
The SpaceX IPO made history. Is the excitement still there?
A month on from the firm’s stock market debut, the reality of how SpaceX currently makes money has seemed to come into clearer focus.
TUESDAY, 21 JULY 2026, 07:15

A month on from the firm’s stock market debut, the reality of how SpaceX currently makes money has seemed to come into clearer focus.

The BBC’s South East Asia correspondent visits the site where at least 27 people were killed during a bar fire in Thailand.

Within hours of the fresh US strikes, Iran said it had struck US military bases in Jordan and Bahrain, as escalating attacks cast strain interim deal.

It was the first time firefighting planes had been sent up from the normally drier and hotter south of the country to tackle fires in the Paris region.

India’s new brainstem atlas offers scientists an unprecedented map of one of the brain’s least known regions.

The senator’s career was marked by a willingness to adapt to America’s dramatically changing political climate, writes the BBC’s North America correspondent.

South Africa is cracking down on undocumented migrants following widespread anti-immigration protests.

He took power in 1996 after staging a bloodless coup against his father, and went on to transform Qatar into the gas-rich power it is today.

The BBC’s Nick Beake sees homes razed to the ground and “a sea of black” in one of the villages hit hardest by Spain’s deadly wildfires.

Tabassum Khan has been facing online abuse after convicting 14 Hindu men in a lynching case.

A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex will go on sale in New York with a pre-sale value of $30m.

Children often inherit their father’s first name as a surname, but traditions are changing and causing upset.

With men’s fertility increasingly in the spotlight, we meet the men using unproven “hacks” promoted by influencers to up their sperm counts.

The five-year-old elephant seal attracted global attention during his recent time ashore in southern Tasmania.

Mojtaba Khamenei says vengeance is “inevitable” for the killing, which happened on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Warsaw and Kyiv have for decades been at loggerheads over the killings of many thousands of civilians during World War Two.

A Tshwane University of Technology alumnus is using artificial intelligence to help young South Africans prepare for one of the most challenging aspects of entering the workplace — the interview process. Banele Mgwevu, a software developer from Etwatwa on the East Rand, studied Information and Communication Technology at TUT’s Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, […]

Ghana has launched a joint programme with the World Health Organization and the United Nations Development Programme — funded by the Government of Japan through the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security — to harness artificial intelligence in improving health outcomes, strengthening system resilience and protecting vulnerable populations. The programme is implemented in collaboration […]

Linen scarves, cotton aprons and dishtowels adorn the entrances to souvenir shops, many of which are run by Bangladeshis whose home country shares Portugal’s rich tradition of textile manufacturing.

Ukrainian drones struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg and set it ablaze, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as the city hosted an annual economic forum promoted by President Putin.

The U.S. military said that Iran fired missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain that failed or were shot down, and that the U.S. launched strikes on an Iranian facility in response.