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Thomas Mackintosh & Merlyn Thomas BBC News Getty Images Voice of America launched in 1942 which a mandate to combat Nazi and Japanese propaganda Donald Trump has signed an executive order to strip back the global, independent and federally funded news organisation Voice of America. The president’s order targets VOA’s parent company US Agency for … Read more

A SpaceX capsule carrying a new crew has docked at the International Space Station (ISS), paving the way for astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to come home. The pair were due to be on the ISS for only eight days, but because of technical issues with the experimental spacecraft they arrived on, they have … Read more

Dozens of people are feared to have been killed in a nightclub fire in North Macedonia, according to local media reports. The blaze broke out in the early hours of Sunday at the Pulse club in Kocani, a town around 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, Skopje. Footage posted on social media shows … Read more

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says a “huge amount” has happened since his “coalition of the willing” idea first surfaced at his Lancaster House summit a fortnight ago. He is not wrong: US-Ukrainian relations have been on a rollercoaster since then, culminating in the meeting in Riyadh earlier this week, where the two sides … Read more

BBC James Gallagher recording sound levels around Barcelona We are surrounded by an invisible killer. One so common that we barely notice it shortening our lives. It’s causing heart attacks, type 2 diabetes and studies now even link it to dementia. What do you think it could be? The answer is noise – and its … Read more

With the set at 1-1, and the game 15-15, the ball was judged by umpire Mohamed Lahyani to have bounced twice before Draper reached a drop shot. It was clearly a wrong call from the official, but players now have the benefit of using video technology in Indian Wells to question decisions over double bounces. … Read more

Mark Wilberforce When my mother told me at the age of 16 that we were going from the UK to Ghana for the summer holidays, I had no reason to doubt her. It was just a quick trip, a temporary break – nothing to worry about. Or so I thought. One month in, she dropped … Read more

Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Team Shivan & Narresh The fashion show by designers Shivan and Narresh showcased the brand’s skiwear collection A fashion show held last week in a picturesque, snow-clad town in Indian-administered Kashmir has sparked a major controversy that is still simmering. The show, by the well-known fashion brand Shivan & Narresh, … Read more

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump from using a 227-year-old law meant to protect the US during wartime to carry out mass deportations of Venezuelans. Trump on Saturday proclaimed immigrants belonging to the Venezuelan crime gang Tren de Aragua were “conducting irregular warfare” against the US and that he would deport them under … Read more

Sophie Williams BBC News, Washington DC Theo Welling Radioactive material was dumped near the creek after World War Two After Kim Visintine put her son to bed every night at a hospital in St Louis, Missouri, she spent her evening in the hospital’s library. She was determined to know how her boy had become seriously … Read more