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An 11-year-old Canadian boy has died from rabies after being awoken by a bat on his nose and mouth. The incident took place while the child was on a visit to a cottage in Ontario with his family in 2024, according to a report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal published on Monday. The boy, […]

Russian forces have launched a major drone and missile air attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight, killing at least one person. Several neighbourhoods were evacuated as airstrikes rocked buildings throughout the city, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Russia was preparing for a “massive” attack. Some people remain trapped under the rubble of a […]

An AI-generated anti-drug video from Hong Kong’s Correctional Services Department is facing backlash for allegedly making substances look too appealing. The video was released by authorities on 26 June for International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The BBC’s Chinese service reporter Martin Yip explains how the controversy unfolded.

Taylor’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, dropped in October 2025, with a flurry of lovestruck lyrics about her now fiancé. She reminisced about date nights spent on ferris wheels, and dreamt of raising kids in a house with “a driveway with a basketball hoop”. There’s also an entire song about his, ahem, manhood. […]

Still, Trump has made a number of moves in the White House that have benefited his business as well as businesses tied to other senior administration officials. Last July, Trump signed legislation supporting stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency, just four months after World Liberty Financial launched its own digital currency venture. The firm made Trump […]

Şafak Bozkurt, who chairs the Van Bar Association Human Rights Centre Migration and Asylum Commission, said he was familiar with this type of push-back in the region, and aware of cases of hypothermia. Afghan migrants have reported multiple similar incidents since 2021, when the Taliban seized power in Kabul, according to Turkey-based activist Zakira Hikmat. […]

When one of China’s biggest stand-up comedians opened his show with a joke about the extraordinarily long rule of the country’s leader Xi Jinping, it drew a cheer, alongside a smattering of approving profanities. “This is fire,” a man shouted in Mandarin. Few in China would dare to joke about Xi, who has increasingly centralised […]

She said she and 31-year-old Ana Luz were extremely close and would talk every day on video calls. Her sister always had Kleiber by her side. “Wherever she went, her son went too. Whatever Kleiber wanted, she would please him. If she didn’t have money, she would call me: ‘Kleiber wants this’ or ‘he’s missing […]

Two people displayed a banner at the top of the Empire State Building in New York City that appeared to say, “When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace”. It was not immediately clear how the two managed to climb all the way to the top of the radio […]