Cyclone Idai: Rescuers race against time to reach survivors

Aid workers say thousands in Mozambique are still awaiting rescue from catastrophic flooding.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47647804

'Why are the children being punished?'

Russian officials are facing appeals from hundreds of families to bring back IS wives and children.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47643266

The Indonesian paradise island drowning in plastic

Beaches on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are covered in plastic - and some of it is being dumped there by local businesses.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47643268

Nowruz: How 300m people celebrate Persian New Year

On Thursday, millions of people will celebrate Persian New Year, also known as Nowruz. Here's how.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-47643267

Thailand election: Young voters could be key to victory

It's the first election since the coup of 2014 and seven million young people are voting for the first time.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47639056

Jacinda Ardern: 'A leader with love on full display'

The NZ prime minister has been held up as an example of good leadership after the Christchurch attack.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47630129

The 'controlled chaos' of raising sextuplets

We spoke to families with quintuplets and sextuplets to find out what it's like to raise multiple babies at once.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47616380

Christchurch shooting: Australia's moment of hate speech reckoning

Australians question whether the tone of racial rhetoric spurred the man accused of the Christchurch attacks.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-47620391

Chinese imports 'driving fishermen to despair'

Kenya's Lake Victoria fishermen are struggling to compete with cheap Chinese fish imports.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47611076

Trump: I didn't get a thank you for McCain funeral

"Not my kind of guy," the president says of the late Republican senator in his latest attack on him.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47642335

Student football team abducted in Anglophone Cameroon

The kidnap follows the abduction of a top football club coach on Tuesday.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47642302

Three children dropped to safety from apartment fire in Iowa

Dramatic bodycam video shows police officers catching them from a third floor apartment in the American state of Iowa.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47646184

Fake pathologist for Germanwings air crash victims on trial

The Dutch man examined victims of major disasters like the 2015 Germanwings air crash.

source https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47646233