BBC News:
| France's oldest female detainee, 79, goes on trial for in-law's grisly murder | Tue 16th Jun 2026 15:46 BST |
A dismembered body found in a chain-bound trunk in the Seine in 1995 was only recently connected to the defendant by DNA evidence. | |
| India: Why a country of 1.4 billion is not in the football World Cup | Wed 17th Jun 2026 00:09 BST |
The world's most populous country is still missing from football's biggest stage. | |
| The bikers battling extreme heat and armed conflict to smuggle Iranian fuel to Pakistan | Wed 17th Jun 2026 00:52 BST |
It's so hot the fuel can catch fire - the bikers tell the BBC they must live with the risk of injury and death. | |
| Tehran selling deal with US as victory – but for Iranians it was necessity | Tue 16th Jun 2026 16:31 BST |
For many Iranians, the question is not whether the deal means victory, but whether it lowers prices and reduces fear of another war. | |
| What one country's experiment says about attempts to boost birth rates | Tue 16th Jun 2026 00:56 BST |
Why did Hungary’s pronatalist approach deliver an early rise in births only then to fall back? And what lessons does it offer to other countries desperate to lift fertility? | |
| 'Greatest feeling ever': Cape Verdeans tell BBC of joy at holding Spain to draw | Tue 16th Jun 2026 00:01 BST |
The streets of the capital, Praia, shook with wild celebrations as the small island nation held Spain to a shock 0-0 draw. | |


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