By Max Matza in Maui, Hawaii Lynette “Pinky” Iverson has been a fixture in the Hawaiian town of Lahaina for years. Locals know her for her extravagantly self-decorated pickup truck and her chihuahua named Tiny. That truck became a lifeline for many as she loaded “at least a dozen” people onto the back of it…

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week. TOBY MELVILLE/Reuters KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP VALERY HACHE/AFP Niall Carson/PA Media AGUSTIN MARCARIAN/REUTERS PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP ASIF HASSAN/afp Elsa/FIFA/Getty Images Jane Barlow/PA Media ZINYANGE AUNTONY/AFP MARTIN BUREAU/AFP All photos subject to copyright Related Topics Photography

By Joel Gunter BBC News Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on the rudder of a tanker. They had no idea they were bound for Brazil, and a two-week ocean voyage that would nearly kill them. A little after midnight on 27 June, Roman Ebimene Friday gathered up the food he had been collecting…

Getty Images By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington A federal judge has warned former US President Donald Trump against making “inflammatory” statements which could taint the jury pool ahead of his trial for conspiring to overturn the result of the 2020 election. But Judge Tanya Chuktan ruled that Mr Trump can publicly share some…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hawaii wildfires have reached a grim milestone as the death toll rose to 67, making it the deadliest natural disaster in the state’s history. Hundreds more have been reported missing and the toll may still rise.…

Getty Images Ten-year-old Miao Chunyou screamed for her mum as she disappeared into a brown torrent that had engulfed western Beijing. The strong currents ripped Miao from her father’s grip as floods, triggered by incessant rains, chased the family of three to the roof of a neighbour’s house. Her mother, clinging to a tree branch,…

By Catherine Byaruhanga, BBC News Zara Kada serves up dishes of rice, fish and vegetables in plastic bowls to her customers sitting on wooden benches in the capital of Niger’s capital, Niamey. This business is a lifeline for the widowed mother-of-seven but it’s under threat as food prices have shot up after economic sanctions were…

Reuters By Jemma Dempsey BBC News When it comes to fake meat Tom Crawford-Clarke has “eaten everything available over the years”. But he has fallen out of love with it now. “We generally favoured Quorn products, Linda McCartney things, Beyond Burgers, Moving Mountains. I always thought they were relatively tasty,” he said. Fake meat is…

ReSex By Toby Luckhurst BBC News, Kyiv At a modern office in central Kyiv, a 26-year-old Ukrainian veteran is proudly playing a video on his phone that shows him passionately kissing a young woman in a kitchen. It is an advert for ReSex: a charity that tries to help former soldiers with their sex lives,…

This airy dessert from Germany may look like a plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce, but it’s made from vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and fresh strawberry sauce. At ice cream parlours around Germany, you might come across a perplexing menu item, simply labelled Spaghettieis. Eis is the German word for ice cream, and spaghetti…