Contest inspires next generation of female code breakers

Climate change is causing once-mighty rivers to dry up and temperatures to rise to deadly levels in Mexico.

Nato foreign ministers are meeting in Riga in Latvia on Tuesday to discuss the build-up of Russian forces on the border with Ukraine and the migrant crisis on Poland’s border with Belarus. The Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called on Nato for more help in the region – and for countries to address the…

Israel is looking for a “sustainable peace” rather than a sticking plaster which becomes a “prescription for another Gaza war a month from now,” the senior adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. Mark Regev told BBC World News: “We want to come out of this with a solution that will bring…

Thomas Vinterberg, director of the Danish film Another Round, has said he is “over the moon” with winning the Bafta award for Best Film Not in the English Language, along with receiving nominations for Best Director and Best International Feature at the Oscars. He told BBC World News he made the film for his 19-year-old…

Australia is one of the countries already seeing an increase in the number of extremely hot days because of climate change, with places like Sydney experiencing temperatures around 50C. The intense heat has led to unusually strong bushfires and some indigenous species dying en masse. As the BBC’s Life at 50 degrees season continues, this…

Film-maker Ed Accura’s second film, Blacks Can’t Swim: The Sequel looks at the issues of racial stereotypes and barriers to swimming. Figures from 2020 show that 95% percent of black adults and 80% of black children in England do not swim. He tells BBC World News why he made the film and what he wants…