Image caption, A 34-year-old woman received her sister’s womb in the first transplant of its kind in the UK By Fergus Walsh Surgeons in Oxford have carried out the first womb transplant in the UK.  The recipient was a 34-year-old woman, and the donor her 40-year-old sister, both of whom wish to remain anonymous. Doctors say both recovered well from surgery ...

Image caption, Diezani Alison-Madueke has been dogged by corruption allegations since leaving office, which she denies By Nkechi Ogbonna BBC News, Lagos Nigeria’s former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has been charged with bribery offences in the UK. She is suspected of accepting financial rewards for awarding multi-million dollar oil and gas contracts. A key figure in ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, she ...

By Ece Goksedef BBC News At least 17 people have been killed and more are feared missing after a railway bridge under construction collapsed in north-eastern India, officials said. The incident occurred near the town of Sairang, in the state of Mizoram. Up to 40 workers were at the site when part of the bridge toppled, according to local media ...

Indictments of Donald Trump By Max Matza BBC News Donald Trump has said he plans to turn himself in on Thursday to a court in the state of Georgia to face charges of election interference.  A judge in Atlanta who is overseeing the former president’s case has set bail at $200,000 (£157,000). The agreement says Mr Trump can remain free ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66542694 Image caption, Paa Kwesi Asare is the eighth winner of the award Ghanaian TV presenter and journalist Paa Kwesi Asare has won the 2023 BBC News Komla Dumor Award.  The 36-year-old is the eighth recipient of the award and the first to come from Ghana, like the late Komla Dumor. Asare is currently the head of business news at Ghana’s ...

By Michelle Roberts The NHS has teamed up with Morrisons supermarket to put extra labels in underwear reminding people to see their GP if they spot potential symptoms of breast or testicular cancer.  People should look out for lumps and bumps or “anything unusual”.  The Nutmeg-branded boxer shorts and crop-top bras will be in 240 stores in England in the ...

By Lauren Hirst It was the spring of 2017 when an alarming letter arrived at Cheshire Police’s headquarters, addressed to the chief constable.  It was from the chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital, which had seen an unexplained surge in deaths and near-fatal collapses of premature babies in its neonatal unit. Doctors were baffled – the deaths defied ...

Medically reviewed by Jake Tipane, CPT — By Kirsten Nunez  Regular exercise has many benefits, including better sleep. It can promote relaxation, reduce anxiety, and normalize your internal clock. Exercise also increases your core body temperature. When it begins to drop, you feel sleepy. It’s been long believed that working out before bed can make it harder to get a good night’s rest. But, according to ...

By Girmay Gebru in Mekelle & Mercy Juma in Nairobi At least 1,400 people have starved to death in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray since food aid was suspended because it was being stolen, an official has said. The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) and the US’s leading aid agency halted food aid to Tigray about four months ago. A subsequent investigation ...

By Joe Inwood, Suzanne Leigh, and Christy Cooney More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa.  Thirty-eight people, including children, were rescued, with footage showing them being helped ashore, some on stretchers, on the island of Sal. Almost all those on board the boat, which was at sea ...