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Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent, BBC News Getty Images When Donald Trump was sworn in as US president for a second time in January, he made a promise. “My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier,” he told his audience at home and far beyond. Then, a little more than a hundred […]

Neyaz Farooquee & Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, Delhi and London Verified video shows the Air India plane descending before deadly crash An Air India plane travelling from India to London crashed within moments of take-off on Thursday, killing 241 passengers and crew, and more people on the ground. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which took off […]

A London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India. The airline says 241 people on the plane were killed – one passenger, a British national, survived and is receiving treatment in hospital. Dramatic footage shows the aircraft taking off before coming down in a […]

Reuters Almost all those on board an Air India flight bound for London Gatwick Airport that crashed shortly after take-off in western India have died, the airline has confirmed. There were 242 passengers and crew on board the plane, including 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian. Officials earlier said some […]

Matt Murphy & Joshua Cheetham BBC Verify BBC What exactly happened to Flight AI171 between Ahmedabad and London Gatwick on Thursday afternoon will only be revealed by a detailed investigation, but the moments after take-off can be the most challenging in aviation. Indian investigators will be joined by experts from the US and UK in […]

Eleven people have died in a school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz, including a 21-year-old gunman who took his own life. It is is the deadliest gun attack in the country’s recent history. The BBC’s Bethany Bell visited where incident took place at Dreierschützengasse secondary school in the north-west of the city. Other […]

Adam Easton Warsaw correspondent Getty Images Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has won a vote of confidence in his pro-EU government after his political camp narrowly lost the recent presidential election. Some 243 parliamentarians voted in favour of the coalition government, with 210 voting against and no abstentions. This vote has been seen by some […]

At least 49 people, including several schoolchildren, have been killed in the floods that have swept through South Africa’s Eastern Cape province as torrential rain and snow have hit parts of the country. “The numbers are just escalating hour after hour. The situation is so bad on the ground,” provincial premier Oscar Mabuyane said. Among […]

Peter Hoskins Business reporter, BBC News Natalie Sherman Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Talks aimed at cooling tensions between the US and China have ended in a “deal”, according to US President Donald Trump. He said China had agreed to supply US companies with magnets and rare earth metals, while the US would walk […]

Carl Nasman, Ana Faguy and Gary O’Donoghue BBC News, Los Angeles, Washington DC and New York Watch: The BBC’s Carl Nasman explains how immigration raids sparked protests and unrest A curfew is in place for a second night in Los Angeles after nearly a week of unrest in the city over US immigration raids. Multiple […]