Watch: Three things to know about SpaceX's stock market debut

The BBC's Samira Hussain explains everything you need to know about SpaceX's historic IPO.

'I was employee number one': SpaceX co-founder reacts to firm's market debut

The BBC's Michelle Fleury spoke to Tom Mueller, who was one of the company's founders alongside Elon Musk in 2002.

Trump claims deal to end Iran war near as Tehran says 'nothing' finalised

Watch: Flip flop or deliberate? The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue explains Trump’s strategy with Iran

US President Donald Trump claimed an agreement to end the war with Iran was close on Thursday, hours after cancelling a third consecutive night of strikes.

Trump had declared the US would strike Iran "very hard", but hours later said his negotiators had "just made a great settlement" with Iran.

He told reporters it was "subject to finalisation of documents, which should get done, over the next

EPA US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office.
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What do Puerto Ricans think of the viral song about their homeland?

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Puerto Rican podcaster Debbie Perez says the viral song opens the door for cultural conversations

"First time in San Juan, mi hijo. Capital of Puerto Rico…"

A big corner of the internet has been singing and dancing to those lyrics over the last few weeks, with the red, white and blue of Puerto's flag emoji proudly sprinkled all over captions.

Since the original post, the song has had more than million views on TikTok, and celebrities including Mila Kunis, Charlie Puth and Jennifer Love Hewitt have

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Ex-UK political aide Steve Hilton pledges 'common sense' overhaul if elected California governor

Getty Images California Republican Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton speaks to the media at his primary night event on 2 June 2026 in Huntington Beach, California. Getty Images

Steve Hilton, the former senior adviser to David Cameron, has told the BBC his bid to be California's next governor is a campaign to "save" the state from what he describes as overbearing bureaucracy and economic decline.

In his first UK interview since advancing this week to November's election, he said his candidacy was rooted in what he called the state's "rebel spirit".

Hilton, who moved to California in 2012, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme


'They destroyed the future': Palestinian anger at rise in Israeli demolitions in East Jerusalem

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The Awad family home in East Jerusalem is one of the properties being demolished

There is the loud din of a demolition below Jerusalem's walled Old City, and from a hillside I watch a large Israeli excavator tearing into a Palestinian house.

Some 59 properties have now been destroyed in the al-Bustan area of the Silwan neighbourhood since late 2023. With world attention diverted by the war in Gaza and now in Iran and Lebanon, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of Palestinians being

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The World Cup of adverts: How brands are competing to entertain, not simply sell

Nike/Palace/England/Adidas/Irn-Bru Wayne Rooney as William Shakespeare, Kim Kardashian and her son, Timothee Chalamet and Susan Boyle - in a four-way split picture. All images taken from prominent recent World Cup adjacent adverts Nike/Palace/England/Adidas/Irn-Bru
Clockwise from top left: Wayne Rooney, Kim Kardashian and son Saint West, Susan Boyle and Timothée Chalamet have all featured in adverts in advance of the World Cup

Almost six minutes into Nike's frenzied recent football-themed advert, Norwegian superstar striker Erling Haaland finally leaps into life.

Having hitherto sat around the film set waiting patiently with his supposed stunt double, US actor Channing Tatum, the Manchester City forward appears as if from nowhere in slow motion

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US Supreme Court denies Alabama's request to carry out nitrogen gas execution

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The US Supreme Court has denied an appeal by the state of Alabama to execute death row prisoner Jeffery Lee using nitrogen gas.

Two lower courts had earlier blocked the use of nitrogen gas in executions, finding the method likely violates the US Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Alabama then appealed that ruling.

The brief, unsigned order on the Supreme Court's emergency docket did not provide an explanation, but Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented, indicating that they would have granted the


Do not use my music, Ariana Grande tells White House

Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV Ariana Grande looks over her shoulder on the red carpet of the MTV awards. She wears her long auburn hair in a high pony tail. Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV
Grande described the White House's video featuring one of her songs as "heinous nonsense".

US pop star Ariana Grande has asked the White House not to use her music, after it did so in a social media video promoting its immigration policies.

The TikTok reel shared on Monday depicts border agents placing people in handcuffs, with Grande's 2024 hit Bye as a soundtrack. It is captioned: "Bye-bye... President Trump has delivered the


Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha dies after more than three years in coma

Watch: Thailand’s royal household announces the death of Princess Bajrakitiyabha

Thailand's Princess Bajrakitiyabha, who has been in a coma for more than three years, has died, the royal household has announced. She was 47.

She collapsed in December 2022 while exercising her dogs. Her doctors attributed it to a severely irregular heartbeat, caused by a mycoplasma infection in her heart.

With her death, the Thai royal family has lost its most visibly accomplished member, and someone who might have played a

Reuters Thailand's Princess Bajrakitiyabha greets her royalists as she leaves a religious ceremony to commemorate the death of King Chulalongkorn, known as King Rama V, at The Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand, October 23, 2020.
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