I've been to our morning meeting and the main prospects for BBC Verify today are: Fact-checking the White House's reasons for ...

Israel says it signed defense contracts worth nearly $15 billion last year, surpassing its all-time record. That's as Israel ...

More than 28 abandoned and boarded up schools in one Midwest city contribute to urban blight — and in some cases have served ...

Northern Italy has been hit by a series of devastating floods in recent years. In March 2025 and the previous autumn, heavy ...

After more than a decade of conflict and instability, an estimated 4.8 million people remain displaced across Yemen – many of them for years. Another 19.5 million people require humanitarian ...

US$11 billion. Lebanon’s reconstruction will require not only a huge amount of money, but also a real political commitment ...

In early medieval Italy, people dug canals and drained wetlands not just to farm new land, but also to manage flooding and ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

Flooding in southwestern China has destroyed dozens of roads and homes. Yunnan province’s mountainous Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture had 27 houses damaged and 16 bridges damaged or destroyed as of ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Two Indians who died while serving under UN flag last year honoured on International Day of UN Peacekeepers | One of India's ...

Growth is projected to rise in the Middle East and North Africa in 2025 and 2026, but at a slower pace than anticipated in the October 2024 REO. Across the region, rising trade tensions and policy ...