A new biopic is shedding light on rise and fall of “the father of the atomic bomb”. But few people know that he spent many of his final days as a Caribbean castaway. I was 20 years old and had J Robert Oppenheimer’s house all to myself. From the porch of the small yellow cottage,…

Ian Tuttle By Chelsea Bailey BBC News, Washington The president of Stanford University, one of the top-rated colleges in the US, is stepping down after its board found scientific papers he published contained manipulated research data. Marc Tessier-Lavigne did not personally falsify any of the research, the panel concluded, but he co-authored papers with “serious…

Getty Images By Simon Fraser BBC News Afghan women have derided a British Conservative MP for being naïve after he referred to the country as peaceful and “transformed”, but barely mentioned human rights following a recent visit. In a widely criticised video, Tobias Ellwood urged the UK to re-engage with the country and reopen its…

Universal Pictures By Paul Glynn Entertainment reporter Critics have given positive reviews to Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s sweeping new biographical thriller about the “father of the atomic bomb”. The film features an all-star ensemble cast led by Cillian Murphy as the US physicist, J Robert Oppenheimer. The Independent called the “clever, imaginative” film Nolan “at his…

Dozens of people are injured after a gas explosion in the centre of Johannesburg, local media reports. Video shows cars turned upside down by the force of the blast and a large parts of the road destroyed. Nine people were taken to hospitals around Johannesburg for minor and intermediate injuries, Gauteng provincial officials said.

Getty Images By Nadine Yousif BBC News More than a million people in Hawaii are under a state of emergency due to an approaching tropical storm. Tropical Storm Calvin is nearing Hawaii’s Big Island with a wind speed of 45 mph (75 km/h), the National Weather Service (NWS) said As of Wednesday morning, the storm…

Getty Images By Brandon Drenon BBC News A US country star has denied claims his new music video is an anti-Black Lives Matter anthem that promotes vigilante gun violence. The video for Jason Aldean’s Try That In A Small Town was pulled off air on Monday by Country Music Television, days after its release. On…

Telegram By Laura Gozzi & BBC Verify BBC News A video on Telegram channels linked to the Wagner mercenary group appears to show its boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in Belarus. He is seen welcoming fighters and describing recent developments on the front line in Ukraine as a “disgrace”. He also hints that Wagner might rejoin the…

Reuters By Chelsea Bailey BBC News, Washington A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in a civil case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming columnist E Jean Carroll. Mr Trump was ordered to pay $5m (£3.9m) in damages, which he argued was excessive based…

Andrew Milligan The ruling in an extradition case involving an American fugitive who tried to fake his own death has been delayed. Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard that Nicholas Rossi had been admitted to hospital on Sunday after testing positive for Covid. Rossi is awaiting a decision on whether he will be extradited to Utah to…