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Alex Batty, missing for six years since age 11, has spoken out about his ordeal in a new documentary. He endured a nomadic life across Spain, Morocco, and France, kept from school. Found alone in the French Pyrenees, Alex has since been reunited with his grandmother. A police investigation has concluded with no prosecution.

In the heart of Brazil lies Ilha de Queimada Grande, an eerie yet captivating habitat swarming with countless golden lancehead pit vipers. Shaped by ancient rising tides, the island's isolation fostered unique evolutionary traits in these snakes, enabling them to hunt birds with their highly toxic venom.

Emma Willis is reportedly set to co-host Strictly Come Dancing, a move that has sparked interest in her impressive career. With an estimated net worth of around £6.3 million, her fortune stems from two decades of successful TV and radio work, including Big Brother and The Voice UK.

The BAFTA TV Awards 2026 are set to be a star-studded affair, with 'Adolescence' leading nominations. 'The Celebrity Traitors' and 'Amandaland' also feature prominently. Tune into BBC One and BBC iPlayer on May 29th at 7 PM BST to catch the ceremony, hosted by Greg Davies, live from London's Southbank Centre.

Rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh is blending work and leisure, producing beats and fishing from a yacht. This follows his recent Mumbai show where he made a dramatic entrance. Known for hits like 'Brown Rang', the 43-year-old artist, born Hirdesh Singh, has a career marked by chart-topping albums and a recent documentary. Read on to know more in detail.

Donald Trump believes King Charles III's upcoming US visit will mend frayed Washington-London ties, despite trade, security, and policy disagreements. He praised the King as a "fantastic man" and "brave." While the royal tour aims to strengthen historic bonds, underlying tensions persist over immigration, energy, and foreign policy, with the US also eyeing tariffs on digital services.

Chandni Vishwakarma, hailing from Bhopal's Bhim Nagar, exemplifies resilience as she emerged as the 12th board topper with an impressive 98.8% in commerce. Living in a modest one-room home with her father, a carpenter, and her mother, who serves in a mid-day meal program, she navigated through the challenges of limited resources and constant noise.

The BBC once revisited the Stanford Prison Experiment through a controlled 2002 prison simulation to test how authority forms under structured conditions. While Zimbardo’s original study suggested roles alone could drive conformity and tyranny, the BBC experiment found authority depended more on group identity and cohesion, with guards struggling and prisoners resisting. Both studies remain influential but limited by lack of ecological validity.

Delhi Police has received separate complaints from JNU students' union and ABVP over a scuffle during a screening of the bbc documentary on PM Modi. DCP (South-West) Manoj C said they are conducting inquiries into the matter. "Both complainants have alleged stone-pelting by the other side," he added.

Screenings of the blocked bbc documentary on PM Narendra Modi continued on campuses and public places in parts of southern India, with SFI organising its second show in a week at the central University of Hyderabad on Republic Day and taking on ABVP at Pondicherry University the night before after at least five students watching the film there were allegedly injured in an assault.

The Karnataka Congress unit said it will screen the bbc documentary, ‘India: The Modi Question’ at its office premises in Mysuru city. The documentary deals with the riots in Gujarat in 2002 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister of the state.

Students at three institutes screened the controversial bbc documentary in Kolkata on Monday. Around 150 MBBS students of Medical College Hospital Kolkata (MCHK) sat through the screening of 'India, The Modi Question', while another 200 at Aliah University's Park Circus Campus attended the screening

The screening of the bbc documentary, 'India: The Modi Question', at Presidency University went off smoothly on Tuesday.

Elon Musk was asked whether Twitter had removed the links. A Twitter user asked Musk that “Twitter seems to have gone from “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach” to outright censorship in no time at all.”

The youth and student organisations of the CPM and Congress on Tuesday organised public screening of the controversial bbc documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots -- India: The Modi question -- in several parts of the state, inviting protests from the BJP and its youth wing. The screenings were held under heavy police cover.

Jamia Millia Islamia turned into a fortress on Wednesday with Delhi Police and the Vajra special force being deployed on the campus after a student organisation announced the screening of the bbc documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 6 pm outside one of the university gates. The screening was ultimately cancelled and 13 students were detained by the cops.

Following the abortive bid to screen the bbc documentary on India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia, similar efforts were halted at Delhi University and Ambedkar University Delhi on Friday.

In protest against the ban on BBC's documentary on PM Narendra Modi and also in solidarity with the students of campuses in Delhi, Hyderabad and Kerala, a student collective from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)

Delhi Police on Friday registered an FIR against activist Ketan Dixit who screened the banned bbc documentary, India’s Daughter, at Ravidas Camp in RK Puram in south Delhi this week. Police invoked sections of the law pertaining to violating a public order and revealing the identity of a rape victim.

A controversial bbc documentary featuring one of the December 16, 2012 gang rape convicts has been uploaded on video sharing website YouTube by an individual.

After Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, the Assam assembly on Tuesday passed a private member's resolution seeking action against BBC for "malicious and dangerous" documentary, "India: The Modi Question", leading to a walkout by the opposition, which wanted the documentary on the Gujarat riots to be screened in the assembly before adopting any resolution.

Jamia Millia Islamia Vice Chancellor Najma Akhtar on Wednesday accused a students group planning to screen the controversial bbc documentary on 2002 Godhra riots on the campus of "disturbing peace and harmony", and asserted that she will not allow such a behaviour in the varsity under her watch.

Over 200 students from the premier Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) saw the controversial bbc documentary on PM Modi amid tight police security on Saturday despite warnings from the institute.

Large crowds of the Indian diaspora in Britain held protests outside the BBC HQ in London and its regional offices on Sunday against the broadcaster's controversial two-part documentary on PM Narendra Modi. The protesters asked BBC to stop broadcasting the documentary "India: The Modi Question" in the UK. They held placards carrying slogans like "Boycott BBC", "British Bias Corporation" and "BBC: you don't deserve public money".

The Maharashtra assembly on Saturday passed a resolution condemning BBC for its documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots.