Prime Video By Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai In India, weddings are largely grand, boisterous affairs. But a new web show casts a sceptical lens on the event, exposing some of the unsavoury realities that might lie behind the splendour. The second season of Made In Heaven, streaming on Amazon Prime Video, traces the trials…

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week. Kim Ludbrook / EPA-EFE Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Justin Tallis / AFP Sem Van Der Wal / AFP Henry Romero / Reuters Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP Mohammed Salem / Reuters Mike Blake / Reuters Jonathan Brady / PA Wire Mark R Cristino /…

Emman Montalvan By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent In April 2022, Lenny Kravitz was reading out the nominees for album of the year at the Grammy Awards. When he came to Jon Batiste’s We Are, Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas turned to the musician and whispered: “We hope it’s you.” Their wish came true.…

Laura Dolci By Imogen Foulkes BBC News, Geneva On 19 August 2003, the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad was targeted in a suicide bomb attack. The head of the UN mission, Sergio Viera de Mello, was killed, along with 21 others, most of them staff. The attack changed the way the UN carries out humanitarian…

Getty Images By Natalie Sherman Business reporter, New York WeWork was once hailed as the future of the office. But now there is “substantial doubt” about its future. What went wrong? David Born, the head of Born Licensing, a small UK-based character and movie licensing business, became a WeWork tenant in London starting in 2018.…

Getty Images By Annabel Rackham Entertainment reporter Actors transforming themselves for roles is incredibly common – whether it inolves changing their body, hair colour or even using prosthetics. But Bradley Cooper’s depiction of the late West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein attracted criticism in recent days over the size of his nose. The first trailer…

DSNS By Vitaly Shevchenko BBC Monitoring From fundraising to detecting explosives, cats and dogs have been helping Ukrainians deal with the devastating impact of Russia’s invasion. Patron, the mine-sniffing dog, is one of them. He works for Ukraine’s state emergency service – but his mine-clearance skills and apparently disarming charisma have also earned him hundreds…

Reuters By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News The US has approved the transfer to Ukraine of American-made F-16 fighter jets from Denmark and the Netherlands when Ukrainian pilots are fully trained to operate them. “This way, Ukraine can take full advantage of its new capabilities,” a US state department spokesman said. Ukraine praised the decision it…

Getty Images By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News In a unique act of diplomacy, Italy’s government has settled the restaurant bill of four Italian tourists in Albania who left without paying. The dine and dash in the city of Berat made headlines in both countries. The chatter prompted Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama to raise it…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Sam Cabral BBC News An official deadline to evacuate Yellowknife as a wildfire looms on its outskirts has lapsed, as residents scramble to leave by air and road. About 22,000 people – or roughly half the…