Reuters By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington Nearly a week after a devastating wildfire swept across Maui, the true death toll remains unclear. Families of around 1,300 missing people are waiting anxiously as cadaver dogs scour the blackened disaster zone. The confirmed death toll of nearly 100 people is expected to rise steadily. Hawaii’s…

AFP Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has found himself at the centre of a new conflict – this time in the vitally important Amhara region that marshalled its troops to help him thwart an attempt by rival Tigrayan forces to topple him. The conflict is the latest sign that Mr Abiy is battling to live…

Getty Images By Madeline Halpert & Kayla Epstein Reporting From Atlanta, Georgia In the coming days, Donald Trump will turn himself in to police in Georgia. His initial brush with the local criminal justice system is expected to last just hours – most other defendants are not so lucky. The former president has been ordered…

Scientists have long listened to the ocean, but new technology is helping to piece together a far more complex picture of life beneath the waves. Here, BBC Future lets you listen in. Beneath the surface, a ruckus fills the ocean. Clicks, grunts and barks of countless species make up the marine soundscape – a chorus…

By Gem O’Reilly BBC News In her university room in Bangladesh, Nina, 19, holds her boxing gloves up to her face, staring into the mirror. She is learning to protect herself. She says there is no other way. Nina is one of hundreds of Afghan women who have taken up the offer of an education…

AFP By Robert Plummer BBC News Argentina’s peso could soon be a thing of the past. If Javier Milei, the front-runner in the campaign for the presidency, wins the election scheduled for later this year, the country’s own currency could be abolished and replaced with the US dollar. In some ways, it’s surprising no-one has…

Getty Images By Sam Cabral BBC News, Washington A long-running investigation into the US President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, may be heading for a jury trial. The five-year probe appeared near its end last month, with Mr Biden, 53, agreeing to resolve tax and gun offences and avoid prison time. But the case has since…

Getty Images At a glance The Bank of Ireland and Irish police issue warnings after a glitch led to reports customers could withdraw more money than what’s held in their accounts Queues have reportedly formed outside cash machines in the Republic of Ireland The bank says it is are working to resolve technical issues as…

From Scandinavia to the US, people are finding community and freedom living on water. Dominic Lutyens looks at eight examples of remarkable houseboats across the globe. There is something rebellious and individualistic about swapping a life lived within bricks and mortar for a simpler, less conventional existence on a houseboat. Boat-dwellers feel a sense of…

Some of the most famous space missions, including the two Voyager probes, have been exploring our Solar System for decades. The technology helping to keep them aloft, however, is not what you’d expect. 4 June 1996, European space port, French Guiana… It took more than 10 years to design and build Europe’s four identical Cluster…