The BBC's Nomia Iqbal spoke to students at Harvard University, which is the target of funding cuts and a ban on international student enrollment.

The BBC's Nomia Iqbal standing outside Harvard

Trump's battle on international students explained... in 70 seconds

It came a day after a previous ruling temporarily blocked many of the administration's sweeping trade tariffs.

Trump tariffs get to stay in place for now. What happens next?

Cole Palmer was called a "genius" after inspiring Chelsea to victory against Real Betis in the Conference League final.

'Genius' Palmer 'made the difference' against Real Betis

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New York City v Houston Dynamo

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Toronto v Philadelphia Union

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Atlanta United v Orlando City

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Cincinnati v Dallas

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DC United v New England

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New York RB v Charlotte

A brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow.

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Rosenberg: What a new Stalin statue says about Russia's attempt to reshape history

Deonte Nash testified that he spent years witnessing the music mogul's abuse and threats.

Stylist Deonte Nash, wearing a black and yellow jacket, blue shirt underneath and sunglasses, exits the courthouse. 

Cassie Ventura needed stitches after Diddy beating, trial hears

The rule requiring planning permission if a heat pump is within 1m of a neighbours property has been removed.

A technician in an orange hard hat leans over a heat pump unit with a screwdriver

Planning change to make installing heat pump easier for millions

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has made missteps that are a ‘total disaster’ for the party, claim insiders

The Conservative Party faces problems - is its leader one of them?

Chilean salmon producers are being criticised for operating in some of the country's national parks.

A worker holding an Atlantic salmon at a fish farm in Chile

Chile's salmon farms hope for calmer waters

The government says its overhaul of retirement savings will boost growth and pension pots.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves getting out of a cab outside Downing Street in May, wearing a maroon suit and carrying a handbag and red folder

Reeves outlines plan for £25bn pension 'megafunds'

BBC News NI has seen a leaked report into the culture at the Royal Victoria Hospital's cardiac surgery unit.

A heart monitor showing some figures and pulse lines is on the right of the picture. On the left are two or three medical staff - just headshots - are blurred. they have face masks on.

Surgeons threw instruments and bullied nurses - report 

The number of new vehicles made in the UK was the lowest figure for April - outside the pandemic - since 1952.

A Range Rover sports utility vehicle (SUV) on the production lineat the Jaguar Land Rover automobile manufacturing plant in Solihull, UK, on Monday, April 7, 2025

UK car making plunges to lowest for over 70 years

The strategic defence review, announced by the government last July, will be published on Monday.

A British soldier of a gun battery attends the Allied Spirit 25 exercise in Hohenfels, Germany, 12 March 2025

UK turns to AI and drones for new battlefield strategy

Wholesale changes and 7,000-mile round trips - BBC Sport tells the story of how Chelsea won the Conference League.

Widely mocked, wildly celebrated - how Chelsea won the Conference League

Marathi cinema is seeing a quiet emergence, with a diverse range of films screening at international festivals. 

The image shows a young Indian girl clad in a traditional pale pink saree looking visibly upset. 

Marathi cinema goes global - but can it step outside of Bollywood's shadow?

Buyer e.l.f. Beauty calls it a "beautiful brand that we believe is ready for rocketship growth".

Hailey Bieber at The 2025 Met Gala. She is wearing a black dress with earrings. 

Hailey Bieber's make-up brand sold to e.l.f.

Four members of the Patel family were found frozen to death in Manitoba during a snowstorm in January 2022.

Vaishaliben Patel, her husband Jagdish and their two young children, 11-year-old Vihangi and three-year-old Dharmik wear formal clothing and pose in a family portrait.

Smugglers jailed for deaths of Indian family in US-Canada border blizzard

Jules Peters says the outpouring of love for her husband has been "phenomenal" ahead of his funeral. 

 Mike Peters holding a black acoustic guitar and smiling. He is wearing a black-military style jacket and a pink shirt, with stage lights behind him. 

'Mike was a rock star who cared about everybody'

The musician and charity fundraiser died last month aged 66 after living with cancer for 30 years.

Thousands of people walking down a village street with houses in the background and green bushes on either side.

Fans descend on village for Mike Peters' funeral

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Nacional v Atlético Nacional

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Internacional v Bahia

BBC Special Correspondent Katty Kay and author and journalist Edward Luce discuss the life of former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.

BBC Special Correspondent Katty Kay is shown speaking to Edward Luce via videoconference. Luce can be seen on Kay's monitor wearing a tan jacket and over-ear headphones. Kay is seen from behind wearing a dark navy jacket, speaking into a black tabletop microphone (Credit: BBC)

This foreign policy titan saw this moment coming

Global Energy has set out its plans for Nigg in a document to Highland Council.

The port at night. A large ship with offshore wind farm components is lit up by lights. Buildings and a quay at the port are also brightly lit.

Factory proposed for ex-oil terminal site on Cromarty Firth

Almost 190,000 people are likely to be affected by disability welfare reforms, new analysis has found.

A crowd of people protesting, holding up signs including "care not cuts" and "cut war not welfare". 

Wales could lose £466m in welfare reforms

Plans for a lorry park at the former Stena Line base in Stranraer are given planning permission.

A woman with greying blonde hair in a dark jacket with a pink fleece underneath stands in front of Stranraer harbour

The battle over plans for a former ferry terminal

Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon says the Scottish government weighed up arguments for and against.

A Galloway loch with trees in the foreground and green hills in the distance

Scottish government scraps plan for new national park

The Mexican national mailed a letter to authorities saying he planned to shoot the president at a rally and then self-deport, officials say.

An apparent mugshot of Ramon Morales-Reyes

Migrant arrested over letter threatening to assassinate Trump

Health chiefs say more measles cases have already been recorded this year than during the whole of 2024.

Close-up of a nurse wearing blue latex gloves extracting a vaccine from a small glass bottle with a syringe. 

Vaccination plea after measles cases rise in Scotland

Director Scott Frank said he wanted to film in Edinburgh after stepping off a bus on the Royal Mile.

Close up of a man wearing a green jumper staring off to the right of the camera.

How Netflix's Department Q went from Scandi noir to Tartan noir

Nvidia's share price rose by more than 5% in pre-market trading on Thursday after it beat Wall Street expectations.

The Nvidia logo is visible on a smart phone

Nvidia revenues surge despite tariff uncertainty

Wales boss Craig Bellamy says he is happy for Manchester United striker Gabriele Biancheri to explore his international options.

Bellamy happy for Biancheri to explore options

The president was not pleased with an acronym, standing for "Trump Always Chickens Out", reportedly coined on Wall Street.

US President Donald Trump speaks at the swearing-in ceremony for Jeanine Pirro.

Trump blasts 'nasty' chicken gibe about his tariff reversals

The new mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire pledges to put the region ahead of party politics.

Luke Campbell smiles at the camera after winning the mayoral election in Hull and East Yorkshire. He is wearing a beige blazer with a white T-shirt. He is standing in front of a stage that includes a podium and a black backdrop.

Reform mayor outlines his position on green energy

Liverpool face competition for Bayer Leverkusen winger Florian Wirtz from Real Madrid, Arsenal told fee for RB Leipzig striker Benjamin Sesko, while Manchester United and Chelsea pursuit of Ipswich forward Liam Delap intensifies.

Bayer Leverkusen winger Florian Wirtz leads the BBC Sport gossip column

Real Madrid join Wirtz fight - Thursday's gossip

The Trump administration ordered US embassies to temporarily halt student visa appointments and to ramp up social media vetting.

Students say they 'regret' applying to US universities after visa changes

Jersey Bulls win promotion to the eighth tier of English football for the first time as they beat Cobham 2-1 in their play-off final.

Jersey Bulls celebrate winning the play-off final

Jersey Bulls win promotion after play-off victory

Jake Jarman and Ruby Evans combine to win silver in the first mixed team event at the European Gymnastics Championships in Leipzig.

GB's Jarman & Evans win silver in mixed team event

Guto Bell's tearful speech at the Urdd Eisteddfod is shared more than a million times on social media.

Young boy in a yellow top smiles as he holds his arms up

Young Urdd winner melts hearts with message to mam

Dean Harrison sets the fastest Superbike lap speed on the first night of qualifying at the Isle of Man TT, with Davey Todd best Superstock and Michael Dunlop top of the Supersport leaderboard.

Dean Harrison on his Honda Fireblade Superbike

Harrison tops IOM TT Superbike qualifying speeds

The NHS launched Pharmacy First in January 2024.

A pharmacist worker picks up a box of medication from a shelf in the store.

Pharmacy scheme 'quickens access' to services

Para-cyclist Lissie Simpson, who was a sporting-mad teenager, had to learn to walk again.

A woman wearing a blue NHS top and a lanyard is smiling at the camera. She has dark hair.

Paralympic gold aim after brain tumour and stroke

Charlie Woods takes another step in father Tiger's footsteps by winning his first American Junior Golf Association event.

Woods' son Charlie wins junior event in Florida

The council says the squash court would be an "unsustainable development".

Two men playing squash in a sports hall, wearing white shorts and T-shirts and trainers.

Plans for personal-use squash court rejected

Police launched an investigation into Izabela Helena Zablocka's disappearance last week.

Image of Izabela who has short, fair hair and is wearing a beige jacket.

Three arrested in missing woman murder probe bailed

Court sketch of former surgeon paedophile Joel Le Scouarnec 

Victims angry over sentence for French paedophile surgeon

Plymouth Argyle head coach Miron Muslic is to leave the club after opening talks with a German side, reported to be Schalke. 

Head coach Muslic to leave Plymouth amid Schalke link

The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English.

Headshot of Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87

A BBC investigation found Ricky Sawyer was carrying out dangerous BBLs and handing over medication illegally.

A man wearing medical scrubs is seen talking to someone off-camera.

Butt-lift injector banned from carrying out procedures

Police in Scarborough are trying to determine how two men in neighbouring homes died suddenly.

The entrance to a street with grass verges and a street sign in white.

Residents evacuated after two unexplained deaths

The NHS is warning that supplies of O negative blood are critically low.

A man wearing a yellow shirt lies on a couch giving blood with a tube attached to his arm, while holding a soft red ball in his hand 

Urgent plea for O negative blood donors

The Israeli actress has faced protests while filming across London over recent weeks, the Met says.

Gal Gadot smiling and wearing designer shades arriving at the Academy Women's Luncheon at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on 10 December 2024

Five arrested over protests at Gal Gadot filming

Parents at the tiny primary school have produced a social media video to try and attract new families.

A photo of the school building. It is a brown building with white framed windows and a picnic bench on gravel in the foreground. There is a stone fence to the left of the image and a grassy verge to the right with bushes. It is a grey day.

School with just eight pupils appeals for more

Jonny Clayton says he hopes to continue competing at the highest level of darts for “a long time”

'Hopefully I'll be around for a long time' - Clayton

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Bodø / Glimt v Viking

The net will be in place before people move into their new homes on Albert Road, Shrewsbury.

A cricket ball dislodging cricket stumps. The ball is red with a cream-coloured seam around the middle. The stumps are upright, wooden cylinders while the bails are smaller pieces of light wood.

Huge fence to protect homes from cricket balls

Ian Ashworth avoids jail after admitting causing the death of a Wirral great-grandmother in a crash.

Christine Jones, with short red hair and wearing a wide brimmed pink hat, smiles at the camera.

Wife begged husband 'don't let me die' after crash

RCN Wales believes nurses may not have "the fight in them" to go back on strike.

A close up of a nurse's hand holding that of a patient

Nurse pay lagging behind public sector, union says

Great Britain's Jake Jarman and Ruby Evans win silver in the first-ever mixed team event at the European Gymnastics Championship in Leipzig, Germany.

Great Britain's Jake Jarman and Ruby Evans

GB win silver in first-ever Euro gymnastics mixed team event

The lights help the emergency services get between the inside and outside of the TT course faster.

A red traffic light with green leafy trees behind it.

Traffic lights to give emergency vehicles priority

NHS Devon's proposals involving hospitals in Torbay and Exeter have been criticised.

The back of a yellow and red ambulance parked in front of a blurred building which has scaffolding outside of it. The word "ambulance" is written is red block capitals.

Heart attack care trial pulled to review feedback

Norway's Casper Ruud criticises the ATP's ranking system and describes it "like a rat race" which forces players to compete with injuries.

Injured Ruud criticises 'rat race' ATP points system

Carmarthenshire farmer Hywel Williams pleads guilty to theft after revealing he faced financial difficulties.

Debt-hit rustler steals 73 ewes from neighbour

James Birdseye, from Berkshire, worked for South Central Ambulance Service, the tribunal heard.

A close-up picture of a paramedic in a uniform.

Paramedic struck off for 'predatory' behaviour

Police arrest 28 fans in the Polish city of Wroclaw after clashes between Chelsea and Real Betis fans before the Uefa Conference League final.

Fans arrested after clashes before Conference League final

Scientists believe cats can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar humans using smell alone.

A hand touches the neck of a brown stripy cat sat on a sofa, which has its eyes closes and ears raised.

Cats distinguish owner's smell from stranger's, study finds

Police were called to the three-vehicle collision near Invergarry on Wednesday afternoon.

Three firefighters dressed in protective clothing and yellow helmets work at the back of a red fire engine.

Two lorry drivers charged after crash on A82

The blaze broke out near Suie Road, a rural road near Alford.

A helicopter waterbombs flames in a wildfire on a barren hillside. Water pours from a large red bucket under the helicopter.

Firefighters and helicopter tackle hillside wildfire

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Ghana v Nigeria

Noise pollution fears are raised over the two dance festivals taking place simultaneously.

A female DJ adjusts her headphones with her left hand as clubbers dance around her in the background 

Concerns over two festivals on same site

The branches in Bransholme, Bridlington and Grimsby will be run by the same franchisee.

28 May 2025