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The day’s top stories from BBC News. Delivered twice a day on weekdays, daily at weekends.

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    Hundreds feared 'buried alive' under Papua New Guinea landslide

    Hundreds feared 'buried alive' under Papua New Guinea landslide

    Officials say an entire village in a mountainous area of the north of the country was obliterated in the early hours of Friday morning. Rescuers are reported to be at risk because the land is still moving. Also: Palestinian health officials say Israel has carried out a deadly airstrike on an area for displaced people in southern Gaza and rehabilitating the humble pigeon - which has apparently been unfairly maligned in recent years.

    • 28 min
    Fatalities in Kharkiv following Russian strike on superstore

    Fatalities in Kharkiv following Russian strike on superstore

    President Zelensky denounced the deadly airstrike on the crowded DIY superstore as an act of Russian madness. Also: massive fire at games arcade in India, and the Disney composer Richard Sherman dies aged 95.

    • 32 min
    The Happy Pod: The opera singing rescue dog

    The Happy Pod: The opera singing rescue dog

    How an injured greyhound found her voice, accompanying her adopted human 'big sister' while she plays the piano. Georgia, who now has a huge social media following, has a particular talent for opera.
    Also: The man who nearly became America's first black astronaut finally makes it into space -- the oldest person ever to do so. Meanwhile the spaceships of the future, imagined by children from around the world, have been flying over New York. We meet the man who spent twelve years fighting to save a forest from mining - and won. And, after seagull boy and lion girl, goat woman.
    Our weekly collection of happy news and positive stories from around the world.

    • 27 min
    Top UN court orders Israel to stop Rafah offensive

    Top UN court orders Israel to stop Rafah offensive

    In a dramatic move, the International Court of Justice supported a South African request that Israel should halt its operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Also: US missionaries killed in Haiti gang violence, and Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock dies aged 53.

    • 31 min
    Three more Israeli hostages' bodies found in Gaza

    Three more Israeli hostages' bodies found in Gaza

    The IDF said the men's bodies were recovered from the northern town of Jabalia overnight in a joint operation with Israel's domestic intelligence agency. Also: emergency teams in Papua New Guinea search for people trapped after a massive landslide, and a gymnast from Uzbekistan has missed her chance to compete at her ninth consecutive Olympics.

    • 30 min
    US sues to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster 'monopoly'

    US sues to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster 'monopoly'

    Live Nation - which promotes concerts, owns venues and sells tickets through its Ticketmaster platform - currently controls around eighty percent of major entertainment ticket sales in the US. Also: the French president speaks of an "unprecedented insurrection movement" in New Caledonia, and do you get frustrated when your name is auto-corrected online?

    • 34 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
404 Ratings

404 Ratings

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Happy pod not happy

I rely on this news source a lot despite the obvious-inobviousness of naming certain forms of discrimination like anti-queer hate. Still appreciate the good work of fact checking and being on spots where things happen.

But the new addition, the “happy pod”, makes me more frustrated than happy because most topics there are on a very different level to the usual political news. It would be great to hear mostly political “happy news” on this news source. This way it feels even more like “there are no real happy news on a global/political scale so we just scrap together whatever individually sentimental stories we find”.

AlxzF ,

Why the ads within the podcast?!?

Loved the quality of information to date - but the recent addition of ads within the podcast is super annoying. Ads at the start and end of the show weren’t enough?

Samuel056,1 ,

Great international coverage

Amazing Podcast with much better international coverage than typical German media. Lokal Correspondence about everywhere.

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