whether it’s coaxing reluctant witnesses with offers of immunity or bludgeoning them with criminal contempt of Congress, lawmakers say they’ll be ready for whatever obstacles witnesses throw their way. The goal: prevent lengthy court battles that could derail the Jan. 6 investigation the way Trump stymied House and Senate investigators for his entire term. “We have the full panoply of sanctions available for people who refuse to comply with a congressional subpoena,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), one of the Jan. 6 Committee’s ...

Joe Biden knows the way to progressives’ hearts but he’s still trying to figure out what makes Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema tick. Between now and Thursday, the White House is devoting all of its energy to sketching out a framework for a social spending and climate package upon which the factions of the Democratic party can agree. Inside the West Wing, the belief is that it all begins with nailing down the two centrist Senate Democrats on what they can live with in the president’s $3.5 trillion plan, in the hopes that their support will clear a path to pass both that bill and the infrastructure proposal waiting for a vote in the House. Biden’s game plan: Get an agreement framework from Manchin and Sinema soon so he can show progressives there is a path forward on reconciliation. The White House is hoping such a framework can convince progressives to then back the bipartisan infrastructure bill, even if it means the vote on reconciliation comes later. Key to that is a commitment fr...

The vast majority of its 67,000 US employees comply with the airline's Covid-19 vaccine policy.

Mr Kishida will succeed Yoshihide Suga, who decided to step down after just one year in office.

Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao retires from the sport to focus on running for president in the 2022 Philippines elections.

The UK grants just 12 licences from 47 applications for smaller vessels to fish in its territorial sea.

China hands out twice as much development cash as the US - mostly high-interest loans from state banks.

The historic deal is for the world's oldest tropical rainforest, now a huge tourism destination.

He led a rogue police force who were jailed for a long list of crimes. Now in a BBC exclusive he explains why.

State media called it a "strategic weapon", which could mean it has nuclear capabilities.

Clouds of white steam are seen billowing at the Playa Nueva area of Spain's La Palma island.

After years of dispute and legal rows, former President Obama's major legacy project is underway.

A California judge clears the way for Alejandro Toledo to face trial in Peru on corruption charges.

Climate change is causing once-mighty rivers to dry up and temperatures to rise to deadly levels in Mexico.

Coalition governments are rare in the UK. Germany has had nothing but them since the end of the war.

How Aar Maanta is teaching children in Minneapolis to sing in Somali and learn about their heritage.

General Frantz Tavart says he will withdraw troops from the coastline if funding from the UK is withheld.

The BBC revisits the family of a 19-year-old who died in India last year after reporting gang rape.

Sheriff Tiraspol produce one of the great Champions League shocks by beating Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.

The bronze statue to honour a 19th Century poem is called "offensive" and "humiliating" to women.

Palaeontologists from Australia found the 'exceptional' fossilised remains in 2016.

US troops left Afghanistan in August after the capital, Kabul, fell once more to Taliban militants.

The election is over but months of talks are just getting started to see who will be chancellor.

Police suspect the explosion and subsequent fire may have been caused deliberately.

The prime minister dismissed the electoral council and no new date has been set for elections.

There are fears that Mark Rutte could be the target of an attack or kidnapping.

The administration didn't second-guess its decision to rapidly withdraw from Afghanistan. Lawmakers are fuming.

Tariffs and trade restrictions on imported solar panels could curtail deployment of clean energy desperately needed to hit Biden’s climate goals.

The miners are climbing 1km-worth of ladders to escape the Totten mine in Sudbury, Ontario.

Can the world's third largest emitter of fossil fuels end its reliance on coal?

It coincides with the high-profile release of Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou and two Canadians.

The country has seen electricity shortages that have left some factories and homes without power.

Six former female judges who have gone into hiding speak to the BBC from secret locations across the country.

South Korea’s military says the object landed in waters off Japan early Tuesday morning.

The head of one of Afghanistan's biggest banks says the country's financial sector is near collapse.

The move comes after the European Commission threatened to pull funding from the areas.

The rare audio track was made in Denmark more than 50 years ago, months before The Beatles split.

Twins Evan and Lizzy are enrolled in Pfizer's vaccine trial for children between ages five and 11.

The country is still grappling with how to remember one of the worst massacres of World War Two.

The US President and other Americans over 65 are now eligible for a third jab of the Pfizer vaccine.

After decades of allegations, the singer was found guilty of running a scheme to abuse women and children.

The election is over but months of talks are just getting started to see who will be chancellor.

A woman and child were injured, but Australian police say it's "incredibly lucky" others weren't hurt.

Annalena Baerbock said the numbers were "fantastic" for the Green Party in Germany's election.

Hakuho has recorded more wins, titles and perfect championships than any other sumo wrestler.

Immigration, voting rights, policing, gun control: Congress is filled with liberal hopes crushed by the reality of slim Democratic majorities. So progressives are digging in on what could be their last chance at success in years. As Democrats race to pull together a multitrillion-dollar party-line social spending package, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s left flank is pushing as hard as it can to see progressive priorities reflected. They’ve repeatedly vowed to tank a bipartisan infrastructure bill on the floor as soon as Monday if they don’t see more movement — a strategic flex that reflects how many of their other goals have withered. The party-line spending bill was always important to the left, designed as a once-in-a-generation expansion of the social safety net. But as other legislation vital to liberal lawmakers stalled or collapsed, thanks in large part to the threat of a Senate GOP filibuster, the social spending plan acquired outsized importance to progressives. “Reconciliation is t...

Democrats are running out of time to prepare an unpalatable debt limit contingency plan as Republicans keep stonewalling and the nation nears a devastating default. GOP leaders have insisted that Democrats lift the cap on government borrowing without Republican votes, by using the same budgetary move that's helping them take up a mammoth social spending plan as soon as this week. But that’s an untested play, one that could put the whole package — which is already wobbling amid intraparty disputes — at risk. It's a lengthy maneuver, too: Experts and congressional aides estimate that adding the debt limit to Democrats' party-line spending bill could take about two weeks, requiring revisions to the budget measure that the party deployed to steer it past a Senate GOP blockade. Two weeks is an eternity, given that Congress could slam into a debt wall in as little as three to six weeks, according to a new estimate from the Bipartisan Policy Center — which helps explain why Demo...

Local media reports say at least one person was killed and several injured after buildings collapsed.

An ongoing electricity shortage affecting factories has now spread to some homes.

The leaders of the two biggest parties are now in a race to convince potential partners to join a coalition.

While voting patterns are changing, none of the front-running parties can be described as radical.

The coal-supporting nation has faced increasing pressure to commit to a net-zero emissions target.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday announced the House will vote Thursday on President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill, as Democratic leaders race to unify their fractious caucus ahead of a critical week. Pelosi told her members Sunday night that the vote will now take place Thursday, the same day that a slate of surface transportation programs expire, rather than Monday as originally planned. Debate on the infrastructure legislation will still begin Monday, Pelosi said — the date she and a group of moderates had originally agreed upon in August. Pelosi and her leadership team had signaled for days that the vote could slip past Monday, with dozens of progressives threatening to block it without action on Biden’s separate multitrillion-dollar policy bill. But moderates have fiercely resisted a delay much longer than 24 hours, vowing to ditch the party-line talks altogether if leadership broke the commitment. "Let me just say we're going to pass the bill this week," Pelosi...

The property giant has missed an interest payment deadline, fuelling concerns that it will collapse.

Social Democrat leader Olaf Scholz says he has a "clear mandate" but his rival refuses to give up.

The BBC's Jeremy Bowen travels to Helmand province, a month after the hardline Islamists took control.

A court has thrown out a high-profile sexual harassment case. Can China's feminist movement survive?

The UN says hundreds of trucks have not returned from Tigray and it's affecting the flow of aid.

Indian princes were often stereotyped as lazy hedonists, but they were serious political figures.

Reka Gawa opened the Himalaya Cafe after a chance meeting with the spiritual leader almost 20 years ago.

Afghan news anchor Beheshta Arghand made history when she interviewed the Taliban.

Children will face up to three times as many extreme climate events as their grandparents, research suggests.

Wastewater plants release microplastics into the environment, but could manta rays hold the key to a solution?

Over three quarters of voters approved changes to the total ban on abortion in the European enclave.

The hardline group says anyone cutting beards will be punished as it breaches their reading of Islamic law.

Armin Laschet thanks Angela Merkel for her service as chancellor - but says he is not happy with the election result so far.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said that Democrats will pass an infrastructure bill with $550 billion in new spending sometime this week but wouldn't specify exactly when or nail down the timing for the $3.5 trillion social spending package. The House last month voted for a Sept. 27 deadline to bring the bipartisan infrastructure plan to the floor. On Sunday, Pelosi didn't specify when this week it would be voted on. "Let me just say we're going to pass the bill this week," Pelosi said on ABC's "This Week." She later added, "I'm never bringing a bill to the floor that doesn't have the votes." Along with the infrastructure bill, Democratic leadership is also hoping to push through the $3.5 trillion social spending package this week, in part to retain the support of progressives who might otherwise not vote for the infrastructure bill. While Pelosi said 95 percent of Democrats agree on Biden's Build Back Better agenda,...

“In the future, nobody will be able to interfere in terms of what kind of defense systems we acquire,” he said.

Ethiopia denies Sudan's claim of an incursion in the disputed al-Fashaga border region on Saturday.

Iceland becomes the sixth country in the world with a parliament where 50% of seats are held by women.

A motley gang of deal-making House Republicans took partial credit for pushing through President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan this summer. That doesn’t mean they’ll all vote for it. The roughly 50-member centrist group, dubbed the Problem Solvers Caucus, wedged its way into this summer's multitrillion-dollar talks between Biden and some like-minded Senate Republicans. While the group's exact role in prying loose a Senate compromise is up for debate, many of those House members, including Republicans, claimed a critical role . Democrats — and even some Republicans — in the group are now pleading with their GOP counterparts to ignore a robust whipping operation by their own party and back the infrastructure bill on the floor Monday. And it's not just the infrastructure bill that could be in jeopardy if those GOP votes don't appear on the floor next week, with a group of progressives still warning they’ll block the bill without more concessions on a broader, partisan...

Projections suggest more than 60% have voted yes to the proposal, already law in most of western Europe.

Israel said it was conducting raids against Hamas militants who were planning an attack.

Dozens of people are injured after several carriages of the Amtrak train came off the tracks.

Reality Check takes a look at the facts and figures behind the world's nuclear weapons

A crucial climate change summit is being held in the UK- who's going and what's at stake?

Ethiopian and Eritrean food is well known globally, but this is your chance to discover Somali cooking.

The election race could barely be tighter as voters decide who will run Europe's biggest economy.

Bagosora was serving a 35-year sentence for his role in the massacre of 800,000 people.

The Global Citizen: Live festival will see performances from more than 60 artists in six continents.

There has been a growing number of reports in recent years from Navy pilots and other military personnel of highly advanced craft of unknown origin violating protected airspace, some of them maneuvering in ways that seem to defy known aerodynamics.

The two were released after a Huawei executive was freed in Canada, ending a three-year diplomatic row.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has begun to solicit testimony from the rioters, issuing requests for some defendants to voluntarily provide an account of their decision to travel to Washington and join the angry mob. Lawyers for multiple riot defendants who have already pleaded guilty say they have received communications from the panel in recent days requesting their clients’ cooperation with the committee, which is led by Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). "The Select Committee is examining the facts, circumstances, and causes of January 6, 2021, in order to identify and evaluate lessons learned and to recommend corrective law, policies, procedures, rules or regulations," said one such letter, obtained by POLITICO. "As part of that effort, we would like to interview your client, who we understand has accepted responsibility and pleaded guilty." A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment....

The Islamist militant group Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the attack in the capital.

Nancy Pelosi has never been in a bind like this before. The speaker is on the cusp of muscling through a pair of bills that amount to trillions of dollars in investments that, if they make it to President Joe Biden’s desk, will reshape both her and the president’s legacies. But Pelosi is working with a caucus that can’t even agree to disagree at the moment and a pair of centrist senators — who don’t answer to her — with their own ideas about how things should go. Pelosi is a self-described “master legislator” but even her power over how Biden's agenda plays out across two chambers with threadbare majorities has its limits. “I've got a lot of faith in Nancy Pelosi. She's worked a lot of magic. This is probably the biggest challenge that she's ever faced, that we as a caucus have faced,” said Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.). “I'm not worried at the point now where I start taking my money out of the bank or out of the market,” he continued. “But I am very concerned that...

Democratic leaders and President Joe Biden are speeding up their work on Biden’s massive jobs and families plan. Joe Manchin keeps throttling momentum back. The president wants Manchin and other holdouts to find a top-line number they are comfortable with for the transformational spending bill that will run into the trillions of dollars, but Manchin isn’t yet ready to give one. His colleagues hope he will single out which provisions in the social spending program that he wants to ax so they can begin negotiating in earnest, but he’s in no rush to do so. Instead, Manchin sees the current state of spending programs in good shape through the end of the year, when the expiration of the expanded child tax credit could force more action in Congress. And so even as the House looks to vote on a reconciliation bill totaling into the trillions as soon as next week, they are unlikely to have Manchin’s blessing anytime soon. “What’s the need? There is no timeline. I want to understand it,” Manc...

The politicians vying to replace Angela Merkel as German chancellor make final appeals ahead of Sunday's vote.

The leaders of the US, Japan, India and Australia also launched a new climate initiative at the US summit.