A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week. ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/afp ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFE Amir Levy/Getty Images Adam Pretty/Getty Images WA Department of Biodiversity/Reuters RAMZI BOUDINA/Reuters DAMIEN STORAN/ REUTERS CARLOS BARRIA/Reuters ZOHRA BENSEMRA/reuters Reuters John Nguyen/PA All photos subject to copyright. Related Topics Documentary photography Photography

Ukraine Operational Command South By Jake Horton & Tural Ahmedzade BBC Verify Following the Kremlin’s refusal to renew the deal which allowed ships to transport grain across the Black Sea, Russia has started targeting Ukraine’s key alternative export routes along the Danube River. We’ve looked at what grain infrastructure has been targeted and what this…

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg has been composing a piece for the piano that charts the dramatic events unfolding around him. In rare moments away from work in Moscow, Steve wrote music to express what he was experiencing in a country transformed by the war…

Four people are missing after a military helicopter crashed off the coast of Queensland in Australia. The incident took place during a night-time training exercise between the Australian and US military off Lindeman Island on Friday night. Defence Minister Richard Marles said a search and rescue mission was immediately launched. “The four air crew are…

Every August, Ireland’s sweet and juicy blueberry-like fraughans are harvested and made into a rippled whipped cream and berry dessert. Along hedgerows and up Ireland’s boggy hillsides grow small, wild berries, sweetened by summer sun and heralding the beginning of harvest. These purple berries are known as fraughans, from the Irish fraochán. Other names include…

Chip Somodevilla By Chloe Kim BBC News, New York Madison Cunningham, now 21, said she joined the Army to escape her hometown, travel and pay for college. Shortly after enlisting, she was sexually assaulted in April 2021 by someone in her battalion at Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg in North Carolina, . She was sexually…

It is a summer of extremes. Burning temperatures followed by raging fires. Wild storms and torrential rain. And a run of broken climate records. The impact on millions has been clear. People forced to seek shelter indoors from the blazing sun. Drought and water supplies running low. Homes gutted by flames and destroyed by floods.…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Nicola Bryan BBC News Just off the Pembrokeshire coast lies a long-deserted island fort that has slowly been reclaimed by nature. For decades Stack Rock Fort off Milford Haven has been disturbed only by gulls and…

This is Stack Rock Fort, on an island that has slowly been reclaimed by nature. Just off Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, it offers a rare glimpse inside a 19th Century structure disturbed only by gulls. Its new owner has invited photographer Steve Liddiard to take a look inside. “It takes your breath away. It doesn’t…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York Energy providers are warning Americans to be frugal with air-conditioning this weekend, as intense heat and increased demand could lead to blackouts. Nearly 200 million Americans are under “dangerously hot…