The US provided intelligence that helped Ukraine sink the Moskva, Russia’s flagship Black Sea missile cruiser, several US media report. Unnamed officials said Ukraine had asked the US about a ship sailing
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Twenty years ago, the first in the director’s web-slinger trilogy set the course for the modern superhero film – but none of its descendants have ever matched it, writes Kambole Campbell “With
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More than 4.7 million people in India – nearly 10 times higher than official records suggest – are thought to have died because of Covid-19, according to a new World Health Organization
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has apologised after his foreign minister said that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood”, Israel says. Mr Putin made the apology in a call with Israeli PM
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In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC’s Today programme, Bill Gates says conspiracy theories about him are “crazy” and that being shouted at in public is “awful”. He also told the BBC’s
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A new true-crime series explores an unexplained 2001 death – but how does it compare to the gripping 2004 documentary of the same crime, asks Caryn James.A Amidst an apparently endless flood
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Every year on May 3, UNESCO commemorates World Press Freedom Day to spotlight media freedom around the world. This year, UNESCO’s theme, Journalism Under Digital Siege, will focus on the effect of
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The world’s only nonuplets – nine babies born at the same time – are “in perfect health” as they celebrate their first birthday, their father has told the BBC. “They’re all crawling
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The EU has proposed some of its toughest measures yet against Russia, including a total ban on oil imports and sanctions on war crimes suspects. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
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From President Zelenskyy down, Ukrainian officials have come up with increasingly frank ways to articulate the conflict with Russia. This is a line from an official report from Ukraine’s defence ministry –
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