Retired footballer Joey Barton has been sentenced over X posts he sent to football pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, along with broadcaster Jeremy Vine.

Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has pleaded not guilty to four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault.

A South Korean woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for blackmailing former Tottenham Hotspur footballer Son Heung-min.

Syrians are celebrating the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al Assad with military parades - and a fresh promise to rebuild the country.

The mother of a student who took his own life after wrongly being told he would not be eligible to graduate from the University of Glasgow will collect his degree posthumously on his behalf.

At least five people have been killed in the most serious confrontation between both sides since July.

The thieves enter the library in normal opening hours, stuffing the art works into a canvas bag.

The leak in the Egyptian department comes just weeks after a jewellery heist that put the museum's security infrastructure under scrutiny.

The BBC's Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega speaks to Syrians about how life has changed since the revolution.

Warning: This episode mentions suicide.

In March, the U.S. government sent more than 200 Venezuelan men to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Over four months, the men said they endured physical, mental and sexual abuse.

Julie Turkewitz, the Andes bureau chief at The New York Times, interviewed 40 of these prisoners. She explains what she found out about this part of President Trump’s program of mass deportation.

Guest: Julie Turkewitz, the Andes bureau chief for The New York Times, based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Background reading: 

• “You are all terrorists”: four months in a Salvadoran prison.

Photo: Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times

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