The shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan has left everyone shocked and saddened, a resident of the city has said.
Rezeda Kotdusova, whose husband works in a building next to the school where the attack happened, told BBC World News what her partner had seen.
A 19-year-old suspect has been detained.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he would review Russia’s gun control laws.
Brazil has recorded 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day with hospitals struggling to cope with patient numbers. Tarsila Vieceli, a coronavirus instensive care unit doctor at one hospital told BBC World News the health system had collapsed. She said: “We have been working at full capacity for quite some time right now… it has…
BBC China correspondent John Sudworth has left Beijing and moved to Taiwan after pressure and threats from the Chinese authorities. Even as we were leaving we were followed by plain clothes policeman through the departure hall of the airport, he told BBC World News. It was a reminder of the “grim reality of reporting in…
Australia is one of the countries already seeing an increase in the number of extremely hot days because of climate change, with places like Sydney experiencing temperatures around 50C. The intense heat has led to unusually strong bushfires and some indigenous species dying en masse. As the BBC’s Life at 50 degrees season continues, this…
During the 1980s the BBC ran the Computer Literacy Project exploring the world of computing. A series of home computers known as BBC Micros were created and viewers were taught how to program them. The project helped inspire a generation of coders. The BBC’s Alex Humphrey’s visits the National Computing Museum to find out more….
The Taliban say they will not extend the deadline for Western forces to leave Afghanistan. A spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, told the BBC’s Yalda Hakim that the 31 August was a red line and that any extension would be a “clear violation” of the Doha agreement between the United States and the Taliban. He said that…
Adele Raemer, who lives in a kibbutz in southern Israel, has told BBC World News about her experiences of the Israel-Gaza conflict. She was exhausted from running back and forth to her “safe room”, she said. And the sounds of rocket alerts and artillery were keeping her awake. “This is not something anybody could or…
