Oil prices hit $100 for the first time since May
Oil prices hit $100 a barrel for the first time since May as the escalating conflict in the Middle East reignited fears over global energy supplies.
Brent crude - the global benchmark for oil prices - rose more than 6% on Thursday following several days of increases as the US stepped up military strikes against Iran.
Prices spiked after Houthi militia in Yemen attacked oil tankers in the Red Sea, threatening a key export route that Saudi Arabia has used to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
Gas prices have also risen steadily
Trump's nuclear deal with Saudis jettisons longstanding US demands
Nevertheless the deal is already facing criticism in Israel and the US.
As news of the deal emerged on Wednesday, some Israeli politicians argued Saudi Arabia could become a new nuclear threat in the region. Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons, though it has not acknowledged so publicly, and it joined the US war with Iran over shared concerns about Tehran's nuclear programme.
"A civilian nuclear program in Saudi Arabia [will] lead to a mad arms race across the entire Middle East," Avigdor Lieberman,
'What was their crime?': BBC visits Iran school where strike killed 120 children
The school day had begun as usual, Amaineh says.
Because it was the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the children gathered inside the prayer hall to recite the Quran, she recalls, before she began teaching her pupils a new letter of the Persian alphabet.
But, as the first attacks of the war unfolded across Iran, she says the headteacher announced the school would be closing, and teachers began contacting parents, urging them to collect their children.
Only five of Amaineh's 15 first-grade pupils were
Even camels can't cope: Africa's ships of the desert hit by rising temperatures
Camels are famously known as the ships of the desert, but even these hardy animals are not being spared from the extremes of rising temperatures in Africa.
The Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia is one of the hottest and driest places on Earth, where nomads often lead camel caravans carrying salt through the desert.
"I can see my camels suffering from extreme heat," Ali Umer, a camel herder from Semera in Afar, told the BBC.
"They get blisters on their feet, their eyes become watery and
A year after deadly jet crash at Bangladesh school, families demand answers
On 21 July 2025, a training aircraft took off from a Bangladesh Air Force Base in Dhaka at around 13:00 local time (07:00 GMT) and crashed soon after in the Uttara neighbourhood.
Images from the scene hours after the crash showed scores of emergency service workers sorting through charred rubble in an attempt to find survivors.
Authorities announced that an investigation commission had been formed to investigate the crash, but in the days that followed, hundreds of student protesters took to
Mamdani backs off pledge to arrest Netanyahu citing lack of authority
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who previously pledged to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the city, now says he does not have the "authority" to do so.
In a video posted on social media, Mamdani instead called on US officials to act on the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for the Israeli Prime Minister over alleged war crimes.
Technically, if Netanyahu set foot in an ICC member state, he could be arrested and handed over to the court - but the US is not a member of
Two Russians handed down jail terms for terrorism and spying in Angola
Two Angolans, sports journalist Amor Carlos Tomé and political activist Francisco Oliveira, were also on trial on similar charges for their alleged part in the Russian-linked influence operation, which they both denied.
Tomé received a two-year suspended sentence and Oliveira was acquitted.
Prosecutors appealed immediately after the judgement, which was read out after 23:00 local time on Tuesday.
Tomé is expected to remain in custody pending the outcome of the appeal.
The BBC has contacted the Russian embassy in Angola for
French police formally investigate woman over 2025 killing of Briton
A woman has been placed under formal investigation over the death last year in France of a British-South African mother-of-four.
Karen Carter, 65, was found lying near her car with stab wounds by a friend in Trémolat, the Dordogne village where she had lived for over a decade and managed two holiday rental homes.
Prosecutors say the 70-year-old woman was originally taken into custody in 2025 as part of preliminary inquiries before being released.
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Wreckage of Pan Am plane that shaped aviation safety found 74 years on
The wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane has been found 74 years after it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in a crash that prompted mandatory airline safety briefings.
The Clipper Endeavor was found 2,000ft (610m) below sea level off the coast of Puerto Rico with a sonar-equipped drone. It went down on 11 April 1952 following multiple-engine failure shortly after take-off.
Everyone onboard survived the impact - but passengers struggled to locate life vests and
Who is Mykhailo Drapatyi, Ukraine's new commander-in-chief?
Maj Gen Mykhailo Drapatyi, 43, has replaced Oleksandr Syrskyi as Ukraine's commander-in-chief - the third since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.
His nomination has been welcomed by both civil society and the military. Drapatyi's name was chanted during protests that started off backing his friend, ex-defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, but ended up demanding Syrskyi's dismissal.
"There's no better person for this position nowadays in Ukraine,"