Georgina Rannard Science reporter
University of Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, surprising archaeologists who made the discovery.
The researchers discerned patterns of meaning in lines, notches, dots, and crosses on objects like mammoth tusks as old as 45,000 years in caves in Germany.
Traditionally historians date the first written
Behrang Tajdin , Economics correspondent, BBC Persian and
Ghoncheh Habibiazad , Senior reporter, BBC Persian
EPA "We used to eat out twice a month," says Marjan, who lives in Iran's second largest city, Isfahan. "Now we just can't. We have to save that money to pay the rent."
For the last six years, she had been selling wooden crafts and keyrings through a
Chris Ewokor BBC Africa, Abuja
Getty Images An inquest into the death of Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 21-month-old son will formally begin on 14 April.
The date was set during a preliminary hearing at the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos, roughly seven weeks after Nkanu Nnamdi Esege died at a Euracare hospital.
Adiche and her family have accused Euracare of negligence, saying medics denied Nkanu oxygen and gave him too
Joel Gunter Reporting from the occupied West Bank
BBC This story contains details and video that some readers may find distressing.
Last November, a 14-year-old Palestinian boy named Jad Jadallah was shot at close range by Israeli soldiers in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
As Jad lay collapsed in an alley, the soldiers created
Gavin Butler and
Jake Kwon , Seoul Correspondent
AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS Kim Jong Un has declared his intent to expand North Korea's nuclear arsenal and operational range - calling on the United States to respect his country's nuclear power, in a rare message to Washington.
The United States and North Korea could "get along", Kim added, but only if the US accepts that North Korea's nuclear
Getty Australia's prime minister has apologised for calling a former Australian of the Year and sexual abuse survivor "difficult", saying it was only in reference to the hardships she has faced.
During a one-word response game, Anthony Albanese used the adjective to describe Grace Tame, who was named the 2021 Australian of the Year for her advocacy for child sexual abuse survivors.
Tame, 31, said
Getty Images Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says he has stationed soldiers at key energy facilities across the country after he blamed Ukraine for disrupting energy supplies.
Orbán has accused Kyiv of imposing an "oil blockade" on Hungary by deliberately delaying the reopening of the Druzhba pipeline, the main route for delivering Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia.
Shipments of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia through the pipeline have been cut off since January 27, with Kyiv saying it was closed after Russian strikes. Orbán
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Danny Vincent , Hong Kong
Getty Images Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's pro-democracy media tycoon, has won an appeal against a fraud conviction in 2022, which had seen him sentenced to nearly six years in jail.
On Thursday, Hong Kong's Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of Lai and another defendant who had been accused of illegally subletting office space.
But the 78
AFP via Getty Images Indonesia has deported a US man who spent 11 years in jail for the high-profile "suitcase murder" of his girlfriend's mother on the resort island of Bali.
In 2014, Tommy Schaefer was on holiday in Bali with his then-girlfriend Heather Mack and her mother Sheila von Wiese-Mack. The couple conspired to kill Wiese-Mack, reportedly to gain
Soutik Biswas India correspondent, in Dhaka
Anadolu via Getty Images "I can't breathe any more. There's too much smoke. I'm inside. You are killing me."
Zyma Islam typed that on Facebook well past midnight on 18 December. She was not reporting from a battlefield.
She was trapped on the roof of her own newsroom in Dhaka, one of 28 journalists and staff cornered by a