Getty Images By Annabelle Liang Business reporter Multi-billionaire Elon Musk is putting Twitter building signs and other items from the company up for auction just weeks after the firm’s rebranding as X. Among the 584 lots on offer are coffee tables, outsized bird cages, and oil paintings of images that went viral. Also listed are…

Getty Images Poland is sending extra troops to its border with Belarus after an alleged incursion by Belarusian military helicopters. Poland’s government says fighters from the Wagner mercenary group, who are in Belarus, have been moving towards the border. What was the latest incident on the Poland-Belarus border? Poland’s government says that on 1 August,…

EPA By George Wright BBC News A government official has been arrested in Germany, accused of passing secret information to Russia. The man has been named only as Thomas H, in line with German privacy rules. He worked for an office dealing with military equipment and information technology. It is alleged he went on his…

By Georgina Rannard BBC climate & science reporter A rocket plane is due to fly from New Mexico carrying an 80-year-old British former Olympian, an Aberdeen student and her mother into space. Anastatia Mayers and her mother Keisha Schahaff won the tickets to board the Virgin Galactic flight in a competition. Jon Goodwin, from Newcastle,…

EPA Wildfires on the Hawaii island of Maui have destroyed homes and businesses and displaced thousands. The hardest hit is the historic town of Lahaina. Officials reported at least six people have been killed in the fires. The fires continue to rage as of Wednesday afternoon, with firefighting efforts and search and rescue missions underway.…

EPA By Nadine Yousif BBC News Raging wildfires fanned by hurricane winds have devastated the historic town of Lahaina on Hawaii’s island of Maui. Brian Schatz, a US senator from the state, said on social media that Lahaina is “almost totally burnt to the ground”. At least six people were killed in Maui County, officials…

Getty Images By Saher Baloch BBC Urdu Pakistan’s parliament has been formally dissolved, but polls meant to be held within 90 days will likely be delayed. The electoral commission says electoral boundaries must be redrawn to reflect fresh census data, a months-long process. Last week, former prime minister Imran Khan was arrested and jailed, and…

Getty Images A candidate in Ecuador’s upcoming presidential election has been shot dead. Fernando Villavicencio, a member of the country’s national assembly, was attacked after an event in the northern city of Quito on Wednesday. A member of his campaign team told local media Villavicencio was about to get into a car when a man…

Royal Mint By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent A special 50 pence coin marking the Coronation of King Charles is going into circulation this week. The Royal Mint is issuing five million of the coins, with a design based on Westminster Abbey, where the Coronation was held in May. It will allow the public to “find…

Private cord blood banking is booming around the world – but would it be better to set up more public banks as the uses for umbilical cord blood increase? In 2019, Praveen Gudipati and Ramya Raj, a couple based in Houston, Texas, gave birth to their first child, Kiaan. Before he was born, they made…