International

(BBC) A total of 23 people have been arrested and dozens of weapons seized in a series of raids on suspected Islamist militants across France, officials say. The crackdown follows multiple attacks on bars, restaurants, a concert hall and a…

(BBC) Russia's state aviation authority has banned Egypt's national carrier from flying to Russia, a Moscow airport spokesman says. Flights from Russia to Egypt are already suspended after a passenger plane crashed in the Sinai last month.…

(BBC) The Pentagon says it is "reasonably certain" that a US drone strike in Syria has killed the Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John". Col Steve Warren said Thursday's attack in Raqqa had hit the intended target, but it would…

(BBC) German police say the bodies of several babies have been found in a town close to the Czech border. The dead, thought to number seven, were discovered on Thursday after a woman in the town of Wallenfels raised the alarm, police…

(BBC) Apple has apologised to six schoolboys asked to leave one of their shops in Australia, in what the students described as a racist incident. Footage of the incident at Melbourne's Highpoint shopping centre emerged on Tuesday sparking…

(BBC) At least 37 people have been killed and 181 injured in two explosions in the Lebanese capital Beirut, officials say. The blasts hit the southern suburb of Burj el-Barajneh, a stronghold of the Shia Hezbollah movement. The blasts…

(BBC) Protests against racial injustice have spread beyond the University of Missouri as students at least two other US campuses have walked out of classes. Rallies were held on Wednesday at Ithaca College in New York and Smith College in…

Minister Kuo-Yen Wei Environmental Protection Administration Executive Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan) November 2015 During the 1970s, British scholar James Lovelock put forward the Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that the Earth is a…

David Cameron has outlined his four goals for reforming the UK's membership of the EU, including restrictions on benefits for people coming to the UK. He said Britain faced a "huge decision" in the in/out referendum promised before the end…

The University of Missouri System's President, Tim Wolfe, and the Chancellor of the flagship campus, R. Bowen Loftin, announced on Monday that they were resigning their posts in the face of growing protests by African-American students, the…

(BBC) The US government is offering $27m (£18m) in rewards for information on the whereabouts of six leaders of the Somalia-based al-Shabab group. The highest reward is $6m for the group's leader Abu Ubaidah. He replaced Ahmed Abdi…

(BBC) Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have attended a Remembrance Day Service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. They joined the Governor General in laying commemorative crosses and poppy wreaths at the Tomb…

(BBC) The leader of Colombia's largest armed rebel group, the Farc, has said he ordered the organisation in September to stop buying guns and ammunition. Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, known as Timochenko, said the decision showed the Farc's…

(BBC) The mayor of Concepcion, an Argentine town in northern Tucuman province, says he is trapped in the town hall. Mayor Roberto Sanchez said the building was surrounded on Monday night by demonstrators who burned tyres. Mr Sanchez says…

(BBC) Some 11 million children are at risk from hunger, disease and water shortages in east and southern Africa because of the strengthening El Nino weather phenomenon, the UN children's charity has said. It has caused the worst drought in…