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Bittu, who goes by only one name, has been running his photo studio in the southern Indian state of Kerala for nearly 20 years. His work is dedicated to capturing significant events in a person's life - from baptisms, engagements, and weddings to funerals.

We now have "the best evidence" we are ever likely to find of how the virus that causes Covid-19 was first transmitted to a human, a team of scientists has claimed.

BBC NewsA principal of a Florida school has been forced to resign after a parent complained that sixth-grade students were exposed to pornography.The complaint arose from a Renaissance art lesson where students were shown Michelangelo's statue of David.

An asteroid large enough to destroy a city will pass between the orbits of the Earth and the Moon this weekend - luckily for us, missing both. The object, named 2023 DZ2, was discovered a month ago.

With spring around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, many of us are ready to open the windows, get out the cleaning products and remove all the dust, grime and dirt in our homes.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.BBC Scotland, Edinburgh and East reporterScotland's biggest Cold War bunker is buried deep beneath an Edinburgh hill - and its existence has remained unknown to most people for decades.

Beethoven had a likely genetic predisposition to liver disease and a hepatitis B infection months before his death, tests have revealed. They were, however, unable to establish a definitive cause of his hearing loss.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technological advance in decades. In a blog post on Tuesday, he called it as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone.

Humanity is on thin ice.

Google has started rolling out its AI chatbot Bard, but it is only available to certain users and they have to be over the age of 18. Unlike its viral rival ChatGPT, it can access up-to-date information from the internet and has a "Google it" button which accesses search.

What's the biggest number you can think of? When I was a child, it's the kind of question we'd ask each other in the school playground.

One or two times a month I get the following question: Why don't you just use a Static Site Generator (SSG) for your blog? Well, I'm not gonna lie, being the founder and project lead of Drupal definitely plays a role in why I use Drupal for my website.

Sri Lanka has secured a $3bn (£2.4bn) bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as it faces its worst economic crisis since independence. The deal has been nearly a year in the making and a lifeline for the country that has billions of dollars in loans.

Police in India's Punjab have launched a massive search for Amritpal Singh, a controversial self-styled preacher who has been on the run since Saturday. Internet and messaging services in the state have remained suspended since the search began and security has been tightened.

So farewell to Credit Suisse. Founded in 1856, the bank has been a pillar of the Swiss financial sector ever since. Although buffeted by the financial crisis of 2008, Credit Suisse did manage to weather that storm without a government bailout, unlike its rival-turned-rescuer UBS.

Giving young babies - between four and six months old - tiny tastes of smooth peanut butter could dramatically cut peanut allergies, say scientists. Research shows there is a crucial opportunity during weaning to cut allergy cases by 77%.

The US writer Mark Twain famously wrote: "There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations."  This is particularly true of storytelling.

Spend a moment looking at the things around you – from the phone you're holding to the clothes you're wearing – the odds are that roughly 90% of everything you own came to you over the ocean.

Two and a half tonnes of uranium have gone missing from a site in Libya, the UN's nuclear watchdog has said. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sounded the alarm after a visit by its inspectors to the undisclosed site earlier this week.

The arrival of spring often heralds a welcome change after the long, hard winter months. The Sun stays up for longer, the days grow warmer, the first flowers begin to bloom, and in many countries the clocks tick forward into daylight savings time to lengthen our evenings.

Artificial intelligence has the awesome power to change the way we live our lives, in both good and dangerous ways. Experts have little confidence that those in power are prepared for what's coming.

Doctors around the world are offering false hope and bogus treatments to millions of people with an incurable condition that can lead to blindness. BBC reporter Ramadan Younes, who has the disease himself, went undercover to expose them.

In every direction, fire-red sand fanned out across the land. Everything that wasn't red seemed covered in it: the boab trees, the spinifex, the termite mounds stretching like tiny Towers of Babel towards the sky. The road itself shimmered like a sea of rubies.

Extreme travel isn't for the faint-hearted. Kari-Matti Valtari would know. He has been arrested many times and held in detention in war-torn nations, but has seen everywhere from St Eustatius to the Savage Islands*.