Hello, you join us amid the news that Rishi Sunak is thinking about weakening some of the government’s key green commitments in a major policy shift. This could mean delaying a ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars and phasing out gas boilers, according to multiple sources who have spoken to the BBC. Sunak…

Teenage girls say they experience sexual harassment in their day-to-day lives and do not feel safe on the street alone. In a survey of more than 2,000 young people aged 13-18, more than a quarter of girls (27%) said they had experienced sexual harassment in some form. Some 44% also said they do not feel…

By Sam Cabral BBC News US actress Bijou Phillips has reportedly filed for divorce from Danny Masterson less than two weeks after the That ’70s Show star was jailed for two rapes. Ms Phillips, 43, cited “irreconcilable differences” between the pair after 12 years of marriage, according to documents seen by US media. She was…

By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent He’s shot more than 250 album covers, was the official photographer at Woodstock, and saw his work appear in Life Magazine. But Henry Diltz considers his career a lucky accident. “I never went to photo school, I’ve never had a job, I never even thought about it,” he says.…

By Penny Dale Journalist Artist Che Lovelace was on his way to the coast on the Caribbean island of Trinidad to collect mud to use in carnival celebrations when he received a message that a church in the UK wanted him to create an artwork to commemorate the life of an African man he had…

Omid Moradi was a member of the Special Task Forces unit of the Iranian police, tasked with supressing protests. But, conflicted by what he saw, Omid switched sides and joined anti-government protesters. He later defected and fled abroad. Here he tells BBC Persian’s Jiyar Gol why he turned. I meet Omid Moradi near Frankfurt in…

By Joe Inwood & Rob Byrne BBC Newsnight and BBC Eye Investigations A legal battle over who owns a luxury superyacht symbolises the difficulties of seizing Russian assets since the war in Ukraine started. When BBC reporters investigated the case of the £54m Alfa Nero, it led them to a British firm whose lawful help…

Heatwaves claim tens of thousands of lives each year. Now a US mapping project is revealing those most at risk so they can get the help they need. On a hot evening in August, when temperatures in Irving, a suburb in Dallas, Texas, can reach a stifling 45C (113F), outdoor pursuits and an active lifestyle…

A new documentary on Apple TV+ explores the 90s phenomenon of the “supermodels” – when a handful of spectacularly beautiful women became world-famous – and still are today, writes Clare Thorp. Truly iconic fashion moments don’t come along that often, but at the start of the 1990s there was a succession of them. The decade…

By Yogita Limaye BBC News, Manipur The four men kneeling in the makeshift bunker face out over a lush green paddy field, their guns resting on a wall of cement sacks. Bamboo poles prop up the corrugated tin roof. Wearing homemade bullet-proof vests, they train their weapons – mostly old single and double-barrelled shotguns –…