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BBC News – business
- But the investment does not commit the government to approving the £20bn power plant in Suffolk.
- Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says a National Insurance rise to fund the NHS will go ahead.
- Economic activity jumped by 5.7% in 2021, but analysts expect growth to slow this year.
- UK's largest retailer will encourage people in England to wear masks after rules are relaxed.
- Those on Universal Credit must look for work outside their chosen field quicker or face sanctions.
- India's iconic national carrier has officially been handed over to its original founders, the Tata Group.
- Free hot drinks and other perks are on offer as train bosses try to get passenger numbers back on track.
- Some small business owners had raised concerns about enforcing mask-wearing.
- Carmakers are hit by pandemic-related chip and staff shortages, and the closure of a major plant.
- LG Energy Solution is now the second most valuable company on Seoul's benchmark Kospi stock index.
BBC News – top stories
- Washington threatens to halt a lucrative gas pipeline between Russia and Western Europe.
- Holocaust survivors and international leaders honour victims of the Nazis.
- Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says a National Insurance rise to fund the NHS will go ahead.
- NHS staff explain why they have chosen not to have a Covid vaccine as the mandatory deadline looms.
- Explore the data on coronavirus in the UK and find out how many cases there are in your area.
- England's chief medical officer was accosted by two men in a London park in June 2021.
- The Prince of Wales, who commissioned them, says they are a "permanent reminder" of the genocide.
- As rules on face masks relax in many indoor settings in England, how do town centre shoppers feel?
- Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.
- Pittsburgh Steelers' legendary quarterback Ben Roethlisberger announces his retirement.
BBC News – world
- Some 100,000 people have lost their homes in Madagascar, while parts of Malawi are disaster zones.
- A snap election has been called on Sunday after the national assembly rejected the government's 2022 draft budget.
- About 100,000 troops are positioned near Ukraine's border.
- Mystery of why tennis star’s positive test was out of sequence with other test codes from Serbia.
- Lt-Col Paul-Henri Damiba says constitutional order will return when the conditions are right.
- Pyongyang has conducted six missile tests so far this year – but why now, and what do they want?
- The actress who says she had sex with Donald Trump is a witness in a court case against her ex-lawyer.
- The Tennessee board objected to profanity, nudity and depictions of suicide in the graphic novel Maus.
- Hans Werk features in a new documentary about the last living generation of Germans in Hitler’s Third Reich.
- A Washington DC federal judge and a California Supreme Court justice are considered top contenders.
- Humanist couples are treated like "second-class citizens", MPs say, as they seek marriage reform.
- Boris Johnson says it is "rhubarb" animals were prioritised – after emails suggest he intervened.
- The foreign secretary insisted all government decisions – including travel – are "based on value for money".
- Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was speaking in Belfast after a series of meetings to discuss the protocol.
- Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says a National Insurance rise to fund the NHS will go ahead.
- Health Secretary Sajid Javid says more health workers are coming forward to get vaccinated.
- From Monday, there will be no limit on visits to care homes and self-isolation periods will be cut.
- Wes Streeting says the government needs to publish a long-term plan on 'living well' with Covid.
- But Boris Johnson says he does not know when the findings of Sue Gray's inquiry will come out.
- The senior civil servant is leading the investigation into parties at Downing Street.
BBC News – asia
- China Unicom is the latest Chinese company to be banned in the US over national security concerns.
- New funding for the Great Barrier Reef will improve water quality but not address its central threat.
- A week before the Beijing Games start, global partners are lying low.
- Mystery of why tennis star’s positive test was out of sequence with other test codes from Serbia.
- Pyongyang has conducted six missile tests so far this year – but why now, and what do they want?
- The $100m jet is fair game, in international waters. "It's the Hunt for Red October meets the Abyss."
- Scott Morrison lost control of his account, but analysts dispute claims Beijing was involved.
- India's iconic national carrier has officially been handed over to its original founders, the Tata Group.
- LG Energy Solution is now the second most valuable company on Seoul's benchmark Kospi stock index.
- Brussels says China is acting illegally in a dispute with Lithuania, one of the EU's smallest states.
BBC News – middle east
- Michael Levy wept as he recited a prayer for the dead in Germany's parliament on Holocaust Memorial Day.
- The army says the smugglers tried to cross into the kingdom under the cover of heavy snow.
- The videos showed faked murders and cake being thrown at members of the public in Tehran.
- All IS militants inside the jail have surrendered after six days of fierce fighting, the SDF says.
- Diplomatic ties resume after a 30-year row over jewels stolen by a cleaner and a string of murders.
- France says his conviction for flying a drone while on holiday in a border area is "unacceptable".
- The film, which includes a scene of an actress removing her underwear, stirs anger in Egypt.
- Anoosheh Ashoori from London hopes the strike will bring attention to those being held in Iran.
- A Saudi-led coalition denies it struck a detention centre on Friday, killing more than 70 people.
- More than 70 people have been killed by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a Yemen detention centre.
BBC News – us and canada
- The four Indian nationals were trying to cross the Canada-US border on foot.
- Juan Esteban Montoya's younger sister was among dozens lost in the migrant boat tragedy.
- The actress who says she had sex with Donald Trump is a witness in a court case against her ex-lawyer.
- The Tennessee board objected to profanity, nudity and depictions of suicide in the graphic novel Maus.
- A Washington DC federal judge and a California Supreme Court justice are considered top contenders.
- Washington threatens to halt a lucrative gas pipeline between Russia and Western Europe.
- When a US football team beat rivals with 13 seconds on the clock, their fans responded in a beautiful way.
- The $100m jet is fair game, in international waters. "It's the Hunt for Red October meets the Abyss."
- The Harvest Moon singer says airing Rogan's podcast amounts to "lies being sold for money".
- Dozens of officials were part of what has been called the worst corruption case in US navy history.
BBC News – africa
- Midfielder Pablo Ganet says Equatorial Guinea's team ethic has been crucial in their run to the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals.
- The tea pickers claim they have suffered injuries due to conditions on farms run by a Scottish firm.
- Gabon's kit man was arrested over allegations of sexual abuse immediately after the team landed back from the Africa Cup of Nations.
- Some 100,000 people have lost their homes in Madagascar, while parts of Malawi are disaster zones.
- Ivory Coast defender Eric Bailly was "very down" after his penalty was saved in their last 16 shoot-out defeat by Egypt at the Nations Cup.
- Ghana sack coach Milovan Rajevac eight days after the Black Stars crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations.
- Burkina Faso is the latest country to experience a coup in a region where democracy had seemed entrenched.
- Egypt beat Ivory Coast 5-4 on penalties to reach the quarter-finals at the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon following a 0-0 draw.
- Lt-Col Damiba took power in Burkina Faso just three weeks after his 41st birthday – what else do we know?
- Two of the remaining three Africa Cup of Nations matches due to be played at Douala's Japoma Stadium are moved to the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium.
BBC News – latin america
- Xiomara Castro has promised sweeping changes but she already faces a political crisis.
- US officials say the vessel, which capsized on Sunday, may have been part of a "smuggling venture".
- More than 170 people have already been convicted after trials criticised by activists as unfair.
- Officials say the decision poses risks to financial stability and consumer protection in the country.
- Tour de France winner Egan Bernal is in intensive care after undergoing several operations following a crash in his native Colombia.
- Five ex-paramilitary soldiers are given 30-year jail terms for raping dozens of women in the 1980s.
- Lourdes Maldonado López is the second journalist murdered in the city of Tijuana in a week.
- With nearly 100,000 disappeared people in Mexico, families have taken on the search themselves.
- A photo of a man carrying his father has highlighted the challenges of vaccinating indigenous villages.
- Lea Campos battled opponents in the Brazilian establishment to achieve her dream and blaze a trail for others to follow.
BBC News – europe
- A snap election has been called on Sunday after the national assembly rejected the government's 2022 draft budget.
- About 100,000 troops are positioned near Ukraine's border.
- Hans Werk features in a new documentary about the last living generation of Germans in Hitler’s Third Reich.
- The note, which sold for €26,000, announced Aldo Moro's abduction by communist insurgents in 1978.
- Washington threatens to halt a lucrative gas pipeline between Russia and Western Europe.
- Ukrainian authorities have mapped out Kyiv's bomb shelters, but can the BBC's Sarah Rainsford find them?
- Western diplomats are refusing to be explicit about specific penalties to keep the Kremlin guessing.
- Nato countries are trying to help Ukraine in the face of a possible Russian invasion.
- Manfred Goldberg is one of seven survivors to have their portrait put on display in Buckingham Palace.
- Brussels says China is acting illegally in a dispute with Lithuania, one of the EU's smallest states.
BBC News – magazine
- BBC correspondent Jean Mackenzie finds children as young as 10 are being groomed in Romania, to be trafficked to the UK.
- Trans woman Daniella McDonald had bad experiences dating men until she met Josh – but thinks attitudes are slowly changing.
- A telephone helpline launched in Edinburgh is keeping people company when they walk home alone.
- Chemist Cynthia Chapple talks about how to get more black girls from inner-cities into STEM careers.
- Shedding a light on the followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory one year since the US Capitol riots.
- When Gwen Strauss' great-aunt revealed she had led nine women in an escape from a Nazi death march in 1945, Gwen decided to retrace their steps.
- Is it always appropriate for relatives to interpret for deaf loved ones?
- Western social media companies face huge fines as Russia pressures them to remove content it objects to.
- Three young women discuss how lockdown affected their sex lives, as a study of sexual behaviour during lockdown is published.
- The disabled crew making space travel more inclusive for everyone.
BBC News – in pictures
- Holocaust survivors and international leaders honour victims of the Nazis.
- The exhibition features the work of care home residents and people who have been shielding.
- A list of 224 newly discovered species is published by the World Wildlife Fund conservation group.
- Relatives of an amateur photographer stumble on his "stunning" archive of images of the royals.
- Meet the aurora hunters, people fascinated by the spectacular natural phenomenon.
- With Instagrammable cafes, gyms and leisure experiences, some estates are attracting new visitors.
- A selection of powerful images from all over the globe, taken this week.
- For some technologies there are never any clouds to spoil the view.
- A selection of striking images from our readers around the world.
- A selection of powerful images from all over the globe, taken this week.
BBC News – entertainment and art
- How Barry Cryer made us laugh on the BBC over his long performing and writing career.
- The presenter opens up about living with the learning difficulty in a new BBC documentary.
- Writer and comedian Barry Cryer wrote for some of the biggest names in television throughout his long career.
- Manfred Goldberg is one of seven survivors to have their portrait put on display in Buckingham Palace.
- More than 150,000 people use British Sign Language across the UK, with around 87,000 relying on it.
- Monaco royal and accomplished show jumper Charlotte Casiraghi opened the brand's Haute Couture show.
- Mercedes Gleitze was the first British woman to swim the English Channel, but kept her accomplishments hidden from her family.
- The Beach Boys star, who turns 80 this year, tells the BBC why he decided to make a documentary.
- The World Harmony Orchestra has been providing musical comfort for those who may be lonely throughout the pandemic.
- He'd do anything for fun… Watch our highlights from Meat Loaf's many BBC appearances over the decades.
BBc news – science and environment
- Footage of what looks like untreated sewage being discharged into the River Thames in Oxfordshire.
- Fry Taylor founded the Green Salon Collective which is encouraging sustainable working practices in the hairdressing industry.
- To ensure the promises of COP26 are kept, young campaigners are putting their faith in the courts.
- Ernst Gotsch's method of agriculture increases, rather than decreases, biodiversity and wildlife.
- Misinformation about the Covid pandemic and climate change is slowing an effective collective response to these emergencies.
- Around the US, an estimated three million oil wells have been abandoned. They're more dangerous than we think.
- The telescope has been 30 years in the making and is nearly ready to launch, but what makes it so special?
- New Zealand scientists have used satellite tags to follow whales around the Southern Ocean.
- An experiment is taking place on an industrial estate just outside Didcot in the south of England.
- The James Webb Space Telescope is expected to be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble.
BBc news – technology
- WetaFX's visual effects and animation supervisors explain the challenges of making the film.
- LJ Rich looks at the best of the week's technology news stories.
- A new safety app has been developed by a team of volunteers with experience of abuse and violence.
- LJ Rich looks at the best of the week's technology news stories.
- The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has gone ahead in Las Vegas, despite the pandemic.
- Michael Cockburn, co-founder of office-working app Desana, shares his business advice.
- The founder of the once promising start-up Theranos has been found guilty of fraud. What went wrong?
- Southmead hospital in Bristol is using robots to help improve services.
- The BBC's gaming reporter Steffan Powell runs through what to look out for over the coming year.
- The Church of England has released a series of virtual reality carols
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