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Images stolen from women’s dating safety app that vets men

A dating safety app that allows women to do background checks on men and anonymously share “red flag” behaviour has been hacked, exposing thousands of members’ images, posts and comments.…

World’s thirst for the tea swallows global supplies

Osmond Chia Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Matcha mania is sweeping the world. The bright green Japanese tea can be found in everything from Starbucks’ lattes in the UK…

Five killed as Ukraine and Russia trade drone attacks

Five people have been killed in overnight strikes in Russia and Ukraine, as the two sides continue to trade drone attacks. Ukrainian officials said on Saturday that more than 200…

​​What is inside the GHF food box being distributed in Gaza

Kevin Nguyen and Alex Murray BBC Verify Reuters More than two million Palestinians in Gaza are facing a starvation crisis, with deaths from malnutrition rising by the day, according to…

Southwest flight plummets, injuring flight attendants

A Southwest Airlines plane rapidly dropped in elevation after departing from the Los Angeles area on Friday, with passengers posting online that the pilot was forced to rapidly change course…

Trump and golf – striking balls and deals over 18 holes

Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent EPA Trump at his National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia Mick Mulvaney thought he had beaten Donald Trump. The president and his White House chief…

Social media war flares up amid border clashes

Koh Ewe BBC News, Singapore Reuters As the border clashes this week killed more than a dozen people in Thailand and Cambodia, regional governments have been trying to prevent a…

School-leavers losing their lives for Russia in Putin’s war with Ukraine

Anastasia Platonova & Olga Ivshina BBC News Russian VK/BBC Alexander (L) and Vitaly died not long after they arrived on the frontline in February Vladimir Putin has repeatedly promised that…

Zambia’s Stary Mwaba mines the toxic legacy of the Copperbelt’s ‘black mountains’

Stary Mwaba Zambia’s notorious “black mountains” – huge heaps of mining waste that scar the Copperbelt skyline – are deeply personal to Stary Mwaba, one of the country’s leading visual…

UK condemns Hong Kong cash offer for help in arresting activists

The UK has condemned the latest cash offer from Hong Kong authorities for people who help in the arrest of pro-democracy activists living in Britain. In a joint statement, Foreign…