Come From Away

Japanese scientists have designed a pair of chopsticks that emit an electric zap to trick our brains and make food taste saltier. And do electric vehicles actually work for rural Australia? 

It's a day Japan will never forget, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been shot in the ancient capital city of Nara. The country's longest ever serving leader was midway through a campaign speech for Sunday's upper house elections when two shots were fired. 

It’s been a week of searing and surreal images from Afghanistan after the Taliban’s lighting takeover of Kabul. The spectacle of an official Taliban news conference, televised live from the capital on Tuesday, was proof of how just how fast events have moved. The Taliban leadersh ...  Show more

With his performance of “God Bless America” during Game 3 of the 2001 World Series, NYPD officer Daniel Rodriguez comforted a nation still grieving in the wake of 9/11. It felt like a timeless moment. Instead, it proved fleeting. Twenty years later, the reasons for that tell a ...

Lebanon was once the embodiment of glamour: its capital, Beirut, was nicknamed the “Paris of the Middle East” and enjoyed as an international playground. Today those glory years seem long gone. A political crisis has left the country without a properly functioning government – an ...  Show more

Television footage from Idlib in northern Syria continues to provide distressing evidence of civilian suffering. But the world's leading nations are unwilling or unable to intercede. Jeremy Bowen recalls his visits to the region in former, peaceful times but sees no end to the cu ...  Show more