Blocked drains in the UK are costing over £100 million a year with the vast majority being blamed on wet wipes. It is not however just wet wipes that are causing the problem, with people…
Strangers fund mums Nasa internship
Image copyright India Jackson When India Jackson was offered a truly out-of-this-world internship at space agency Nasa she was delighted. There was just one problem: India would have to fund her and her daughter's travel…
Keyhole surgery repairs baby spine in womb
Image copyright King's College Hospital In a UK first, doctors have used keyhole surgery to repair the spine of a baby with spina bifida while it was still inside the womb. Surgeons at King's College…
Boeing completes 737 Max software upgrade
Image copyright Getty Images Boeing has completed development of a software update for its 737 Max plane which was grounded following two fatal crashes within five months. The US firm announced that it had flown…
Facebook bans fake accounts targeting Africa
Image copyright Getty Images Facebook has removed hundreds of social media accounts and banned an Israeli firm due to "co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour" mainly targeting Africa. The fake accounts often posted on political news, including on…
The rapes haunting a place that shuns the…
Image caption Mennonite women in Colonia Oriente, Bolivia In Manitoba, an insular Mennonite colony in Bolivia whose residents eschew modernity, nine men were rounded up in 2009. Later, they were convicted of the rape and…
Niger soldiers ambushed and killed
Militants have killed 17 Nigerien soldiers in an ambush near the border with Mali, Niger government spokesman has told the BBC. Eleven soldiers are missing after the attack near the western village of Tongo Tongo,…
Dictators daughter barred from presidency
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Zury Ríos is the daughter of Efraín Ríos Montt, who seized power in a coup in 1982 The constitutional court of Guatemala has barred Zury Ríos, the daughter of…
Deadly seaplane collision in Alaska
Image copyright AFP Image caption Both planes were carrying tourists from the Royal Princess cruise ship - seen here in California last month Two seaplanes carrying tourists from the same cruise ship have collided in…