Emily Taylor

With public events cancelled amid the pandemic, Mexico’s Day of the Dead is low-key but poignant.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Tighter rules aim to curb Germany’s Covid surge, but France’s lockdown is tougher.
BBC News – Europe

Boris Johnsons says lockdown rules will expire on 2 December – with MPs to vote on what happens next.
BBC News – UK

A day before the US election, the rival candidates make last-ditch efforts to persuade voters in key states.
BBC News – US & Canada

Police detain the Chadema chairman after his party calls for protests to reject election results.
BBC News – Africa

Several entrepreneurs tell the BBC what is at stake, for their industry and wider society.
BBC News – Business

Muslim pilgrims from abroad can enter the Grand Mosque for the first time since the pandemic began.
BBC News – Middle East

As Diego Maradona turns 60, his biographer Guillem Balague reflects on the rise and fall of a maverick who became one of football’s greats.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The trial of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack is suspended after the main suspect catches the virus.
BBC News – Europe

Stricter rules to start on Thursday will need to bring the R rate “below 1”, the cabinet minister says.
BBC News – UK

Joe Biden is in Michigan while Donald Trump arrives in Pennsylvania, both key to the White House race.
BBC News – US & Canada

The referendum is to cement democratic reforms but some activists say real change is not being made.
BBC News – Africa

Its Halloween Weekend and for some teams it will be a nightmare, as any tenuous hopes of post season football will effectively end with a loss. Chargers, Vikings Cowboys & New England (are we really saying The […]

Renters and the self employed could be among those facing tough times this winter, charities warn.
BBC News – Business

The government says procedures were violated when travellers were subjected to invasive searches.
BBC News – Middle East

The grim discovery was made in Salvatierra, one of the most violent places in the country.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Twenty-two die in Turkey’s Izmir province and on Greece’s Samos island, with a mini-tsunami triggered.
BBC News – Europe

The Democratic and Republican rivals make ambitious forays into politically challenging territory.
BBC News – US & Canada

John Magufuli is re-elected by a landslide – but the opposition has dismissed the results.
BBC News – Africa

Welcome to Dracula Country!

Bit of a dramatic headline for a seaside town like Whitby? Well if you have read Bram Stoker’s classic you will understand! Why – well Whitby Abbey is a key location in it. But hey […]