I’ll just give it to you straight: shopping for a wedding dress mostly sucked.Anyone who has ever planned a wedding knows that securing the look is crucial. If you’re a bride, that usually kicks off with Pinterest stalking and research. Then you make an appoin... More »
Published17 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingBy Stephanie HegartyPopulation correspondent, BBC World ServiceThe number of BBC World Service journalists working in exile is estimated to have nearly doubled, to 310, since 2020.The figur... More »
The 14-year-old boy killed in the sword attacks in north-east London was praised as a “true scholar” by his school, the same one attended by one of the victims of the 2023 Nottingham stabbings.The teenager named by police as Daniel Anjorin, was a student at th... More »
Ian McEwan: ‘Our supreme postmodernist’View image in fullscreenBritish novelist The exquisite chapter of domestic accidents that opens Paul Auster’s final novel, Baumgartner, leaves us with a microcosm of all that drew a worldwide, discerning readership to thi... More »
Published41 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, British MuseumBy Favour Nunoo & Thomas NaadiBBC News, KumasiLooted artefacts from the Asante kingdom are finally on display in Ghana, 150 years after British colonisers took t... More »
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is facing serious competition, as the company’s rival Anthropic brings its Claude chatbot to iPhones. Anthropic, led by a group of former OpenAI staff who quit over differences with chief executive Sam Altman, have a product that already beats... More »
Late-night hosts talked about Donald Trump’s $9,000 gag order penalty, his falling asleep during the trial and Eric Trump’s day in court.Jimmy KimmelAs usual, Jimmy Kimmel relished all details from Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York, which resumed on ... More »
A few years ago, while walking my sons to school, I found myself thinking that, although I held their hands daily, one day they wouldn’t need me alongside them, that we would lose that sense of physical closeness. I decided to photograph my own father and gran... More »
For sports fans of a certain age, the seasonal queues that form around shoe stores in anticipation of the latest Jordan sneakers are a painful reminder of the many young people who only know of the hoops legend as an athletic brand. But well before Nike reduce... More »
Western politicians and diplomats have called for a halt to spiralling violence in Georgia, after security forces used water cannon, tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets overnight to break up a peaceful rally against a “foreign influence” bill.The EU, wh... More »
Thousands of miles away from the campus protests that have divided Americans, some displaced Palestinians are expressing solidarity with the anti-war demonstrators and gratitude for their efforts.Message of support were written on some tents in the southern ci... More »
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Wednesday, his latest stop on a Middle East tour as President Biden tries to stop Israel from invading Rafah, the city in southern Gaza where Palestinians have sought ... More »