Andrés Larraín Araneda By Charis McGowan Santiago, Chile For Chilean band Hacia La Victoria (Onwards to Victory), performing songs in their hometown of Santiago is an act of protest. All of the band’s members were left either totally or partially blinded by projectiles fired by police during the mass anti-government protests which swept through Chile…

Getty Images By Laura Gozzi BBC News in Calabria “I hear the Canadairs before I see them. When I do, I know there’s a wildfire somewhere very near,” Adriana says. She lives in Terrasini, near Sicily’s capital Palermo. It’s a beautiful part of the island – all steep hills giving way to white rocky shores…

Reuters By Alex Smith BBC News An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, according to a Christian aid charity she worked for. Alix Dorsainvil was working in a community ministry near Port-au-Prince when she was taken, El Roi Haiti said in a statement. The US State Department is aware of reports…

By James Gallagher Presenter, Inside Health, BBC Radio 4 Sometimes it can feel like the world is on fire. Europe has been baking in a heatwave nicknamed the settimana infernale – “week of hell” – in Italy. Temperatures above 50C have been recorded in China and the US, where body bags filled with ice are…

By Stephen McDonell China correspondent Until last year it was not really possible for most unmarried women to become mothers in China – practically speaking. But a social change is under way and it is driving shifts in policy too. In her flat on the outskirts of Shanghai, Zhang Meili rocks her baby back and…

Reuters By Peter Hoskins & Fan Wang BBC News Earlier this week Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X – another step in his plan to emulate Chinese mega app WeChat. Mr Musk has long said that he wants to transform his social media firm, which he bought last year for $44bn (£34.4bn), into a much…

Obe, a 25-year-old horse, was airlifted to hospital after slipping and falling in Orange Country, southern California. The hoofed mammal had been on a walk with his owner when the incident occurred. Struggling to get up, Obe was sedated before he was fitted with a harness and taken to the skies before landing at the…

Reuters By Alys Davies BBC News A federal judge has thrown out a $475m (£369m) defamation lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against CNN for allegedly likening him to Adolf Hitler. The US cable network described Mr Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from him as the “Big Lie”. Mr Trump…