A US-Iran agreement to extend the ceasefire between the two countries has been signed and is now in effect, a White House official has confirmed to the BBC.
President Donald Trump formally signed the deal - which is set to reopen the pivotal Strait of Hormuz - while attending the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains in France.
The 14-point agreement, which is known as a Memorandum of Understanding, says that Iran will never have a nuclear
BBC Nyamurongo cemetery in Bunia, a city in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that is the epicentre of the current Ebola outbreak, is much busier than usual.
"Today is the sixth time I have come to the cemetery," says Joel Lonza Makumbu as he explains how the virus has devastated his family and community.
"Yesterday I buried my father. Today I have come to say goodbye to my mother."
As he fills the
AFP via Getty Images The first time Chicago resident John Roberts saw a delivery robot trundling down the sidewalk on his street he was impressed.
"I actually thought they were kind of neat – it felt futuristic," he says.
But his attitude started to change when, soon after, he was out for a walk with his family. As another robot approached, they found themselves having to dodge it.
"To us it felt a little off -
Getty Images Daveigh Chase, the horror actress who crawled out of a telly in The Ring and who voiced Lilo in Disney's animated Lilo & Stitch, has died aged 35.
Chase, who also starred in the cable drama Big Love, died from sepsis following a bout with meningitis in a Los Angeles hospital, her longtime manager John Ryan Jr confirmed to BBC News on Wednesday.
Ryan said that Chase had been admitted to hospital for malnourishment before her death.
The former child star began acting at 4 years old
Japan must "strengthen its defence capabilities", Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has told the BBC, emphasising the need to revisit the pacifist posture that has defined the country since World War Two.
He said boosting defence, "reinforcing its alliance with the United States, and expanding collaboration with like-minded countries" was part of "building multi-layered deterrence critical for ensuring that no new war breaks out in this region".
He spoke
Getty Images The US-Iran memorandum of understanding announced on Wednesday amounts to a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and a deal to try to reach a final deal on almost everything else.
President Donald Trump framed it as a major win for the US in a lengthy press conference at the G7 summit in France.
But new details released by US officials in a call with reporters confirm both countries still have a long way to go to reach a comprehensive final peace agreement that achieves Trump's primary goal of stopping
Free Lindsay and Craig Campaign UN human rights experts have called for the release of a British couple sentenced to 10 years in an Iranian jail over spying claims.
UN special rapporteurs Dr Alice Edwards and Mai Sato said proceedings against Lindsay and Craig Foreman, from East Sussex, had been marked by grave irregularities.
The couple were detained in January 2025 while passing through the country on a round-the-world motorcycle trip. They both adamantly deny any wrongdoing
Getty Images A former Nigerian oil minister has been cleared of taking bribes from wealthy oil executives in the form of luxury home stays and lavish spending sprees in the UK.
Diezani Alison-Madueke, 65, was found not guilty after a trial at London's Southwark Crown Court of five counts of accepting bribes and a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery.
Alison-Madueke was Nigeria's oil minister between 2010 and
James Carbone/Pool via REUTERS Rex Heuermann, known as the Gilgo Beach serial killer, who admitted to brutally murdering eight women, received the maximum sentence on Wednesday.
He will serve three life sentences for first-degree murder, plus 25 years to life on four second-degree murder charges, all running consecutively.
The sentencing in New York followed a series of angry, poignant statements, as