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Curtis Lancaster,BBC News A new homeowner has found a crisp packet from nearly half a century ago in his back garden. Cenk Albayrak-Touye was renovating his home in Poole, Dorset when he made the discovery. He said: “I dug up the turf in the back garden and found a load of items but it was the yellow packaging that caught ...

A helicopter carrying the Iranian president has been involved in an accident, state media is reporting. State media says President Ebrahim Raisi was on board a helicopter that experienced a hard landing on Sunday. It was also said to be carrying Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. The Interior Minister said rescuers were still trying to reach the site due to ...

Farouk Chothia,BBC News, Johannesburg South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved a controversial new law that will lead to the biggest shake-up in the health sector since the end of the racist system of apartheid 30 years ago.  It promises universal health care for all, but has faced fierce resistance from the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), which has accused ...

Fan Wang,BBC News “I don’t want anyone to think that I ever said these horrible things in my life. Using a Ukrainian girl for a face promoting Russia. It’s crazy.” Olga Loiek has seen her face appear in various videos on Chinese social media – a result of easy-to-use generative AI tools available online. “I could see my face and ...

Priti Gupta,Technology Reporter, Mumbai Every day, with bare hands, Rukmini Baburao Kumbhar, collects around 50kg (eight stone) of fresh cow dung. She is part of a spiritual group that runs a small ashram (a religious retreat) in a village in the north-western Indian state of Maharashtra. Collecting cow dung is not, primarily, an effort to keep the place tidy. Instead, ...

Hafsa Khalil,BBC News The first man to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the operation, the hospital which carried out the procedure has said. Richard “Rick” Slayman, 62, was suffering with end-stage kidney disease before undergoing the operation in March. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) said on Sunday there was no indication his death was ...

In a small community nestled in the Volta region of Ghana, three students from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology embarked on a mission to bring clean water to the residents of Aveme Beme. Nana Kwabena Addo, Constant Titus Amentor, and Prince Makafui Nanewortor, all MSc Development Management students, worked tirelessly on a borehole rehabilitation as part of their Social Entrepreneurship and ...

Sanjana Idnani,Wales Live International students in Wales have been sleeping rough on campuses after struggling to find housing. Students have reportedly struggled to find affordable accommodation near to universities, meaning they travel to campus for lectures and sleep in university buildings overnight. Nida Ambreen of Bangor University’s Students’ Union said some regularly slept in the university’s 24-hour study space to ...

A five-story building collapsed in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday night leading to a major rescue operation, led by the Kenya Red Cross.  The building collapsed in Uthiru – on the outskirts of the city – with initial reports suggesting dozens of people were trapped beneath the rubble.  But on Wednesday morning the Kenya Red Cross said all tenants of ...

By Vicky Wong,BBC News Israel’s government has moved to shut down the operations of the Al Jazeera television network in the country, branding it a mouthpiece for Hamas.  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the cabinet agreed to the closure while the war in Gaza is ongoing. Police raided the Qatari broadcaster’s office at the Ambassador hotel in Jerusalem on Sunday. ...