Skip to content
Watch Live
British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • Health
  • Culture
  • Arts
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Live
  • Documentaries
Watch Live

29 August 2017

  • 2017
  • August
  • 29 August
News imageA still from Pehredaar Piya Ki

The 'unusual love story' taken off air

The TV show had attracted a lot of negative attention right from its launch last month.

News imageGirl holding hands

Ruling over 'Muslim foster case' girl

A judge places the five-year-old Christian girl in the permanent care of her grandmother.

News imageWoman's face

'Only three people speak my language'

Katrina Esau is working hard to save the language of her childhood from dying out - she is one of just three speakers, as the BBC's Pumza Fihlani discovers.

News imagePeople watch a television broadcast reporting the North Korean missile launch

Can the world live with a nuclear North Korea?

Examining the options for a world in which the Pyongyang regime has atomic weapons.

News imageBangladeshi man cheated by people smugglers

'Cheated out of thousands by traffickers'

Abu Sayyed says he will never try to go abroad again after being conned by people smugglers.

News imageHeadstones in a graveyard

Death-registering delays 'rise by 70%'

Council cuts are one cause, say funeral directors reacting to figures obtained by the BBC.

News imageGraham Morgan and his mother

'Mother's death registration took weeks'

Graham Morgan says the delay caused him unnecessary stress after his mother died.

News imageThe board game sparking debate about arranged marriage

The game sparking debate about arranged marriage

Nashra Balagamwala wanted to talk about arranged marriage - so she did what came naturally: design a board game.

News imageEkaterina Voronina

The ballerina who takes to the skies

Meet Ekaterina Voronina and other female pilots in Russia breaking gender stereotypes in aviation.

...

British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • Health
  • Culture
  • Arts
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Live
  • Documentaries
  • Weather
  • BBC Shop
  • BritBox

The BBC is in multiple languages

Read the BBC In your own language

Oduu Afaan Oromootiin
Amharic ዜና በአማርኛ
Arabic عربي
Azeri AZƏRBAYCAN
Bangla বাংলা
Burmese မြန်မာ
Chinese 中文网
Dari دری
French AFRIQUE
Hausa HAUSA
Hindi हिन्दी
Gaelic NAIDHEACHDAN
Gujarati ગુજરાતીમાં સમાચાર
Igbo AKỤKỌ N’IGBO
Indonesian INDONESIA
Japanese 日本語
Kinyarwanda GAHUZA
Kirundi KIRUNDI
Korean 한국어
Kyrgyz Кыргыз
Marathi मराठी
Nepali नेपाली
Noticias para hispanoparlantes
Pashto پښتو
Persian فارسی
Pidgin
Polish PO POLSKU
Portuguese BRASIL
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਖ਼ਬਰਾਂ
Russian НА РУССКОМ
Serbian NA SRPSKOM
Sinhala සිංහල
Somali SOMALI
Swahili HABARI KWA KISWAHILI
Tamil தமிழில் செய்திகள்
Telugu తెలుగు వార్తలు
Thai ข่าวภาษาไทย
Tigrinya ዜና ብትግርኛ
Turkish TÜRKÇE
Ukrainian УКРАЇНСЬКA
Urdu اردو
Uzbek O'ZBEK
Vietnamese TIẾNG VIỆT
Welsh NEWYDDION
Yoruba ÌRÒYÌN NÍ YORÙBÁ
Follow BBC on:
  • Terms of Use
  • Subscription Terms
  • About the BBC
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • Accessibility Help
  • Contact the BBC
  • Advertise with us
  • Do not share or sell my info
  • BBC.com Help & FAQs
  • Content Index

Copyright 2026 BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.

You might also like:

news | sport | weather | worklife | travel | future | culture | world | business | technology