Getty Images By Peter Mwai BBC Verify, Nairobi In the aftermath of the coup in Niger, false claims and misinformation are being shared online, adding to the tensions over the country’s future. We have looked into some of the widely shared claims. Old and manipulated images showing ‘Wagner troops’ arriving The US has said Russia’s…

Getty Images By Annabel Rackham BBC News It has long been touted that 10,000 steps a day is the magic number you need to stay fit and healthy – but a new study shows fewer than 5,000 may be enough to see a benefit. The analysis of more than 226,000 people around the world showed…

CBS/Peggy Jones By Max Matza BBC News A Texas woman was attacked by a hawk and a snake at the same time after the bird – which eats snakes – accidentally dropped the wriggling serpent on her. Peggy Jones, 64, was mowing her lawn last month when a passing hawk dropped a snake on her…

Nuclear weapons tests in the mid-20th Century left a hidden legacy within our cells – along with most living things on Earth. However, this “bomb spike” has proven surprisingly useful to scientists, helping them crack police investigations and bust brain myths. Now, it has even provided a clever way to mark the start of the…

Andrea Pavlou By Iona Hampson BBC World Service Brett Yang and Eddy Chen met at after-school maths tutoring when they were growing up in Australia – now they are selling out international concert venues on their second world tour. TwoSet Violin, as they are called, is one of the biggest classical music acts online. With…

Later made into an Oscar-winning film, Michael Cunningham’s 1997 novel about the literary icon makes no pretence to know the ‘real’ her – and that’s what makes it so true to her spirit, writes Lillian Crawford. In November 2022, the first full-size bronze statue of Virginia Woolf was unveiled in Richmond, South London, where she…

Getty Images By Chris Vallance Technology reporter, BBC News There is no evidence the global spread of Facebook is linked to widespread psychological harm, an Oxford Internet Institute (OII) study suggests. The research looked at how wellbeing changed in 72 countries as use of the social media platform grew. It counters the common belief that…

Getty Images By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News The UK is set for five years of “lost economic growth”, with the poorest hit hardest, a think tank has warned. The National Institute for Economic and Social Research (Niesr) said a triple blow of Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine war had badly affected the UK…

Photographer Yulia Denisyuk returned to the land of her birth to discover how Kazakhstan’s endless steppes and rugged mountains tell the nation’s rich story. Sipping black tea with milk from a blue-and-white piala ceramic bowl, I felt like a child again. We’d arrived at Saty, a small village in southern Kazakhstan, after driving all day…