Being expelled from Russia, a country I’ve lived in for almost 1/3 of my life - and reported for years - is devastating. Thank you for all your kind messages of support. I’m speaking to Mishal Husain about it tomorrow morning on BBC Radio 4 Today

"One of my friends sent me a photo, saying, 'Shukria, Taliban are in your house." The dramatic escape of feminist politician Shukria Barakzai, with the help of Debbie Abrahams and Tom Tugendhat and others. - by Gabriel Gatehouse bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… ⁩

Can the Taliban run an air force? Will they be able to stop the US-made guns and rifles from appearing in other armed insurgencies around the world? Answers to these and many more questions in this piece by me and Shadab Nazmi 📈 bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

Life expectancy figures out today show a fall caused by the pandemic - but what does that mean in the long term? bbc.co.uk/news/health-58…

Aliyah’s story: “How I escaped a hidden world of gangs and exploitation” bbc.co.uk/news/stories-5…

Tips!💡🪟🚪🏡🚿🧱🔥💸 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-589675…

‘I saw my daughter killed, then was held captive in basement’ - was so hard to read this, but such crucial reporting by ⁦Anna Foster⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Ukraine: Inside the spies’ attempts to stop the war - “One spy says of those days before the invasion that he had never seen anything like it - highly classified material would be on his desk one day and then emerge in the public domain the next.” bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Hidden wealth of one of Putin’s 'inner circle' revealed bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Leaked documents show how sanctioned oligarch Suleiman Kerimov - from Putin's "inner circle" - hid his wealth.They reveal a Swiss tattoo artist was falsely named as the owner of a company that transferred over $300m to firms linked to Mr Kerimov.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Driving tests are being bulk booked and resold for profit, as a chronic backlog means learners are otherwise waiting months for a test date. Investigation by ⁦Hamzah Abbas⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-612657…

My investigation into the resale of driving tests for the BBC bbc.co.uk/news/uk-612657…

Grenfell: Will anyone go to prison? Spent an hour with Metropolitan Police officers working on the Grenfell Tower Investigation. Very hard for them to say much but I got the impression of a confident investigation with promise to victims to deliver justice. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-617243…

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-618874… Thank you to the BBC's Sarah McDermott and Rebecca Vincent for uncovering this story and bringing it to site.

11 years after losing her husband, Jude Tebbutt told the BBC she believes his killer is still at large. "The real murderer of David, who can only be one of two men - and I could recognise those men today - they are somewhere, living their lives and they've got no consequences."

Massive data leak reveals how top politicians secretly helped Uber in its bid to disrupt the taxi market in European cities bbc.in/3nSwTQC

A fascinating story I found, chased and did up for ⁦BBC News (UK)⁩ assisted by my talented colleague ⁦Billy McLennan⁩ - have a read! The man extradited to the UK for a 41-year-old pub brawl - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/uk-646787…

Since October 2021, dozens of Tamil asylum seekers have been stuck on the remote British territory of Diego Garcia - the site of a UK-US military base - in what they describe as hellish conditions. bbc.com/news/uk-657778…

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