Police have arrested two primary school teachers in Japan for taking and sharing indecent images of young girls in a chat group with fellow teachers. The two men, a 42-year-old teaching at a public school in Nagoya and a 37-year-old based in a public school in Yokohama, admitted taking some photographs and videos of girls...
Shayan Sardarizadeh & Thomas Spencer BBC Verify BBC Satellite images have revealed new signs of damage to access routes and tunnels at Iran’s underground Fordo enrichment facility which was targeted by Israel on 23 June, a day after the US dropped bunker-buster bombs on the site. Previously unseen damage is also visible near tunnel entrances...
Kumar Malhotra, Joshua Cheetham & Shayan Sardarizadeh BBC Verify BBC Israeli strikes have damaged structures at two missile sites as well as an airport runway, satellite images have revealed. As Iran and Israel continue to launch strikes on each other’s territory, satellite imagery can give us an insight into what’s happening on the ground. It’s...
the Visual Journalism team BBC Israel has hit Iran with its biggest wave of air strikes in years, targeting the country’s nuclear programme, and is promising to continue its attacks. Senior military figures and nuclear scientists were killed in the overnight strikes and there are unconfirmed reports that civilians, including children, were also among the...
Getty Images Brian Wilson, the lead singer, composer and front man of the Beach Boys, has died aged 82, his family have announced. In a statement shared online, they said they were “heartbroken” by his death and requested privacy. Tributes from fans and musicians saw him described as an icon, a genius and a pioneer....
Gwndaf Hughes Science videographer Never before seen pictures of the Sun’s south pole The first ever video and images of the Sun’s south pole have been sent back to Earth by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The new images will enable scientists to learn how the Sun cycles between periods of raging storms...
Paul Brown and Thomas Spencer BBC Verify BBC New satellite images and drone footage show serious damage inflicted on aircraft at several Russian airbases during Ukraine’s surprise drone strike on Sunday. The images of two Russian airbases in north-western and central Russia, taken on Wednesday morning, show 12 aircraft damaged or destroyed. Meanwhile, drone footage,...
A former policeman from Exeter has admitted possessing indecent images of children more than three years after he was arrested. John Bramwell, 55, of Causey Gardens, pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing images ranging from category A – the most severe – to category C. Exeter Crown Court heard Bramwell, a former sergeant in...
Benedict Garman, Matt Murphy & Merlyn Thomas BBC Verify BBC Israel is preparing a series of sites in Gaza that could be used as distribution centres for humanitarian aid in a controversial new plan, satellite images show. The Israeli government suspended food and medicine deliveries into Gaza in March. Ministers said the move, which has...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Reuters Tobias Thyberg succeed Henrik Landerholm on Thursday – but quit on Friday Sweden’s new national security adviser quit hours after taking up the role as sensitive pictures of him on the dating app Grindr were sent anonymously to the government. Tobias Thyberg, who took up the job on Thursday and...
The first images showing what Leeds United’s Elland Road stadium could look like if expansion plans are given the go-ahead have been released. Proposals to modernise and expand the ground, taking its capacity from 37,645 to about 56,500, were backed by Leeds City Council’s executive board last week. The club, which secured its return to...
The children’s commissioner for England is calling on the government to ban apps which use artificial intelligence (AI) to create sexually explicit images of children. Dame Rachel de Souza said a total ban was needed on apps which allow “nudification” – where photos of real people are edited by AI to make them appear naked...
Reuters The late pope was laid to rest at the Santa Maria Maggiore church in a private ceremony following his public funeral on Saturday Images of Pope Francis’ tomb at the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Rome have been released. A single, white rose was pictured lying on the stone tomb that bears the name...
The US has dismantled large parts of a camp built to house migrants at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show. President Donald Trump ordered the existing facility in Cuba be expanded to hold 30,000 migrants shortly after taking office in January. However, only a small number were ever actually...
Jade Thompson – BBC News Investigations Divya Talwar – BBC News Investigations BBC Jasmine said she felt violated when intimate images of her were shared to several websites A record number of victims of so-called revenge porn reported intimate image abuse to a dedicated UK helpline last year. In 2024, the Revenge Porn Helpline, funded...