This reflects the boom in total tourism to Japan since the pandemic, with a record number of foreign visitors in 2025. The Brits in their 20s and 30s I spoke to gave a long list of reasons for wanting to go to Japan – the cityscapes, food, anime, nature, history, gaming, temples. But they largely…
The dramatic footage was almost impossible to miss. A torrent of water tearing through Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away all in its path as hundreds of people fled for their lives. The scenes, captured by CCTV cameras, quickly spread on social media and onto screens around…
The PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi also serves as Pakistan’s interior minister. In the interview conducted by former England captain Michael Atherton, Suleiman and Kasim expressed concerns over the treatment and security given to their father, as well as criticising the UK government’s response. Before it aired, Sky received a complaint about the plan to broadcast…
A 97-year-old woman pulled from flood debris in Nepal is recovering in hospital, according to her doctors. Guna Maya Bohara’s great-nephew, Dipak Bohara, has told BBC Nepali she looked like “a warrior” who had returned victorious from battle. The operation to pull Bohara out of the rubble of her care home took four hours. Bohara…
Kitchen and her husband, described as her “soul mate”, were starting a six-week holiday to Singapore, Indonesia and Australia when the incident happened in May 2024. The turbulence hit over Myanmar, with the flight then diverted to Bangkok, in Thailand, for an emergency landing. “There had been some turbulence over Europe, and it had been…
A video has captured the moment a group of people stranded on a balcony in Nepal survived as powerful floodwaters rush around them. It’s one of several clips BBC Verify has located along the Trishuli River after a deadly cascade of water, mud and other debris flooded the area on Wednesday, as Merlyn Thomas reports….
This destructive path continues westwards along with the swelled river, before heading southwards. Satellite images also show the formation of a barrier lake at the base of the landslide’s path, which Chinese authorities have warned poses a major risk of further flooding and has hampered rescue efforts. Dr Argha Banerjee, a glaciologist at the Indian…
I enter the camp to an absolutely heartbreaking scene. Hundreds of people are queuing outside, desperately trying to see if they can find their loved ones. This army camp in Nuwakot, one of the main districts in central Nepal affected by devastating flash floods and massive landslides, has been turned into a search-and-rescue centre. Inside,…
The Nepali army has been working to rescue survivors who had been trapped inside a tunnel at a hydropower project in Rasuwa. Footage shared by the country’s prime minister office shows soliders carrying survivors and crawling across thick slates of mud to reach others. An update issued by officials on Thursday indicated more than 100…
“She kept saying the weather was good,” he says. “She said it was rather warm, it was raining sometimes.” The next morning, 26 August, Subhrasree left her hotel shortly after 7am. Bhattacharya spoke to her on the phone, and the two continued messaging afterwards. Around an hour later, she told him the Nepal immigration formalities…