2016-11-30

Cult

Benjamin Britten's 'Billy Budd' at the Bolshoi

Billy Budd at the Bolshoi

30/11/2016

Cinema

'Mum's List' advice and best wishes from beyond the grave

'Have a great time after I've gone'

30/11/2016

South Korea

No mercy for South Korea's embattled president

Opposition parties have vowed to push ahead with attempts to impeach President Park Geun-hye, rejecting her offer to resign amid a growing influence-peddling scandal.

30/11/2016

Colombia

Colombian Senate approves FARC deal

The initial agreement with the rebel group was rejected in a national referendum in October.

30/11/2016

Sci-Tech

Fighting dementia with gaming

A mobile game that challenges a gamer’s spatial navigation has generated the largest-ever dementia study.

30/11/2016

Colombia

Black boxes are recovered from Colombia plane crash

Thousands of grieving football fans have paid tribute to the Brazilian team which lost most of its players in a plane crash in Colombia.

30/11/2016

Cuba

Cubans turn out in their thousands for Castro commemoration

Cuba’s political allies have joined tens of thousands of people in central Havana to honour the country’s late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

30/11/2016

Netherlands

Dutch parliament backs partial ban on burqas

Lawmakers in the lower house of the Dutch parliament have backed a partial ban on “face-covering clothing”, including Islamic veils and robes such as the burqa and…

30/11/2016

USA

ISIL claims Ohio campus car and knife rampage

Students at Ohio State University remain shaken by Monday’s campus attack (Nov.

30/11/2016

Syria

Two Turkish soldiers go missing in Syria

ISIL fighters claim to have captured two Turkish soldiers in northeren Syria.

30/11/2016

United Kingdom

Former football coach Barry Bennell faces eight new charges of sex assault against a boy under the age of 14

British former football coach Barry Bennell was charged on Tuesday with eight historical offences of sexual assault against a boy under the age of 14.

30/11/2016

Europe News

The Brief from Brussels: EU-Turkey ties face test and Brexit notes cause stir

This is the Brief from Brussels, a round-up of the top stories from Europe’s de facto political capital.

30/11/2016

Germany

German 'mole' is arrested over Islamist plot

An employee of Germany’s domestic intelligence service (BfV) has been arrested over a suspected Islamist plot to bomb the agency’s Cologne Headquarters.

30/11/2016