Katy Watson , Australia correspondent and
Simon Atkinson , Reporting from the Gold Coast
Getty Images The first hint something was up, was when we spotted a small group of Iranian footballers in the hotel lobby.
We counted at least three players, wearing black headscarves and dressed in the team's grey shirts, chatting with four people we suspected at the time - and now know - were Iranians from the local community here on Australia's Gold Coast.
Getty Images Australian designer Katie Perry has won her High Court appeal against pop megastar Katy Perry in a years-long trademark case.
In a decision on Wednesday, High Court judges found that Katie Perry had not hurt the US singer's reputation or caused confusion with her clothing brand, which started in 2007.
Katie Perry, who changed her surname to Taylor
AFP via Getty Images Passenger trains between China and North Korea will resume service on Thursday, reviving a transport link that was shuttered for six years due to the pandemic, China's rail operator said.
Trains between Beijing and Pyongyang will operate four times a week, while the service between the Chinese border city of Dandong and the North Korean capital will run daily, China Railway said in a notice late Tuesday.
The
DUTCH/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images A 35-year-old woman from Orlando, Florida has been charged with attempted murder following a shooting at the home of pop superstar Rihanna, prosecutors said.
Ivanna Lisette Ortiz is accused of firing a semiautomatic rifle at the singer's Los Angeles mansion at 13:15 local time (21:15 GMT) on Sunday.
No one was injured in the shooting. Ortiz is being held on bail set at $1.875m
Kayla Epstein Rome, Georgia
The special election to replace former Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is projected to head to a runoff after none of the candidates secured a majority of the votes on Tuesday night.
Republican Clay Fuller, who received President Donald Trump's endorsement, is projected to face Democrat Shawn Harris to represent Georgia's 14th congressional district, according to a projection by the BBC's US partner CBS.
The two candidates beat out
EPA The Duchess of Sussex will headline a women-only weekend retreat in Sydney, Australia in April this year, with tickets starting at A$2,699 ($1,900; £1,400) per person.
The three-day event will be during Meghan and the Duke of Sussex's visit
Chi Chi Izundu ,
Olivia Davies and
Will Dahlgreen , BBC News Investigations
BBC When the FBI raided Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion in July 2019, on the day he was arrested for child sex trafficking, agents forced open a large safe to find diamonds, bundles of cash, passports, binders of CDs and hard drives.
But an issue with the warrant meant they could not leave with the items
Chris Vallance Senior technology reporter
Getty Images A Philippines-based woman has described how "heartbreaking" it is to get less than $2 per hour pretending to be a much better paid OnlyFans models in online chats.
The platform works by linking creators of explicit content to users, who pay a subscription to access their material and chat online.
However, while high-profile creators can earn large sums of money, the job of interacting with fans - and attempting to sell them images and videos - is often done by low
Rob Flett BBC Scotland News, Kirkwall
BBC Cathleen Hourie has long coveted an Austin 3-Litre - a classic car that she was introduced to by her first boyfriend.
When she spotted a 1970 model for sale online last summer, she was disappointed to learn that it was part of a collection in New Zealand.
But distance was no barrier to seller Hans Compter, who travelled half way round the world to personally deliver the vehicle to Cathleen in
Bethany Bell Germany reporter
Getty Images Much of the centre of the German city of Dresden will be evacuated on Wednesday, after the discovery of a large unexploded British World War Two flying bomb.
The 250kg (551lb) device was discovered near the former Carola Bridge, which collapsed in the Elbe River in 2024.
The fire brigade in Dresden says this is