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Aditya-L1: India set to launch its first mission to Sun
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi India is set to launch its first observation mission to the Sun, just days after the country made history by becoming the first to land near the Moon’s south pole. Aditya-L1 is due to blast off from the launch pad at Sriharikota on Saturday at 11:50 India time (06:20GMT).…
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Macron looks on as France’s Africa policy crumbles
By Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris Why is it so often that problems seem to get worse just when they ought to be getting better? Or in a French-African context, how come President Emmanuel Macron is surveying the tatters of French policy – coups in four Francophone states – just when he thought he had…
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Ukraine war: Putin influencers profiting from war propaganda
By Grigor Atanesian BBC Global Disinformation Team Russia’s pro-war influencers are generating big advertising revenues from their social media coverage of the conflict, the BBC has found. Alongside a daily ration of gruesome videos of drone strikes and false claims about Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, they share ads for anything from cryptocurrency to fashion. Known…
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Maya Feller’s Rastafarian ital stew
The iconic vegetarian stew is a popular Jamaican dish made from a medley of fresh vegetables, herbs, and spices, all simmered in coconut milk. In Jamaica, there’s nothing more comforting than a bowl of ital. The popular island stew eaten by the Rastafarian community is a medley of fresh vegetables, herbs and spices, all simmered…
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Singapore picks a president who could’ve been much more
By Tessa Wong Asia Digital Reporter, BBC News Singaporeans have chosen Tharman Shanmugaratnam as their next president – but many would have let out a small sigh of disappointment as they did so. On Friday, the former top minister won a record 70.4% of the votes, comfortably beating two other candidates in the country’s first…
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Obituary: Mohamed Al Fayed
Mohamed Al Fayed, who has died aged 94, rose from the streets of Alexandria to owning one of the most famous department stores in the world. But behind the success story lay a complex man whose machinations shook the British establishment to its very core. Allegations of impropriety brought about the downfall of three Conservative…
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Businessman Mohamed Al Fayed dies aged 94
Mohamed Al Fayed, former Harrods owner whose son Dodi was killed alongside Diana, Princess of Wales in car crash, has died aged 94. Born in Egypt, he built a business empire in the Middle East before moving to the UK in the 1970s. But he never realised his ambition to get a passport for his…
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Bodycam video shows Ohio police fatally shooting pregnant black woman
By Max Matza BBC News Police in Ohio have released bodycam footage showing an officer fatally shooting a pregnant black woman. Ta’Kiya Young, 21, died on 24 August when she was shot while in her car outside a Kroger grocery store in Blendon Township, a suburb of Columbus. Footage shows officers attempting to question her…
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Watch how this concrete can crumble under pressure
More than a hundred schools in England have been told to shut buildings made with a type of concrete that is prone to collapse. BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Tom Symonds explains the main reasons why reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) is more dangerous than standard concrete.
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Tennessee woman sets record for world’s longest mullet
By Nadine Yousif BBC News A 58-year-old Tennessee woman has earned the title of the world’s longest competitive mullet for a female. Tami Manis, from Knoxville, sports a flowing mane that is 5ft 8in (172.72cm) – nearly the height of the average man. Ms Manis, a public health nurse, has had a mullet since the…