Horrendous news for Afghan women and girls. The Taliban have announced the closure of universities for women in Afghanistan, according to a letter by the higher education minister. It is expected to take effect immediately

This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show.

So true. Thread. 👇

Come feel the cold high in the Hindu Kush ..the struggle to survive winter’s cruel blast in #Afghanistan w/ SANJAY GANGULY Rachael Thorn M. Shoaib Our story for BBC News (World) BBC News (UK)

Lots of people talking about cost of nursery fees. We’re grappling with this at the moment. There’s one nearby that cost £71 for a HALF day. Full time £113.60. That’s £1,420 for 4wks half days £2,272 for 4wks full time. Approx £18,460 part time annually. Or £29,536 full time

A senior government source tells the BBC: “An agreement has been reached. The deal is done.” bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-p…

£15k…. And the rest.

Just a kid from Oban with a dream 💙💛 The incredible story of @Robert1Lefty, a thread ⬇️

A pause for... bees?! 🐝 Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev's quarter-final match has been SUSPENDED due to a swarm of bees 🤯

Beautiful #Auroraborealis

The BBC Election Live iPlayer channel is just showing us non-stop footage of dogs at polling stations

A very special evening at #Wimbledon watching Andy and Jamie Murray. Now #GeneralElection2024. Quite a night.

Lots of change in Number 10 but some things remain the same. Larry still very much at home in Downing Street tonight, despite the rain. #GE24 #DowningStreet

Downing Street. July.

Downing Street for #GeneralElection2024 and perhaps my finest work on an OB. Building the tallest umbrella stand ever seen for Ben Thompson - the glamour of live TV. ☔️

Some memories from covering the career of Andy Murray as he approaches retirement later this summer. I have never met anyone so competitive. thetimes.com/sport/tennis/a…

Whale of a time. AFP News Agency photographer Jerome Brouillet captures a whale breaching as Brazil's Tatiana Weston-Webb and Costa Rica's Brisa Hennessy compete in the women's surfing semi-finals, during the 2024 #Olympics , in Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti

“She doesn’t like me,…she tells me I’m the enemy of the nation..” In March I interviewed Muhammed Yunus, who’d been sentenced on charges he always denied. He believed Sheikh Hasina was silencing him. Now, she’s fled #Bangladesh and he’s about to be the PM. Muhammad Yunus.

Here are the best one-liners from BBC commentator Andrew Cotter during the Olympic Closing Ceremony

BREAKING: Jannik Sinner has escaped a drugs ban after a tribunal accepted that two failed tests in March were caused through contamination from a massage by his physiotherapist. A tribunal in London ruled that the world No 1 bears "no fault or negligence". thetimes.com/article/2614b8…