Hollywood blockbusters and arthouse films: Sam Neill’s best-known roles in pictures
The beloved actor’s career ranged from box office blockbusters to thrillers and award-winning dramas.
The SpaceX IPO made history. Is the excitement still there?
A month on from the firm’s stock market debut, the reality of how SpaceX currently makes money has seemed to come into clearer focus.
Watch: At the scene where Bangkok’s deadly bar fire unfolded
The BBC’s South East Asia correspondent visits the site where at least 27 people were killed during a bar fire in Thailand.
US and Iran trade fire as tensions rise over Strait of Hormuz
Within hours of fresh US strikes, Iran said it had struck US military bases in Jordan and Bahrain.
Planes sent to tackle wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ near Paris
It was the first time firefighting planes had been sent up from the normally drier and hotter south of the country to tackle fires in the Paris region.
British couple return to village at heart of deadly Spanish wildfire
At least 13 people, including five believed to be Britons, were killed by Thursday’s wildfire in Spain’s Almeria province.
How Indian scientists are mapping the brain’s last frontier
India’s new brainstem atlas offers scientists an unprecedented map of one of the brain’s least known regions.
10 years of Pokémon Go and the millions still trying to catch ’em all
Michael Steranka, vice president at the mobile game’s owner Scopely, says it has always been about bringing people together.
The Chinese graduate accused of being Mexico’s ‘fentanyl king’
Cartel members and ex-colleagues describe how Zhang Zhidong allegedly linked Chinese chemicals to Mexican drug labs.
US Senator Mitch McConnell says absence due to fall and pneumonia
The veteran Republican says he will not return to work “quite yet”, in his first statement following weeks of speculation about his health.
