Ayshah Tull , News Correspondent

For the first time the Eurovision Song Contest has been won by a non-binary artist. Swiss singer Nemo’s opera-hip hop hybrid about coming to terms with their identity proved a hit with the juries and the public. Croatia and Ukraine were second and third. #It was a highly-charged night in the Swedish city of Malmo…

As Russian forces advance on a city just beyond the Ukrainian border, a security analyst believes this is now the most prominent objective at this stage of the war. Fighting is ramping up in the Kharkiv region, where Russia has launched a major assault and Moscow said it had seized nine villages in the past…

If you stepped outside late last night you may have witnessed a rare and spectacular display. Auroras – bands of pink and green light across the night sky – which are normally only seen close to the poles. But because of an extreme solar storm, last night the Northern Lights were spotted right through the…

Israel’s new orders for more residents of Rafah to leave are being viewed with concern, not only by Palestinians being asked to uproot yet again, but also by observers who see the demand as a precursor to a potential ground invasion. The Americans have been warning Israel against an invasion of Rafah for weeks now,…

Mosab Nasser runs an American medical charity working in Gaza. Two weeks ago he arrived in Rafah with 17 medical staff, working at the European Hospital. Today he’s overseen their evacuation from the safe house they’ve been using, which is in one of the areas the Israeli military has ordered people to leave. We spoke…

At least 83 people are dead after days of heavy rain in southern Brazil and more than a hundred are missing. 

From jazz to jungle, Black British music has topped the charts and inspired generations. Now a new exhibition charts its history and the places it was born, from the kerbsides, clubs, and carnivals. But it also goes way back before the 20th century – charting hundreds of years of Black musical history. I went down…

We spoke to Matthew Hollingworth, the country director for Palestine for the World Food Programme, who is in Gaza, and began by asking about the potential Rafah operation, and what impact that could have on the people there.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he believes Israel will go into Rafah in the next few days. He told a conference in Saudi Arabia, an Israeli assault on Gaza’s southernmost city could force much of the population to flee the territory, and the only country that can stop it is the US.

There was chaos in central London this morning when a group of military horses bolted after being spooked by a loud noise. One horse was shockingly drenched in blood from a collision.

Newsreader Huw Edwards has resigned from the BBC. He has not been seen on screen since last summer when allegations emerged that he had paid a person for sexually explicit photographs. Edwards had long been a fixture in the corporation’s coverage of major political and royal events.

Russia has reacted with fury and has warned more in Ukraine will die after the US House of Representatives passed a military aid package worth more than $60 billion.

Imagine going on a family holiday and being told you have no right to return to the only place you have ever called home. That’s what happened to 70-year-old Richard Black, who went to Trinidad from the UK 40 years ago to visit his in-laws. He’s thought to be one of the earliest victims of…

Cowboys are among the most iconic figures of America’s old west. What’s less well known is that, in their heyday, an estimated one in four of them were Black.

Tom Wheatley is the President of the Prison Governors Association.