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…

Hundreds of golden retrievers, and their owners, gathered at Guisachan House in Glen Affric – the Highland ancestral home of the breed The first golden retriever puppies were born there 155 years ago. They were bred by aristocrat Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, who wanted a gun dog suited to Scottish Highland terrain. Owners from across the…

Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated latest film tells the story of the man who created the atomic bomb. It’s boldly imaginative and his most mature work yet, writes Caryn James. Bursts of fire fill the screen throughout Oppenheimer, at times making it seem as if a thousand volcanoes were about to engulf us. But they aren’t the…

Reuters By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Venezuela’s former head of military intelligence, Hugo Carvajal, is on his way to the United States where he faces charges of drug trafficking. Mr Carvajal was a close ally of the late Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, and is thought to hold key information about his government and that of…

By Hugh Schofield BBC News, París Pulverised by steep financial losses and hostile new regulations, operators of France’s once-thriving “dark stores” are pulling down the shutters for good. On Wednesday, top brands Getir and Gorillas ceased to exist in France. The city-centre depositories, promising instant deliveries of popular grocery items, blossomed during Covid lockdown. But…

Getty Images By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington Wesleyan University, an elite US liberal arts college, says it will no longer grant preference to student applicants with family or donor ties. The Connecticut institution said it was “important” to end legacy admissions, which have long been criticised as a perk for the white and…