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Petition signed by 40,000 relays concerns over risk of seismic activity in vicinity of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant. Published On 21 Jan 202621 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Japan is set to restart the world’s largest nuclear power plant as it turns back to the energy source a decade and a read more

The health of detained veteran Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye has “reached a critical and deteriorating state”, his party says, after he was taken overnight to a medical facility in the capital, Kampala. The 69-year-old politician was driven to a private medical facility under “heavy security”, the People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) party said, without read more

Aviation safety campaigners in the United States say they have evidence a plane that crashed in India last year had previously suffered a series of technical failures, including an in-flight fire. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed on 12 June, shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad en route to London, killing 260 people. The Foundation for read more

US president resumed journey to Europe on Boeing 757 that departed just after midnight on Wednesday. Published On 21 Jan 202621 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share United States President Donald Trump’s plane has been forced to make a U-turn about an hour after departing its base for the World read more

Merlyn Thomas,correspondent, BBC Verify, Shayan Sardarizadeh,senior journalist, BBC Verifyand Ghoncheh Habibiazad,senior journalist BBC Warning: this story contains graphic content which some readers might find distressing Hundreds of photos revealing the faces of those killed during Iran’s violent crackdown on anti-government protests have been leaked to BBC Verify. The pictures, which are too graphic to show read more

A landmark study has paved the way for type 1 diabetes screening among children to stop them “crash landing” into diagnosis. NHS pre-diabetes clinics for children are to be set up after the study confirmed the feasibility of using finger-prick blood tests to spot the disease before symptoms arise. The study found children can be read more

The man who killed Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been sentenced to life in prison, three and a half years after he fatally shot the ex-leader during a rally in the city of Nara in 2022. Tetsuya Yamagami himself pleaded guilty to the crime at the trial’s opening last year, but what punishment read more

Defending champions Nigeria face a reunion with Zambia while Morocco have been handed a North African derby in the group draw for the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon). The Super Falcons thrashed Zambia 5-0 on the way to beating Morocco 2-1 in the final in Rabat and claiming a record-extending 10th Wafcon title read more

Dhaka, Bangladesh – For the first time in his life, Abdur Razzak, a 45-year-old banker in Bangladesh’s Faridpur district, believes the political party he supports has a real chance of coming to power as the leader of a ruling alliance. Campaigning for the Jamaat-e-Islami party’s “scales” symbol in his town, Razzak said people he was read more

Attempts to cheat on driving tests in Britain soared by 47% in a year, an investigation has found, sparking road safety concerns. Some 2,844 cases were recorded in the year to the end of September 2025, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) figures show. This has increased from 1,940 during the previous 12 months, and read more

Watch: Veronika the cow shows off her unique skills Scientists are rethinking what cattle are capable of after an Austrian cow named Veronika was found to use tools with impressive skill. The discovery, reported by researchers in Vienna, suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed. Veronika, a cow living in a read more

Former Cameroon star Samuel Eto’o has been handed a four-match ban and fined $20,000 (£14,960) after being found guilty of misconduct by a Confederation of African Football (Caf) disciplinary panel. A Caf statement said that Eto’o, now president of his nation’s football federation (Fecafoot), had violated its principles of sportsmanship during the 2026 Africa Cup read more

US has moved to assert strict control over the production and sale of Venezuelan oil since attacking the country this month. Published On 21 Jan 202621 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share The United States military announced that it has seized a seventh Venezuela-linked oil tanker, as the US tightens read more

Nintendo has announced a free update for the Switch title Donkey Kong Country Returns HD and it’s available today! This update comes with multiple improvements when playing the game on Switch 2, including enhanced resolution, higher-definition graphics, and faster load times. There’s also GameShare support. As for the content in this update (available across both read more

A train driver has been killed and 37 people injured after a commuter train derailed near Barcelona. A retaining wall “collapsed on to the tracks”, causing the incident, the region’s civil protection agency said on social media. The accident occurred just two days after a train collision killed 42 people in southern Spain and injured read more

Australia’s parliament has voted for sweeping gun law reforms and a crackdown on hate speech, a month after two attackers shot 15 people dead at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach. Both bills passed the House of Representatives and Senate at a special sitting late on Tuesday. The gun reform measures include a national gun read more

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has thanked Elon Musk for all the additional publicity that their online spat has brought his airline, saying sales have risen two to three percent in the last five days. Musk has suggested he could buy the budget airline and called O’Leary “insufferable” and “an idiot”, after O’Leary rejected the idea read more

Usha Vance, the wife of Vice-President JD Vance, has announced she is pregnant with her fourth child. In a post on X, the second lady said she is looking forward to welcoming a boy in late July. “Usha and the baby are doing well,” a statement posted on Tuesday to the second lady’s social media read more

United States President Donald Trump has made a range of claims about the state of the US economy. In a long and meandering address to the media on Tuesday, the first year anniversary of his second term as president, Trump’s claims ranged from there being “no inflation” in the US to drug prices being slashed read more