Entertainment & Glomour
Darren Aronofsky's latest is a "well-meaning redemption story", which stars Brendan Fraser as a morbidly obese literature professor. It's hard to imagine anyone being as captivating in the role, writes Nicholas Barber. They're calling it "The Brenaissance". After...
Pop star Adele is one step closer to EGOT status, after winning an Emmy for her TV concert special, Adele: One Night Only.The term refers to stars who've won the grand slam of US awards - an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, covering TV, music, film and theatre respectively.Adele's Emmy adds to ...
World,Front Page
Liz Truss has promised to announce a plan to deal with soaring energy costs within a week if she becomes prime minister on Tuesday.The Tory leadership hopeful, the favourite according to pollsters, told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg she would "act immediately" to help with bills.But she o...
Strictly Come Dancing's new professional dancers are set to dazzle viewers with a special performance to kick-off the show later this month.New additions Vito Coppola, Carlos Gu, Lauren Oakley and Michelle Tsiakkas will make their debut in a cinematic routine alongside the returning cast.It will...
A large number of presenters have left the BBC in recent months - either by force or by choice. Their departures have invited some uncomfortable headlines and questions for the corporation in the process.And yet, it is hard to pinpoint a single driving force behind the recent exodus, because there&#...
Actress Jane Fonda has revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer and is having chemotherapy. In a post to her 1.9m Instagram followers, the 84-year-old said she has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Fonda described it as "a very treatable cancer... so I feel very lucky".The Hollywood icon used...
Soldiers in the Myanmar military have admitted to killing, torturing and raping civilians in exclusive interviews with the BBC. For the first time they have given detailed accounts of widespread human rights abuses they say they were ordered to conduct."They ordered me to torture, loot and kill...
When Thor (Chris Hemsworth), that big-hearted hunk of a god, accidentally runs into Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) – his big-brained, astrophysicist, Earthling ex-girlfriend – the encounter is wild even by superhero standards. In the midst of a battle against the latest force of evil, Tho...
National,Front Page
Doctors in Afghanistan have told the BBC that many children may have been killed in Wednesday's earthquake.More than 1,000 people died in the disaster, and heavy rain, threadbare resources and rugged terrain are hampering rescue workers.Unknown numbers were buried in the rubble of ruined, often ...
World,Back Page
Fiji has told an Asian security summit that climate change is a bigger threat to the Pacific than military tensions."Machine guns, fighter jets... are not our primary security concern. The single greatest threat to our very existence is climate change," Fiji Defence Minister Inia Seruiratu...
Business & Commerce
A food crisis kicked off by the Ukraine war could last for years without intervention, the head of the World Trade Organisation said.African countries could be hit especially hard by wheat and fertilizer shortages, said WTO director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, reports BBC.Millions of tonnes of grai...
A once-in-a-lifetime drought in the western part of the US is turning up dead bodies - but that's the least of people's worries.Sitting on the Arizona-Nevada border near Las Vegas, Lake Mead - formed by the creation of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River - is the largest reservoir in the Un...
The US government appears close to sending a long-range multiple-rocket system (MLRS) to Ukraine.Russia sees such deliveries of heavy weapons as a provocative escalation.President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials have urged delivery of the MLRS to counter Russia's heavy bombardme...
Police made the "wrong decision" by failing to storm a primary school classroom in Uvalde, Texas, as a gunman killed 19 children inside, the top safety official has said."If I thought it would help, I would apologise," Steven McCraw said during a heated press conference on Friday...
A family whose detention has focused anger over Australia's asylum-seeker policies have won a four-year battle to return to their Queensland town.Australia's new government granted visas to the Murugappan family, allowing them to temporarily live and work in Biloela.The Tamil family has been...
Governments need to subsidise the cost of food and energy for the poorest members of society, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told the BBC.People around the world are struggling with the rising cost of living.Kristalina Georgieva said support needs to be provided "in a ver...
National,Back Page
An intense heatwave is sweeping through northern India with temperatures hitting a record 49.2C (120.5F) in parts of the capital, Delhi.This is the fifth heatwave in the capital since March.Officials in many parts of the country have asked people to take precautions as temperatures are set to remain...
Milad is packing his rucksack for the first time since his school in the west of Kabul was attacked by extremists last month. The 15-year-old pupil wasn't hurt when the first bomb went off, but his father raced to the scene to try to find him, only to be killed in a second explosion.A poster com...
Ride-hailing and delivery group Uber has made a $5.9-billion loss, mostly due to its stakes in other companies.The firm said almost all of the loss was a result of the fall in the value of investments in businesses including two Asian ride-hailing giants — China’s Didi and South East Asi...
Look up in the sky at the right moment this weekend and you could see two of the solar system's brightest planets almost touching.Venus and Jupiter will be millions of miles apart, but from Earth they will appear close to colliding.This planetary conjunction happens annually but this year they w...
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