BBCのクリス・モリス記者が、2017年の欧州で注目される選挙や欧州連合（EU）縮小の動きについて展望を解説する。

2016年が政治面で激動の1年だったとするならば、2017年はテクノロジーの分野で同じくらい激動の年になりそうだ。

暗殺事件の現場にプロの報道カメラマンがいることは珍しい。要人殺害の瞬間や、直後の実行犯の表情が、報道写真として記録に残るのは極めてまれだ。 しかしトルコの首都アンカラで19日、ロシアのアンドレイ・カルロフ駐トルコ大使（62）が写真展の会場で警官に射殺された時、AP通信のカメラマン、ブルハン・オズビリジ氏は偶然、最前列に居合わせた。

In a stunning election night, the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump, secured victory after a string of formerly Democratic states swung his way. Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan all turned red. Nationally, Donald Trump won 47% of the vote to Hillary Clinton's 48% - yet this translated into 306 electoral college votes for the Republicans and 232 for the Democra

ブライアン・ジャクソンさんは当時、赤ちゃんだった。HIV（エイズウイルス）に感染した血液を、実の父親に注射された。父親は息子が成長しないよう望んでいたのだ。そして24年後。堂々たる青年となったジャクソンさんは、父親と法廷で対面する。 ミズーリ州矯正局は、お昼休みだった。ブライアン・ジャクソンさん（BryanではなくBrryanと書く）は緊張していた。刑務所の待合室から、入室案内のブザーや響き渡る金属製のドアをくぐって、簡素な法廷に入った。白い壁に囲まれた法廷は、しんと静かだった。

私たちは「アベノミクス」の終わりを目撃しているのだろうか。世界3位の経済をデフレから脱却させる壮大な努力は、失敗したのか。 先月末には、日本銀行が初めてマイナス金利を導入し、未知の領域に足を踏み込んだ。先週は、日経平均株価は8％近く下落し、過去2年の上昇を打ち消す水準まで低下した。きょうの発表で、国内総生産（GDP）がまたもや縮小に転じたことが明らかになった。

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has issued a much-anticipated statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. He gave a "heartfelt apology", but as the BBC's Mariko Oi explains, that is only one of the many ways you can express remorse in Japanese. In English, you either say "sorry" or "apologies". In Japanese, there are at least 20 different ways. One of the most casual and

Protestors holding 'No' signs drowned out the final vote to restart the reactor Two reactors at Japan's Sendai nuclear plant are due to become the first to be restarted in the country since the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima facility. The governor of Japan's Kagoshima prefecture gave his approval, marking the final hurdle for the restart, which is now likely to happen next year. Before the acciden

There were fierce clashes between pro- and anti-Russian protesters in the eastern city of Kharkiv Russia's upper house of parliament has approved President Putin's request for Russian forces to be used in Ukraine. He had asked that Russian forces be used "until the normalisation of the political situation in the country". Russia's Black Sea Fleet is based in the Ukrainian region of Crimea, where m

President Park was marking the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule South Korean President Park Geun-hye has warned Japan it will only bring isolation on itself if it reviews a statement acknowledging its wartime use of sex slaves. She called on Japan to embrace "truth and reconciliation". Japan apologised in 1993 to survivors of the many thousands of women who were forced into army brothe

Japan hopes to immortalise its kamikaze pilots - a squad of young men who crashed their aircraft into Allied ships in World War Two - by seeking Unesco World Heritage status for a collection of their letters. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes meets the former pilot who built the collection, in honour of his fallen comrades. "Kamikaze" - it is a word that has become synonymous with all that is crazy, fanatica