Zayn Ali Salman was just four years old when he caught the attention of one of London’s biggest football clubs.
He is the youngest-ever recruit to the Arsenal pre-academy after his skills had him running rings round players twice his age.
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Zalmay Khalizad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan speaks to the BBC as the Taliban capture a major border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran. He said that for Afghanistan’s war to end, there has to be a political agreement, and stressed that Taliban forces taking Kabul is an unlikely situation.
Watch our exclusive interview with the CEO of Pfizer Albert Bourla, as he hits out at the “rubbish” that has been published about him and his wife – including a fake story that she had died from the vaccine. Speaking to the BBC’s medical editor Fergus Walsh, Mr Bourla also defends the billions of dollars…
A sharp rise in Covid Delta variant cases in Israel shows the need for caution when ending restrictions, says Dr Asher Salmon, deputy director general of the country’s Ministry of Health. Israel had led the way with its vaccine programme, and was able to lift many restrictions, but there is now a surge in new…
President Ashraf Ghani was “gutless” to flee Afghanistan as the Taliban advanced to take power, the former Afghan MP Elay Ershad has said. She told BBC World News: “He left his people behind and he left his country behind. He could have stayed. I am so angry I don’t have words to explain it.” Mr…
Bollywood star and philanthropist Sonu Sood is helping India in the battle against coronavirus. He has been using social media to help find hospital beds and oxygen supplies for those in need. He has recently had Covid-19 and told BBC World News things had been “tough” not because he was recovering from coronavirus but because…
Commemorations have taken place on the 20th anniversary of the 11 September attacks. A minute’s silence was held at the exact time each hijacked plane crashed. George W Bush, who was the US president at the time, gave a speech in Pennsylvania, where one of the planes crashed into a field after passengers overpowered the…
