Rare interviews with ordinary North Koreans inside the secretive state reveal chronic food shortages and starvation. Also: "extremely fierce battles" as Kyiv seeks to advance against Russian forces, and are fruit flies emotional?

The shipwreck is the deadliest off the country this year. Also: Italy holds state funeral for former PM Silvio Berlusconi and Europe approves an AI voluntary code of conduct.

At least one charge carries a twenty-year jail sentence. Also: The BBC has reached one of the villages liberated this week by Ukrainian troops, a settlement utterly devastated by the fighting, and the new research suggesting the world's most famous early human ancestor, nicknamed Lucy, could walk fully upright and live in trees.

It comes as the UN warns of a threat to global food supplies. Meanwhile, Ukraine condemns an overnight attack on Kryvyi Rih, President Zelensky's home city. Also: Young Palestinians are disillusioned over voting rights, and Paul McCartney announces a new Beatles record made with the help of AI.

Former US President faces charges that he mishandled classified documents. Also: America's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, has agreed to pay up to $290 million to victims of the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. And a woman in Ecuador wakes up inside a coffin at her own wake after being mistakenly declared dead.

The flamboyant politician and media personality had leukaemia. Also: the Ukrainian army has retaken several villages from Russian occupiers as Kyiv's counter-offensive continues, and how London's famous black taxis might be moving with the times.

Moscow says its forces repelled Ukrainian assaults in the area and elsewhere. Also: the former First Minster of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has been released without charge after being arrested as part of an investigation into her party's finances, and Novak Djokovic becomes the first man to win twenty-three tennis grand slam titles by beating Casper Ruud in the French Open.

Russia claims to have repelled all attacks so far. Also: The extraordinary story of the four children found alive 40 days after their plane crashed in the Colombian jungle, and Manchester City have won European club football's most prestigious tournament - the Champions League.

Around 300 children and babies rescued from an orphanage in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Also: We hear from one of the researchers helping a paralysed man to walk again, and why some people in Japan are relearning how to smile.

The former US President Donald Trump has been charged with mishandling hundreds of classified documents. Also: Boris Johnson resigns as British MP with immediate effect, and 100 years of Le Mans - the world's most famous 24 hour motor race.

Scientists say there's evidence of a significant explosion in the area of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine at the same time that it was breached. Ukraine has released a recording which it says is of Russian military figures discussing how the dam was sabotaged - but this can't be verified yet. Also: Federal prosecutors in the United States have charged Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents after he left the White House, and new research suggests that there are far more people in India with diabetes than previously thought.

The smoke from the Canadian wildfires has blanketed large areas of eastern North America. Also: children stabbed in French park are in stable condition, and the largest ruby gemstone ever to come to auction sells for millions of dollars.

A 22-month-old toddler was among the victims in a playground in the alpine town of Annecy. Also: Rescue efforts continue in Ukraine after the Kakhovka dam was breached on Tuesday, and what can we expect when football superstar Lionel Messi moves to Inter Miami?

Ukraine's President Zelensky calls for international help as hundreds of thousands are left without drinking water in the south after a major dam was destroyed. Also: Millions breathing hazardous air across North America, and the crocodile that made herself pregnant.

Thousands of people evacuated, but many are still stranded. Also: the wager that humans will live until 150 years of age and Japan debates whether to redefine rape laws.

Thousands flee floods after Nova Kakhovka dam collapse in Russian-held region of Ukraine. Also: Iran re-opens embassy in Saudi Arabia after thaw; PGA Tour and LIV Golf agree shock merger.

Evacuations are underway in the Kherson region as water levels rise. Ukraine accuses Russia of blowing up the Nova Kakhova dam. Moscow denies this. Also: Prince Harry is in court alleging journalists illegally gathered information about him, and the Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, the voice in The Girl from Ipanema, has died at the age of 83.

President Zelensky says his country's forces are delivering 'the news Ukrainians were expecting'. Also: Apple launches a much anticipated digital headset - its first brand-new product for eight years, and with the announcement of his departure, how Edward Enninful broke boundaries as editor of British Vogue.

Information on the latest fighting has not been independently verified, but questions swirl around the possible Ukrainian counter-offensive. Also: more than 180 victims of the Odisha rail disaster in India are yet to be identified, and France attempts to break the record for the largest crowd doing a dictation exam.

Anti-Kremlin Russian paramilitaries say they captured them. Also: The deputy head of Sudan's ruling council has called for the withdrawal of all forces from the capital, Khartoum, where there has been an alarming escalation in fighting, and could gay marriage be on the cards in Thailand?