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is sweet for novak djokovic, who wins his seventh wimbledon men's singles title. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 6am in singapore, and 3.30am in colombo, sri lanka — where protestors have been celebrating what they believe to be the toppling of the country's leadership. president rajapaksa — whose family has dominated sri lankan politics for the best part of two decades — has announced he will step down on wednesday after demonstrators stormed his official residence and set fire to the prime minister's house. our south asia correspondent ...

who wins his seventh wimbledon men's singles title. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 7am in singapore, and 4.30am in colombo, sri lanka — where protestors have been celebrating what they believe to be the toppling of the country's leadership. president rajapaksa — whose family has dominated sri lankan politics for the best part of two decades — has announced he will step down on wednesday. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan reports from inside the presidential palace, which is still overrun by protesters. these scenes would h...

the conservative leadership contest, joining a field of eight people, including two former health secretaries, now on bbc news — unspun world, with the bbc�*s world affairs editorjohn simpson. hello, and welcome to new broadcasting house, the bbc�*s headquarters in central london. welcome, too, to unspun world, where we put the key questions of the moment to the bbc�*s experts right around the globe. has something gone permanently and disturbingly wrong with politics in the united states, or can it be mended? we live in a time when serious political commentators are talking a...

singing in italian. we start this week in one of europe's most breathtakingly beautiful destinations, venice, in north—east italy. this city on water is made up of over 100 islets, interconnected by a labyrinth of picture perfect canals and elegant bridges. life around here has remained the same for hundreds of years and steadfast through that time have been the gondoliers of venice. they see themselves as custodians of the city. today, there are only 400 gondoliers left and they are almost exclusively used by tourists. so it was in the family? with the local population of around 5...

look in on people who might be vulnerable, an elderly neighbour or someone with very young children. this is the heatwave we have had, the second one this summer, if you like. we only had the last 13 weeks ago. climate change experts have been telling us yet again that we should be expecting more of these events as the climate changes, as the planet warms up. certainly, so far, the people we have been speaking to on the beach, as far as they are concerned, they are very much enjoying it. i did ask them how high do you like it, how what do you want it to go and they said maybe 31, 32 ...