Nikos Papanikolaou BBC News Watch: Beachgoers look on as wildfires burn in Greece A major wildfire in Greece continues to burn out of control in eastern Crete, after breaking out on Wednesday afternoon in rugged forested terrain near the municipality of Ierapetra. Fanned by gale-force winds reaching up to eight on the Beaufort scale, the...
Rianna Croxford and Larissa Kennelly BBC Warning: Explicit content “Can y’all come straighten it up over here? It’s not looking luxurious,” Sean ”Diddy” Combs says in a voice note to his personal assistants as R&B music mellows in the background. Hours before, a so-called ”freak-off” - a drug-fuelled orgy also known as a “Wild King Night” – had been in full swing....
When you think about the food astronauts eat in space, lobster, haddock and foie gras probably don’t spring to mind – but that’s exactly what France’s next visitor to the International Space Station (ISS) will be dining on. Astronaut Sophie Adenot has teamed up with award-winning French chef Anne-Sophie Pic to create a menu of...
Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been found not guilty of racketeering and sex-trafficking charges, but guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution after a nearly two-month long federal trial in New York City. Prosecutors had accused Combs of using his celebrity status and business empire to run a criminal enterprise to sex traffic women...
Liverpool John Moores University. Nature Tests on the skull could give new insights into ancient history A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. An analysis of his skeleton shows he was 60 years old...
A Ugandan military helicopter with eight people on board has crashed at the main international airport in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, an aviation official has told the BBC. The state-run news agency reported that a fire broke out after the helicopter crashed at the Aden Adde International Airport, but it had been quickly contained by the...
Jacob Boswall BBC Monitoring Getty Images It has been a good year for gold. A host of turbulent events in the global economy has driven up prices for the glittery commodity to record highs in 2025. In a world of tariffs and international conflict, gold appeals to investors as one of the few remaining stable...
Anastasiya Gribanova BBC Ukrainian Service, Kyiv Scarlett Barter BBC World Service Kevin McGregor / BBC Ukrainian serviceman Serhiy Melnyk holds the piece of shrapnel that was once lodged in his heart From his pocket, Serhiy Melnyk pulls out a small rusty shard, wrapped neatly in paper. He holds it up. “It grazed my kidney, pierced...
The jury in the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs will keep deliberating after reaching a partial verdict, but deadlocking on the most serious charge faced by the hip-hop mogul. At the federal court in New York, the 12 jurors announced they had agreed on four of the five counts, but were unable to decide on...
Jihadist fighters have launched a series of simultaneous attacks on military posts across numerous towns in Mali – the third major assault on the army over the last month. Mali’s army said it repelled Tuesday morning’s attacks, allegedly “neutralising” more than 80 militants, without saying if there were any other casualties. However, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam...
US Senators have spent more than 24 hours negotiating amendments to a mega-bill on tax and spending that appears to have stalled without enough votes to pass. Four Republicans in the Senate have said they cannot support the nearly 1,000 page legislation as it stands, but with a slim margin of control the party needs...
US President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum which will impose tighter restrictions on Cuba. The move is aimed at reversing some of the measures introduced by the Biden administration which eased US pressure on the Communist-run country. The White House said it would enforce an existing ban on American tourists going to Cuba more...
Some 76 Ghanaians who were trafficked to Nigeria under a fraudulent recruitment scheme have been rescued, Ghanaian police say. The victims, mostly young men, were lured with promises of football contracts with top foreign teams, job placements abroad or assistance with visa processing. Upon arrival, their travel documents and mobile phones were seized, and they...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images Twenty-one Italian cities are on the highest alert, including Rome, Milan and Venice Two people have died in Italy as temperatures continue to soar amid an intense heatwave across Europe. In Bologna a 47-year-old died after falling ill on a construction site while a 70-year-old man was reported drowned...
Is the “big, beautiful” India-US trade deal slipping out of reach? With just days to go before a 9 July deadline set by US President Donald Trump’s administration, hopes of clinching an interim trade pact between Delhi and Washington remain alive but increasingly entangled in hard bargaining. Despite White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt hinting...