Skip to content
British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Home
  • News
  • Football 2026
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Health
  • Culture
  • Arts
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Sport
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Live

6 May 2018

  • 2018
  • May
  • 6 May
Black Panther

Why black sci-fi 'can't be ignored'

With the continuing success of Black Panther, "afrofuturism" is now more important than ever.

Frugal Cup

Coffee cup that 'actually gets recycled'

A recyclable coffee cup could help replace the 2.5 billion disposable cups binned each year.

Evans William

I sold all I had to go to Europe - now I'm home, and broke

More than 3,000 Nigerian migrants who failed to reach Europe have been flown home by the UN - leaving many unsure how to face their families.

President Donald Trump.

Could Trump's 'Space Force' become a reality?

"We're getting very big in space," says the US president. What would a new branch of the military do?

Students gathered to protest outside the university vice-chancellor's house.

'Traumatic' student protests remembered

The impact and legacy of events at the University of Essex in 1968 are being marked 50 years on.

The Daily Telegraph/The i

Tory rebels 'furious' with PM and Britain bakes

Monday's newspapers report on the PM's hybrid customs plan causing anger and Britons enjoying the heat.

Fleetwood, Lancashire

Can you make a community healthier?

Life expectancy in Fleetwood, Lancashire, is among the worst in the UK, with diseases linked to diet and drugs claiming lives.

Wheelchair user Annie Segarra

How #HotPersonInAWheelchair is fighting hate on Twitter

A wheelchair user angered by the tweet: 'Nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair', started her own photo-led fight back.

Stonefly sitting on a lead

Freshwater species dying 'twice as fast'

Invertebrates are becoming extinct twice as fast as any other ecosystem, a 37-year study finds.

...

British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Home
  • News
  • Football 2026
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Health
  • Culture
  • Arts
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Sport
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Live
  • Weather
  • BBC Shop
  • BritBox

The BBC is in multiple languages

Read the BBC In your own language

BBC News Brasil
BBC News Mundo (Spanish)
BBC News မြန်မာ (Burmese)
BBC News 中文 (Chinese)
BBC News Indonesia
BBC News 코리아 (Korean)
BBC News ไทย (Thai)
BBC News Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
BBC News Azərbaycanca (Azeri)
BBC News Кыргыз Кызматы (Kyrgyz)
BBC News Polska (Polish)
BBC News Русская служба (Russian)
BBC News na srpskom (Serbian)
BBC News Україна (Ukrainian)
BBC News O'zbek (Uzbek)
BBC News عربي (Arabic)
BBC News فارسی (Persian)
BBC News Türkçe (Turkish)
BBC News বাংলা (Bengali)
BBC News دری (Dari)
BBC News ગુજરાતી (Gujarati)
BBC News हिन्दी (Hindi)
BBC News मराठी (Marathi)
BBC News नेपाली (Nepali)
BBC News සිංහල (Sinhala)
BBC News ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi)
BBC News Afaan Oromoo
BBC News አማርኛ (Amharic)
BBC News Afrique (French)
BBC News Hausa
Gaelic NAIDHEACHDAN
BBC News Ìgbò
Japanese 日本語
BBC News Gahuza
Kirundi KIRUNDI
BBC News Pidgin
BBC News Somali
BBC News Swahili
BBC News தமிழ் (Tamil)
BBC News తెలుగు (Telugu)
BBC News ትግርኛ (Tigrinya)
BBC News اردو (Urdu)
BBC News Yorùbá
Follow BBC on:
  • Terms of Use
  • Subscription Terms
  • About the BBC
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • Accessibility Help
  • Contact the BBC
  • Advertise with us
  • Do not share or sell my info
  • BBC.com Help & FAQs
  • Content Index
  • Set Preferred Source

Copyright 2026 BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.