Iran activists tell BBC how threat of war intensifies trauma of repression
A dissident in Tehran says she feels helpless and under immense psychological pressure.
Trump calls Iran response to US proposal to end war ‘totally unacceptable’
No details have been released of Iran’s response – or the US proposals – designed to bring the war to an end.
Tourist hotspot at ‘end of the world’ denies causing hantavirus outbreak
The BBC reports from the city of Ushuaia, where experts have been sent to investigate the origins of the outbreak.
‘Shiver up my spine’: Fox News host’s rise triggers cross-party primary revolt
A Democratic strategist’s nightmare vision of an all-Republican governor’s race has ballooned into a full-blown campaign to overhaul California’s primary system. Steven Maviglio, a longtime
Dems eye ‘audacious’ secret plan to oust entire blue state Supreme Court: report
Congressional Democrats are quietly kicking around a long-shot scheme to clear out Virginia’s entire Supreme Court, which just torched their gerrymandered congressional map. During a
‘More than 100 million years of evolution’: How snakes evolved and lost their legs
Huge snakes, tiny snakes, poisonous snakes and constrictor snakes, snakes that slither, burrow or swim: New fossils and modern technology are tracing serpent origins
More polar bears are approaching human sites as the climate warms, and it’s not just the skinny ones
It’s not just thinner bears that are coming ashore as the climate warms.
It could be last call for Texas’ oldest gay bar. Its patrons are fighting to save it.
Robert’s Lafitte, the legendary Galveston dive bar which is also the oldest gay bar in Texas, is days away from its final last call, staffers
Do you take after your dad’s RNA?
On a bright afternoon in Jiangsu, China, Xin Yin is playing personal trainer to some mice. One by one, he sets the rodents on a
Huge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area
At 5:26 am local time on August 10, 2025, a massive wedge of rock with a volume of at least 63.5 million cubic meters detached
Iran may ‘give assurances on the use of nuclear facilities’
Iran may negotiate on nuclear facilities, but it ‘won’t destroy uranium or allow it to be moved’
Trump says US will not allow Iran to reach enriched uranium
US president says Washington has the nuclear material in Iran ‘surveilled’ and will ‘blow up’ anyone who gets near it.
Food inflation hammers households in war-hit Iran
Iranians faced with skyrocketing food prices as inflation soars, currency plunges amid US-enforced naval blockade.