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Japan finds black particles in Moderna vaccine

Hurricane Ida: New Orleans under curfew amid blackout

Tonga royals deny Australia horse trainer murder link

Amid violent reprisals, Afghans fear the Taliban's 'amnesty' was empty

Caldor fire: Lake Tahoe deserted as Californians evacuate

Fake Banksy NFT sold through artist's website for £244k

UNHCR 'cautiously optimistic' over working with Taliban

Afghans 'will struggle to survive or race to escape'

YouTube signs Twitch video-game streamer Dr Lupo

Mission: Impossible Covid shutdowns prompt lawsuit

Does feeding garden birds do more harm than good?

What was left behind by US forces?

Sarah Rainsford: My last despatch before Russian expulsion

Cyprus on alert as Syrian oil slick spreads across Mediterranean

Brazil bank robbery: Hostages describe terrifying getaway car ordeal

Tokyo Paralympics: Afghanistan athlete Hossain Rasouli makes debut after evacuation

Afghanistan: Taliban enter Kabul airport and celebrate by posing in aircraft

Berlin university canteens cut meat from menus to curb climate change

R. Kelly trial: First male accuser testifies to sexual abuse

Nike is giving its head office staff a week's break

The last US soldier leaves Afghanistan

Greta Thunberg: 'I'll go to COP26 if it's safe and democratic'

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Oliver Warders! News update 231

Mollie Tibbetts: Farm worker gets life for murdering Iowa student

Tokyo 2020: Toyota restarts driverless vehicles after accident

Fury as Covid crisis hits Australia's Aboriginal communities

Can apps move the #MeToo movement forward?

Afghanistan: Fleeing the Taliban into Pakistan and leaving dreams behind

From Bush to Biden: One war, four US presidents on Afghanistan

Watch moment US military declares final flight out of Afghanistan

Gunfire as Taliban celebrate US leaving Afghanistan

Hurricane Ida: Louisiana assesses damage after storm

Afghanistan drone strike: 'Ten people died here.. including my daughter'

Afghan left behind by UK: I'm fighting to stay alive

Covid: EU set to impose travel restrictions on US as cases rise

Kanye West: Donda released by Universal without my say, artist claims

Covid surge 'deeply worrying' in Europe as vaccinations dip - WHO

Paris speed limit falls to 30km/h

Palestinian President Abbas holds rare talks with Israeli minister

Afghanistan: US investigating civilian deaths in Kabul strike

China cuts children's online gaming to one hour

Milan fire: Flames engulf modern 20-storey block of flats

Brazil bank robbers tie hostages to getaway cars

First ever female Paralympic gold medal for India

Hurricane Ida's 150mph winds batter Louisiana

New Zealand woman dies after receiving Pfizer vaccine

Covid: Australia records 1,000th death from the pandemic

Vietnam lockdown adds to global coffee supply concerns

Yongbyon: UN says North Korea appears to restart nuclear reactor

Ethiopia's economy battered by Tigray war

Turkey lockdown: Pigeon-keeping in Istanbul on the rise

Bodies of US troops killed in Kabul returned to America

Possum skin cloaks: Reviving an Aboriginal cultural tradition

Japan's huge army of under-employed ex-housewives

In India, growing clamour to criminalise rape within marriage

Ed Asner: Lou Grant and Up actor dies aged 91

Jamaican reggae icon Lee 'Scratch' Perry dies aged 85

Afghanistan: US drone strike 'eliminates airport bomb threat'

Hurricane Ida: 'Catastrophic' storm surge as winds move onshore

Max Verstappen declared winner of aborted rain-hit Belgian Grand Prix

Yemen war: Drone attack on government airbase kills 30 soldiers

A country abandoned: BBC's John Simpson on Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Taxi driver, shopkeeper: UK victims of Kabul attack

Mountain lion: US mother fights off animal attacking her son

Emotional arrival for Afghan Paralympians in Tokyo

What now for Afghans arriving in America?

Afghanistan: 'Thousands more left behind...and feel terrified'

Wife of murdered Greek ambassador jailed over his death in Brazil

Oliver Warders! News update 230

Oliver Warders! News update 230

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro says he will be killed, arrested or re-elected

Herat under the Taliban: residents on the new rulers

Agnes Sithole: The woman who fought South Africa's sexist marriage laws

Your pictures on the theme of 'my summer'

Afghanistan: Black Hawks and Humvees - military kit now with the Taliban

'We were hurt in bombs through no fault of our own'

Afghanistan: 'I helped the US military, now help me save my family'

Hurricane Ida: Thousands flee as storm bears down on Louisiana

Europe migrant crisis: More than 500 people rescued off Italian island

Afghan refugee heading to UK gives birth at 30,000 feet

Afghan evacuations wind down at Kabul airport

French woman arrested over jewellery thefts from coffins

Who are the group that attacked Kabul airport?

Afghanistan interpreter: Getting plane out was 'happiest moment of my life'

Victims' relatives still desperately search for news of loved ones

Cows on the moo-ve from Swiss Alpine meadow

Strictly: Why are South African dancers so popular?

'The Taliban killed my brother for protecting my family'

Afghanistan: Shukria Barakzai's whispered voice notes and dramatic escape

Canada election: Justin Trudeau rally cancelled after angry protests

Capitol riot: Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt reveals identity

Hurricane Ida: New Orleans braces for possible direct hit

Greenland island is world's northernmost island - scientists

Afghan music school falls silent under Taliban rule

Kenyans stranded overnight in Mombasa Road traffic jam in Nairobi

Pakistan-Afghanistan border: Ambassador pressed over threat from terrorist groups

Teddy Swims - You're Still The One (Shania Twain Cover)

Afghanistan: Pen Farthing team 'turned away' from airport

Austrian ex-far-right leader Strache guilty of corruption

Afghans in Calais prepare to risk lives again to reach UK

Kabul airport attack: 'Today I saw doomsday'

The Red Cross in Afghanistan: 'If we leave, who stays?'

French presidency: Michel Barnier joins race 'to change France'

Time's Up: Boss quits over ties to scandal-hit governor Andrew Cuomo

Afghanistan airlift rescue: Thousands of refugees arrive at US airbase in Germany

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Covid: Vaccine complications dwarfed by virus risks

Covid vaccine: More than half of Indian adults have had first jab

Jo Ferrari: Wanted Thai police chief surrenders after manhunt

Peloton cuts price of bike as sales growth slows

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout

Supreme Court: Biden eviction moratorium shot down by Supreme Court

Why is there a chip shortage?

Africa's week in pictures: 20-26 August 2021

Afghanistan's economy in crisis after Taliban take-over

Afghanistan: Biden vows to complete evacuations despite airport attack

Daniel Dias: History's greatest para-swimmer

Afghanistan's Uyghurs fear the Taliban, and now China too

Kabul airport bomb attack leaves many casualties

Afghanistan: Former Royal Marine on the chaos at Kabul airport

Kabul airport attack: What do we know?

Afghanistan crisis: Who are Isis-K?

Ron Jeremy: US adult film star indicted on 34 sex crime charges

Young Afghan mayor who fled Taliban hidden in car

US judge reprimands Trump election fraud lawyers

New species of ancient four-legged whale discovered in Egypt

Israel's Bennett seeks reset with US at first meeting with Biden

Nah he tweakin: What it means and why it's all over our timelines

Stalin-era mass grave found in Ukraine

Mass brawl erupts in Armenian parliament: Third violent bout in just two days

Abba: Band teases major announcement ahead of new music

Letitia Wright treated for injuries after Black Panther 2 accident

Japan suspends 1.6 million Moderna doses over contamination fears

South Korea becomes first major Asian economy to raise interest rates

Australian farmer draws heart with sheep in tribute to aunt

Afghanistan: Taliban committed to post-deadline safe passage, US says

Leopard attacks model in German photoshoot

Aryana Sayeed: Afghanistan returns to miserable time for women

Delta Airlines imposes $200 monthly surcharge on unvaccinated staff

Thai police chief, known as Jo Ferrari, wanted over viral torture clip

British stamps banned from Chagos Islands in Indian Ocean

Afghanistan chaos: The British families in limbo

Coronavirus origins: US intelligence report 'inconclusive'

Biscarosse beach: Man missing after French plane makes emergency landing

Nirvana sued by the baby from Nevermind's album cover

Tears on the tarmac as Afghan journalist speaks to BBC

Landslides kill 15 in western Venezuela after heavy rains

Japanese rollercoaster shut as injuries investigated

India woman who accused MP of rape dies in self-immolation

Kanye West files to officially change name to Ye

Business still has time to help Afghans - AirBnB boss

Charlie Watts: Jagger and Richards pay tribute to Rolling Stones bandmate

Charlie Watts: The subtle magnificence of the Rolling Stones' drummer

China schools: 'Xi Jinping Thought' introduced into curriculum

Narayan Rane: India minister arrested over slap remark gets bail

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Oliver Warders! News update 228

Afghanistan: World Bank halts aid after Taliban takeover

Japanese yakuza mobster sentenced to death

Tokyo Paralympics: 2020 Games get under way with powerful opening ceremony

A Kabul evacuee's tale: Dread, chaos and the Taliban

Afghanistan: Secret Kabul talks between CIA and Taliban - US media

Taliban to US: Don't encourage Afghans to leave, we need them

Afghanistan: Credible reports of executions by Taliban says UN

German poison probe after drinks spiked at university in Darmstadt

How losing his sight spurred cyclist Steve Bate to the Paralympics

How are women in Afghanistan reacting to Taliban takeover?

R. Kelly trial: Woman says singer pressured her to have abortion

Convicted ex-Chadian leader Hissene Habre dies

Mar Menor: Tonnes of dead fish wash up on Spanish lagoon's shores

Afghan para-athlete welcomed by new team in Spain

Russian toddler lost in woods for four days vows 'never again'

Fire at Mexican offshore oil platform kills five

Afghanistan: Sandhurst Sisterhood helping female Afghan soldiers to flee

Afghanistan evacuation: Bittersweet relief for interpreter now in UK

How Afghanistan rattled Asia and emboldened China

Afghanistan: Why can't the UK hold Kabul airport without the US?

Ros Atkins on... Trump's Taliban deal

Kabul arrivals in the UK: 'We are the lucky ones'

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi halts UK launch plan

Kamala Harris accuses China of coercion and intimidation

Afghanistan: US aims to complete evacuations by deadline

Tokyo Paralympics: A 'different' Games but Paralympians still hope to shine

'Hours not weeks for UK Afghan evacuation'

Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan criticised over female footballers comments

Pfizer becomes first Covid vaccine to gain full FDA approval

Poland to build Belarus border fence after migrant influx

Israeli strikes on Gaza high-rises may be war crimes - Human Rights Watch

Mozambique 'tuna bond' scandal: Ex-President Guebuza's son on trial

Afghanistan: Foreign troops extension 'a clear violation' - Taliban

Hurricane Grace: Mexican man buries wife and five children killed in mudslide

Hours without food or water in Kabul airport 'hell'

Anti-Taliban resistance group says it has thousands of fighters

Storm Henri: Lightning strikes One World Trade Center

Joséphine Baker to be first black woman to enter France's Panthéon

Afghanistan: People at Kabul airport flee Taliban with just a suitcase

Afghanistan: The BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from Kabul airport

Tennessee: Drone video shows damage from flash floods

Oliver Warders! News update 227

Chip giant's IPO hit by Beijing crackdown on business

Barakat: First South African film in Cape Town's Afrikaans dialect

Covid: Taiwan rolls out homegrown vaccine amid criticism

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French match abandoned after player hit by bottle

Afghanistan crisis: 'Hey world, do you care what happens here?'

Afghanistan: 'Women should fight for the right to work'

Nord Stream 2: Russia must not use gas pipeline as weapon, says Merkel

Why a US military base became a centre for Chinese Covid conspiracies

Kamala Harris joins diplomatic charm offensive in South East Asia

Afghanistan: US orders civilian jets to join evacuation

Storm Henri makes landfall at Rhode Island

C-17: The US military plane carrying Afghans to safety

Afghanistan: Sport bodies call for emergency evacuation of female players

Covid: New Zealand pandemic strategy in doubt amid Delta spread

Afghanistan: Woman gives birth on US evacuation plane

Everly Brothers: US rock 'n' roll star Don Everly dies aged 84

Afghanistan: Where will refugees go after Taliban takeover?

Elaine Thompson-Herah runs second fastest time in women's 100m history

Kenya holds biggest ever animal census

Dorothy Butler Gilliam: 'I am not a maid, I am a reporter'

Algeria's desperate wildfire fight: Buckets and branches

Hurricane Grace kills eight as it rips through eastern Mexico

Biden's week of blame and tumult after Kabul fall

Hurricane Henri: US East Coast warned of significant damage

Afghanistan: US tells citizens to avoid Kabul airport

Nigeria's royal wedding: Private jets, glitz and glamour

Covid: Australian police clash with anti-lockdown protesters

Oliver Warders! News update 226

Oliver Warders! News update 226

Greece erects fence at Turkey border amid warnings of Afghan migrant surge

How Afghanistan's media is changing under Taliban rule

Afghan crisis: Russia plans for new era with Taliban rule

Family of American taken by Taliban beg for return

Ever Given: Cargo ship returns through Suez Canal it blocked

Poison algae may have killed California family, police say

Afghanistan: The desperate scramble to escape

Nine Afghan girl robotics team members safe in Qatar

'They will kill me': Desperate Afghans seek way out after Taliban takeover

Rafael Nadal: Spaniard ends 2021 season because of foot injury

Joe Biden to Americans in Afghanistan: 'We will get you home'

Jeopardy! host Mike Richards quits after sexist comments surface

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: US accuses Abiy's government of blocking aid

Haiti earthquake: Tensions rise in struggle to get aid to victims

Afghanistan: Stun grenades used outside Kabul airport

Amnesty International: 'Disconnect between Taliban claims and reality'

Simone Biles and mental health focus: 'I wouldn't change anything for the world'

Spain migrants: Sole survivor rescued in dinghy in Atlantic

Sonny Chiba: Japan's martial arts star and Kill Bill actor dies of Covid at 82

BHP sacked 48 over sexual harassment and assaults at Australian mines

China NPC: Three-child policy formally passed into law

Facebook moves to protect Afghan users' accounts amid Taliban takeover

Afghanistan: Taliban 'tortured and massacred' Hazara minority

Covid: Sydney extends lockdown and puts two million under curfew

The treacherous road to Kabul's airport

Zaki Anwari: Afghan footballer falls to death from US plane in Kabul

Afghanistan: Child handed over Kabul airport wall as chaos continues

Haiti earthquake: Rescue efforts continue in Les Cayes

Washington DC: Active bomb threat near US Capitol

Covid-19: Mississippi quarantines 20,000 pupils at start of new school year

Canadian soldier faces jail over feeding cannabis cupcakes to troops

‘Don’t forget the 500,000 internally displaced Afghans’ - UNCHR

Afghanistan: A woman's story of life under the Taliban in 1999

Afghanistan: Who originally supported Trump's deal with the Taliban?

Afghanistan evacuations: Woman on trip back to Kabul describes fleeing city

Belgium stabbing suspect won’t be charged over unborn baby’s death

Facebook reveals most-seen posts are inane questions, not politics

Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%

Russia names Golos monitor as 'foreign agent' ahead of election

Afghan interpreter begs PM for 'pathway to safety'

Apple censors engraving service, report claims

Afghanistan crisis: 'Many here will be deeply fearful for their future'

Tokyo 2020: First Covid case detected at Paralympic village

Former Netflix staffers charged for making $3m from insider trading

Oliver Warders! News update 225

Haiti earthquake: The forgotten villages cut off from help

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Afghanistan: Joe Biden said chaos was 'inevitable'

Can the Paralympics bring lasting change?

Ramappa temple: The Indian shrine that is now a World Heritage site

IMF suspends Afghanistan's access to funds

Afghanistan: 'I feel lucky to leave but we must not forget those left behind'

'It was very emotional on the plane out of Afghanistan'

Afghanistan: Hard lessons to be learned for Nato, says Stoltenberg

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani in UAE, officials say

Israel extends Covid restrictions to three-year-olds as cases surge

Brandon Flowers on new Killers album Pressure Machine, inspired by Utah hometown

Afghanistan crisis: Chaos as Europeans scramble to evacuate Kabul

R Kelly trial set to begin in New York

Aspirin may help treat aggressive breast cancer

Twitter tests 'misleading' post report button for first time

Taliban have been looking for me, says ex-Afghanistan bank governor

Lithuania says Belarus officers illegally pushed migrants over border

Cuba tightens control of internet after protests

Afghanistan: National flag protesters in Jalalabad appear to be disrupted by gunshots

Covishield: WHO flags fake jabs in India, Africa

Snake slithers out of spice shelves at Sydney supermarket

Haiti earthquake: Death toll reaches nearly 2,000

US left too quickly, says Afghan bank governor

Covid: Australia's Qantas says all staff must be vaccinated

Afghanistan: Female Kabul resident fears for future under Taliban

Afghanistan: 'Was my role in Afghan War worth it?'

Afghan women to have rights within Islamic law, Taliban says

Astronomers see galaxies in ultra-high definition

Afghanistan: Facebook continues ban of Taliban-related content

Taliban: 'We will not allow the soil of Afghanistan to be used against anyone'

Afghan reporter asks Nato Secretary for help

Afghanistan: 'All female staff have left my Kabul hotel'

Khaled Hosseini: ‘A sliver of hope’ for Afghanistan

Uncertain times ahead for Afghan women

How America watched as Taliban won the war

Tokyo Paralympics: Afghanistan athletes unable to attend Games because of unrest

Sudoku: Maki Kaji, puzzle enthusiast, dies aged 69

Striking image captures Afghan exodus

Afghanistan: Female presenters back on Tolo News after Taliban takeover

France wildfire: Thousands evacuated as blaze rages near Riviera

Israel battles huge wildfire near Jerusalem

Biden's speech on Afghanistan fact-checked

New Zealand enters nationwide lockdown over one Covid case

Joe Biden on Afghanistan: 'I stand squarely behind my decision'

Bob Dylan accused of sexually abusing girl in 1965

Oliver Warders! News update 224

Oliver Warders! News update 224

Bezos sues Nasa over its deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX

US increases food stamp aid for poorer Americans

Twitter's new design to get fix after headache complaints

Afghanistan: Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen calls the BBC - interview in full

Afghanistan: Why is there a war?

Afghanistan: In pictures: Kabul - a day after Taliban takeover

Uganda anti-pornography law dropped after backlash

Malala: 'Futures of Afghan child refugees aren't lost'

Hakainde Hichilema: The Zambian 'cattle boy' who became president

UK military commander: 'We've betrayed' Afghans who helped British troops'

Tesla Autopilot: US opens official investigation into self-driving tech

Ebrar Karakurt: Supporters rally around Turkish volleyballer after abuse

How the Taliban stormed across Afghanistan in ten days

Afghanistan: Life in Kabul after the Taliban victory

Venezuela opposition politician Guevara freed after talks

Tokyo Paralympics: Spectators will not be allowed at the Games

Chaos at Kabul airport as thousands of Afghans try to flee Taliban

Afghans arrive in Delhi after Taliban take over Kabul

Afghanistan: 'Women won't be silenced by the Taliban'

Lebanon deadly petrol tank blast sparks protest at PM-designate's home

Afghanistan: US takes control of Kabul airport to evacuate staff from country

Japan's economy bounced back ahead of the Olympics, data shows

Zambia election: Opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema declared winner

There and back again: The epic adventures of China's wandering elephants

Would you let a robot lawyer defend you?

Afghanistan conflict: As Kabul falls, Biden backlash grows

Nigeria's Kano state moves to ban mannequin heads on Islamic grounds

India's dancing cop becomes internet star

The zero-power sewage plant inspired by cows

Why is Israel demolishing homes in East Jerusalem?

Afghanistan: People flee Kabul as Taliban overrun cities

Canada election: Trudeau calls snap summer campaign

Roger Federer will be out 'for many months' as he prepares for further knee surgery

Will Taliban take country back to past, asks John Simpson

Afghanistan conflict: Taliban push into Kabul as Ghani flees