- Friday, 22 August 2025
BBC
Gujarat crowned IPL champions in debut tournament
Hardik Pandya produced a magnificent all-around display as Gujarat Titans won the Indian Premier League in their first season with a seven-wicket victory over Rajasthan Royals.
Ancient DNA reveals secrets of Pompeii victims
Researchers studying human remains from Pompeii have extracted genetic secrets from the bones of a man and a woman who were buried when the Roman city was engulfed in volcanic ash.
Japan opens up to foreign tourists after two years
After being closed to tourists for two years, Japan is opening its borders to visitors from 98 countries and regions. It marks the most significant moment so far in the country's slow relaxation of its Covid-19 entry restrictions.
Tributes paid to 'great bloke' Symonds
Tributes have been paid to former Australia all-rounder Andrew Symonds at a public memorial service held in Queensland on Friday.
First Indian author wins International Booker
Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian writer to win the International Booker Prize. Her novel Tomb of Sand, a family saga set in the shadow of the partition of India, follows an 80-year-old woman after the death of her husband.
North Korea fires missiles hours after Biden leaves Asia
North Korea has been test-firing a flurry of ballistic missiles since the beginning of this year.
'Democratic' jackdaws use noise to make decisions
Jackdaws use a "democratic" process to decide when to leave their roosts en masse, scientists have discovered.
Future foods: What you could be eating by 2050
Scientists have drawn up a list of little-known plants that could be on the menu by 2050. In the future, you could be breakfasting on a false banana or snacking on pandanus tree fruit.
Governments should subsidise food and energy - IMF boss
Governments need to subsidise the cost of food and energy for the poorest members of society, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told the BBC.
Eighty monkeypox cases confirmed in 12 countries
More than 80 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in at least 12 countries.
Farm machinery exacting heavy toll on soil - study
Scientists say massive tractors could be damaged up to a fifth of global land used to grow crops. The weight of modern combine harvesters, tractors and other farm machinery risks compacting the soil, leading to flooding and poor harvests, according to researchers in Sweden.
India's preference for sons over daughters remains
A new Indian government survey shows that there have been improvements in the country's sex ratio, but an overwhelming majority still desires a male child. Nearly 80% of those surveyed said they wanted at least one son in their lifetime, according to the latest figures from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), the most comprehensive household survey of Indian society by the government.
Delhi sizzles at 49C as heatwave sweeps India
An intense heatwave has been sweeping through northern India with the temperature hitting a record 49.2C in parts of the capital, Delhi. Reports say this is the fifth spell of a heatwave in the capital this summer.
Tonga eruption was 'record atmospheric explosion'
The eruption of the Tonga volcano in January has been confirmed as the biggest explosion ever recorded in the atmosphere by modern instrumentation. It was far bigger than any 20th Century volcanic event, or indeed any atom bomb test conducted after WWII.
Ten shot dead in suspected race attack at US store
An 18-year-old white man has shot dead 10 people in a black neighbourhood of New York state in what authorities are calling a racially motivated attack.
