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BBC News Do you think Aston Martin’s upgrade could persuade Fernando Alonso to continue as a driver? – Robert Fernando Alonso is out of contract at the end of the year and has a decision to make as to whether to stay in F1 next year. He is 45 on Wednesday and has been doing […]

BBC News Former Hong Kong opposition leader Wu Chi-wai has been allowed to stay in the UK with his family for six months, after initially being detained at the border. Wu had arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport last Wednesday, where he was detained for nearly 10 hours and initially refused entry, he told BBC Chinese. […]

BBC News Owner Behdad Eghbali said Chelsea would “tweak” their model and add experience to what he still believes is a strong core of young players, including Cole Palmer, Moises Caicedo and Levi Colwill. Welbeck joining Chelsea would be another sign of a shift in strategy. Their move for him follows attempts to sign 33-year-old […]

BBC News First Test, Tarouba (day three of five) West Indies 311 (Hope 92; Ali 4-50) & 126-7 (Chanderpaul 35, Abbas 3-14) Pakistan 282 (Masood 109; Greaves 5-27) West Indies lead by 155 runs Scorecard West Indies all-rounder Justin Greaves took five wickets without conceding a run in an incredible spell of bowling on day […]

BBC News Last year the murder rate was one of the highest in the world, with more than 9,200 people killed, according to Ecuador’s interior ministry. That’s despite an iron-fisted crackdown by President Noboa over the past two years. Critics say it has backfired. Top crime bosses have been arrested, causing the gangs to fracture, […]

BBC News The BBC’s Orla Guerin goes on patrol with Ecuador’s police, who are grappling with a huge surge in drug crime. Drugs have been pouring into Ecuador from neighbouring Colombia and Peru – the two biggest producers in the world. Powerful home-grown gangs, with links to Mexican cartels and Albanian mafia groups, are then […]

BBC News When US President Donald Trump took the stage earlier this month at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, flanked by the CEOs of some of America’s largest defence firms, he had one message in mind: build more weapons, and build them faster. “We have the best quality in the world,” Trump told the […]

BBC News Shares in major chip firms have fallen sharply in the US and Asia as a sell-off in artificial intelligence-related stocks deepened. Trading on South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index was paused temporarily on Tuesday morning after sliding by 8%. It fell further after the 20-minute halt was lifted to trade around 10% lower. The […]

BBC News Tuesday is a big day in Washington DC, even by White House standards. Long-time Republican Senator Lindsay Graham’s funeral is bringing the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to town. They will separately meet with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss two different wars: the war […]

BBC News Audio recordings that Joe Biden fought for years to keep private – in which he acknowledges possessing classified material after leaving office as US vice-president – have been released by Republicans in Congress. The tapes contain interviews between Biden, now 83, and a ghostwriter working on his 2017 memoir, titled Promise Me, Dad. […]