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3 March 2025

Culture

A split image of Xi Jinping waving in front of a red background and Frank Gardner in the BBC newsroom

Frank Gardner: What is China's role in the Iran war?

BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner explains how the world's second-largest economy fits into the Gulf conflict.

World

Cargo ships in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah. The ship in the foreground is a large tanker with a red hull and a white stern.

Is the US blockade of Iran working?

BBC Verify has been looking into whether the US blockade of Iran near the Strait of Hormuz is working.

BBC Verify

A white streak can be seen across the night's sky. Pictured from below.

Watch: Dashcam captures meteor soaring through sky

A meteor that experts say was travelling over the North Sea is spotted in Northamptonshire.

Northamptonshire

How Belfast 'rose to the occasion' during one of the UK's worst WW2 raids

On the 85th anniversary of the Blitz and ahead of a new play about it, BBC News NI talks to 93-year-old Reggie who lived through it.

Northern Ireland

BBC Newsline signed summary

A signed summary of BBC Newsline.

A man walking on snow with a fur collar and hi-vis jacket walks by a komatik, an indigenous sled.

Go on patrol with the Canadian Rangers across the frozen Arctic

The BBC rode along with the Rangers on the last leg of a historic trek as they assert their presence in Canada's far north.

US & Canada

A young woman with long, wavy red hair looks into the camera. She is smiling and has a silver hooped nose ring.

Commuters welcome second year of Translink fare freeze

Liz Kimmins acknowledged the decision was taken against a difficult funding backdrop for the public transport company.

Northern Ireland

A still from CCTV footage showing a male in light coloured clothing lunging towards another male in dark clothing.

Watch: Moment gunman tackled by school principal

CCTV footage shows a high school principal charging towards a former student who was armed in Oklahoma.

US & Canada

Split screen image of displaced Sudanese woman and the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher

The human cost of the war in Sudan, three years on

The conflict, which erupted in 2023, has left behind a human toll which is "simply staggering", reports the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher.

Africa

One-minute World News

Watch the latest news summary from BBC World News. International news updated 24 hours a day.

Two police officers, one in a black uniform and helmet and one in a white T-shirt and black vest, push a man in a green jumper into the back of a police van

Moment Rightmove burglary gang arrested in their beds

Detectives release footage of the moment a burglary crime gang is arrested by police.

England

Watch: Reporter told to pose as gay for asylum claim

A BBC reporter goes undercover and speaks to an adviser encouraging migrants to cheat the asylum system.

Politics

A man with dark hair gesticulates from a seated position, wearing a blue suit and a red tie.

Watch: Vance heckled as he chides Pope

The US Vice-President was speaking at a Turning Point USA event, where he said Pope Leo should "be careful when he talks about matters of theology."

Alexander Stubb and Mark Carney are seen playing hockey.

Diplomacy on ice: Mark Carney and Alexander Stubb play hockey

The Canadian prime minister joined the Ottawa Charge team on the rink alongside the Finnish president during his first formal bilateral visit.

US & Canada

Split screen. A man is on the left and a woman is on the right.

'I can feel the difference' - Americans react to soaring gas prices

President Donald Trump said over the weekend that oil and gas prices "could be the same or maybe a little bit higher" in the coming months.

US & Canada

A farmer, a man with short black hair wearing glasses and a coat, sitting in the cab of a tractor on a rainy overcast day.

Farmers protest rising costs with traffic disruption

Farmers say they are being hit on several fronts, with the price of fuel and fertiliser all facing a hike.

Northern Ireland

Nick Beake in a press vest split screen with Metula

The Israeli town on the frontline with Hezbollah

BBC foreign correspondent Nick Beake visits Metula, an Israeli town surrounded on three sides by Lebanon.

Middle East

New footage shows moment Orion capsule hatch is opened at sea

Newly released video shows the moment the hatch of Artemis II's Orion capsule is unlocked to a joyful reunion with the four astronauts.

Science & Environment

A doorbell camera image at night with a bright meteor flying across the sky.

Watch: Moment meteor soars across Suffolk sky

Denise Hubert captured the outer space phenomenon on doorbell camera in Kesgrave.

Suffolk

Split image shows Michelle Fleury on the left in a red top and an IMF presentation on the right.

IMF: Oil prices and war could derail global growth

The BBC’s Michelle Fleury explains why oil, inflation and interest rates are key risks as the IMF warns war and soaring energy prices could hit the global economy.

World