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Devina Gupta BBC News, Delhi Sunjay Kapur/X Sunjay Kapur suffered a heart attack in June while playing polo in the UK An Indian tycoon’s sudden death in June has triggered a fierce inheritance battle at an Indian automotive giant. Sunjay Kapur, 53, suffered a heart attack on 12 June while playing polo in Surrey in…

Robin Levinson King BBC News Getty Images Bulleit Bourbon reported a more than 7% sales drop this fiscal year As American as apple pie, Kentucky bourbon was booming after the last Great Recession ended. But as the economy has waned post-Pandemic – and with multiple trade wars on the horizon – the market may be…

President Vladimir Putin has presented US President Donald Trump’s special envoy with an award to pass on to a senior CIA official whose son was killed fighting with Russia in Ukraine. Putin gave the Order of Lenin to Steve Witkoff during his trip to Moscow this week to discuss a plan to end the Ukraine…

Protesters in support of hostages took to the streets of Jerusalem and marched towards Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence to voice their anger over the Gaza City takeover plan. Former soldier, Max Kresch, marched holding a sign that read “I refused”. “We’re over 350 soldiers who served during the war and were refusing to continue…

US President Donald Trump has nominated State Department spokeswoman and former Fox News host Tammy Bruce to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that Bruce, who has been working at the US State Department since he took office in January, has done a “fantastic…

A 17-year-old suspect has been arrested after three people were shot in New York City’s Times Square in the early hours of Saturday. Gunfire rang out about 01:20 EDT (05:20 GMT) at West 44th Street and Seventh Avenue, below the towering billboards in one of the world’s busiest tourist hotspots. The teenager has not been…

Israel has approved a plan to take control of Gaza City, which it says is part of its strategy to end the war. BBC Verify has been looking at what this could mean for Palestinians still living in the city, many already displaced by the fighting. Reha Kansara has more. Verification by Paul Brown, Joshua…

NASA Who will be the next human to leave their footprint on the surface of the Moon? They were the pioneers of space exploration – the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The loss of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided the stricken…

In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. BBC climate and science reporter Esme Stallard explains why 80 years on, the radiation from the explosions is undetectable. World War Two in Europe ended in May 1945 but the Allies, including the UK, US and USSR, were…

Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Getty Images Elon Musk’s AI video generator has been accused of making “a deliberate choice” to create sexually explicit clips of Taylor Swift without prompting, says an expert in online abuse. “This is not misogyny by accident, it is by design,” said Clare McGlynn, a law professor who has helped draft…