As part of his wider crackdown on higher education, US President Donald Trump has moved to ban Harvard from enrolling international students, accusing the school of not doing enough to combat antisemitism on campus. Harvard filed a lawsuit in response, and a judge has halted Trump’s ban for now, with a hearing on the matter...
A brand new statue of of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow. Meanwhile, an adviser to President Putin recently argued that the Soviet Union in fact still exists, because of a procedural error in the process of dissolving it. More than three years on from Russia’s full-scale...
Sean “Diddy” Combs once beat ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura so badly she needed stiches on her forehead, the music mogul’s former stylist has testified at his trial. Deonte Nash, who styled both Mr Combs and Ms Ventura, told the court there were times when he witnessed his boss attacking his then-girlfriend and others. He also testified...
Wedaeli Chibelushi BBC News Ngugi wa Thiong’o Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature – a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness. His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily documenting the transformation of his country – Kenya – from a colonial subject...
A Swiss mountain village has been buried in a deluge of ice, mud and rock, after a big chunk of the Birch glacier collapsed into the valley below. The village of Blatten, which was evacuated of its roughly 300 residents several days ago, was on Wednesday overwhelmed by thousands of tonnes of mud and ice....
The town of Rodynske in Ukraine’s Donetsk region has been the scene of intense Russian drone attacks and is on the front line of the war. The BBC’s Yogita Limaye was reporting from Rodynske when a Russian drone struck nearby, forcing the journalist and her crew to take cover. She was reporting on the latest...
Yogita Limaye BBC News Reporting fromRodynske, Donetsk region Watch: BBC team flees drone attack in Ukraine An acrid smell hangs over the town of Rodynske. A couple of minutes after we drive into the city we see where it’s coming from. A 250kg glide bomb has ripped through the town’s main administrative building, and taken...
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says its military has “eliminated” Hamas’s Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar, one of its most wanted men and the brother of the group’s late leader Yahya Sinwar. Mohammed Sinwar was the target of a massive Israeli strike on the courtyard and surrounding area of the European hospital in the southern city...
Anadolu via Getty Images Germany’s new chancellor (R) greeted Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to Berlin on Wednesday Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has told Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky that Berlin will help Kyiv produce long-range missiles to defend itself from Russian attack. “We want to talk about production and we will not publicly discuss details,” he said,...
The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has said that “Israeli strikes in Gaza go beyond what is necessary to fight Hamas” as the death toll there continues to mount. Kallas also said that the EU did not support a new aid distribution model backed by the US and Israel which bypasses the UN and other...
Reuters French ex-surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec has admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients A verdict is expected on Wendesday in the case of Joel Le Scouarnec, the former surgeon who has admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, mostly under age, between 1989 and 2014. Le Scouarnec, 74, has been dubbed France’s most prolific paedophile. He...
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Reuters Saúl Luciano Lliuya says water in Lake Palcacocha has increased, putting his hometown at risk A court in Germany has rejected a lawsuit brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy giant RWE in a long-awaited decision. Saúl Luciano Lliuya had argued that the firm’s global emissions contributed to the...
The UN Human Rights Office has said it believes 47 people were injured in Gaza on Tuesday when crowds overwhelmed an aid distribution centre run by a controversial new group backed by the US and Israel. A senior official said the UN was still gathering information but that most of the injuries were due to...
Kenya’s President William Ruto has publicly apologised to Tanzania following days of tension between the neighbouring countries. Some Kenyans on social media have been targeting Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan following the recent detention and deportation of prominent East African activists. Angry Tanzanian MPs on Monday accused Kenyans of cyberbullying and disrespecting Tanzanian sovereignty and...
Watch: Elon Musk says he is “disappointed” with Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, in interview with CBS Sunday Morning Elon Musk has criticised one of the signature policies of his close ally, US President Donald Trump. Last week, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed what Trump calls his “big, beautiful” bill, which includes multi-trillion dollar...