By Erika Benke Oulu, Finland Eleven-year-old Valo’s face bursts into a big smile as a man wearing a yellow high-viz jacket and a pink baseball cap approaches his house to return his bike, which was stolen a month ago. The man’s name is Ilkka Pulkkinen. He’s not a policeman but an ordinary citizen who leads…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Harriet Bradshaw BBC Climate & Science reporter You’re tied to co-workers, on a glacier, in icy conditions, and then you realise… it’s that time of the month. What do you do? Dealing with your period during…

By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi India is set to launch its first observation mission to the Sun, just days after the country made history by becoming the first to land near the Moon’s south pole. Aditya-L1 is due to blast off from the launch pad at Sriharikota on Saturday at 11:50 India time (06:20GMT).…

By Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris Why is it so often that problems seem to get worse just when they ought to be getting better? Or in a French-African context, how come President Emmanuel Macron is surveying the tatters of French policy – coups in four Francophone states – just when he thought he had…

By Grigor Atanesian BBC Global Disinformation Team Russia’s pro-war influencers are generating big advertising revenues from their social media coverage of the conflict, the BBC has found. Alongside a daily ration of gruesome videos of drone strikes and false claims about Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, they share ads for anything from cryptocurrency to fashion. Known…