By Mike Thomson BBC News, Tunis Tunisian rapper El General was just 21 when his haunting, raw video Rais Lebled, or Mr President, went viral in late 2010. Standing in a darkened, sewage strewn alley – festooned in graffiti – he ripped into the country’s then dictator, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali – in a way…

Getty Images By Guy Hedgecoe BBC News, Catalonia Under the heat of the Barcelona sun, a pro-independence party, Together for Catalonia, is holding a campaign event ahead of Sunday’s general election in Spain. About 40 people are gathered to hear speeches before a video message is shown, recorded by the former president of Catalonia, Carles…

Getty Images By Aine O’Donnell BBC Newsbeat When the Republic of Ireland take to the pitch in the Women’s World Cup, it’ll be a historic first appearance at the tournament. Fans will be willing them on with chants of “come on you girls in green”. But those cheers will be coming from both sides of…

ANI By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Could radio collars, the crucial electronic devices that help track the movement of protected animals, be harmful for them? That is the question many are asking after the deaths last week of two cheetahs who were among the 20 big cats brought to India with much fanfare last…

Getty Images By Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent @awzurcher Two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigators have testified to Congress that the investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax returns were hampered by justice department officials for political reasons. They allege that Mr Biden, who agreed on 20 June to plead guilty to two misdemeanour tax offences and…

Mark Ronson / Instagram By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Fifteen months ago, Mark Ronson got a text from his friend George Drakoulias, the man who’d discovered LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys. It contained just one word: “Barbie?” Drakoulias had been hired as a music supervisor for the Barbie film and he had…

Handout By Liz Jackson BBC News The Metropolitan Police was recently described as institutionally misogynist in a review by Baroness Casey, who found that a “boys’ club” culture was rife and the force was failing to protect the public from officers who abuse women. Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has told the BBC that the…

A shooting has left two people dead in the centre of Auckland, New Zealand, hours before the city is due to open the Fifa Women’s World Cup. Six other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident at 07:22 (19:22 GMT) on a construction site in the central…

One day in Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, a brief, casual moment of carelessness killed one scientist and severely injured another. In this specially illustrated story, the artist and writer Ben Platts-Mills recounts what happened to these atomic bomb-makers – and why their accident holds powerful lessons for today. “…In the search for a harmonious attitude towards…

Getty Images By Zoe Kleinman Technology editor A global group of AI experts and data scientists has released a new voluntary framework for developing artificial intelligence products safely. The World Ethical Data Foundation has 25,000 members including staff working at various tech giants such as Meta, Google and Samsung. The framework contains a checklist of…