He makes a double century and his highest ever score against australia in the fourth ashes test. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Ice and below zero temperatures are causing more disruption in many parts of the uk. Hundreds of people had to spend the night in stansted airport, after flights were cancelled because of the bad weather. Anisa kadri sent this report from sta nsted. Hanging around for a flight longer than you expected. Its not much fun, especially when the queues are just getting longer, and you find your flight is now notjust delayed its cancelled. More than 12 hours after sarahs flight to stockholm was meant to take off from stansted, she was still here and will now fly tomorrow. I only found out literally three hours after my flight was supposed to leave that it was cancelled, there were no boards to tell us it was delayed or anything. It was literally going backwards and forwards between the one personnel that was there. I ended up lining up for ten hours to try to
A suicide bombing in the Afghan Capital, kabul, has claimed the lives of at least a0 people , and injured more than 80 others , with women and children among the casualties. The Islamic State group says it carried out the attack , which targeted a Cultural Organisation and news agency, in the western part of the capital. In recent months so called Islamic State has attacked many shia muslim targets , in this area of kabul, where the majority of the citys shia population lives. Shia muslim targets , in this area of kabul, where the majority of the citys shia population lives. Our correspondent in kabul , zia shahreya , has just sent this report. The force of the explosion is clear to see. Among the rubble, relatives desperately search for their loved ones. But there was little left behind. The bomb went off inside this building, a Cultural Centre and also home to an afghan news agency. Stu d e nts also home to an afghan news agency. Students had been marking the 38th anniversary of the
A suicide bombing in the afghan capital, kabul, has claimed the lives of at least a0 people and injured more than 80 others, with women and children among the casualties. The Islamic State group says it carried out the attack, which targeted a Cultural Organisation and news agency in the western part of the capital. In recent months so called Islamic State has attacked many shia muslim targets in this area of kabul where the majority of the citys shia population lives. Our correspondent in kabul, zia shahreya, has sent this report. The force of the explosion is clear to see. Among the rubble, relatives desperately search for their loved ones. But there was little left behind. The bomb went off inside this building, a Cultural Centre and also home to an afghan news agency. Students had been marking the 38th anniversary of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. The suicide bomber apparently has entered through that way inside this hall where the seminar was happening and the hall was full o
The next president of liberia will be the former International Football star, george weah. He wept with joy as he waved to jubilant supporters in monrovia, after winning more than 60 of the vote. With him was his running mate, Jewel Howard Taylor, the ex wife of the disgraced former president , charles taylor. George weah was the first and only player from africa to win the coveted ballon dor award and he made his name playing for ac milan. For the last three years, hes served as a liberian senator. When he becomes president next month, it will be liberias first democratic transition in more than 70 years. The bbcs umaru fofana is in monrovia. It has been wild celebrations, literally just about two minutes after the Electoral Commission chairman announced the results, hundreds of people were in front of the elections building in jubilation. From then on, across the city, you could hear the reverberating sound of jubilation, the honking of car horns. It has been 12 years of waiting for
The former world footballer of the year, george weah, has won the liberian president ial election. Mr weah played for a string of football clubs, including ac milan, chelsea and manchester city. He entered politics after his retirement in 2002, and will succeed Ellen Johnson sirleaf africas first elected female president. From monrovia, umaru fofana reports. Hundreds of jubilant supporters hundreds ofjubilant supporters of george weah took to the streets minutes after the Electoral Commission announced the results. They charted, it was george weah we wa nted they charted, it was george weah we wanted an george weah we clocked. The capital reverberated with singing and deafening cough islands. It was never in doubt the former world footballer of the year would win. Election observers both domestic and foreign plays the conduct of the poll. This man was used a winning trophies but found it ha rd to used a winning trophies but found it hard to win this, the biggest award of his life. Libe