Here are the key events on day 1,304 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Published On 20 Sep 202520 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Here is how things stand on Saturday, September 20: Regional security Estonian officials say three Russian MiG-31 fighters entered Estonia’s airspace “over the Gulf of Finland”...
Steve RosenbergRussia editor in Moscow BBC Shohruhmirzo Ganiyev is representing Uzbekistan at Intervision At a Moscow concert hall, Shohruhmirzo Ganiyev is crooning about love and his motherland, Uzbekistan. “Put your legs together like a man,” suggests his voice coach and choreographer. “And spread your arms wider!” It’s just a rehearsal, but Shohruhmirzo is singing his...
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Manjit Kaur Harjit Kaur’s age and sudden arrest have generated an outpouring of sympathy and support The visiting room of the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Centre in Bakersfield, California, is small, loud, and crowded. When Harjit Kaur’s family arrived to see her, they could barely hear her – and the first words they caught shattered...
If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information. If you don’t have a credit card, you can pay with bank transfer. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, these methods may become old. Imagine a world in which you can do transactions and many other things without having...
Bill ConnellySep 19, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019. One of the lessons we learned in last season’s Champions League league phase was that there’s little sense in playing for draws. Twenty-six teams won at...
When Ruby Tandoh first embarked on the project that would become her new book, All Consuming, she envisioned it with the broadest scope possible: an authoritative tome about “the whole of appetite — physiological, evolutionary, social, you name it,” she says. “I think this came from a really naive desire at the time to create...
Justin Myers’ piece was deeply moving and made me think about grief that falls outside expected patterns, like family, or, in my case, one’s immediate social circle (‘It was a bad dream – but I never woke up’: what it is like to lose your best friend, 18 September). I supervised Dan Milner’s PhD thesis...
Akisa WanderaBBC Africa, Nairobi and Vitalii ChervonenkoBBC Ukrainian, Kyiv Edith Chesoi With tears in his eyes, a young Kenyan athlete now captive in Ukraine pleads not to be sent back to Russia. “I will die there,” Evans Kibet says, waving his hands in the air towards the unseen interviewer on the video released on Wednesday...
US president says American forces struck the vessel in the Southern Command’s ‘area of responsibility’. Published On 20 Sep 202520 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share United States President Donald Trump says American forces have carried out another strike targeting a ship that he claimed was “trafficking illicit narcotics”, killing...