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When Nathan Wilkins moved back in with his mother and sister in 2019, he hoped it would help him save money to buy a home. But in the years since, the US housing market has been transformed by rising rents, surging home prices, and a massive jump in mortgage rates, making homeownership seem like an ever more impossible. He and his sister are making more money than ever, the 32-year-old insurance adjuster from Utah says. But shelling out $2,500 (£1,960) a month in rent doesn’t leave much left over. “It’s like I’m playing a game that you can’t win,” he…

Madhu Bai says she is like a rainbow. She rose from a storm, fleetingly spread joy and then returned to the sky. The 44-year-old made history in 2015 when she became the first trans person to be elected a mayor in India. She won in Raigarh, a small town in the central state of Chhattisgarh. But when her term ended in 2020, Madhu returned to her old life without a pension or government benefits. She dances and sings with other hijras, or trans women, at weddings and birth ceremonies – a common livelihood in India’s transgender community. Madhu has no…

Being versatile should be part of any actor’s repertoire, but Benedict Cumberbatch was taken to new limits when he jogged around New York dressed as a 7ft monster. “It was one of the most ludicrous things I’ve ever done – and I’ve done a few,” he tells BBC News. “It was fun though – and painfully funny.” He stars in thriller TV series Eric, as Vincent, the troubled father of a nine-year-old boy who goes missing on the way to school. Set in New York City during the 1980s, the show introduces Vincent as a somewhat charmless puppeteer. He’s the…

Desperate villagers are digging through rocks and mud to find survivors and retrieve bodies as Papua New Guinea grapples with a landslide that the UN fears buried at least 670 people. The collapse of a mountain side early Friday morning during heavy rain wiped out a bustling village in Enga province, with the damage extending for close to a kilometre, observers report. Less than a dozen bodies have been recovered so far with efforts hindered by rubble 10m (32ft) deep in some places and a lack of adequate equipment. Local media reported one couple being pulled alive from the rubble…

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has said dozens of people were killed or injured in a blast at a refugee camp in the Rafah area. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had carried out an air strike targeting a Hamas compound in the area. It says it is reviewing the incident. Earlier in the day Hamas fired eight rockets from Rafah towards Tel Aviv, the first long-range attacks on the city since January. Videos from the southern Gaza Strip show a large explosion and intense fires burning. Hamas said an Israeli air strike had hit a camp for…

A case of H5 influenza, also known as avian influenza or bird flu, has been reported in a farm worker in Michigan who had regular exposure to infected livestock, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s the second case reported as part of an ongoing outbreak of the virus in birds and cattle across the country and the third bird flu case ever reported in a person in the US. However, health officials emphasized Wednesday that the risk to the general public remains low. The person was…

The situation at Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT network “sucks, plain and simple,” Charles Barkley bluntly said Thursday. The former NBA star and “Inside the NBA” co-host was speaking on “The Dan Patrick Show” about the increasing likelihood that the network will soon lose the rights to air the league’s games next year, a prospect that could mark the end of the beloved show on the Turner network. Barkley, who said he feels “so bad for the people” he works with, laid blame at the feet of the “clowns” atop WBD. “These people I work with, they screwed this thing up — clearly,” Barkley unloaded. The host did little to hide his anger…

Money generated by Russian financial assets frozen in Europe will soon start flowing to Ukraine, giving Kyiv a boost as it struggles to counter an advance by Moscow’s troops. Now, the West is trying to turn that trickle of cash into a flood. Finance ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies are discussing Friday new ways of using the proceeds from some €260 billion ($282 billion) of Russia’s foreign currency reserves that were frozen by Western countries after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The G7 meeting in Italy comes just weeks after Russia mounted a surprise assault in Ukraine’s northern…

I have never before heard of pegging an election launch to a set of economic statistics, but Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has clearly decided to go for an election on the back of Wednesday’s inflation figures, and the stronger than expected exit from recession. Inflation figures showed that the UK rate is at its lowest level in almost three years. That figure was not unexpected. Headline inflation in general is now back to more normal levels, though not quite yet at the Bank of England’s target. Those numbers did have a sting in the tail, however. Underlying measures of inflation, especially…

Tech giant Google will soon begin making its Pixel smartphones in India, sources aware of the development have told the BBC. Google is set to manufacture the phones at an existing Foxconn facility in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The firm is also set to independently manufacture drones in the state. India has emerged as a key destination for global firms looking to diversify supply lines outside China in the midst of geopolitical tensions with the West. Last year, Google had announced plans to make Pixel smartphones in India, beginning with the Pixel 8. “India is a priority market for Pixel…