Getty Images By Annabelle Liang Business reporter Shares of WeWork, the once globally hyped office space sharing company, have plunged after it raised “substantial doubt” about its future. The company’s shares fell by close to 24% in extended trading in New York. The firm added that its management needed to raise additional capital to keep…

Reuters By Christy Cooney in London & Katy Watson in Belém, Brazil BBC News The eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation. Delegates from the countries are meeting in the Brazilian city of Belém for a two-day summit on the issue, the first such gathering…

Julie Eshelman By Lebo Diseko Global Religion Correspondent One year after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade – a landmark ruling on abortion rights – some IVF patients are worried that potential new laws could jeopardise their fertility treatment. Some women are even considering moving their frozen embryos across state lines. Julie Eshelman…

Getty Images By Peter Mwai BBC Verify, Nairobi In the aftermath of the coup in Niger, false claims and misinformation are being shared online, adding to the tensions over the country’s future. We have looked into some of the widely shared claims. Old and manipulated images showing ‘Wagner troops’ arriving The US has said Russia’s…

Getty Images By Annabel Rackham BBC News It has long been touted that 10,000 steps a day is the magic number you need to stay fit and healthy – but a new study shows fewer than 5,000 may be enough to see a benefit. The analysis of more than 226,000 people around the world showed…

CBS/Peggy Jones By Max Matza BBC News A Texas woman was attacked by a hawk and a snake at the same time after the bird – which eats snakes – accidentally dropped the wriggling serpent on her. Peggy Jones, 64, was mowing her lawn last month when a passing hawk dropped a snake on her…

Nuclear weapons tests in the mid-20th Century left a hidden legacy within our cells – along with most living things on Earth. However, this “bomb spike” has proven surprisingly useful to scientists, helping them crack police investigations and bust brain myths. Now, it has even provided a clever way to mark the start of the…

Andrea Pavlou By Iona Hampson BBC World Service Brett Yang and Eddy Chen met at after-school maths tutoring when they were growing up in Australia – now they are selling out international concert venues on their second world tour. TwoSet Violin, as they are called, is one of the biggest classical music acts online. With…

Later made into an Oscar-winning film, Michael Cunningham’s 1997 novel about the literary icon makes no pretence to know the ‘real’ her – and that’s what makes it so true to her spirit, writes Lillian Crawford. In November 2022, the first full-size bronze statue of Virginia Woolf was unveiled in Richmond, South London, where she…

Getty Images By Chris Vallance Technology reporter, BBC News There is no evidence the global spread of Facebook is linked to widespread psychological harm, an Oxford Internet Institute (OII) study suggests. The research looked at how wellbeing changed in 72 countries as use of the social media platform grew. It counters the common belief that…