By Raja Lumbanrau and Lorna Hankin BBC World Service Indonesia has more mangrove trees than any other country but there’s growing concern about the “dangerous” rate they are being cut down, turned into charcoal and exported to places such as Europe, China and Japan. People involved in the work know the trees are important for…

Varsha Shwarma By Priti Gupta Mumbai Varsha Sharma has been through some turbulent years on her small farm in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, in northern India. For more than a century her family have been rice farmers, but erratic rainfall and water being diverted for industry have made cultivating rice more difficult. Seven…

Simon Williams By Clara Bullock BBC News A photographer has used a 100-year-old camera to take pictures of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. Simon Williams, who is from the city, used a Kodak Panoram to take photos of the Clifton Suspension Bridge as balloons flew over during Friday morning’s mass ascent. The panoramic camera was…

Getty Images Swiss bank UBS has agreed to pay $1.4bn (£1.1bn) to resolve fraud claims in the US stemming from the 2008 financial crisis. It brings to a close the last case brought by US prosecutors investigating banks’ conduct in the run-up to the crash, which sparked a global downturn. Prosecutors said the bank had…

Photo supplied By George Wright BBC News Italy’s far-right ruling party has been ordered to pay damages to a same-sex couple for using a photo of them with their newborn son without their consent in an anti-surrogacy campaign. BJ Barone and Frankie Nelson welcomed their son Milo with the help of a surrogate mother in…

Since the Camp Fire killed 85 people in 2018, Paradise, California has held the record for deadliest US wildfire. But that tragic record has recently been surpassed by the wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii. The former mayor of Paradise, California, Greg Bolin, speaks to BBC News about the challenges of recovery facing the community.

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington Two people aboard a Soviet-era warplane ejected to safety just before it crashed and “burst into a raging fireball” during a Michigan air show, officials said. The pilot and passenger sitting…

Families on a Rotherham estate say they fear that someone will be badly injured or killed after a spate of crashes. A lack of markings at junctions has led to numerous crashes in recent months, according to residents on the Waverley estate. The developer said it had commissioned a traffic assessment and was now implementing…

A Soviet-era MiG-23 fighter has crashed at an air show in Michigan, hitting unoccupied cars as it fell. The pilot noticed the plane was losing power, and he and the passenger were able to safely eject just moments before the plane crashed in a plume of smoke. The pilot had serious but non-life threatening injuries,…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Nadine Yousif BBC News Recovery crews combing through homes and vehicles burned to a cinder in Hawaii are likely to find 10 to 20 more victims per day, the governor has warned. The death toll grew…