By Nadine Yousif BBC News More Americans than ever are dying from fentanyl overdoses as the fourth wave of the opioid epidemic crashes through every community, in every corner of the country. It was six years ago that Kim Blake’s son Sean died from an accidental fentanyl overdose in Burlington, Vermont. He was 27 years…

By Laurence Cawley BBC News, East Covid’s arrival in early 2020 threw organisations and businesses into turmoil. But while most workers grappled with furlough, social distancing and working from home, a small band of museum officers sensed history was in the making. This is one museum service’s story of trying to collect items in real-time…

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of “reflections”. Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world. The next theme is “my garden” and the deadline for entries is 27 September 2023. The pictures will be published later that week and you will be…

By Zeinab Mohammed Salih Khartoum With a dramatic escalation in the war in Sudan between the army and paramilitaries, my family buried my 84-year-old grandmother while bullets were flying over their heads at a graveyard in Omdurman – just across the River Nile from Khartoum. My grandmother was diabetic and her blood pressure fell, but…

“You revisit every memory, every difficult conversation. Obviously, I had experienced racism sometimes without realising,” Luke explains. Growing up, Luke remembers telling people he was from Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, and they would respond: “No, where are you really from?”