Disappointed France and England to face off in third place World Cup match
Playing your final World Cup match one day prior to the championship game is not the assignment anybody desires. But it’s the reality for France and England as the two countries will take the field in the third-place match on Saturday in Miami…
Vikram-1: India’s first private space rocket by Skyroot to carry diamond flower
The rocket – named after Vikram Sarabhai, who is called the father of India’s space programme – is small and has the capacity to carry payloads of up to 350kg, Skyroot co-founder and CEO Pawan Kumar Chandana told the BBC before the…
Middle East live: Tehran threatens ‘full-scale’ offensive as US launches seventh night of attacks
Home Middle East Live Issued on: 18/07/2026 – 07:02Modified: 18/07/2026 – 07:16 A screen grab from a video broadcast by Iran’s IRINN state television network shows the aftermath of US strikes on a bridge in Bandar Khamir County, near…
Control, threats, disfiguring surgery: My life inside Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘cult’
In the week after the sex-criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein died, Anya (not her real name) opened the door of her New York apartment. Outside was Epstein’s brother, Mark, telling her she had to leave, she says. Anya had lived for years in one of…
Jon Culshaw on the art of imitation – Spotlight
Downing Street’s Larry the Cat is about to get a new housemate, his seventh in ten years. Andy Burnham says he will do things differently, that he’s focused on driving growth in every postcode in the country, although we’re yet to hear any detail of how…
US strikes hit Iran for seventh consecutive night
The US military said it carried out the seventh night of strikes on Iran since President Donald Trump declared the temporary ceasefire agreement was «over». In a statement shared on X, US Central Command (Centcom) wrote that its forces «hit surveillance…
Thousands protest in Kyiv for second day over ouster of popular defence minister Fedorov
Thousands of people turned out in Kyiv on Friday to protest Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s sacking of his popular defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov as part of a controversial reshuffle. The protesters, many of them carrying the Ukrainian…
Brad Pitt’s children are dropping their dad’s surname – here’s why I did the same
She adds that she had always «hated» the surname she inherited from her father, which included a profanity that she was teased for at school. «I didn’t want to be associated with it,» she says. Changing her surname to match her mother’s felt…
UN launches new refugee hub in Ethiopia offering legal aid and protection – Eye on Africa
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What Phoenix can teach the world about tackling heat deaths
Ladd Keith, director of the Heat Resilience Initiative at the University of Arizona, told the BBC that other places could, like Phoenix, appoint a heat officer – someone to oversee initiatives and run communications among government offices.…