Syria: catching the bus to Islamic State’s capital
“If you have a young man of army age in your bus or someone they think is a spy, there’s nothing you can do. They take them off the bus, beat them and send them back to Raqqa.”
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“A remarkable woman who got remarkable stories” – the BBC’s director general Tony Hall joins many others in paying tribute to the life and work of Sue Lloyd-Roberts, who has died of cancer.
Turkey says dozens of people have been killed and hundreds injured after two explosions outside the train station in the country’s capital, Ankara.
“If you have a young man of army age in your bus or someone they think is a spy, there’s nothing you can do. They take them off the bus, beat them and send them back to Raqqa.”
Tens of thousands of people in Manchester march in protest against government police as the Conservative party hold their annual conference in the city.
SSI, the Thai owner of the Redcar steel works, is to go into liquidation – just days after the historic plant was mothballed.
Hany Al Moliya never imagined he’d become a refugee. After members of his family were murdered in their homes, his relatives fled Syria. He is legally blind and tells his story through photography.
Caribbean campaigners want Britain and other European countries to pay for the historic crimes of the transatlantic slave trade.
By saying he wouldn’t press the button many feel Jeremy Corbyn is either saying he wouldn’t be prime minister or he’s saying he would over-rule party policy and effectively disarm unilaterally.
It was a confident and relaxed performance, better than many expected. But probably a bit tougher than some might have expected.
Iron and steelmaking at the SSI plant in Redcar is to be mothballed with the loss of 1,700 jobs.
The shadow foreign secretary is quietly dropped from Labour’s governing body as the party tries to avoid a damaging row over the renewal of Trident.
Delegates at the Labour conference vote to debate other issues, heading off a potentially damaging row over the party’s policy on the future of nuclear weapons in the UK.
It was the unswayability of the left vote that put Alexis Tsipras straight back into the prime ministerial mansion he resigned from a month ago, calling a snap election.
Hany Al Moliya never imagined he’d become a refugee. But three years ago, after members of his family were murdered in their homes, he and his remaining relatives fled the country.
Alexis Tsipras’ final election rally had the usual soundtrack and familiar props but a different cast. After more than a fifth of his MPs split to form a new left party, the inner core of party activists behind the stage were nervous. Would anybody more than the party faithful come?