Hunt for treasure in India’s diamond town in Madhya Pradesh
BBC Hindi Prakash Sharma has been mining diamonds for 50 years “I feel sick if I don’t search for diamonds. It’s like a drug.” Prakash Sharma, 67, speaks about diamonds…
Canary Islands migrants: ‘Try or die’
BBC Senegalese farmer Mouhamed Oualy has never been to sea, but he is about to embark on a perilous sea journey – one that has turned the Atlantic Ocean into…
What the stabbing of a schoolboy tells us about the dangers of Chinese nationalism
BBC On a Tuesday morning in September, a 10-year-old boy was approaching the gates of a Japanese school in Shenzhen in southern China, when a stranger walked up and stabbed…
Thousands of cars that crash in US are ending up in Russia
BBC Georgia has become a hub for international used cars The small South Caucasus nation of Georgia has become a multi-billion dollar hub for the international used car market. The…
Ukraine’s fierce battle to defend the eastern city of Potrovsk
Imogen Anderson/BBC “We have not been able to stabilise the front,” says Oleksandr “This is the most dangerous of all front lines,” says Oleksandr, the head of a medical unit…
Why is Elon Musk’s latest Starship rocket test a big deal?
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully completed a world first test, landing part of their Starship back onto its launch pad. This means the company’s plan to develop a fully reusable…
Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg launch A Real Pain at London Film Festival
Getty Images A Real Pain stars Succession’s Kieran Culkin (left) and The Social Network’s Jesse Eisnenberg Actors Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg have reunited on the red carpet at the…
Mortgage rates unlikely to return to low levels, says Lloyds boss
Getty Images The cost of borrowing money to buy a home is “unlikely” to return to the low levels seen over the past decade, the boss of the UK’s largest…
Champion of independence leaves a fractured political legacy
Getty Images Edinburgh awoke on 19 September 2014 with a blanket of mist soaking the stones of the old city. The cacophony of an independence referendum campaign which had echoed…
Port plan to go ahead after row over minister’s comments
It had been suggested P&O owners DP World might shelve the plan after Transport Secretary Louise Haigh described the ferry company as a “rogue operator”. But Jonathan Reynolds told the…