Kamshi Ahmed

How do you tell a family who lost someone to genocide that they may have buried the wrong body?That is the extremely delicate challenge facing missing persons organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.They

Austrians vote on Sunday in a general election that could see the far-right opposition Freedom Party (FPÖ) top the polls for the first time.Five years ago, the party crashed out of a

Drivers have been rescued and schools are shut as floodwaters continue to rise in Birmingham.Edgbaston, Stirchley and Bournville are expected to be hit and fire crews had to pull a driver to

Construction has started on the BBC’s new Birmingham headquarters. The corporation said its “future landmark” home, called The Tea Factory, marked the beginning of a new era for production and creative industries

The mayor of the West Midlands has said he wants to attract more film and television productions to the region by creating a new unit at the West Midlands Combined Authority.Richard Parker

A £10bn investment in a new artificial intelligence data centre will create about 4,000 jobs, the government has said.The site in Cambois, near Blyth, Northumberland, will become one of Europe’s biggest AI

British nationals stranded in Lebanon under Israeli bombardments are calling for the UK government to send evacuation planes as commercial flights out become very difficult to secure.Dan Harper and his wife and

After the US, the EU and 10 other counties called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the White House went into spin mode trying to build momentum for its proposal.On

Former co-chair criticises party’s ‘hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities’. Britain’s first Muslim cabinet minister has resigned from the opposition Conservative Party, saying it has moved too far

Three men in Benin, including a former minister and the man in charge of President Patrice Talon’s security, have been arrested on suspicion of plotting a coup, the state prosecutor has said.Ex-sports

Instagram owner Meta says Dame Judi Dench and John Cena will be voice options for its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.Users will also be able to get information from AI versions of Awkwafina,

A Japanese warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China for the first time, according to reports in Japanese media.The JS Sazanami, a naval destroyer, passed through the strait from

An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court, after it found that evidence used against him was fabricated.Iwao Hakamada, who has been

Ordinarily, US District Judge Gary J Brown would have sent the man to the local federal jail to serve out his sentence for tax fraud.But one thing stopped him: “The dangerous, barbaric