Raw Power Management By Iqra Farooq & Riyah Collins BBC Newsbeat Hip-hop is 50 years old, and over the last few decades the genre’s created a long list of icons who’ve changed the face of music. It started in the Bronx, in New York, in August 1973, when funk and soul DJ Kool Herc mixed…

AFP By Shingai Nyoka BBC News, Harare Known for his tailored suits and designer jewellery, Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa can work a crowd with all the drama of the Pentecostal preacher that he is. He will now put that charisma to the test in the general election on 23 August when he will…

Chef Mohsin Qureshi By Priyadarshini Chatterjee Food writer It’s a chilly evening in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, the erstwhile seat of the Nawabs of Awadh. We are in the courtyard of Lebua Lucknow, Saraca Estate, a 1930s estate-turned-boutique-hotel, seated around a table groaning with excess. There are flatbreads sprinkled with poppy seeds or…

By Ellie House BBC Long Form Audio After BBC reporter Ellie House came out as gay, she realised that Netflix already seemed to know. How did that happen? I realised that I was bisexual in my second year of university, but Big Tech seemed to have worked it out several months before me. I’d had…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Additional expert support has been deployed to Hawaii, where forensic work is continuing to find victims of the devastating wildfires. At least 80 people are known to have died but there are…

EPA By Frances Mao BBC News A knife darting out in a packed subway car. An assailant, chasing shoppers, stabbing wildly in the street. These nightmares have played out in the minds of many South Koreans following a mass stabbing attack last week – the country’s second in as many weeks. On 3 August, 14…

Across Asia, by far the most popular form of personal transport is the motor scooter. Thailand has 20 million of them, Vietnam 45 million, and Indonesia more than 80 million. They are cheap and convenient – but polluting. To cut emissions, cities need to switch to a clean, electric alternative. But how? One Taiwanese company,…

EPA By Charlene Anne Rodrigues BBC News US health officials are investigating the death of a three-year-old Venezuelan girl travelling with her parents on a bus carrying asylum seekers from Texas to Chicago. Thousands of migrants have been sent from Texas to Democratic Party-run US cities under a controversial scheme. The girl was taken to…

Reuters By Graeme Baker BBC News The running-mate of a murdered Ecuadorian politician is to contest the presidential election in his place. Fernando Villavicencio was shot three times in the head after a campaign rally in Quito. Police say all suspects are Colombian. His Construye party said it would put Andrea Gonzalez forward as its…

Video footage captured by a drone shows the destruction caused by wildfires that swept through the historic town of Lahaina, on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Dozens of people on the island have died in the wildfires, with scores of buildings and vehicles also being destroyed. The coastal town attracts some two million tourists a…