INTERNATIONAL

Bernie Sanders has won the West Virginia primary in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination, US media project. The Vermont senator still trails Hillary Clinton in the overall contest for delegates but this win keeps his slim hopes alive. “We are going to fight for every last vote,” he said in a victory speech that also attacked Republican Donald ...

The Queen has been caught on camera saying Chinese officials were “very rude” during last year’s state visit by President Xi Jinping. She was discussing their treatment of Britain’s ambassador to China with a senior police officer at a Buckingham Palace garden party on Wednesday. The invitation to President Xi was part of the government’s policy of courting Chinese investment. ...

Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month – the first serving US president to travel to the Japanese city since it was hit by a US nuclear bomb in 1945. The visit will be part of an Asian trip from 21-28 May that will also take in Vietnam. The Hiroshima bombing on 6 August 1945 killed 140,000 people. Along ...

Hardline anti-crime candidate Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte looks set to become president of the Philippines after polls gave him an unassailable lead. Mr Duterte, who stirred controversy during campaigning with his incendiary comments, said he accepted the apparent mandate with “extreme humility”. An accredited poll monitor said he led with most ballots counted, but this does not represent an official result. ...

Some 90% of buildings in the evacuated Canadian city of Fort McMurray have survived the massive wildfire, Alberta’s provincial premier said on a visit. Rachel Notley said the hospital and most schools were intact but 2,400 out of 25,000 structures had been burnt. “It was a miracle we got the entire population out safely,” she told reporters. More than 80,000 ...

The battle to contain the wildfires in west-central Canada has reached a turning point, partly thanks to drizzle and favourable winds, say officials. One minister warned much work lay ahead but “we may be turning a corner”. A fifth of homes in the oil sands city of Fort McMurray have been destroyed and more than 80,000 people evacuated. But the ...

People in the Philippines are voting for a new president and other leaders, with outspoken mayor Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte the favourite to win. Five candidates are running but Mr Duterte led polls ahead of voting, despite controversial comments while campaigning and a hardline stance. The campaign has been driven by public concerns about the economy, inequality and rampant corruption. More ...

BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and his team are being expelled from North Korea after being detained over their reporting. Our correspondent, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were stopped by officials on Friday as they were about to leave North Korea. He was questioned for eight hours by North Korean officials and made to sign a statement. All three ...

Two buses and a fuel tanker have collided on a major highway in Afghanistan killing 73 people, a health ministry spokesman has told the BBC. More than 50 other people injured in the accident had been taken to hospital in Ghazni province, officials say. All three vehicles were set ablaze after the collision on the main road linking the capital, ...

The leader of North Korea has said the country will not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is threatened, state media report. North Korea first tested nuclear weapons in 2006, after withdrawing from an international treaty. It has made repeated threats of nuclear strikes against South Korea and the US. But Kim Jong-un reportedly told the Workers’ Party Congress in ...