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A woman in the crowd holds up a poster of a yellow hand that says 'bring them home now'

Thousands throng Jerusalem to press Netanyahu to make hostage release deal

Saturday's protests in Israel were some of the largest so far, but PM Netanyahu says defeating Hamas is the way to secure the hostages' release.

2 hrs ago
Middle East
: A red full moon, also known as a blood moon, is seen during a lunar eclipse in Sinop, Turkye, on September 7, 2025
LIVE

Blood Moon captivates sky-watchers during lunar eclipse

The Sun, Earth and Moon have lined up, with the Moon passing through the Earth's shadow.

A woman in the crowd holds up a poster of a yellow hand that says 'bring them home now'

Thousands throng Jerusalem to press Netanyahu to make hostage release deal

Saturday's protests in Israel were some of the largest so far, but PM Netanyahu says defeating Hamas is the way to secure the hostages' release.

2 hrs ago
Middle East
: A red full moon, also known as a blood moon, is seen during a lunar eclipse in Sinop, Turkye, on September 7, 2025
LIVE

Blood Moon captivates sky-watchers during lunar eclipse

The Sun, Earth and Moon have lined up, with the Moon passing through the Earth's shadow.

The image shows a large grey and light stone building, the main Ukraine government building, set against a blue sky with eight windows wide and six to seven windows vertical, with the top two floors on the right hand side on fire. There are cranes attempting to extinguish the fire,

Zelensky condemns 'ruthless attack' after Russia hits main government building in Kyiv

It is the first time a Kyiv government building - in the heavily protected city centre - has been hit since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

7 hrs ago
Europe

Carlo Acutis: From a baptism in London to the first millennial saint

Before his death at 15, Carlo Acutis was known for his love of technology and had created a website to document miracles.

10 hrs ago
Europe

Thousands flock to Vatican as teenager made first millennial saint

Pope Leo canonises the London-born Italian boy nicknamed "God's influencer" for his online skills.

2 hrs ago
LIVE

US Open final: Alcaraz breaks Sinner in first game of match - listen & follow

Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz meet in a Grand Slam final for the third time this year as they face off for the US Open men's title - follow live.

The surprising origins of the anti-vax movement

Vaccine scepticism may seem like a new, growing movement. It’s probably a lot older than you think.

10 hrs ago
Future

Weekend reads

A swimmer in a white swimming cap and black wetsuit diving between a wave and the sea (Credit: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

12 of the most striking images of 2025 so far

From praying monks and diving swimmers to meteor showers and the tomb of Pope Francis, these are 12 of the most eye-catching and memorable images of the year so far.

New York, LA and Chicago skylines side by side (Credit: Getty Images)

The furious debate over the US's fourth-best city

After New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the fight is on: locals make the case for the city that should be number four.


Interview

Click play to watch Katty Kay's conversation with Eileen Collins

Why the US is going back to the moon after 50 years

Katty Kay interviews Eileen Collins on Artemis, diversity in space, and how lunar missions prepare us for Mars.
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Best Audio of the Week

You're Dead to Me, You're Dead To Me, Renaissance Beauty: hair, makeup and skincare in the 16th century

You're Dead to Me

Renaissance Beauty: hair, makeup and skincare in the 16th century

Witness History, Witness History, Discovering the Titanic

Witness History

Discovering the Titanic

Crossing Continents, Crossing Continents, Galicia’s wild horses in peril

Crossing Continents

Galicia’s wild horses in peril

In Our Time, In Our Time, Julian of Norwich

In Our Time

Julian of Norwich

Business Daily, Business Daily, Does getting up early breed success?

Business Daily

Does getting up early breed success?

History's Heroes, History's Secret Heroes, William Dodd Fights the Factories

History's Heroes

William Dodd Fights the Factories

The Interview, The Interview, Moazzam Malik, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK: Working on the ground in Gaza

The Interview

Moazzam Malik, Chief Executive of Save the Children UK: Working on the ground in Gaza

More or Less: Behind the Stats, Are self-driving cars safer than cars with drivers?

More or Less: Behind the Stats

Are self-driving cars safer than cars with drivers?


More news

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, wearing a charcoal suit, white shirt and blue and white striped tie, at a podium with two microphones, during a news conference in Tokyo, 7 September 2025

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba resigns after election defeats

The prime minister had struggled to inspire confidence as Japan faced economic headwinds.

9 hrs ago
Asia
A group of eight immigration agents entering the Hyundai battery plant. They wear dark greenish-grey helmets and heavy vests that read 'DEA police'. Some have zip ties to use as handcuffs attached to their belts.

South Korea reaches deal to release citizens detained in Hyundai raid in US

US officials say the workers - including more than 300 South Koreans - were working illegally.

1 hr ago
World
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner pose together before the Wimbledon final

Alcaraz & Sinner set for Grand Slam trilogy in New York

Spain's Carlos Alcaraz and Italy's Jannik Sinner continue their dominance at the top of the men's game when they meet in Sunday's US Open final.

9 hrs ago
Tennis

Czech police finally catch up with 'phantom racing car driver'

A red racing car has been sighted on motorways in the Czech Republic since 2019 but until now has evaded police.

4 hrs ago
Europe

Inflatable tanks and flat-pack guns - inside Ukraine's decoy war

Both Russia and Ukraine are using blow up dolls and plastic decoys as tricks on the battlefield.

19 hrs ago
Europe
A group of eight immigration agents entering the Hyundai battery plant. They wear dark greenish-grey helmets and heavy vests that read 'DEA police'. Some have zip ties to use as handcuffs attached to their belts.

South Korea reaches deal to release citizens detained in Hyundai raid in US

US officials say the workers - including more than 300 South Koreans - were working illegally.

1 hr ago
World
cover of parsiana

India's iconic Parsi magazine to shut after 60 years

Parsiana - a fortnightly journal that chronicles the Parsi community - was started in 1964 by a Parsi doctor.

18 hrs ago
Asia
Northern Ireland team
LIVE

Watch: Gnabry scores early opener for Germany against Northern Ireland

Watch TV coverage and follow radio and live text commentary as Northern Ireland face Germany in their second World Cup qualifying game in Cologne.

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner pose together before the Wimbledon final

Alcaraz & Sinner set for Grand Slam trilogy in New York

Spain's Carlos Alcaraz and Italy's Jannik Sinner continue their dominance at the top of the men's game when they meet in Sunday's US Open final.

9 hrs ago
Tennis

Editor's picks

The majestic ancient ruins of Cleopatra's Bath

The majestic ancient ruins of Cleopatra's Bath

Legend has it that these ruins were once ancient baths and a wedding gift from Mark Antony to Cleopatra.

4 days ago
Destinations
The Vanderbilts' New York

Secret doors and a golden mansion: The Vanderbilts' New York

At their peak, the Vanderbilts were akin to royalty. Today, their estates conceal hidden treasures.

2 Apr 2025
The SpeciaList
Watch a sloth bear fight a tiger

Watch the face-clawing sloth bear that scares tigers

Sloth bears are the world's deadliest bear and for humans, outrunning them is usually not an option.

25 Aug 2025
Natural wonders
Snorkelling through a Roman emperoru2019s coastal villa

The sunken secrets of Roman pleasure palaces

Emperor Claudius’ sunken palace reveals dark secrets of the Romans' coastal decadence.

5 days ago
BBC Select
The secret gallery for the super rich

The gallery where the super rich can buy dinosaurs

In Arezzo, central Italy, there's a secret gallery where you can buy dinosaurs, space suits and Thor's hammer.

22 Sep 2022
Culture
Catatumbo lightning

Earth's spectacular and remote 'capital' of lightning

With storms occurring between 140 and 160 nights a year, it's no wonder this remote part of Venezuela is a world-record holder.

6 Aug 2024
World of wonder
Mary Mallon: 'The most dangerous woman in America'

Mary Mallon: 'The most dangerous woman in America'

How Mary Mallon, an Irish cook for New York's elite, became known as the 'most dangerous woman in America'.

17 Nov 2024
BBC Select
The murder hunt that unearthed a long-lost settlement

The murder hunt that unearthed a long-lost settlement

How the hunt for the remains of two women killed by fascist forces in Spain revealed a long-lost monastery.

28 Sep 2022
History

Culture

Anna Wintour

Anna Wintour was Vogue. Now she's stepped back, can the magazine stay relevant?

She made a name for herself as someone who understood the zeitgeist. But her successor Chloe Malle faces an uphill battle.
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Toronto Film Festival

Josh O'Connor and Daniel Craig in Wake Up Dead Man (Credit: Courtesy of TIFF)

Wake Up Dead Man is 'the funniest Knives Out yet'

Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc and Josh O'Connor nearly steals the show in the "darkest" but also "most playful" instalment of the Knives Out franchise so far.

Sydney Sweeney as Christy Martin, in a boxing ring, wearing a white top and shorts, red boxing gloves and a white gum shield (Credit: Courtesy of TIFF)

Sydney Sweeney's dramatic look can't fix 'clichéd' boxing biopic ★★☆☆☆

Sydney Sweeney's remarkable transformation into champion boxer Christy Martin can't fix the film's flaws nor distract from the star's real-life persona.


Science and Health

A salt cellar lying on its side with salt spilling out (Credit: Getty Images)

The truth about salt in your diet

Some scientists argue that a low-salt diet is just as dangerous as high salt consumption. What's the reality?
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US & Canada news

Police remove tents which demonstrators were using to block a vehicle entrance to an ICE facility outside Chicago

'We are the troops': Inside Chicago's split communities as Trump vows to deploy National Guard

Some locals are working to prevent youngsters from sliding into gangs, but others ask the troops to come sooner.

Pilot who tried to cut off engine midair after taking mushrooms pleads guilty

Trump signs order to punish countries that unjustly detain US citizens

'Strange noises' heard before squatter found in house with lights, TV and bed


More world news

Rosa Roisinblit smiles and gestures at the camera during an interview with AFP in Buenos Aires, 2016. She wears a pale mustard jacket and matching shirt, holding a walking cane in her right hand. Her nails are painted pink, and she wears wire-rimmed spectacles.

Argentine rights activist Rosa Roisinblit dies aged 106

A leading member of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, she helped convict men who abducted hundreds of babies.

Microsoft cloud services disrupted by Red Sea cable cuts

Recognition of Palestinian state is 'disastrous', US ambassador says

Boko Haram kills at least 60 in overnight attack on Nigerian village


Business

The mountains at dusk, from Jebel el Ahmar in 2024. Light hits the top of a rocky mountain range, which stretches into the distance

One of the world's most sacred places is being turned into a luxury mega-resort

Egypt faces backlash over a plan to turn Mount Sinai, a biblical site and home to the Bedouins, into hotels and villas.

Ethiopia outfoxes Egypt over the Nile's waters with its mighty dam

Market ructions and UK cabinet reshuffles will help shape Reeves' Budget

How will the EU's new border system work?


Sport

Aaron Rodgers
LIVE

Rodgers returns to New York & updates from Week One in the NFL

Follow live text coverage of the first Sunday of the 2025 NFL season, with radio commentary of Detroit Lions at Green Bay Packers.

Bethell's first ton sets up record England win over SA

Piastri told to let Norris past as Verstappen wins

McIlroy wins Irish Open in dramatic play-off


Latest Sport audio

F1: Chequered Flag, Italian Grand Prix Review

F1: Chequered Flag

Italian Grand Prix Review

Football Daily, England regress under Tuchel? & WSL kicks off

Football Daily

England regress under Tuchel? & WSL kicks off

Rugby Union Weekly, Women's Rugby World Cup: England outclass Australia

Rugby Union Weekly

Women's Rugby World Cup: England outclass Australia

606, 606, England tepid again under Tuchel

606

England tepid again under Tuchel

Football Daily, England beat Andorra but Tuchel’s side still lack inspiration

Football Daily

England beat Andorra but Tuchel’s side still lack inspiration

F1: Chequered Flag, Italian Grand Prix Qualifying Review

F1: Chequered Flag

Italian Grand Prix Qualifying Review

Not by the Playbook, Sportshour, Man (still) in Motion

Not by the Playbook

Man (still) in Motion

Football Daily, The Commentators' View: ‘Chewing gum’ Andorra & Keystone Cops

Football Daily

The Commentators' View: ‘Chewing gum’ Andorra & Keystone Cops


Tech

An iPhone with a number of social media apps showing on the screen

Warning over social media 'job' scams

Police say they have received a number of reports of these scams in the last six months.

TikTok tourists ruining village, says English councillor

I ordered drug-laced vapes on Snapchat. It was as easy as picking up pizza

Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow


Science & health

Astronaut Anna Fisher in spacesuit (Credit: Nasa)

The astronauts who broke Nasa's glass ceiling

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

The sunscreen scandal shocking Australia - the world's skin cancer hotspot

Why the world is watching RFK's fight with US health agency

Tylenol-maker shares hit after report RFK Jr will suggest autism link


Culture

Black and white photograph of Bob Marley in the passenger seat of a van with his body partially turned towards the back of the vehicle

'I bunked off school aged 14 to see Bob Marley - and became his photographer'

An exhibition of Dennis Morris's music photos and his documentation of London life is currently on show.

Mourners pay tribute at public viewing of Giorgio Armani's coffin

New Bollywood romcom sparks debate over stereotyping south India

'Genre-bending, rule-breaking' artist in no rush to find success


Arts

Yakuza Women

The secret lives of Yakuza women

Photographer Chloé Jafé spent six years documenting the life of women in the Japanese mafia.

The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed

What's behind Mona Lisa's indescribable smile?

Six art history rules hidden in this Taylor and Travis photo


Watch

Nuuk stadium

Football in Greenland: The 'toughest' championship in the world?

Crammed into one hectic summer week, the Greenlandic Football Championship is like no other tournament on earth.
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Travel

Skyline of New Orleans with Mississippi River at dusk (Credit: Alamy)

The triumphant return of the US's Mardi Gras train

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina halted rail service, Amtrak's new Mardi Gras Service links Mobile and New Orleans, offering travellers coastal views and stories of resilience.

Paneer to poutine: Inside the world's local McDonald's

Chef Asma Khan's guide to London's best Indian food

The British isle that outwitted the Nazis


World's Table

A busy scene in Central de Abasto, with people inspecting the produce

The 'trash district' fuelling Mexico City's top restaurants

How the Central de Abasto market has become the unlikely backbone of Mexico City's fine-dining revolution.

Is 'pay what you can' the newest restaurant trend?

The little-known isle where meals cook beneath your feet

Costa Rica's nine-course meal in the sky


Earth

A collage showing three sets of teeth biting into grasshoppers on forks held by hands (Credit: Serenity Strull / BBC / Getty Images)

How eating insects became a conspiracy theory

Insect protein is healthy and sustainable. But now it is also at the centre of a far-reaching conspiracy theory.

The aquatic drone cleaning up waterways

Is venison the most climate-friendly meat?

Third quake strikes Afghanistan as deaths rise


Video

Watch the UKu2019s last steam-powered weaving mill in operation

The UK's last Victorian steam mill in operation

Presenter Jeremy Paxman visits the last Victorian steam-powered weaving mill in Britain.

How tech is helping the world’s most endangered species

The secret childhood of Princess Diana

The most venomous snake of Guyana’s Amazon rainforest


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