Around the world, conservative groups have been gaining influence, bolstering the power of right-wing leaders. It is a trend driven not only by older generations but also by the young. The rapid rise of Brazil's new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro may have surprised some observers but it did not come out of thin air. His success follows years of support from powerful social movements. Such groups
China's hidden camps What's happened to the vanished Uighurs of Xinjiang? China is accused of locking up hundreds of thousands of Muslims without trial in its western region of Xinjiang. The government denies the claims, saying people willingly attend special “vocational schools” which combat “terrorism and religious extremism”. Now a BBC investigation has found important new evidence of the reali
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 left a ring of ghost villages as residents fled, fearing radiation poisoning. But now people are choosing to live in the crumbling houses on the edge of the exclusion zone. On a warm summer's evening, Maryna Kovalenko is playing football with her two teenage daughters in their backyard. Iryna and Olena laugh as the family dog attempts to wrestle away the ball
Venue: Flushing Meadows, New York Dates: 27 August-9 September Coverage: Live radio coverage on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; live text commentaries on the BBC Sport website Naomi Osaka won the US Open after an angry Serena Williams accused the umpire of being a "thief" in some of the most dramatic scenes at a Grand Slam final. Williams was given a game penalty for her outburst, which followed ra
The northern Syrian province of Idlib is the last remaining stronghold controlled by forces opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian government forces have been pushing into rebel-held territory with the help of Iranian-backed militias and Russian airstrikes. Dozens of towns and villages have been captured by Syrian forces including a key strategic highway, the main economic artery through Syr
Naomi Osaka is the first Japanese woman to reach a Grand Slam final Venue: Flushing Meadows, New York Dates: 27 August-9 September Coverage: Live radio coverage on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; live text commentaries on the BBC Sport website Naomi Osaka says she "always dreamed" she would play her idol Serena Williams in a Grand Slam final after both reached this year's US Open decider. The 20-ye
Ozil, capped 92 times by Germany, announced he has quit international footballEhrenfeld is a part of Cologne, Germany, renowned for its multi-cultural community. Senol, working behind the till at one newsagents by the train station, represents just that. About half a century ago, his family uprooted from Turkey and came to Germany as guest workers after a labour shortage. Some 60 miles up the road
Learning a new language can be tricky, but how many words do you need to know before you can actually get by in a foreign tongue? That was the question posed to BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme by one frustrated listener. Despite learning German for three years, and practising nearly every day, they still couldn't seem to retain more than 500 words.
A brief history of the peace symbol - from its design in 1958 to now.
Shah Marai, the chief photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Kabul, has been killed in a bombing in the Afghan capital. Here we present a small selection of his work documenting his homeland. Marai regularly photographed the site of suicide bombings. Here, residents inspect one outside a voter registration centre on 22 April this year
After millions of deaths, the Korean war finally ended indecisively with an armistice in August 1953, but to this day no peace treaty has been reached More than six decades after the guns fell silent at the end of three years of bloody combat on the Korean peninsula, the two Koreas remain in a technical state of war. Hostilities were ended with an armistice and no peace treaty has ever been signed
Airline staff have taken to social media to complain that passengers are not paying attention For experienced flyers, the in-flight safety demonstration can seem like a mundane legal requirement that they already know inside-out. Air disasters are not very common, but on Tuesday a US woman died because of an in-flight emergency on a Southwest Airlines plane. The flight, carrying 149 passengers on
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