BBC Verify's Shruti Menon is in Bangladesh for the country's first election since the former prime minister was ousted in 2024 and has been assessing the spread of disinformation ...

Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.

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The justices had previously allowed Texas’ Republican-friendly map to be used in 2026, despite a lower-court ruling that it likely discriminates on the basis of race.

We collected child welfare data in 21 states to report on the consequences of faulty drug tests for pregnant women, including referrals to law enforcement.

Human activity brings with it alien species and creates excellent conditions that allow them to become established in an otherwise barren Arctic landscape. (Kristine Bakke Westergaard, NTNU via SWNS) ...

The Environment Agency has urged people to remain vigilant to the risk of flooding as more rain is forecast for parts of the UK.

If the United States can stay a democracy – no, not a given – then President Donald Trump may have already passed the peak of his powers. He could be, to quote a Bruce Springsteen song, a rider on a ...

The number of investigations into underpaid Inheritance Tax (IHT) rose from 3,793 to 3,977 over the course of last year*, netting HM Revenue & Customs an ...

It’s a head-spinning, eye-popping, blood-pumping 100 minutes whose thematic intentions and artistic ambitions become richer ...

The war in Sudan is a battle for land and resources. Over nearly three years of conflict, the Sudanese Armed Forces—the country’s regular army—and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have traded ...

He not only toppled a dictatorship that had ruled Syria for half a century but also, upon assuming leadership of the country, convinced Western capitals to lift or suspend most of the sanctions ...