India: ‘A broken country, a country in torment’

Campaigners say including extremist narratives among everyday conversations can be a pathway to radicalisation.

A British woman who joined the Islamic State group with her young children has said UK politicians should “open your minds” to allowing them to return. Nicole Jack and her three daughters are currently being held in a detention camp in Syria alongside thousands of wives and children of IS fighters.

Facebook has revealed its first pair of “smart glasses” that contain two cameras for taking photos and videos. The specs, called Ray-Ban Stories, are a collaboration with the luxury eyewear brand. Facebook is expected to release fully-fledged augmented reality (AR) spectacles. But Facebook’s head of AR and VR told BBC Click’s Chris Fox they were…

Nine Catalan separatists convicted over a failed independence bid in 2017 have been formally pardoned by the Spanish government. President of the government of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès, told BBC World News that the priority now was to have an agreed referendum as this was the best way to achieve independence. In Spain tens of thousands…

American Julie Montagu, who became Lady Hinchingbrooke when she married, can relate to the Duchess of Sussex telling Oprah Winfrey she had not known what to expect when she had joined the Royal Family. “It is true as an American we do look at royal life as really fairy tale,” she told BBC World News….

Ayse Bugra explains how her husband, philanthropist Osman Kavala, is coping in jail.