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At least 19 people have died and more than 100 were injured after a Bangladeshi air force training jet crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka. Footage of the scene at Milestone School and College in the northern suburb of Uttara shows a huge fire and a thick plume of smoke. The military…

Tessa Wong BBC News, Singapore Getty Images The dam is situated in the Yarlung Tsangpo canyon, said to be the world’s largest and deepest canyon on land Chinese authorities have begun constructing what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam in Tibetan territory, in a project that has sparked concerns from India and Bangladesh. Chinese…

A camel in Pakistan is enjoying a new lease of life after it was fitted with a prosthetic leg by an animal shelter. Cammie is the first large animal to receive an artificial leg in the country, according to vet Dr Babar Hussain. It is thought that Cammie’s leg was severed by a landowner after…

Prominent Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi is due in court on accusations of “facilitation of terrorist acts” during last month’s deadly anti-government protests in which at least 19 people died. On Sunday, investigators said they had seized phones, a laptop, and notebooks from Mr Mwangi’s Lukenya home on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, and hard…

A state-of-the-art British fighter jet that has been stuck at an Indian airport for more than five weeks is set to fly out on Tuesday. The F-35B is due to be “pulled back from the hangar today and the departure is scheduled for Tuesday”, an airport spokesman told the BBC. “We do not have any…

Faisal Bashir An unrelenting heatwave has gripped Kashmir over the last few months Zaina Begum stood helplessly next to her withering paddy field. A farmer in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pulwama district, she had been waiting for rainfall for more than a month, hoping to save her crop from dying. So when it finally rained earlier this…

The powerful Ecuadorean gang leader Adolfo Macías Villamar has been extradited to the United States to face charges of drug and arms trafficking. Known as “Fito”, he was recaptured in June, almost a year after he escaped from a high-security prison where he was serving a 34-year sentence for a series of crimes. He will…

Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto Canadian Press Catalina Friesen serves with a mobile clinic in Ontario Morgan Birch was puzzled when her four-month-old daughter, Kimie, suddenly fell ill with a fever and rash. At first, the Alberta mother assumed it was a common side effect of immunisations – or perhaps a case of chicken pox.…

Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi AFP/Getty Images Mrenda, being prepared here by a chef in Nairobi, has many more micronutrients than cabbage Once dismissed as wild weeds and a “poor man’s food”, indigenous leafy vegetables in Kenya are now becoming much more common – grown on farms, sold in markets and gracing the menus of…

Tributes are being paid to American World War Two veteran and social media star Jake Larson, known online as ‘Papa Jake’, who has died at the age of 102. Larson was among the Allied troops in D-Day who attacked Nazi Germany’s forces on the beaches of northern France in 1944, helping to end WW2. In…