The stories driving the news cycle this week. A rolling selection of the most-read pieces across business, politics, technology and culture.
Getty Images Kosovo's government has postponed the implementation of new rules that would force people in majority ethnic Serb areas to swap their Serbian-issued car number plates for Kosovan-issued ones. The rules were due to come into force at midn...
FAOConservationist, Leonidas Nzigiyimpa says "you can't manage what you don't know".He adds: "In order to improve the situation of forests, we need to use new technology."Mr Nzigiyimpa is the chief warden of five protected forestry areas in the small...
Getty Images Chinese rocket debris has crashed to Earth over the Indian and Pacific oceans, US and Chinese officials say. China's space agency said most remains of the Long March 5 burnt in the atmosphere, identifying the Sulu Sea in the Pacific as t...
At least 16 people have died due to historic flash flooding caused by torrential rains in eastern Kentucky, the US state's governor has said. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said that he expects the death toll to continue to rise. President Biden decl...
Getty Images Single-use plastic bag use in England has fallen by 20% after a 10p charge was brought in last year, the government has said. The price was increased from the 5p charge introduced in 2015. The average person now buys around three single-...
Getty Images Debris from a Chinese rocket is expected to crash to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry this weekend. The probability of it landing in any populated area is extremely low. But it has raised questions about how different countries take res...
Shaun Whitmore/BBC The period between January and June this year was the driest in England since 1976, according to the Met Office. Those dry conditions, which came to a head with last week's heatwave, are causing serious problems for farmers, with s...
PA Media The record temperatures in the UK last week would have been "almost impossible" without human-induced climate change, leading scientists have concluded. The UK recorded temperatures above 40C for the first time on 19 July. Without human-caus...
Getty Images The spread of cold sores could be traced back to kissing in the Bronze Age, a study found. Scientists at the University of Cambridge said the HSV-1 strain of the herpes virus arose during vast migrations of people from Eurasia to Europe ...
Getty Images Sea levels are rising much faster than a century ago, reveals the Met Office's annual look at the UK's climate and weather. The State of the Climate report also says that higher temperatures are the new normal for Britain. Conservationis...
Reuters Hundreds of protesters have breached a high-security zone in Baghdad and broken into Iraq's parliament building. The supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr oppose the nomination of a rival candidate for prime minister. Mr Sadr's political allia...
PA Media British scientist James Lovelock, who devoted his life to the global green movement, has died on his 103rd birthday, his family has said. His 1960s Gaia theory Earth, from rocks to air, was one huge interconnected and self-regulating system ...
Reuters Scientists say there is "compelling evidence" that Wuhan's Huanan seafood and wildlife market was at the centre of the Covid-19 outbreak. Two peer-reviewed studies published on Tuesday re-examine information from the initial outbreak in the C...
Posters warning people at Scottish beaches not to feed seagulls as "bird poo contributes to water pollution" have been challenged by ornithology experts. The signs are part of Keep Scotland Beautiful's My Beach Your Beach campaign. It said it targete...
Vast amounts of planet-heating carbon dioxide are created during the manufacture of many key materials that support our lives - from paper to plastic. Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin has been exploring new low-carbon technologies which could h...
AFP Ukraine has said the first vessels with grain could leave its Black Sea ports "within days" under a landmark UN-brokered deal signed on Friday. "If the sides guarantee security, the agreement will work. If they do not, it will not work," Infrastr...
A European Union Central Bank has raised interest rates for the first time in 11 years as they work to control soaring inflation. The ECB is continuing their plans to raise interest rates this year, increasing the rate by 0.5 percentage points to 0.0...
A deal has been reached in order to resume exports of grain from Ukraine through the Black Sea. This ceasefire is being signed by Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday in Istanbul. There is a Ukraine grain short...
Security forces in Sri Lanka have raided the main anti-government protest camp in the capital Colombo and have begun pulling down tents. Hundreds of troops and police commandos moved on the protesters outside the presidential offices, hours before th...
EPA There is no intelligence that Vladimir Putin is unstable or in bad health, the director of the CIA has said. There has been increasing unconfirmed media speculation that Mr Putin, who turns 70 this year, may be suffering from ill health, possibly...
Alamy Russia has resumed pumping gas to Europe through its biggest pipeline after warnings it could curb or halt supplies altogether. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline restarted following a 10-day maintenance break but at a reduced level. On Wednesday, the ...
A year-and-a-half after he was appointed as Italy's unelected head of a unity government, Mario Draghi has resigned as prime minister. He told President Sergio Mattarella he was standing down after three parties in his government refused to back him ...
A man who posed as a gold bullion courier to dupe an elderly North Yorkshire couple out of £450,000 has been jailed for eight years. Keith Lillywhite, from Richmond, said he was delivering the precious metal from Dubai to the UK when he called at the...
Women, particularly mothers, are the largest rising group of people diagnosed with ADHD. Male ADHD overshadows female ADHD; we know that boys are three times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with ADHD. Nevertheless, women with ADHD do exist, an...
