Instagram accounts fuelling Ceuta crisis with paid advice for help to cross

14. Aug. 2026, 12:19

BBC's Top Comment podcast has found a network of Instagram profiles glamourising the swim around the Morocco-Ceuta border fence.

'Unprecedented' rain in Japan kills eight people

14. Aug. 2026, 10:36

The storm cut power to more than 20,000 households and left 7,000 people stranded at Tokyo's Narita airport.

Stolen Matisse artworks recovered by police in Brazil

14. Aug. 2026, 10:55

A man is arrested after eight works by the French artist are found at a home in greater São Paulo.

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow ballroom work to continue

14. Aug. 2026, 15:10

Forcing the US president to go "hat-in-hand to Congress" for permission would be "dangerous", the administration says.

Activists try to deliver aid to Palestinians in homes besieged by Israeli settlers

14. Aug. 2026, 17:03

Two families have been trapped in their homes in the occupied West Bank for several days.

Builders unearth €9m gold stash sealed in walls of Belgian property

14. Aug. 2026, 13:18

Construction workers found the stash in the walls of a cellar while drilling to lay sewage pipes.

France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s

14. Aug. 2026, 16:35

The Constitutional Council says it infringes upon freedom of expression - but President Macron vows to prepare a new draft.

Zambia vote counting resumes after pause over alleged attacks on polling staff

14. Aug. 2026, 16:28

The electoral commission said violence had "resulted in the theft of marked ballot papers".