PA MediaCopyright: PA Media The government has welcomed the regulator’s decision to approve the Rosebank development. Energy Security Secretary Claire Coutinho said the government was still investing in “world-leading renewable energy,” but that oil and gas were still needed as part of the mix to reach net zero. (Net zero means no longer adding to…

India is open to looking into any “specific” information Canada provides on the killing of a Sikh separatist leader, the country’s foreign minister said. S Jaishankar was referring to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada in June. Tensions flared up after Canada recently said it was investigating “credible allegations” linking the Indian state…

By Paul Adams BBC Diplomatic Correspondent in Kyiv In a modest Kyiv apartment, off-duty soldiers meet to smoke cannabis and forget, for a moment, the things they have seen. They don’t want to be identified. The drug is frowned upon in the military, even here, far from the front. One of the soldiers is being…

By Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington Canadian prosecutors began laying out arguments against former fashion mogul Peter Nygard as his sexual assault trial opened in an Ontario court. In opening remarks, they alleged Mr Nygard, 82, used his “power and status” to assault five women in incidents dating from the late 1980s to 2005. He…

By Mariko Oi Business reporter Hollywood writers will end their strike at midnight Pacific time (07:01 GMT) on Wednesday, after nearly five months. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) said in a statement that union leaders “voted unanimously to lift the restraining order and end the strike”. Its 11,500 members will then vote on whether…

By Steffan Powell Gaming correspondent For 30 years, the name Fifa has been as synonymous with video games as it has with real-life football. But that is set to change. EA Sports FC, the new incarnation of the football simulator made by Electronic Arts (EA), hits the shelves this week. The games maker is stepping…

By Faranak Amidi BBC World Service For some Muslim women, choosing to stop wearing the hijab, or headscarf, can be a difficult decision to make. They may face a backlash from their family or be shunned by their community. And in some countries, laws add to this pressure. Iran’s parliament has just passed a controversial…

By Selin Girit BBC World News “What I felt was fear,” says Claudia Duarte Agostinho as she remembers the extreme heatwave and fires that ripped through Portugal in 2017 and killed more than 100 people. “The wildfires made me really anxious about what sort of future I would have.” Claudia, 24, her brother Martim, 20,…

By Grigor Atanesian and Tural Ahmedzade in London, Siranush Sargsyan in Stepanakert (Khankendi) BBC Global Disinformation Team and BBC News The BBC has been given eyewitness accounts of a bombing incident in a remote village in Nagorno-Karabakh that killed three children and two elderly people. Azerbaijan insists it only focused on “legitimate military targets”, but…

By Sharanya Hrishikesh BBC News, Delhi The deadly bombing of an Air India flight in 1985 is back in the news after relations between India and Canada hit a new low. Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country was investigating “credible allegations” that could link the Indian government to the murder of…