What we should make of CIA boss’s secret trip to Moscow
There is nothing routine about John Ratcliffe making a secret, 10,000-mile return dash to Moscow, writes Frank Gardner.
Tracing the deadly path of the Nepal-Tibet flash flood
BBC Verify traces the path of the destructive Nepal-Tibet flash flood using verified video.
Your dislike of eating bugs may be 9,000 years old
Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to have eaten insects only occasionally
18 images, videos involving Trump admin that spread with misleading captions
Users on both sides of the political aisle have shared miscaptioned media related to Trump and his administration.
Trump bought Boeing stock on same day Navy gave company $880M contract. Here’s proof
Trump’s financial disclosures indicate that he has traded millions of dollars worth of shares throughout his second term.
UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028
Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while humans own consequential decisions and deterministic automation
The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things
Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry keeps asking which model is smartest
Champions League draw LIVE: 2026-27 league phase fixtures, schedule
Teams across Europe discover their opponents at the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League draw in Monaco.
Six months after US strike on Iran school, parents still grieve
Six months after a US missile strike on an Iranian school killed at least 170 people, most of them children.
Israeli settlers targeting Palestinian factories to force workers off land
Settler violence threatens to collapse the fragile Palestinian economy.
‘Silence is complicity’ – top footballer hits out over Cameroon femicides
The killing of at least eight women in a week has sparked outrage in Cameroon.
Board of Peace’s Gaza envoy criticises Israeli strikes and Hamas actions
Nickolay Mladenov warns that a collapse of last October’s ceasefire would be “a point of no return” for the region.
Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Mladić dies aged 84
He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the ex-Yugoslavia in 1992-95.
The monstrous crimes of Ratko Mladic, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’
The Bosnian Serb commander led a campaign of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian conflict.