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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1ad8/live/d86c20a0-a31d-11f1-8937-ebc435db1160.jpg”] AFP via Getty Images Latest opinion polls have been so close that the result is impossible to call Icelanders are voting in a referendum to decide whether to resume talks on joining the European Union, 13 years after they were broken off. In an indication of how tight the result is expected…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0ed1/live/17fc92d0-a2f2-11f1-aed2-8d6da8d75094.jpg”] BBC One evening in early August, farmer Daniel Sizer’s phone buzzed with a message. It was from his local water board and it read: “River levels are low but have recovered enough to allow one night of irrigation tonight.” Like much of the lower half of England, Daniel’s fourth-generation farm had seen…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2cb0/live/9d09bab0-a22b-11f1-bd6a-3d72a7f54a3e.jpg”] BBC Dolly Parton first launched Imagination Library in her home county in Tennessee One child in Denver called her “The Book Queen”. Another in Alabama calls her “Ms Dolly”. Across the globe in Australia, a toddler with speech delays delighted her family with her first word – “orange” – after she and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/fa12/live/55bbb480-a2d3-11f1-aed2-8d6da8d75094.jpg”] BBC Holly Ratchford has decided to speak out publicly for the first time Holly Ratchford still cannot believe that the man who moved into the residential complex she once managed would go on to be accused of involvement in the darkest day in recent US history. “It’s almost impossible for me to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/3575/live/40950170-a24b-11f1-b3a6-2bc501807fe4.jpg”] Getty Images Donald Trump and Mark Carney have both declared tariffs on each other’s country A raft of new tariffs have been announced during the latest escalation of the trade war between the US and Canada. The North American neighbours have been locked in a bitter economic conflict since US President Donald…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6691/live/b40e7f80-a356-11f1-a291-b542ee92de7c.jpg”] AFP via Getty Images The US has reached a deal with Venezuela to control more than 65 billion barrels of its proven oil reserves, President Donald Trump announced. “This Historic Transaction MORE THAN DOUBLES American Oil Reserves, greatly increases our Oil Supply, and will substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans,” Trump…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f782/live/25abd190-a304-11f1-80b3-bf1a174ac193.png”] Supplied by the University of Western Ontario Seth Guikema, a climate resiliency researcher, will be moving from the University of Michigan to the University of Western Ontario Canada is hiring dozens of researchers away from US universities, including top research institutions such as Harvard as its relationship with its neighbour continues to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f552/live/798d9880-a32b-11f1-8e46-c39d9fc92d9e.jpg”] Getty Images Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has announced plans to name Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton, following the 80-year-old country star’s death from cancer this week. The news comes after legions of fans signed an online petition to rename the airport after Parton, who was born in rural Tennessee and later…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/86ea/live/35df52c0-a32d-11f1-8e46-c39d9fc92d9e.jpg”] Henry Redcliffe The British singer treated fans to hits from her latest albums and her back catalogue Charli XCX has ushered in her next era with an electrifying headline set at Reading Festival which showcased hits from across her music career. It marked the British singer’s first UK festival performance since releasing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/8d37/live/67a7cd10-a2fa-11f1-8d5b-155abe464768.jpg”] Watch: China censors videos showing deadly flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border 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.…