By Mike Wendling BBC News A former NFL player has been charged with the murder of his mother after being arrested in California on Tuesday. Authorities had been searching for Sergio Brown since his mother Myrtle Brown, 73, was found dead near her home outside of Chicago last month. He will be extradited to Illinois…

By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Madonna’s first ever greatest hits tour will be “a documentary through her vast career” that includes more than 40 songs, her musical director says. In an exclusive interview, Stuart Price told the BBC the show draws on four decades of archive footage and studio recordings to tell the star’s…

By Ben King Business reporter, BBC News Nearly half a billion small electricals such as cables, lights, mini fans and disposable vapes, were thrown away last year, research from Material Focus has shown. These “Fast Tech” items, the electrical version of fast fashion, are the fastest-growing e-waste type, it says. The average home also has…

Chilling new film The Royal Hotel tells the story of two female backpackers threatened by men in an outback town. It’s just the latest work to depict menace in rural Australia, writes Dan Slevin. Horror movies derive much of their atmosphere and effectiveness from their locations. Imagine The Wicker Man in the garden of an…