Just when you thought your jaw couldn't drop any further... Donald Trump releases a private message sent by NATO Sec General Mark Rutte - with a very big claim, and written, it would seem, in the most Trumpian language (NATO has confirmed to BBC it is genuine). What a world.

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Edi Rama 🇦🇱 at the NATO summit in The Hague: you people are so sartorially boring.

Stealing St Paul’s limelight (Thanks for pic Bridget Millman!)

We’re at Kerem Shalom border crossing from Israel to Gaza, where there are no aid trucks crossing - aid workers on the ground tell us of catastrophic situation, and Gazans queuing for aid are still being killed almost every day. We’re live today BBC News (UK)⁩ ⁦BBC News (World)⁩

Pretty loud thud of artillery in the last few minutes across the border in Gaza - black smoke rising - as this war grinds on into its 631st day. Israel and the US may be talking up the prospects of ceasefire - but intractable issues with Hamas remain

After 2 days in which Israel said it was blocking aid entering Gaza, accusing Hamas of stealing it, we just saw these trucks entering Gaza through a side road, not via the official Kerem Shalom crossing. They had no registration plates. Likely to be Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

“Attendees face a €500 fine, organisers face up to one year in prison” - for walking through Budapest to say #LoveIsLove.

💥🏳️‍🌈 Viktor Orbán banned Budapest Pride by law but didn’t dare use police to stop it. The result? A record-breaking crowd: the front of the march reached the end point in Buda while the back had barely left the start in Pest. 📸: Gábor Tenczer, Balázs Ivándi-Szabó Telex

📣Some news: After 10 months presenting OS on BBC World Service I’ll be swapping the radio studio for TV in September as I become a presenter/correspondent for our BBC News (UK) TV channel, streaming & on the day team, in the studio & in the field. A few more weeks with great OS first!

Will be on BBC World Service with Mark Lowen at 12:30pm ET/ 5:30pm London to discuss the latest with Trump's megabill. Tune in!

Excited to be making a presenting debut on The World at One today - the legendary WATO as we refer to it - on Radio 4 coming up at 1pm. Listen on your wireless or on BBC Sounds

"We knew that making and hard work was in the essence of the town." Wayne Hemingway, designer and co-founder of Red or Dead, explains to Mark Lowen where he got the idea for the National Festival of Making in Blackburn. #BBCWato

Celebrating this guy, with this girl. Parabéns meu amor Pedro Penim

Training for the Tour de France has begun

When I gave my 2 and a half year-old a bit of cheese tonight and she turned to me and said “nice cheese, Gromit”, my Aardman and Nick Park-loving heart melted.

Tune in now to OS BBC World Service BBC Sounds as we unpack another turbulent week in the Middle East with our international editor, Jeremy Bowen Jeremy Bowen - we'll discuss Syria, Gaza, Israel, and take your questions

“Ladies and gentlemen, I know our train is due to depart now but unfortunately we don’t currently have a driver. I’ve just called control and they’re trying to find one”. Typically wonderful service from SWR Help

OS coming up ⁦BBC World Service⁩ ⁦BBC Sounds⁩ 16.00-18.00 London time. Tune in - and step up! (All will be revealed…)

The hardest time I have lived through, says BBC Gaza journalist on struggle to feed family bbc.in/471mpWP