‘We had an ordinary life’: Iran fisherwoman navigates uncertainty of war
An Iranian fisherwoman explains how her idyllic seaside life was shattered when the US and Israel began their bombing.
Month: September 2026
Mark Ruffalo comments cause pushback against anti-Semitism ‘smear campaign’
The actor criticised Paramount-Warner Bros merger, linking it to Oracle’s ties with Israeli military amid Gaza genocide.
Children as young as six going to A&E in mental health crisis
NHS emergency departments are seeing more cases of self-harm, eating disorders and emotional distress in young people.
Heart trial after breast cancer has ‘improved my life’
Lucy Shepherd is one of 90 women to take part in a trial helping cancer survivors come off medication.
There’s a reason child vaccination rates are falling – and it’s not social media
As child immunisation rates fall across the UK, one clinic in west Yorkshire is taking aggressive steps to boost immunisations
Missouri Voters Appear to Recall City Councilman Over Data Center Support
Initial results showed that residents of Independence, Mo., voted overwhelmingly to recall an official who backed billions of dollars in tax breaks for a data
Iran attacks US bases in Middle East after reports US strike killed five at wedding party
The Iranian Red Crescent says a child was among those killed when shrapnel from a US strike hit a home. The US military says it
South Korea jails disabled care home head for sexually assaulting residents
The man, surnamed Kim, was handed a 15-year prison term for abusing three residents at the facility near Seoul.
Israel expanding presence in Lebanon, officials say, as BBC visits occupied areas
A BBC team joined a humanitarian mission of the UN peacekeeping force, which says Israeli troops are fortifying positions and continuing demolitions.
Jailed HK activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to foreign collusion
Wong, 29, is already in prison on subversion charges under the controversial National Security Law.
Scientists went looking for giant trees in Taiwan and found a lost world
Taiwan’s steep, remote mountains have sheltered extraordinary forests containing hundreds of giant Taiwania firs. After years of difficult expeditions, LiDAR mapping, and citizen-science detective work
The masonic temple that’s home to a ‘watery poltergeist’
Staff have reported strange noises and unusual occurrences while working at Clifton Hall in Birkenhead (Picture: Liverpool Echo) Built as an imposing Victorian home, Clifton
RFK Jr.’s hospice comments referred to fraud, not patients’ life expectancy burdening taxpayers
Posts inaccurately claimed the health secretary said hospice patients cost taxpayers too much money because they weren’t dying fast enough.
USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in Thailand after extended Iran deployment
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier arrived Wednesday at a port in eastern Thailand, where thousands of U.S. sailors and Marines are disembarking for the