Hezbollah has announced the group’s deputy secretary general will become its new head. Naim Qassem replaces long-term leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut last month. He is one of the few senior Hezbollah leaders who remains alive, after Israel killed most of the group’s leadership in a series…

Hannah Clarke The Budget on Wednesday will reveal how much tax each of us will pay and how much the government will choose to spend on services like the NHS, schools and transport. BBC News has been speaking to people with a range of incomes about what they want from the Budget and, in some…

Former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon has been released from prison after spending four-months behind bars. Bannon, 70, was released from a Danbury, Connecticut, correctional facility on Tuesday, Benjamin O’Cone, a Bureau of Prisons spokesman, told the BBC. Bannon, a conservative podcast host who was key to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was convicted of…

Mount Fuji is still without snow, making it the latest time in the year the mountain has remained bare since records began 130 years ago. The peaks of Japan’s highest mountain typically gets a sprinkling of snow by early October, but unusually warm weather has meant no snowfall has been reported so far this year….

PA Media Alex Salmond’s coffin has been draped in a saltire A private funeral service is being held for Alex Salmond as the former first minister is laid to rest. A coffin, draped in a saltire, arrived at Strichen Parish Church, near the former Alba and SNP leader’s Aberdeenshire home, shortly before 12:00. Salmond died…

The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China’s richest person. According to a rich list produced by the Hurun Research Institute, Zhang Yiming, is now worth $49.3bn (£38bn) – 43% more than in 2023. The 41 year old stepped down from his role in charge of…

What satellite images reveal about strikes on Iran   BBC Satellite images analysed by BBC Verify show damage to a number of military sites in Iran from Israeli air strikes on Saturday. They include sites experts say were used for missile production and air defence, including one previously linked to Iran’s nuclear programme. Satellite imagery…

A huge Mayan city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under the jungle canopy in Mexico. Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in the southeastern state of Campeche. The have called the complex Valeriana. No pictures of the city exist, so the BBC’s Georgina Rannard shows us a virtual rendition…