Three vans were spotted near RAF Fairford in the early hours of Sunday 27th September and the police were called. A major incident was declared, and everyone in the small village of Whelford was evacuated.

RAF Fairford is a military airfield located in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. It is owned by the UK’s Ministry of Defence, but is operated on a day-to-day basis by the United States Air Force under an agreement between the UK and US.

Five men, all British nationals in their 20s, were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and terrorism offences, and they were later released on bail. A dual UK-Iranian national, aged 25, has also since been arrested on suspicion of terror offences.

BBC Reporter Steve Knibbs visited the usually quiet village in rural Gloucestershire to speak to its residents and find out more.

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Silverstone is better known for Formula One. But it’s also the testing ground for student engineers building the next generation of racing tech.

BBC Tech Now’s Martin Sharkey went to meet the teams competing in Formula Student AI.

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Smit Machchhar, the Indian airline captain who was stabbed by his co-pilot onboard a Flydubai plane, has spoken to Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his hospital bed. Mr Machchhar has been described as a “true hero” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who hailed him for preventing a “catastrophic mid-air disaster” on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv.

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03:32 Student protestors in France clash with police in demonstrations over education conditions
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09:07 President Trump mulls banning diesel exports, and urges Europe to release its reserves as the US-Iran war puts pressure on fuel supplies
11:48 Starbucks faces backlash over plans to open branches in China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing is accused of human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims
15:14 South Koreans fall in love with Bukangi, a huge grey shark stranded in a canal

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Vietnam is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change.

It’s already having a huge impact on the lives of those in the Mekong Delta, the agricultural heartland of the country and home to 20% of the country’s population.
Ashley John-Baptiste went to meet the families living on the frontlines of climate change.

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Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences was hit by a Russian drone strike, killing one person and leaving three injured, according to city’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko.

Footage showed people leaning out of windows as they evacuated the burning building.

Firefighters helped people evacuate through the windows as a plume a black smoke billowed out of the building.

The BBC’s diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams was at the scene as emergency services attempted to stop the raging fire.

Russia has been carrying out sustained attacks on Ukraine, with explosions reported in the capital Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday morning, with several buildings damaged.

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