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Could new tech help mountain biking become part of the Paralympics?BBC Click looks at the latest innovations in the sport.Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUogFor more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #MountainBiking #Paralympics #BBCNewsPor BBC News

How much does your swimming costume affect your performance?BBC Click looks at the latest technology in elite-level swimsuits.Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUogFor more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #Swimming #BBCNewsPor BBC News

Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the BBC’s Katty Kay sits down with some of the most legendary athletes from previous Olympic games for in-depth conversations about their lives, sports, and what it takes to succeed at the highest level.This week, Katty visits Miami to sit down with Lindsey Vonn – one of the most decorated skiers in histo…

France is voting in a parliamentary election that could make history, with the far right closer to power than it has ever been in modern times. The National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella is well ahead in the polls - three weeks to the day since they won European elections. President Emmanuel Macron reacted immediately by calling a…

A new search is under way in Tenerife for missing British teenager Jay Slater following calls from Spanish police for volunteer help.On Friday the Guardia Civil asked voluntary organisations and members of the public with expertise in difficult conditions to come to northern Tenerife.Dozens of experienced local firefighters, police and mountain ran…

Why create augmented reality athletes?BBC Click chats to Olympic gold medallist Max Whitlock about the tech.Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUogFor more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #AugmentedReality #BBCNewsPor BBC News

Iran will hold a run-off election after no candidate won a majority in the first round of the presidential vote. It came down to a tight race between hardline candidate Saeed Jalili and reformist Massoud Pezeshkian.Candidates need to win 50% of the vote but the pair both hovered around the 40% mark - each overtaking the other over several hours.Ira…

US President Joe Biden has hit back at criticism over his age, telling supporters he will win re-election in November after a poor debate performance fuelled concern about his candidacy."I know I'm not a young man, to state the obvious," he told a rally in the battleground state of North Carolina on Friday, one day after he struggled in the televis…

How can AI be used for Olympic training and judging?BBC Click looks at the latest AI technology being used in sport.Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUogFor more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #AI #Olympics #BBCNewsPor BBC News

More UK political party leaders faced challenging audience questions in an additional BBC Question Time Leaders' Special. Reform UK's Nigel Farage was challenged over campaigner's racist comments while Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay was asked about transport infrastructure, immigration and comments made by some of his party's candidates. Subsc…

President Biden has directly addressed the storm of criticism he’s faced of his stumbling performance in a TV debate with rival presidential candidate Donald Trump.Mr Biden told supporters “When you get knocked down you get back up”. Mr Biden acknowledged that he is indeed old, but said he can still beat the former president in the November US elec…

Join Radio 4 presenter Justin Webb, North America Editor Sarah Smith and North America Correspondent Anthony Zurcher for their podcast with insights from across the US. On Thursday Joe Biden and Donald Trump faced off in their first presidential debate. The testy showdown was noteworthy for Biden’s stumbles while Trump avoided key questions. The Am…

Joe Biden and Donald Trump have clashed over the war in Ukraine, during the first televised debate of the 2024 US presidential election campaign. Trump claimed that Russia and Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine because he saw how incompetent Biden's team was in their exit from the war in Afghanistan. Biden defended his foreign policy record, and claime…

Iranians are voting for a new president after the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash earlier this year. The next presidential election was not due to take place until 2025, but the crash in May, which killed eight people, has led to the snap election being called. Elections in the Islamic Republic are tightly-controlled affairs - the cand…

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump squared off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. The two candidates were asked questions about the economy, abortion, the Middle East, the Jan. 6 attack, Trump's criminal conviction and more. The BBC’s Gary O'Donoghue offered his analysis of the 90-minute debate.Subscribe…

US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump hit out at one another in a testy televised debate - the first of the 2024 US election. The two rivals accused one another of lying as they answered wide-ranging questions on issues including foreign policy, the economy and abortion.This is the second time Biden, a Democrat, and Trump, a Repu…

As is the case with most other software, artificial intelligence (AI) is vulnerable to hacking.A hacker, who is part of an international effort to draw attention to the shortcomings of the biggest tech companies, is stress-testing, or “jailbreaking,” the language models at Microsoft, ChatGPT and Google, according to a recent report from the Financi…

A BBC investigation has tracked down a people smuggler who organised a small boat crossing to the UK in which a seven-year-old girl died. Five people died in a crush onboard an overcrowded small boat as it crossed the English Channel, including the girl, named Sara. Smugglers had packed over 100 people on to the inflatable vessel. As of 26 June, 13…

Kenya’s President William Ruto has called for an “open dialogue” with young people, after at least 22 people will killed in deadly protests over a proposed finance bill. The bill – which contained controversial tax hikes – will be withdrawn, after protests saw parliament set on fire on Tuesday. In an address to the nation, Ruto said he would now en…

Bolivian police have arrested the leader of an attempted coup, hours after the presidential palace in the capital La Paz was stormed by soldiers.Armoured vehicles and troops had taken up position on Murillo Square where key government buildings are located. They all later withdrew.The rebel military leader in charge, Gen Juan José Zúñiga, had said …

US President Joe Biden has pardoned thousands of veterans who were convicted of crimes under a military law that banned gay sex for more than 60 years. The veterans were convicted under a provision of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which criminalised sodomy from 1951 to 2013. The US Congress had repealed the portion of the code that outlawed…

The leaders of the UK's Conservative and Labour parties faced each other in the final television debate, ahead of the general election on 4 July. Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer clashed repeatedly on their plans for tax and immigration, while facing audience questions. They were challenged about integrity in politics in one of the last major set-p…

Kenya’s President William Ruto says he will withdraw a finance bill containing controversial tax hikes after deadly protests which saw parliament set ablaze on Tuesday.In an address to the nation, he said it was clear that Kenyans "want nothing" to do with the bill."I concede," he said, adding that he will not sign the bill into law.At least 22 peo…

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has landed in Australia, after walking free from a US court.Assange was pursued by US prosecutors for publishing secret military information, and feared a long sentence in a high-security US prison.But, last week, he signed a deal with the US that would see him plead guilty to one charge, instead of the 18 he was or…

For nearly fifteen months, Evan Gershkovich has been locked away in a Moscow jail.The US journalist went on trial on Tuesday, in Yekaterinburg - the Russian city where he was arrested on espionage charges while on a reporting trip for the Wall Street Journal.Prosecutors claim that the American journalist had been collecting classified information a…

Specially trained dogs are arriving in Tenerife as the search for missing British teenager Jay Slater continues.Police confirmed to the BBC that new resources had been brought in to help find the 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, England.The Guardia Civil, whose ground searches had concentrated on the area where his last mobile phone signal was trace…

Kenyan President William Ruto addressed the nation on Tuesday evening after protests over tax rises. At least five protesters were shot dead by police in Kenya and a section of parliament went up in flames as demonstrations against new tax proposals escalated on Tuesday.President William Ruto pledged a tough response to what he called the "violence…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russia's former defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, and the chief of general staff, Valery Gerasimov.The ICC judges said the two men were suspected of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war in Ukraine.The court said there were grounds to believe that Mr S…

In the Central African Republic, one of Africa’s poorest countries, local sand diver Thomas Boa and Chinese construction manager Jianmin Luan struggle to improve their fortunes. They “eat bitter” today in the hope of a better tomorrow, but with no guarantees of what their futures may hold.From BBC's Africa Eye. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog…

Police in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, have shot dead at least five people during huge protests against planned tax increases, according to the Kenya Medical Association.A journalist from the Reuters news agency also reported counting the bodies of at least five protesters outside parliament. About 40 people are being treated in hospital.Earlier, t…

In Ukraine there are many openly LGBTQ soldiers serving on the front line. Attitudes to LGBT rights have shifted enormously over the past decade, as Ukraine has embraced European values, though many still hold socially conservative and even homophobic views. LGBT soldiers have reported being bullied and harassed in their units, with reports of disc…

Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled in a landmark case that ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students must be drafted to the military.There have been long-standing exemptions for conscription for young men registered in full-time religious study, but a legal arrangement allowing the practice to continue expired recently.The strains of the current war in…

Abed, a German-born Palestinian, was visiting family in Gaza when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, killing around 1200 people and taking more than 250 people hostage.Israel responded, killing more than 37,000 Palestinians so far.Trapped for five weeks amidst the chaos, Abed witness multiple deaths and injuries, before managing to leave. To hel…

Demonstrators in Kenya are gathering in towns and cities to protest against a finance bill that would raise taxes. Public outcry has already forced the government to withdraw some of contentious provisions, including a 16% tax on bread and an annual 2.5% tax on vehicles. But protesters say this is not enough and have demanded that legislators, who …

China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe has returned to Earth with the first ever samples from the Moon's unexplored far side.The probe landed in the Inner Mongolia desert on Tuesday, after a nearly two-month long mission that was fraught with risks.Scientists believe samples could answer key questions about how planets are formed.China is the only country t…

In Ukraine there are many openly LGBTQ soldiers serving on the front line. Attitudes to LGBT rights have shifted enormously over the past decade, as Ukraine has embraced European values, though many still hold socially conservative and even homophobic views. LGBT soldiers have reported being bullied and harassed in their units, with reports of disc…

Spain has become one of Europe’s prime renewable energy hotspots, with a sharp increase in installation of solar and wind generators over the last few years.However despite the successful move towards green energy sources, electricity consumption has been dropping.This has triggered concern this could lead to a crisis in the industry.Subscribe here…

After a years-long legal saga, Wikileaks says that founder Julian Assange has left the UK after reaching a deal with US authorities that will see him plead guilty to criminal charges and go free.Assange, 52, was charged with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information.For years, the US has argued that the Wikileaks files - which …

Princess Anne has been hospitalised with concussion after apparently being injured by a horse while walking on her estate in Gloucestershire.Buckingham Palace says the Princess who is 73 is expected to make a full recovery, although she is likely to remain in hospital for some time. A planned working trip to Canada by the Princess has been postpone…

A boy with severe epilepsy has become the first patient in the world to trial a new device fitted in their skull to control seizures. The neurostimulator, which sends electrical signals deep into his brain, has reduced Oran Knowlson’s daytime seizures by 80%. The surgery was carried out in October as part of a trial at Great Ormond Street Hospital …

Here are the UK's general election headlines for Monday, 24 June. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he is not aware of any other Conservative candidates being investigated by the gambling commission in connection with allegations of betting on the date of the UK’s general election. Labour leader Keir Starmer said the Conservative Party investigat…

A massive factory fire that began after several lithium batteries exploded has killed at least 22 people in South Korea. The blaze broke out on Monday morning at the Aricell plant in Hwaseong city, about 45km (28 miles) south of the capital Seoul. Local television footage showed large smoke clouds and small explosions going off as firefighters soug…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the "intense phase” of fighting Hamas in Gaza is nearly over, allowing forces to move to the northern border with Lebanon to confront Hezbollah. Netanyahu said he expected the ground operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to be completed soon. But he said that “doesn’t mean the war is about …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the "intense phase" of fighting in Rafah in southern Gaza is nearly over, but that this does not mean that the war is coming to an end.He said the war would continue until Hamas was completely driven from power.He added that the Israeli military would soon be able to redeploy troops to the border w…

Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the BBC’s Katty Kay sits down with some of the most legendary athletes from previous Olympic games for in-depth conversations about their lives, sports, and what it takes to succeed at the highest level. In this episode, Katty visits California to sit down with basketball icon Magic Johnson. They discuss …

The Israeli military has said its forces violated protocol by strapping a wounded Palestinian man to the front of their vehicle during a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the incident after it was captured on video and shared on social media. An IDF statement said the man was wounded in an exchange of fir…

Winged machines are "flying" - or at least swimming - beneath the waters of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic.Known as "sea dragons" or "tidal kites", they look like aircraft, but are in fact high-tech tidal turbines, generating electricity from the power of the ocean.So, how does the technology work? This video is from BBC Click, the BBC’s f…