Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip married in 1947

Adele Raemer, who lives in a kibbutz in southern Israel, has told BBC World News about her experiences of the Israel-Gaza conflict. She was exhausted from running back and forth to her “safe room”, she said. And the sounds of rocket alerts and artillery were keeping her awake. “This is not something anybody could or…

Pakistan’s national security adviser has said Western governments’ failure to heed his country’s advice has left Afghanistan in crisis. Moeed Yusuf told BBC News’s Hardtalk programme’s Stephen Sackur about the impact the war in Afghanistan has had on Pakistan and warned the cycle of war would repeat itself without introspection by Western governments. Watch the…

The Oscar-winning film’s VFX supervisor explains how the team created sequences inverted in time.

Halima Aden, the world’s first hijab-wearing supermodel, meets US fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger in a BBC 100 Women exclusive to talk about why she quit the industry, and how to tackle racism and discrimination in fashion. See the full programme here World Service Global Religion Reporter: Sodaba Haidare Produced and directed by: Joanne Whalley UK…

Deaths from opioid use in the US have skyrocketed over the last year. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that 88,000 people had died from drug overdoses in the 12 month period ending in August 2020 – an increase of 27% on the previous year. The US authorities say…

The city of Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. While much of the site was well preserved, many details about life in the city were lost, including some of the building’s colourful frescoes. Thousands of these fresco fragments are currently in storage at the site’s archaeological park and now a team at…