Four law enforcement officers have been fatally shot and four others were wounded while serving an arrest warrant in Charlotte, North Carolina. A suspected attacker was found dead in the front yard of a barricaded home after a standoff that lasted three hours, police said. Two other persons of interest were taken into questioning, authorities […]

Australia’s newest budget airline has gone into voluntary administration, after abruptly cancelling all of its flights on Tuesday. Bonza’s financial woes have left thousands of passengers stranded around the country. Operating since last year, the carrier had been the first to launch in Australia since 2007. Aviation remains one of the nation’s most concentrated industries, [R...

''අපේ නිෂ්පාදන මහපොළවට එකතු වුණහම ගස් පැළ වෙනවා. ඉවත දමන දේවල්වලට අගය එකතු කරලා නැවත වෙළඳපොළට නිකුත් කරන එක තමයි අපි කරන්නේ. මං වගේම අසරණ වෙච්ච කාන්තාවෝ මේ සමාජයේ ගොඩක් ඉන්නවා. ඔයාලා අසරණයි කියලා හිතන්න එපා.'' යනුවෙන් නිලුකා ප්රියදර්ශනී BBC සිංහල සේවයට පැවසුවාය.

The Pentagon says it will “rush” Patriot air defence missiles and artillery ammunition to Ukraine as part of its new military aid package. The US will utilise $6bn (£4.8bn) for this purpose, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin revealed on Friday. Patriot air defence batteries are not included. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Patriots were “urgently” needed […]

At least 155 people have died in floods and landslides in Tanzania following heavy rains caused by El Niño, the prime minister has said. Kassim Majaliwa warned that the rains might continue into May, and urged families to leave flood-prone areas. About 200,000 people and more than 51,000 households were already affected by the disaster, […]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has suspended public duties to “stop and reflect” on whether to remain in the job, after a court opened a preliminary inquiry into his wife. In a statement, the Spanish leader said he urgently needed to decide “whether I should continue to lead the government or renounce this honour”. The […]

A dramatic orange haze has descended over Athens as clouds of dust have blown in from the Sahara desert. It is one of the worst such episodes to hit Greece since 2018, according to officials. Greece had already been struck by similar clouds in late March and early April, which also covered areas of Switzerland […]

A Russian deputy defence minister has been detained on suspicion of taking bribes, according to the country’s top investigative body. The Investigative Committee said on Tuesday that Timur Ivanov was being held and an investigation carried out. Appointed to the defence ministry in 2016, Mr Ivanov, 47, was responsible for Russia’s military infrastructure projects. Activists […]

Baltimore has sued the operators of the container ship that hit and destroyed one of the US city’s main bridges last month, killing six people. The city says the Dali was “clearly unseaworthy” and accuses its owners and manager of negligence. The ship’s Singapore-based owner and manager have already asked a court to limit their […]

මුලතිව් දිස්ත්රික්කයට අයත් පුදුකුඩිඉරිප්පු, කයිවේලි ගම්මානයේ ජීවත්වෙන ගුණසිංහම් කසේන්ද්රන්ගේ උස අඩි 07යි අඟල් 02කි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ උසම පුද්ගලයා තමන් බවට විශ්වාස කරන බව ඔහු BBC සිංහල සේවයට පැවසුවේය.

Authorities have evacuated 110,000 people from their homes in Guangdong, as days of heavy rain caused massive flooding in China’s most populous province. Four people have died so far, while 10 have gone missing, according to state media. Footage on state media and online show large swathes of land inundated by the floods and rescuers […]

The Israeli military’s intelligence chief has resigned, saying he took responsibility for the failures before Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Major General Aharon Haliva would retire once his successor was selected. He acknowledged in a letter that his intelligence directorate “did not live up to the task […]

German authorities say they have arrested three people on suspicion of spying for China. The main suspect, named as Thomas R, is accused of spying for the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS). Prosecutors allege his network operated a front company which co-operated with German research organisations. The accused are said to have collected sensitive […]

The House of Representatives has finally approved billions of dollars in new US military aid for Ukraine as it struggles to resist Russia’s invasion. The much-delayed measure had vocal opponents in Congress and it took a fragile bipartisan deal to get the $61bn (£49bn) package through. Now the focus shifts from “whether” to “when” lethal […]

යුක්තිය ඉටු කරන බවට වාචික පොරොන්දු ලබා දුන් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ එම පොරොන්දු කඩ කළ ද ජාතික ජනබලවේගය සහ සමගි ජන බලවේගය ලබා දී ඇති ලිඛිත ප්රතිඥා කෙරෙහි විශ්වාසයෙන් පසුවන බවත්, රටේ පාලනය භාරගත යුතු අනාගත නායකයා සතු ලක්ෂණ ගැනත් අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් රංජිත් හිමිපාණෝ BBC සිංහල සේවය සමග පැවති සංවාදයේ දී පැවසූහ.

ඊශ්රායලය විසින් මිසයිලයක් ඉරානයට වෙත එල්ල කොට ඇති බව එක්සත් ජනපද නිලධාරීන් BBC හි හවුල්කාර සේවාවක් වන CBS ප්රවෘත්ති වෙත පවසා තිබේ.ඉරාන මාධ්ය පවසන්නේ ඉස්ෆහාන් හි මධ්යම පළාතෙන් පිපිරුම් හඬවල් ඇසුණු බවත්; නගර කිහිපයක ගුවන් ගමන් සේවා අත්හිටුවා ඇති බවත් ය.පසුගිය සෙනසුරාදා (අප්රේල් 13) රාත්රියේ ඉරානය

An Israeli missile has hit Iran, US officials have told the BBC’s partner station CBS News. Blasts were heard in the central province of Isfahan and flights have been suspended over several cities, Iranian media say. Iran is on high alert after Israel said it would respond to an Iranian

Kenya’s military chief, Gen Francis Omondi Ogolla, has died after a military helicopter crashed in the west of the country, the president said. Gen Ogolla – Kenya’s highest ranking military officer – was in the helicopter alongside 11 other military personnel. Only two people survived. In a news conference, President William Ruto said it was […]

Ukraine s prime minister has told the BBC there will be a ÂThird World War if Ukraine loses its conflict with Russia, as he urged the US Congress to pass a long-stalled foreign aid bill.

Heavy rain has been battering Gulf states, causing deadly flash floods as well as disrupting flights at the world’s second-busiest airport. Dubai International Airport says it is facing “very challenging conditions”. It advised some passengers not to turn up as areas were inundated with water. Further north, a man died when his car was caught […]

As Beijing increases its repression of ethnic minorities in China to establish Han domination, the Chinese Communist Party is also devising numerous ways to ensure that the overseas media cannot expose this ongoing violation of human rights behind the bamboo curtain. The Chinese media is highly censored. To project the false image of China as […]