Left-wing Democrats are on a winning run - but can they lure back crucial swing voters?

On a Saturday evening in Michigan, the skies still hazy from drifting Canadian wildfire smoke, hundreds of voters packed into Detroit's opulent 104-year-old Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez took the stage.

As two of the leading figures on the American left, Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders were there to champion Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed - a doctor running on a platform of universal healthcare.

His supporters carried signs with


The notorious Cameroonian prison with its own record label

New Bell - a notorious prison in Douala, Cameroon - is a city within a city.

The facility has its own "taxis" (inmates who whizz through congested courtyards on foot to hand deliver messages), its own law enforcement (burly prisoners who help stretched guards police the facility) and market (a string of stalls where convicts sell and buy goodies, like fried cassava and beignet pastries).

Basically, the occupants of New Bell have adapted the jail's slack laws to work for them. The clearest


Would you pay $58.5m to live in this iconic New York building?

When New York design firm Studio Sofield was hired to reimagine the building's interior, it had to address the problem of the building's previous life as an office space, co-founder William Sofield said.

Another big hurdle came with the building's shape. How do you subdivide a triangle – just 1.8m (6ft) across at its narrowest point - into luxury apartments worthy of a multimillion-dollar price tag?

But the triangle itself – along with its history, architectural ingenuity,


What Love Island tells us about the changing face of dating

On the fourth series of Love Island UK in 2018, Megan Barton-Hanson pulled fellow Islander, Wes Nelson, for a chat.

Just moments earlier, she had ended her relationship with Eyal Booker after admitting the pair had little more than physical chemistry. Now, sitting opposite Wes, who had been coupled up with Laura Anderson since the start of the competition, she decided not to wait for him to make the first move.

"I think it's pretty obvious that I do really fancy you


Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein - how Italian children became so overweight

Obesity is an "escalating global epidemic", says the WHO. More than one billion people worldwide are now obese, and childhood obesity has quadrupled since 1990.

In 2025, Italy became the first country to pass a national law recognising obesity as a chronic, progressive and relapsing disease.

Rather than treating obesity simply as the result of poor choices, the country's new law recognises it as a chronic disease influenced by biology, environment and social circumstances.

The Campania region has become a


Smash hit: How Alex Eala's Wimbledon run made everyday Filipinos fall in love with tennis

Chasing her dream of becoming a world tennis champion, teen athlete Maristella Torrecampo and her father took a gruelling 13-hour bus from her sleepy hillside hometown for her latest match in Manila.

The 14-year-old's mum and four siblings could not join to watch her play; her crowdfunded budget was only enough for two round-trip bus tickets and a few days' worth of meals.

Barely rested from the long journey, and with only her father cheering her on, Torrecampo crushed her Omani


Several injured at Berlin Pride after reports vehicle drove into crowd, police say

Several people have been injured at a Berlin Pride event, police say, after reports that a vehicle drove into a crowd in the city centre.

An intensive manhunt is currently under way, police say, as they urged people to avoid the area.

The injured are being treated by emergency services near Tiergarten park, where the incident took place, police added.

The annual pride event, Christopher Street Day, has been cancelled.

"We believe that a vehicle entered the Tiergarten park and hit several people and injured them,


India's 'cockroach' protest called off after education minister quits

About 300 people were taken to hospital. Police said at least half of the injured were security personnel and also arrested about 70 protesters - most of them have since been released on bail.

After ignoring the protesters for nearly five weeks, Modi finally broke his silence on Thursday to say they had "decided to set up fast-track courts to ensure swift and stringent punishment for those involved in paper leaks".

And later that night, Modi posted a video message saying that a tough new law on examination


More than 250,000 flee wildfires in France and Spain

Firefighters are struggling to contain wildfires in south-west France as strong winds push flames towards the city of Bordeaux, with one official saying they "are far from having the fire under control."

More than 250,000 people in France and Spain have fled fires which have been raging for days, as winds and high temperatures hamper efforts to contain them. Overnight, seven towns west of Bordeaux were told to evacuate residents.

In Spain, where a state of emergency has been declared, a change


Protesters celebrate resignation of India's education minister

Protesters in India are celebrating after the resignation of the country's education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan.

Tens of thousands of young people had been demonstrating in Delhi, demanding Pradhan resign after exam paper leaks and testing irregularities.

Now Pradhan has resigned, the protests organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) have been called off.

CJP is a national movement born out of a satirical campaign, rather than an actual party, and has faced heavy police crackdowns.

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