Passengers were left hanging upside down for almost 30 minutes, after an amusement park ride broke down in Ontario, Canada. Footage from TikTok shows the malfunctioning ride inverted with riders still on board, as people look on in shock from the ground. The park’s maintenance team responded to the incident and managed to bring all…

By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was one of the country’s most wanted men until his capture earlier this year, has died. The 61-year-old was thought to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra Mafia and spent 30 years on the run before he was detained in January.…

The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, Anthony Rota, has apologised for praising a Ukrainian man who served in a Nazi unit during World War Two. Yaroslav Hunka, 98, got a standing ovation in parliament after Mr Rota said he was a “hero” during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Canadian Jewish group CIJA…

Screenwriters in the US say they have reached a tentative deal with studio bosses that could see them end a strike that has lasted nearly five months. It is the longest strike to affect Hollywood in decades and has halted most film and TV production. The deal does not include actors, who are also on…

By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News Kosovo and Serbia have traded accusations over a deadly stand-off between ethnic Serb gunmen and police in northern Kosovo. One policeman and three of the gunmen were killed during a siege of a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Banjska village on Sunday. Kosovo’s PM Albin Kurti accused Serbia of supporting the…

The world’s gone digital and yet many professions and industries still rely on paper every day. When will they scrunch up and toss away the last page? For 400 years British hydrographers have made paper charts of the world’s seas and oceans. Each one captures the detail of coastlines, bays, straits, or channels. A document…

Products are getting smaller, and you’re paying more. The problem won’t go away, even if the economy rebounds and inflation abates. If you’ve noticed you’re getting less for more while you shop, it’s not just you. ‘Shrinkflation’ – reducing a product’s size or quantity while keeping its price stable – is rampant. As the global…

By Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent, in Poland Specialist British military bomb disposal teams are training Ukrainian engineers to clear Russian minefields. Ukraine is now the most heavily mined country in the world, and it’s slowing down Ukrainian military advances. The training by British Army sappers – combat engineers, some of whom faced similar obstacles in…

By Lulu Luo & Jonathan Head in Dara Sokor, Cambodia The highway runs through the forest like a black ribbon, down to the sea and to what must be one of the world’s largest tourism projects. Fifteen years after it began, there is still not much to see of the Dara Sakor Seashore Resort in…

By Aleem Maqbool Religion editor, BBC News Given the dramatic developments in Canada, where PM Trudeau has said there is credible evidence to suggest India was involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh, it is unsurprising that rumours now swirl around the deaths of other Sikh activists around the world, including in the UK.…