Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has ordered his forces to “stop all military activity” in Ukraine, as he declared an “Easter truce” until the end of Sunday. He said the 30-hour truce would last until 22:00 BST on Sunday (00:00 Moscow time), adding that Russian forces should be prepared to respond to...
CINCDS The layout of Myanmar’s capital city Nay Pyi Taw will be redrawn after the devastating earthquake last month, the country’s military ruler has said. During a government meeting, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said that buildings which collapsed during the earthquake were so badly affected because they were built on soft soil. Office buildings...
Five people have downed after huge waves hit parts of Australia at the start of the Easter weekend. Two others are missing off the coasts of New South Wales and Victoria states. On Saturday the body of a man was found in the water at near Tathra in southern New South Wales. It came a...
Reuters Venezuelans who the Trump administration says are gang members have been deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador The US Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to pause the deportation of accused Venezuelan gang members under an 18th-century wartime law. A civil liberties group is suing the administration over planned deportations...
Robots ran alongside humans at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday. Twenty-one humanoid robots, designed by Chinese manufacturers, raced alongside thousands of runners over a 21km (13-mile) course that included slopes, turns and uneven surfaces. Some robots completed the race, while others struggled from the beginning. One robot fell at the starting line and...
Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Alamy Rakhaldas Banerjee is credited with making one of the most important discoveries in world history An Indian archaeologist, whose career was marked by brilliance and controversy, made one of the world’s greatest historical discoveries. Yet he remains largely forgotten today. In the early 1900s, Rakhaldas Banerjee (also spelled Banerji)...
Richard Irvine-Brown & Liv McMahon BBC News Wicked Joyful These action figures may look like they were made by machine in a factory – but really they were hand-made Artists and creatives are pushing back against a recent trend using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate “starter pack” images of people as toys – which they...
Yolande Knell BBC Middle East Correspondent BBC Dr Sukkar says life in Gaza feels “like a nightmare that doesn’t end” Healthcare in the Gaza Strip is itself a casualty of 18 months of war between Israel and Hamas. With doctors struggling to cope, the BBC followed one GP through her shift at a Médecins Sans...
Annabelle Liang Business reporter Getty Images To leave or not to leave? China, home to more than a billion consumers, is Apple’s second-largest market Every iPhone comes with a label which tells you it was designed in California. While the sleek rectangle that runs many of our lives is indeed designed in the United States,...
Ukraine started today with, for once, the diplomatic wind in its sails. It had finally agreed a mineral deal “framework” with Washington. An agreement that would see the US invest in Ukraine’s recovery, in return for a share of the country’s future profits from its natural resources, energy infrastructure and its oil and gas. There...
A trial of nearly 200 people arrested in protests against the Turkish government has opened in Istanbul. Mass demonstrations began on 19 March after Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Ä°mamoÄŸlu – a key rival of Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan – was detained on corruption charges, which he denies. Most of the 189 defendants in the trial, which opened...
Azadeh Moshiri Pakistan correspondent EPA Police have been stationed outside KFCs across major cities Police in Pakistan have made dozens of arrests following a string of protests targeting KFC branches across the country which led to one man being killed. Protesters, angry at the war in Gaza, have been urging a boycott of the chain,...
BBC Mother-of-two Fathiya Mohammed says she was mugged while fleeing to the town of Tawila The 700,000 residents of Sudan’s Zamzam camp were already among the world’s most destitute people when they were attacked by paramilitary fighters last week. Two decades of conflict in the Darfur region, which intensified after civil war broke out across...
BBC Newsround’s presenter Ricky Boleto speaks to Melanie Zanetti – the voice actor who plays the mum, Chilli, in the popular children’s cartoon series Bluey. The show on CBeebies follows the daily adventures of a family of dogs called the Heeler family. A new 28-minute episode called The Sign, which is the programme’s longest-ever episode,...
Former Credit Suisse boss Tidjane Thiam is to run for president in Ivory Coast’s forthcoming election, his party has confirmed. Thiam, 62, was the only candidate vying to represent the country’s main opposition party, the PDCI. Thiam has spent the last two decades living abroad, and had to give up his French citizenship to be...
