Volcano rescuers face ash as high as rooftops
Watch villagers survey the aftermath of Mt Semeru’s eruption in eastern Java Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for survivors in villages buried by hot ash, after Mt Semeru on Java island erupted on Saturday. Fourteen people are known to have died and dozens were injured, emergency authorities said. One volunteer in the nearby district of […]
AI shows Pakistani Twitter prayed for neighbour
Getty Images It is perhaps not surprising that the fractious relationship between historic adversaries India and Pakistan has spilled over into social media in recent years. But at the end of April, as India struggled with a ferocious second wave of Covid-19, citizens on either side of the border shelved their barbs in favour of […]
Michael Acton Smith: From Moshi to Mindfulness
BBC Michael Acton Smith’s latest venture is valued as being worth $1bn He was one of the UK’s brightest tech stars, the man behind the hugely popular children’s game Moshi Monsters. Then, as his business’s fortunes waned, Michael Acton Smith headed to California to start something new. Now his meditation and mindfulness app Calm has […]
How food influencers affect what we eat
Alamy Social media has revealed a fascination with sharing what we eat with others by posting pictures of it (Credit: Alamy) It is hard to browse through social media without coming across a banquet’s worth of mouth-watering posts, but do these actually alter your own food choices? Many of us are lucky enough to have […]
Chicago’s celluloid city
Chicago cityscape at night, as seen by Batman in The Dark Knight. (Dan Welldon) Whether portraying a criminal underworld or a high–school utopia, Chicago always looks right at home on the silver screen. Whether portraying a criminal underworld or a high–school utopia, Chicago always looks right at home on the silver screen. The city of […]
Satellite images ‘show China structures’ on India border
BBC China has built new structures near the site of a Himalayan border clash that left 20 Indian troops dead earlier this month, fresh satellite images suggest. Bunkers, tents and storage units for military hardware are visible in an area where last month there were none. Fighting between the nuclear-armed powers over their disputed frontier […]
Mini guide to Mumbai, India
Two men sit on the Marine Drive promenade by the Arabian Sea, against the backdrop of the Mumbai skyline. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) India’s financial powerhouse has its own language, Bambaiyya Hindi, plus the country’s most prolific film industry, one of Asia’s biggest slums and the largest urban tropical forest. Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is India’s financial […]
Three charged for disrupting ‘arms fair’ at Motorpoint Arena
BBC Campaigners protested as people attended the Cardiff city centre event Three people have been charged with aggravated trespass after protesting against an “arms fair” in Cardiff. A total of six people were arrested by South Wales Police on Tuesday for blocking an entrance to the Motorpoint Arena. The annual Defence Procurement, Research, Technology and […]
What will replace the International Space Station?
Getty Images The International Space Station has been ever-present in our lives for more than two decades. What will happen when we lose it in 2031? The space station is dead. Long live the space station. In eight years, the International Space Station (ISS) – a bastion of global collaboration and human ability – will […]
Home tests not available ‘next week’
Getty Images A test to see whether someone has already had coronavirus is being developed but will not be available within days, the UK government’s chief medical adviser says. “I do not think – and I want to be clear – that this is something we’ll suddenly be ordering on the internet next week,” Prof […]