3+ day, 28+ min ago   (507+ words) On Tuesday 11 September 2001, hijackers seized US passenger jets and crashed them into two New York skyscrapers, killing thousands of people. A third plane destroyed the western face of the Pentagon - the giant headquarters of the US military just outside the…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1740+ words) In just under three months, 30-year-old Abhijeet Dipke - the founder and face of India's Gen Z "cockroach" protests - has acquired the kind of celebrity status normally reserved for a breakout actor or cricketer. In politics or activism, unless you come…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1239+ words) The first duty of a government, countless leaders over the decades have said, is to safeguard its population. On 11 September 2001 the US manifestly failed to do that. The intelligence was there, yet tragically, nobody joined up the dots in time....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (405+ words) The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to move back to the UK, BBC News understands. The BBC's Bernd Debusmann explains who she is and how she came to hold such a prominent role in the US president's inner…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (178+ words) Councillors ran out of time to debate the future of Inverness Castle's floral clock after a fire alarm interrupted their meeting. The 15ft (4.5m) diameter flower bed with the clock mechanism buried beneath it was installed in 1990 for a Beautiful Scotland in…...