By Wyre Davies BBC News, British Columbia Joanna Kelly is a barrister in the Kelowna law courts – this week she’s been given permission to appear in legal cases by video-link partly because she has very few formal clothes to wear. They, and most of her other possessions, went up in flames last week. On…

Stéphanie Para By Hugh Schofield BBC News in Corrèze Archaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by the French Resistance a few days after D-Day, during World War Two. French and German teams discovered bullets and cartridges, as well as…

Reuters By Alex Binley BBC News Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been elected to a second term with 52.6% of the vote, the electoral commission says. However, the opposition claimed there had been widespread vote-rigging and international observers said the vote fell short of democratic standards. Mr Mnangagwa is only Zimbabwe’s second president. A 2017…

Alexey DRUZHININ/SPUTNIK/AFP By Andrei Goryanov BBC Russian Theirs was a relationship borne out of the murky world where Russia’s state security services mingled with the criminal underworld. While Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner military company grew into one of the most influential structures in Russia, Vladimir Putin became increasingly dependent on its battlefield successes in Ukraine. But…

DR Music By Yuna Ku BBC Korean Donning sari-inspired clothing and intricate jewellery, four young women are seen dancing energetically at a temple. Then, gulal, a colourful powder used in traditional rituals, is spread across the sky and onto their faces. This is not a Bollywood movie but the latest music video of K-pop girl…

Leonid Radvinsky via LinkedIn By Malu Cursino BBC News OnlyFans’ profits have skyrocketed in the past year and news that its owner earned more than $300m (£238m) in dividends has ignited fresh questions about the pornography mogul. Leonid Radvinsky is a 41-year-old Ukrainian-American entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of $2.1bn. He bought the company…

Getty Images As he prepares to leave South Africa, the BBC’s Andrew Harding reflects on his years in a country of increasingly stark contrasts – and on the struggle to find the right balance in reporting on such a complex nation. Spring is almost here in Johannesburg. Cold nights. Clear, bone-dry days. The honks and…

Scientists are racing to find out what causes this progressive disease. And they’re starting to make some headway. This month, the world received the news that Bryan Randall had died. He was a professional photographer and the partner of the actor Sandra Bullock, who met him on the job while he was taking portraits at…

Patients may be transferred to hospitals in Italy and Belgium following two explosions at a liquified petroleum gas station close to Bucharest, according to the Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu. There are at least 46 injured and one person has died following the explosion. Mr Ciolacu said: “We are trying to save as many lives as…

Reuters By Alex Binley BBC News One person died and 46 were injured after two blasts at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) station in Romania. The injured included 26 firefighters who rushed to the scene, following the first explosion near the capital Bucharest on Saturday evening. Shortly after, a second blast sent a mushroom cloud…