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Francesca Gillett BBC News Getty Images Andrew Tate pictured inside court in Romanian capital Bucharest for a hearing last December Four women who allege they were sexually abused by the social media influencer Andrew Tate have urged the US not to interfere in his case in Romania. The women said they were “extremely concerned” by…

When he penned his eyewitness account of the 1917 Russian Revolution, American journalist John Reed famously titled it Ten Days That Shook The World. But 10 days is too long for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. They’ve shaken things up in a week. It began with the Putin-Trump telephone conversation on 12 February and their…

EPA Kim Sae-ron’s death has prompted calls for people to be given a second chance Actress Kim Sae-ron‘s death in an apparent suicide has renewed criticism of South Korea’s entertainment industry, which churns out stars but also subjects them to immense pressure and scrutiny. Kim – who was found dead aged 24 at her home…

Authorities in one of the Philippines’ most densely-populated urban centres are offering a cash reward for mosquitoes in an attempt to stop the spread of dengue. Carlito Cernal, village chief of Barangay Addition Hills in central Manila, announced the bounty of one peso (less than two US cents) for every five mosquitoes. While news of…

Rapper A$AP Rocky leaped over a court barrier to hug his partner Rihanna and family after being found not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend. As the first not-guilty verdict was read on Tuesday, the court rang out with screams and clapping. A jury in Los Angeles acquitted the musician, whose legal…

Jessica Parker BBC Berlin correspondent BBC Alya made her way to Germany from Syria 10 years ago, with her then newborn Rami “I was crying,” says Alya, when she saw news of last week’s Munich attack that left a toddler and her mother dead. “Why should someone do something like that? Why? I can’t understand…

Australian authorities are euthanising about 90 false killer whales which survived a mass stranding on a remote beach. A team of experts at the site said complex conditions have made it impossible to save them. They are part of a pod of 157 whales that had beached near Arthur River, in the island’s north west.…

Footage release by the Philippine coast guard shows a Chinese navy helicopter flying close to a Philippine aircraft patrolling over a disputed area of the South China Sea on Tuesday, 18 February. According to the coast guard, the helicopter flew within 3m of the Philippine plane, prompting the pilot to say: “You are flying too…

Getty Images India has still not developed its own foundational language model like DeepSeek that’s used to power things like chatbots Two years after ChatGPT took the world by storm, China’s DeepSeek has sent ripples through the tech industry by collapsing the cost for developing generative artificial intelligence applications. But as the global race for…

Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News Supplied Asha Roy was due to take part in a football tournament that Islamists protested against recently Asha Roy, 17, was excited to take part in a women’s football tournament, but her hopes were dashed as Islamists forced the organisers to cancel the match in northern Bangladesh. Shortly before the game…