China’s ‘tainted’ cottonBy John Sudworth By John Sudworth China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research seen by the BBC. Based on newly discovered online documents, it provides the first clear picture of the potential scale of forced labour in the picking of a cr
Xu’s alleged plot to steal secrets began in March 2017. An American employee of GE Aviation, which supplies engines for both commercial airliners and the military, received an email from someone at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronomic (NUAA), according to Xu’s US indictment. Would the engineer like to come for “an exchange” to China? His travel expenses would be paid. By May 2017 - the
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
Got a TV Licence?You need one to watch live TV on any channel or device, and BBC programmes on iPlayer. It’s the law. Find out more Summary129 people were killed and 352 injured in Friday's attacks'Three co-ordinated teams' appear to have been behind attacksBataclan attacker 'was Frenchman known to police'Stade de France attackers 'had Egyptian and Syrian passports'French interior minister gives l
Facebook has faced criticism over its privacy policies in the past Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it monitors users' private messages. The lawsuit claims that when users share a link to another website via a private message, Facebook scans it to profile the sender's web activity. It alleges that Facebook systematically intercepts messages to mine user data and prof
Mud volcano to stop 'by decade's end' By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco Despite the disruption it has brought to the region, the mud volcano has become a tourist attraction Scientists say the eruption of the Lusi mud volcano in Indonesia should be all but over by the end of the decade - much sooner than previous estimates. The assessment is based on satellite data tha
The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan at Fort Meade: ''The prosecution will be disappointed that the sentence is relatively low'' The US soldier convicted of handing a trove of secret government documents to anti-secrecy website Wikileaks has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Pte First Class Bradley Manning, 25, was convicted in July of 20 charges against him, including espionage. In a statement read
The governor of Texas has called a special legislative session in an attempt to pass an anti-abortion law blocked when a Democratic senator undertook a marathon delaying speech. Republican Rick Perry ordered lawmakers to return on 1 July. Senator Wendy Davis spoke for more than 10 hours on Tuesday, blocking Republicans from banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Republicans ran out of time
The great Tohoku earthquake in Japan two years ago was so big its effects were even felt at the edge of space. Scientists say the Magnitude 9.0 tremor on 11 March 2011 sent a ripple of sound through the atmosphere that was picked up by the Goce satellite. Its super-sensitive instrumentation was able to detect the disturbance as it passed through the thin wisps of air still present 255km above the
A meteor crashing in the Urals of central Russia has reportedly injured at least 400 people, as the shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings. Most of those hurt suffered minor cuts and bruises but some received head injuries, Russian media report. A fireball was seen streaking through the sky above the city of Yekaterinburg, followed by loud bangs. The meteor is believed to have landed in a
The BBC's Daniel Sandford says people described a ball of fire in the sky A meteor crashing in Russia's Ural mountains has injured at least 950 people, as the shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings. Most of those hurt, in the Chelyabinsk region where meteorites fell, suffered cuts and bruises but at least 46 remain in hospital.
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