By Ian Youngs Entertainment & arts reporter Ex-BBC and New York Times boss Sir Mark Thompson has been appointed to lead CNN following a series of crises and falling ratings at the US news network. Sir Mark replaces Chris Licht, who struggled to stabilise CNN in his 13 months as chairman and CEO. The network…

By Muthoni Muchiri BBC News The military in Gabon has seized power and placed President Ali Bongo, 64, under house arrest. The takeover came shortly after election results were announced saying Mr Bongo had been re-elected despite opposition complaints of fraud. President Bongo was first elected in 2009 following the death of his father, Omar…

By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent The Duke of Sussex has described his emotional “unravelling” after he returned from military service in Afghanistan in 2013. In a Netflix documentary series about the Invictus Games, Prince Harry said the “biggest struggle for me was that no one around me could really help”. The “trigger” for the duke’s…

By Georgina Rannard Science reporter The biggest and brightest Moon of the year will be visible on Wednesday and Thursday from around the world. It will be a rare chance to see what is known as a blue supermoon – the last one was in 2009. A blue Moon happens when the pattern of days…

Some boycotts garner a lot of attention. Yet people generally move on, leaving even the hottest-button issues of consumer umbrage in the past. For the first time in six years, Target announced a sales drop: a decline of 5% in the April to June 2023 period, compared with the same time in 2022. During that…

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ate “very delicious” fish sashimi from Fukushima, in a video released by the Japanese government. It follows a row over the discharge into the sea of treated radioactive wastewater from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown. The United Nations atomic energy regulator says the discharge of filtered water into the Pacific…

By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter A US judge has dismissed legal action brought by fans of Ana de Armas after the actress was edited out of a film despite appearing in the trailer. The Knives Out star was in the trailer for 2019’s Yesterday, a film Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza said they paid…

Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to be more active than average, and we’re still two weeks away from the peak of the season. The main driving factor is that oceans are a lot warmer than average and it’s these warm waters that fuel the development of hurricanes. Idalia poses…

By Stephen McDonell & Kate Whannel BBC China correspondent Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has defended holding talks with Chinese officials in Beijing, saying it would not be “credible” to disengage. Meeting China’s vice president, Mr Cleverly said the trip, the first by a such a senior UK figure in five years, would help avoid “mistrust…

Users of the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel have expressed frustration over an ongoing, multi-day system outage. The app – which sells itself as “the dating app for serious daters” – first went down on 27 August, blocking users from their budding romances. It has now been down for three days with firm engineers saying…