First celestial image from revolutionary telescope
Ione Wells South America correspondent Georgina Rannard Science correspondent NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory The first image revealed by the Vera Rubin telescope shows the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae in…
Colombia says 57 soldiers kidnapped by civilians
Colombia’s military says 57 soldiers have been kidnapped by civilians in the country’s south-western Micay Canyon area. It says 31 soldiers were seized on Saturday while the rest were abducted…
Four killed in Kyiv in new Russian aerial attack
At least four people have been killed in an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, the interior minister says. In a post on social media, Ihor…
US asks China to stop Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called on China to prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important shipping routes. His comments came…
How China made electric vehicles mainstream
Annabelle Liang & Nick Marsh Business reporter & Transport correspondent Getty Images Almost half of all cars sold in China last year were electric “I drive an electric vehicle because…
Tourists begin to trickle in months after April killings in Pahalgam
Abid Bhat Ghanshyam Bharadwaj and Mamata Sharma travelled to Srinagar on the new train Two months after a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir scared away tourists and brought India and…
Bride shot dead in attack on wedding party in south-east France
A bride was shot dead on her wedding night in a village near the south-east French city of Avignon after masked gunmen opened fire, local officials say. One suspected attacker…
The victims caught in the crossfire in Cape Town
Nick Ericsson BBC Africa Eye Africa family Davin was shot dead four months’ ago – an unwitting casualty of Cape Flats’ gang problem The distraught father lies on the narrow,…
‘Necessary’ or ‘unfounded’? Americans in Texas respond to US strikes on Iran
The BBC asked Texans and those visiting the state what they make of US President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb three nuclear sites in Iran. Trump told the nation in…
What the US and Iran do next could be even more momentous
Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent BBC For decades, the United States and Iran have carefully avoided crossing a dangerous red line into a direct military confrontation. One American president after…