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

31 May 2018

  • 2018
  • May
  • 31 May
News imageMike King high-fiving kid

'My comedy has been a mask my whole life'

New Zealand has the developed world's worst teenage suicide rate. One comedian is trying to change that.

News imageSpeedwell

Family wants sunken fishing boat raised

Scott MacAlister's parents say the wreck may shed new light on the fatal sinking off Argyll in 2013.

News imageBoats stranded in the dried out Aral Sea

Can tree planting stop Uzbekistan's toxic sands?

Toxic chemicals in the Aral Sea's exposed seabed have caused health problems across Uzbekistan.

News imageAaron Heslehurst and lipstick

Million dollar idea: Lipstick

The BBC's Aaron Heslehurst explains how lipstick became a million dollar idea.

News imageDuchess of Sussex and Amal Clooney

Quiz: Which female UK politician comes next?

7 days quiz: It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?

News imageRey in The Last Jedi

Star Wars ranked on women's screen time

Dr Rebecca Harrison edited the films to remove men and calculate screen time for female characters.

News imageAntonio Salvani

'I bought my mum a flat just by renting out my camera kit'

How peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms are overcoming trust issues to help us make cash from our stuff.

News imageOrazbay Allanazarov, by Paul Ivan Harris

Restoring life to the Aral Sea's dead zone

Uzbekistan has an ambitious plan to stop widespread health problems that developed when the Aral Sea disappeared.

News imageTata steel works in Port Talbot

World trade 'war' and Poldark returns, shirt-free

The front pages report the opening salvo in the row between the US and its allies over metals tariffs.

...

British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • 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