04-14 00:01 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
The singer voluntarily checks herself into a treatment facility, three weeks before her court date.
Britney Spears goes into rehab after driving under the influence arrest
Britney Spears has gone into rehab, a month after she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
The singer voluntarily checked herself into a treatment facility, her representative told multiple US media outlets on Sunday.
Following her arrest on 4 March, the star's representative called the incident "completely inexcusable" and said her loved ones would "come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success for well being".
Her entry into treatment comes three weeks before the 44-year-old is due to appear in court in California to face the DUI charge.
Last month, Spears was reported to authorities for driving her BMW "erratically at a high rate of speed" on a motorway, California Highway Patrol said.
She "showed signs of impairment" and submitted to a series of field sobriety tests after she was pulled over.
Afterwards, her representative told the BBC: "Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney's life.
"Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.
"Her boys are going to be spending time with her. Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success for well being."
Spears is one of the most successful pop stars of all time, with hits such as Baby One More Time, Toxic, Everytime, Gimme More, Womanizer, and Stronger.
For 13 years until 2021, Spears was in a conservatorship – a legal guardianship that saw her finances and personal life controlled by her father.
He has said it was necessary because her life was "in shambles and she was in physical, emotional, mental and financial distress".
"Through the conservatorship, Britney has been able to return to a path towards stability in all of these phases of her life. The mission has been successful and it is now time for Britney to re-take control of her life."
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04-14 00:01 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Italy's prime minister and the US president are close allies, but Trump has refused to apologise to the "very weak" Pope Leo XIV.
Italian PM condemns ally Trump over 'unacceptable' Pope criticism
Donald Trump's remarks about Pope Leo XIV were "unacceptable", Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said.
The US president accused the pontiff of being "WEAK on Crime and terrible for Foreign Policy" in a long Truth Social post, later telling reporters he was "not a big fan".
"The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church, and it is right and normal for him to call for peace and to condemn every form of war," Meloni said in a statement.
Italian opposition parties have criticised Meloni for failing to speak out promptly.
Her coalition partner Matteo Salvini, the leader of the populist League party, said that "attacking the Pope... doesn't seem like a useful or intelligent thing to do."
After Trump's remarks, the Pope told reporters en route to Algeria that he did not want to get into a debate with Trump but would continue to promote peace.
Pope Leo has said he has "no fear" of the Trump administration and will continue to speak out against war after the US president launched an unusual and scathing attack over his stance on the Iran conflict.
On Monday, Trump doubled down on his criticism, saying he would not apologise to the "very weak" Pope.
In general, it is rare for a Pope to directly address statements by world leaders.
There are more than 70 million Catholics in the US, about 20% of the population. They include Trump's Vice-President JD Vance.
The US president wrote in Sunday's post that the Pope "should get his act together" and said he was "weak on nuclear weapons", apparently referring to Tehran's attempts to become a nuclear power, cited as one of the reasons for the US and Israel going to war with Iran.
He also suggested that the pontiff was elected "because he was American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J Trump".
"If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican."
Asked by reporters to explain the post, he later said: "I don't think he's doing a very good job, he likes crime, I guess."
Trump added: "He's a very liberal person, and he's a man who doesn't believe in stopping crime, he's a man who doesn't believe we should be toying with a country that wants a nuclear weapon so they can blow up the world."
In response, the Pope told reporters on board his plane to Algiers that he did not see his role as that of a politician but as one of spreading the message of peace.
"I have no fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly of the message of the gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do, what the Church is here to do," he told reporters.
"I don't want to get into a debate with [Trump]," he added.
"Too many people are suffering in the world today. Too many innocent people are being killed. And I think someone has to stand up and say: there's a better way to do this."
The pontiff later used a speech to criticise "continuous violations of international law and neocolonial tendencies", urging leaders to embrace principles of justice and solidarity.
Trump's remarks also drew criticism from Catholics around the world, with one expert comparing the comments to the Pope's relationship with fascist dictators in World War Two.
"Not even Hitler or Mussolini attacked the Pope so directly and publicly," said prominent Italian Catholic commentator Massimo Faggioli.
The Pope has used numerous public addresses to denounce global conflicts and urge de-escalation in the Middle East.
When Trump threatened Iran, saying that "a whole civilisation will die tonight", he responded by saying the statement was "truly unacceptable".
The Pope has also criticised Trump's hard-line immigration policy, questioning whether it was possible for someone to be "pro-life" - a term normally associated with opponents of abortion - if they agreed with what he described as the "inhuman treatment of immigrants".
Pope Leo is seen as continuing the humanitarian tradition of his predecessor Pope Francis, who said Trump was "not Christian" during the 2016 election campaign because of his anti-immigrant language. Trump described the late Pope as "disgraceful".
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04-14 00:01 · 国际政治,地缘冲突,外交关系,欧洲,战争
Russia has offered "pragmatic" relations, but Péter Magyar says he will not call Vladimir Putin himself.
Hungary's next PM would pick up if Putin calls and tell him to stop Ukraine war
Péter Magyar has said he has already spoken to 10 European leaders, a day after his landslide victory brought an end to Viktor Orbán's 16-year continuous rule in Hungary.
But he said he would not be calling Vladimir Putin, a close partner of Orbán, even though he would speak to him if the Russian leader rang.
"If Vladimir Putin calls I'll pick up the phone," he told reporters during a three-hour marathon press conference to mark his Tisza party's election success on Sunday.
"I don't think it'll happen," he stressed, "but if we did talk I'd tell him to please, after four years, put an end to the killing and end this war."
Moscow has said it respects Magyar's victory and expects to retain "pragmatic" relations with Budapest.
Orbán has also been a key ally of US President Donald Trump, who backed him to win Sunday's election, and Vice-President JD Vance reinforced that with a two-day campaign visit last week.
Magyar told journalists that he would not be phoning Trump either, but if Trump phoned him, he would say he was glad as they were "strong allies in Nato", and he would invite him to attend the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising against Soviet occupation next October.
A former insider from Orbán's own Fidesz party, Magyar launched a grassroots movement to put an end to corruption and cronyism in the government.
Latest preliminary results give Tisza 136 seats, down from an earlier figure of 138 but still a comfortable "super majority" of two-thirds of the seats in parliament, enabling the party to change the constitution.
Magyar said some 400,000 votes had yet to be counted and he was optimistic his party would gain some of the remaining seats.
He said Hungarian voters had not voted just for a change of government but for "complete regime change".
Magyar was clearly a man in demand among European leaders on Monday, after voters had swung behind his party in dramatic fashion on Sunday.
"Hungary has chosen Europe," was the assessment of Ursula von der Leyen the European Commission president. Von der Leyen was one of the leaders he had already spoken to, he told assembled Hungarian and international journalists.
Hungary belonged in the EU no matter what the outgoing government was planning, Magyar stressed, adding that it was his country's interests to join the eurozone. He has already mapped out his first diplomatic visits, to Poland, Austria and Germany, countries that he emphasised Hungary's close affinity to.
The 45-year-old Tisza leader struck a very different tone from Hungary's defeated prime minister, who had long pinned the blame on the EU and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky for the continuing war in Ukraine.
Orbán's campaign claimed they were prolonging Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, and he blocked a €90bn (£78bn) EU loan of aid to Kyiv last month, prompting European accusations of disloyalty.
Magyar told reporters that every Hungarian knew that Ukraine was the victim of the war with Russia.
The war made no sense from a Russian perspective too, he said, "as tens of thousands of Russians have lost their lives, and tens or even hundreds of thousands of Russian families have been destroyed", including Russian-speaking people living in Ukraine.
"It would probably be a short phone call [with Putin], and I don't think he'd end the war on my advice."
Although Orbán did have allies in the EU, he was the only leader who sought to veto a loan that he had previously agreed to, after Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic secured an opt-out at a December summit.
His government's ties to Russia came under increasing scrutiny after Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó admitted sharing information with Russian officials before and after EU meetings on sanctions.
At one point Szijjártó is alleged to have told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov "I am at your service", a leak that prompted Orbán to order a wiretapping investigation.
Hungary's prime minister-elect was handed a note during Monday's press conference and went on to allege that the outgoing foreign minister had been shredding confidential documents relating to sanctions with Russia in the ministry building that day.
There was no comment from the ministry.
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04-13 01:48 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Viktor Orbán's 16 years in power is over, defeated by a 45-year-old ex-party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians to oust him.
Orbán era swept away by Péter Magyar's Hungary election landslide
Viktor Orbán's 16 years in power is over, and the system condemned as an "electoral autocracy" lies in tatters, defeated by a 45-year-old former party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians to bring it to an end.
"We did it," Péter Magyar told a crowd of cheering supporters in a square beside the River Danube, overlooking Budapest's magnificent parliament on the other side.
"Together we overthrew the Hungarian regime."
Preliminary results, based on more than 98% of votes counted, put his Tisza party on course for an extraordinary 138 seats, with Orbán's Fidesz on 55 and the far-right Our Homeland on six.
For two years Magyar took his burgeoning movement around villages, town squares and cities, rallying Hungarians who had had enough of the cronyism and corruption that had become endemic over years.
"Never before in the history of democratic Hungary have so many people voted - and no single party has ever received such a strong mandate," he said on Sunday night, after a record 79% of the electorate turned out to vote.
Orbán's rule was built up through four successive election victories and sweeping majorities, but it was over in a matter of minutes.
As pro-Magyar supporters waited expectantly in the square on the Buda side of the Danube, the Tisza leader posted an extraordinary message on Facebook: "Viktor Orbán just called me on the phone and congratulated us on our victory."
There was barely time to digest what had just happened and only 30% of the vote had so far been counted.
But moments later Orbán himself appeared on a stage in a conference centre a mile down-river on the other side of the Danube, surrounded by his glum-looking Fidesz party colleagues.
"The result of the election is clear and painful," he told them, thanking the estimated 2.5 million Hungarians who stuck by him. "The days ahead of us are for us to heal our wounds."
Word began to spread among Magyar supporters, and at the nearby hotel that had become party HQ, Tisza activists hugged each other.
Magyar has promised to reverse Orbán-era changes to education and health, tackle corruption, restore the independence of the judiciary and kill off the widely loathed system of patronage known as NER that helped enrich party loyalists and squander state resources.
To make those changes to the constitution, he needed a two-thirds majority of 133 seats, and although the final results are not yet in, latest results suggest Tisza is on course for 138.
Another target in Magyar's sights is pro-Orbán state media. The M1 TV channel has until now slavishly toed the party line, along with what were once independent websites bought up over time by Fidesz allies.
Apparently uncertain what to do next, M1 rebroadcast a speech that Magyar had given just after the vote had finished. He had been hopeful of victory at the time, but by now the speech was out of date - he had already won.
Hungary has for some time felt like two different worlds running in tandem. In one, Orbán convinced his supporters and TV viewers they were heading for victory and four more years in power, backed up by opinion polls run by sympathetic pollsters, who continued to forecast a Fidesz victory as late as Sunday evening.
In the other world was Magyar, attracting big crowds wherever he went, backed up by respected pollsters reporting an increasing lead over his rival.
On Sunday night, those two worlds collided, and only one was real.
If Tisza's two-thirds majority is confirmed, state TV is set for change.
Magyar moved slowly through the crowds before taking to the stage, flanked by his party colleagues.
"You performed a miracle today, Hungary made history today," he told the audience, to chants of "Ria-Ria-Hungaria!"
He likened their electoral victory to the Hungarian revolution of 1848, and the uprising against Soviet occupation in 1956.
There was a time when Orbán himself spoke out against Soviet occupation, but he has become a close partner of Russia's Vladimir Putin, and his justification of cheap Russian oil and petrol has made him a highly unpopular leader in the EU, which has tried to shake off its reliance on Russian imports. Orbán has also reneged on an EU agreement to provide Ukraine with a €90bn (£79bn; $105bn) loan.
"Russians go home," Magyar supporters chanted, as the next Hungarian prime minister promised better relations with the European Union.
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk was among the first of many European leaders to welcome Magyar's "glorious victory", adding in Hungarian "Ruszkik Haza" - Russians go home.
The Tisza leader pledged that his first trip abroad as prime minister would be to Warsaw - to reinforce Hungary's 1,000-year friendship with Poland.
As for Orbán, now 62, he has not resigned, and without him it is difficult to imagine what will happen to Fidesz.
For now he will continue to lead Hungary in a caretaker role, while he and his party lick their wounds.
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04-13 00:01 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
The Nigerian Air Force has not addressed reports it struck a village market while targeting militants.
Civilians feared killed after reports of air strike on Nigerian market
Civilians are feared to have died after reports that Nigerian military jets struck a village market in the north-east of the country.
The attack took place near the border between Yobe and Borno states while an aircraft was said to be engaged in an operation against Islamist militants in the area, according to the Reuters news agency and local reports.
The Nigerian Air Force said it carried out "mop-up" air strikes on "identified terrorist locations" within the Jilli axis of Borno State on Saturday, but has not confirmed that it struck the market nor confirmed casualties.
The area is at the centre of the long-running Boko Haram insurgency, which has forced more than two million people to flee their homes and killed thousands.
The Nigerian Air Force's statement said follow-on strikes on Saturday were "aimed at fleeing remnants and regrouping cells seeking to exploit the difficult terrain".
There are conflicting reports of the number of casualties as a result of the strike on the market.
Citing a councillor, Lawan Zanna Nur Geidam, in Yobe's Geidam district, as well as three residents and an official from an international humanitarian agency, news agency Reuters said at least 200 people had been killed.
"It's a very devastating incident," said Zanna Nur Geidam, who said the injured had been taken to hospitals in Yobe and Borno.
Nigerian outlets the Sun and Punch reported sources saying that 10 people had been killed, while "several" others had sustained injuries.
But newspaper the Daily Trust reported that an eyewitness said at least 56 people had died, with 14 others hospitalised.
According to the outlet, the weekly market usually attracts traders and buyers from surrounding communities.
In a statement on Facebook on Sunday, the Yobe State Emergency Management Agency said it had received "preliminary reports" of an incident at Jilli Market in the Gubio local government area, "which reportedly resulted in casualties affecting some marketers".
It added that emergency response mechanisms had been "immediately evacuated", with assessment teams deployed to the area, but added that "details regarding the nature of the incident and the number of casualties remain unverified".
The government of the neighbouring Yobe state said some of its residents who went to the market "were affected".
"Some people from Geidam LGA [local government area] bordering Gubio LGA in Borno state who went to the Jilli weekly market were affected," Brigadier General Dahiru Abdulsalam said on Facebook.
Ahmed Ali, a 43-year-old market trader, told Reuters he was injured in the blast.
"I became so scared and attempted to run away, but a friend dragged me and we all lay on the ground," he said.
Amnesty International's Nigeria branch condemned the strike, which it said had killed "over 100 people".
"Launching air raids is not a legitimate law enforcement method by anyone's standard," a post on X said.
"Such reckless use of deadly force is unlawful, outrageous and lays bare the Nigerian military's shocking disregard for the lives of those it supposedly exists to protect."
Nigeria's north‑east has seen repeated incidents in recent years in which military air operations against Islamist insurgents have mistakenly hit civilians, including in villages, camps for displaced people and markets.
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04-13 00:01 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
The conflict is now a test of wills - Iran’s capacity to absorb strikes versus Trump’s tolerance for the war's costs.
Trump's blockade threat raises risks and leaves predicaments unchanged
After a diplomatic team led by Vice-President JD Vance tried, and failed, to reach a negotiated agreement to end the US war with Iran on Saturday, President Donald Trump had to decide his next move.
That came on Sunday morning, in a series of Truth Social posts.
The US will impose a naval blockade of Iran, he wrote. "No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas," he wrote.
He also said that the US would continue clearing mines from the Strait of Hormuz in order to ensure a safe passage for allied shipping. The US military, he added, was "locked and loaded" and prepared to resume attacks against Iran at an "appropriate moment".
He went on to say that while progress had been made in the 20-hour negotiations in Islamabad, Iran would not meet the US demand that it abandon its nuclear ambitions.
That view was contradicted somewhat by a US official familiar with Vance's negotiations, who spelled out a much longer list of disagreements – including on Iran's control of Hormuz and its support for regional proxies, like Houthi rebels in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
While Trump's latest posts didn't have the apocalyptic bluster of last week's threat to end Iranian civilisation, they pose a number of new challenges – and risks – for the American side.
Will mine-clearing activities place American naval vessels at greater risk of Iranian attacks? How would the US determine who paid Iran a toll? Will the US use force on foreign-flagged ships that ignore the blockade? How will nations that depend on Iranian oil, like China, respond? Will the move, intended to choke off Iran's primary income stream, drive up the price of oil to even higher levels?
There are no clear answers.
Later on Sunday, the US military Central Command announced that the naval blockade would stop all ships traveling to or from Iranian ports – a different set of conditions than in Trump's earlier proposed action.
"I don't understand how blockading the strait is going to somehow push the Iranians into opening it," Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN on Sunday.
On CBS' Face the Nation programme, Republican congressman Mike Turner of Ohio, who until last year chaired the House Intelligence Committee, said the blockade is a means to force a resolution to the situation in Hormuz.
"The president, by saying we're not just going to let them decide who gets through, is certainly calling all of our allies and everyone to the table," he said. "This needs to be addressed."
Last week, before Iran and the US agreed to a two-week ceasefire and face-to-face negotiations, Trump had found himself in a difficult situation.
He could continue to ratchet up the US attacks on Iran, possibly doing long-term damage to the nation's civilian infrastructure, adding to a humanitarian crisis and further destablising the global economy.
Or, he could back away from a war that has always been unpopular among the American public and is beginning to frustrate even some of Trump's supporters, who believed his promises to avoid extended foreign conflicts and Middle East entanglements.
A new CBS poll suggests that most Americans (59%) feel the war is going somewhat or very badly for the US.
Many believe the key US objectives - such as keeping open the Strait of Hormuz, securing greater freedom for the Iranian people, and permanently ending Iran's nuclear programme - remain unmet. Overwhelming bipartisan majorities feel it's important for the US to achieve these goals.
Nearly a week has passed and, despite American claims of victory, the predicaments facing the president have not changed.
Talking to Fox News on Sunday morning, Trump said that Iran would ultimately give the US "everything" it wants. He added that while oil prices might be the same or higher in the months ahead, he believed the US economy would hold up.
That, to say the least, is a gamble.
And with November's midterm elections looming, the president's Republican Party could pay dearly at the polls if he is wrong.
On Saturday night, as his vice-president was negotiating with the Iranians in Pakistan, Trump travelled to Miami, where he watched prize fighters batter each other in UFC cage matches.
It was, according to members of the press pool in attendance, a bizarre spectacle.
The president of the United States observed violent contests in a blood-spattered ring, chatted with celebrities and, at times, engaged in intense discussions with his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and other advisers, in full view of the thousands of attendees.
Ultimate fighting cage matches, despite their ferocity, have set rules and time limits, and end with a clear winner and a loser.
It's the kind of clarity that the Iran war may never provide, as it stretches into its second month and the current two-week ceasefire appears on the verge of collapse.
The conflict has become a test of wil
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04-12 13:43 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his nation's forces would respond "symmetrically" to Russian attacks.
Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of hundreds of ceasefire violations
Ukraine and Russia have each accused one another of hundreds of violations of a short ceasefire coinciding with Orthdox Easter celebrations.
The Ukrainian military said on Sunday morning that Russian forces had committed 2,299 violations since the truce began at 16:00 local time (13:00 GMT) on Saturday - including shooting four unarmed soldiers.
The Russian defence ministry, in turn, said Ukrainian forces had committed 1,971 violations, including three attempted counter-attacks in Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier said his nation's forces would respond "symmetrically" to Russian attacks during the ceasefire, calling Easter "a time of peace".
He added that he hoped the truce could be extended beyond Easter to facilitate peace negotiations which have all but stalled with the outbreak of war in the Middle East - but Russia rejected the idea, saying its attacks would resume on Monday.
Russian troops mounted 28 attacks and carried out nearly 2,000 drone strikes, Ukraine's military said, but did not use bombs or missiles.
Russian forces in the north-eastern Kharkiv region executed four Ukrainian soldiers after the ceasefire came into force, the local prosecutor's office said, describing the incident as a "grave violation of international humanitarian law".
Ukraine's military said the troops were shot after being disarmed, calling it "another war crime by Russia".
Ukrainian authorities published what appears to be an image taken by a drone showing four bodies lying in a clearing.
In Ukraine's northern Sumy region, which borders Russia, local authorities said a Russian drone hit an ambulance overnight, injuring three medics.
Russia's defence ministry said Ukraine had launched three overnight attacks on positions in the Pokrovsk area and Otradne in Dnipropetrovsk region.
It also said four attempts by Ukrainian troops to advance in Sumy and Donetsk were "thwarted".
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the Easter ceasefire earlier this week, having previously resisted repeated calls from Ukraine for a temporary cessation of fighting. Zelensky said his forces would act in kind.
Earlier in the year, Putin acquiesced to a US request to halt strikes on energy infrastructure as Ukraine braced for bitterly cold temperatures.
Both Ukrainian and Russian sources accused each other of limited violations in the first few hours of the truce on Saturday, before making the much larger claims.
Ukrainian and Russian authorities also announced they had each swapped 175 prisoners of war on Saturday, including seven civilians a piece.
Ukrainian civilians and soldiers on the frontlines of the conflict - which has been raging since 2022 - have low expectations about the ceasefire.
Kyiv has long pushed for a more comprehensive ceasefire, which it and its European allies see as a necessary first step towards striking a lasting end to the full-scale invasion.
But Moscow has insisted on agreeing a peace deal first, prompting accusations that it is not serious about ending the fighting.
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04-12 13:43 · 讣告,娱乐产业,文化符号,国际新闻,无直接影响
Her infectious voice got fans dancing and singing, becoming the soundtrack for generations of Indians.
Asha Bhosle: The sound of Bollywood dies aged 92
Asha Bhosle, a legendary Bollywood singer who became a cultural icon, has died aged 92, her son has confirmed.
The unrivalled queen of Indian playback singing died in Mumbai, having been admitted to hospital after suffering a heart attack.
Her death marks the end of an era in Bollywood music - with her career spanning more than eight decades and encompassing more than 12,000 songs.
Bhosle's distinctive voice breathed life into countless film songs as actors lip-synced to her unforgettable tracks.
Her pervasive presence in Bollywood earned her the 1997 hit Cornershop tribute Brimful of Asha, and she was also known internationally for a collaboration with British musician Boy George.
Her voice had an infectious quality that kept fans on their feet, dancing and singing along, ensuring that her music became the soundtrack to generations.
The news of her death has seen an outpouring of tributes on social media.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called her "one of the most iconic and versatile voices India has ever known." In a post on X, he said her "extraordinary musical journey" enriched the nation's cultural heritage and touched "countless hearts across the world".
Actor and politician Hema Malini voiced her grief, saying the singer's death "is especially hard for me as I have an emotional connect with Ashaji - she has made many of my songs so popular with her unique voice and style".
Composer Shankar Mahadevan said "every Indian is heartbroken today", adding that her music would "never perish as long as humanity exists" and that she would "live forever, with her incredible voice echoing across the world".
The tributes reflect a wider recognition of Bhosle's remarkable artistry. With a voice that moved effortlessly from romantic ballads to energetic numbers, she became the go-to singer for composers across genres.
Her range and vitality made every song a celebration and defined the sound of Bollywood for generations.
From Dum Maro Dum and Piya Tu Ab To Aaja to Mehndi Hai Rachnewali, her versatility knew no bounds. Films such as Teesri Manzil, Caravan, Yaadon Ki Baaraat, Ijaazat and Saagar featured some of her most memorable work, while Umrao Jaan, composed by Khayyam, is widely regarded as a career high point.
While Mangeshkar embodied classical grace and precision, Bhosle brought a bold, dynamic energy to her songs.
Bhosle's partnership with composer RD Burman (whom she later married) was one of the most iconic collaborations in Bollywood - together they crafted a soundscape that revolutionised the industry.
Her voice perfectly matched Burman's experimental, eclectic tunes, resulting in numerous hits that spanned genres - from soulful melodies to upbeat numbers.
Bhosle and Burman built an extraordinary musical legacy together over 25 years, with Asha once recalling how he brought out the best in her.
"It is only Pancham [as Burman was fondly called] who has uncovered my range as a singer. Till Pancham made me explore the inner recesses of my own voice... I was totally unaware of the fact that I could sing with such suppleness of throat," Bhosle said in an interview in 2023.
Born on 8 September 1933 in Goar, Maharashtra, Bhosle hailed from the renowned Mangeshkar family.
Raised in a musically rich home by her actor and classical singer father, Deenanath Mangeshkar, Asha began her musical journey early, singing her first song for the Marathi film Majha Bal in 1943.
Her career soared in the 50s and 60s as she became a versatile artist across genres - performing for films, ghazals, bhajans, qawwalis and pop. Collaborations with OP Nayyar, Burman and SD Burman made her a household name.
Hits like Aaiye Meherbaan (1958), Parde Mein Rehne Do (1968) and Dum Maro Dum (1971) are just a few highlights of her vast repertoire.
Her duets with legends such as Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar and Manna Dey remain timeless classics.
Bhosle's personal life was as vibrant as her career. At 16, she eloped with her neighbour, Ganpatrao Bhosle, leading to a tumultuous marriage and separation.
Mangeshkar later recalled that Bhosle's husband isolated her from the family, "preventing contact for years". Ganpatrao also took her to music directors, hoping to profit from her talent and exerting control over her, causing her great hardship, Mangeshkar told film historian Nasrin Munni Kabir.
Bhosle left her husband in 1960 as a single mother of three children. She later teamed up with Burman, whom she married in 1980. Burman died in 1994 at the age of 54.
Bhosle faced constant comparisons with her sister, fuelling rumours of rivalry.
Despite the sisters living in the same building and sharing a cordial relationship, some claim Mangeshkar hindered Bhosle's career, with Bhosle herself once suggesting she could have risen "earlier than I did" with her sister's help.
Mangeshkar attributed their silence to Bhosle's husband's influence. While the rivalry persists in public perception, many believe it has
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04-12 13:43 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Twenty-one hours was not enough to end 47 years of hostility between Iran and the US, writes the BBC's Lyse Doucet.
After Iran talks falter, the big question is 'what happens next?'
Twenty-one hours was not enough to end 47 years of hostility between Iran and the US.
The historic high-level talks in Islamabad, during a pause in weeks of grievous war, were always unlikely to end any other way.
Calling this marathon negotiating session a failure belies the scale of the challenge in narrowing wide gaps on complex issues ranging from age-old suspicion about Iran's nuclear programme to new challenges this war has thrown up - most of all Iran's control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, whose closure is causing economic shocks worldwide.
To do a deal, they also needed to overcome a deep chasm of distrust.
A day ago, it wasn't even certain the two sides would meet, and even more, sit down in the same room.
A longstanding political taboo was broken.
The urgent question now is: what happens next?
What happens to the contested two-week ceasefire which pulled the world back from US President Donald Trump's alarming threat to destroy a "whole civilisation" in Iran?
Would the US president be ready to send his negotiators back to the bargaining table?
We're hearing reports from sources here in Islamabad that some conversations have continued after US Vice-President JD Vance boarded his plane at sunrise, declaring the US delegation had made their "final and best offer".
Will the US now escalate or negotiate?
We still don't know enough about what happened behind tightly closed doors in a five-star hotel in leafy locked-down Islamabad during talks that went on long into the night.
There are still few details on the disputes and discussion between the two sides, assisted by Pakistani mediators, the calls to and from experts, advisers, and, according to Vance, "dozens" of calls to Trump himself.
The vice-president spoke of the "core goal" of the US during his brief dawn news conference.
"We need to see an affirmative commitment that [Iran] will not seek a nuclear weapon and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon," he said.
During the last round of talks in February, before military strikes were unleashed again, Iran had offered new concessions including the dilution of its 440kg stockpile of uranium enriched to 60% - dangerously close to weapons-grade.
But it still insists on its "right" to enrich and hasn't been willing to give up that stockpile, now said to be buried deep in the rubble after US and Israeli air strikes last year.
It's also refused repeated demands to open the Strait of Hormuz - to allow the free flow of vital traffic in oil, gas and other essential goods - in the absence of a new agreement.
Both the US and the Iranian delegations came to Islamabad emboldened by their belief that theirs was the winning side in this war.
And they engaged knowing that, if they failed, there was the option to keep fighting – whatever the spiralling pain for their own people and a world reeling from the cost of this conflagration.
There was also what Dr Sanam Vakil of Chatham House describes as a "limited psychological understanding of the adversary and what compromises are needed for a real deal".
Vance spoke of good news – "we've had a number of substantive negotiations" - and there was bad news: "We have not reached an agreement."
And he made it clear that was "bad news for Iran much more than the United States of America".
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei criticised the US's "excessive demands and unlawful requests" in a post on X.
And its parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who led Iran's negotiating team, wrote that "the opposing side ultimately failed to gain the trust of the Iranian delegation in this round of negotiations".
Iran is indicating it's ready to keep talking. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar urged all sides to uphold the fragile ceasefire and said they would continue their efforts to encourage dialogue - sentiments being echoed in other concerned capitals.
If history provides any lessons, the last time Iran reached a nuclear deal with the US and other world powers in 2015, it took 18 months of breakthroughs and breakdowns.
Trump has made it clear he doesn't want to get bogged down in protracted negotiations. Vance previously warned that the US would not be receptive if Tehran tried to "play us".
Pakistani journalist Kamran Yousef - in a legion of journalists who pulled all-nighters to provide non-stop coverage with very few details - declared that this round was one of "no breakthrough but no breakdown either".
The world waits for a verdict, most of all from Trump.
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04-10 06:10 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
The US president accused Iran of "doing a very poor job" with the waterway as Israel and Lebanon to begin peace talks.
Trump says Iran's handling of Strait of Hormuz is 'not the agreement we have'
US President Donald Trump has accused Iran of doing a "very poor job" in its handling of oil passing through the pivotal Strait of Hormuz, arguing it was "not the agreement we have".
The comments reflect the fragile nature of the ceasefire agreement, with reports showing conflicts on what was included in the accord.
It came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government was to begin direct talks with Lebanon, focusing on the disarmament of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group, and establishing peaceful relations.
A US State Department official confirmed it would host a meeting next week in Washington "to discuss ongoing ceasefire negotiations with Israel and Lebanon".
Lebanese officials had called for a ceasefire before the talks begin, but Netanyahu said in a subsequent address to residents of northern Israel: "There is no ceasefire in Lebanon."
After Israeli strikes continued in Lebanon throughout Thursday - targeting what it described as Hezbollah rocket launch sites in the south - attacks appeared to at least temporarily taper off overnight in the region.
Trump said in an interview that Israel would be "scaling back" its strikes in the country to support peace talks.
"I spoke with Bibi and he's going to low-key it. I just think we have to be sort of a little more low-key," Trump told NBC News after a phone call with Netanyahu.
The strikes on Thursday led to new evacuation warnings for residents in the southern suburbs of the capital, Beirut.
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on X that this included the Jnah area, which includes two major hospitals.
"At this time, no alternative medical facilities are available to receive approximately 450 patients from the two hospitals (including 40 patients in the ICU), rendering their evacuation operationally unfeasible," he said.
Among those being treated at the hospitals, Tedros added, were some of the 1,150 people that Lebanon's health ministry said were wounded in Wednesday's massive wave of Israeli strikes. At least 303 people were killed.
Tedros also said that the headquarters of the Ministry of Public Health, which "hosts five shelters accommodating more than 5,000 people", is in the evacuation area.
That ceasefire began with confusion over whether Lebanon, Israel's second front, was to be included. Iranian officials and mediators from Pakistan said it was, US and Israeli officials said clearly that it was not.
Amid the confusion, the wave of Israeli strikes on Lebanon – the heaviest since the conflict began six weeks ago – prompted Iran to declare that Israel was breaking the terms of the ceasefire, to once again halt passage of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, and to threaten retaliatory strikes.
Trump posted to Truth Social over ship traffic through the pivotal waterway, which typically sees 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) passing through.
"There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait," he wrote. "They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now."
Israel's military continues to occupy a large part of the south of Lebanon, where it has destroyed villages in recent days. Without a commitment to a temporary ceasefire at least, it is not clear how productive talks could proceed between the two sides.
It is also unclear how much sway the Lebanese government, with which the Israelis will be negotiating, will have over Hezbollah, which despite having representation in the Lebanese government is a separate entity backed by Iran.
The Lebanese government banned Hezbollah's military activities in early March, days after the start of war with Israel, but it has not stopped the group from carrying out military operations.
On Thursday, Lebanon's cabinet instructed government security forces to restrict weapons in Beirut exclusively to state institutions.
"The army and security forces are requested to immediately begin reinforcing the full imposition of state authority over Beirut Governorate," Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said at the end of a cabinet meeting.
Netanyahu's office said Israel "appreciates today's call by the Prime Minister of Lebanon to demilitarise Beirut".
It said negotiations between the two countries would focus on "disarming Hezbollah and establishing peace relations between Israel and Lebanon".
According to US outlet Axios, Netanyahu's statement came after he held calls with US President Donald Trump and White House envoy Steve Witkoff.
The publication quoted a senior Israeli official who said the direct negotiations will begin next week in Washington.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun earlier said that a ceasefire was "the only solution" to the situation in Lebanon.
The latest escalation in the decades-long conflict between Hezbollah and Israel erupted when the group fired rockets into Israel in retaliation for the killing of Ira
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