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With the holiday season coming up, surprise your loved ones with these Harry Potter-themed gifts. They’re fun, creative and sure to impress any Potterhead.

BBC Radio 1’s Greg James described flying above the clouds with the Red Arrows as “the greatest thing I’ve ever done”.As part of a Children in Need Challenge, Mr James flew with Sqn Ldr Jon Bond from The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.Pudsey challenged Mr James to take to the skies as part of a Challenge Yourself initiative to raise money for the charity.This year’s BBC Children in Need appeal show will be on BBC One on 14 November and will be presented by celebrities including Paddy McGuinness and Vernon Kay.Video journalism by Jess…

What do we do when the worst impacts of climate change take hold? In this excerpt from “Sink or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate” (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2025), author Susannah Fisher, who leads an international research program on climate adaptation at University College London, looks at the future of human migration. In it, she argues that as parts of the planet become uninhabitable, hard choices will need to be made to manage the movement of people — be it through organized relocation or sudden displacement. But what will these choices look like 45 years in…

Crafting a list of the best places to go in the world, in any given year, is a reminder of travel’s most beautiful paradox: that our planet can feel both intimately small and incredibly vast at the same time. Brimming with more wonders than you can fit into one lifetime—yet increasingly connected—the places to travel to in the world are endless. Which is exactly what makes curating this list not only a great joy but also a challenge.Our Best Places to Go in 2026 are underpinned with that very sense of magnitude. There are places that already feel familiar and…

MoEngage, a customer engagement platform that works with consumer brands across 75 countries, says it has raised new funding led by its existing investor, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, to ramp up global growth and infuse more AI into its platform. All told, $100 million in shares just traded hands, split roughly 60% primary and 40% secondary, as part of MoEngage’s Series F round. The funding marks the entry of Indian venture firm A91 Partners as a new investor co-leading the round with Goldman Sachs Alternatives. According to MoEngage, it has now raised $250 million in funding altogether. As consumer brands increasingly…

A few days before the Tokyo International Film Festival brought the global entertainment industry together in Japan last week, a group of Hollywood and local production veterans gathered in a skyscraper above Tokyo’s neon-lit Shibuya district to discuss the renewed appeal of the country as a global content hub. Japan has punched above its weight on the global cultural stage for generations, but Hollywood studios have long regarded the country as one of the world’s most challenging places to shoot. A recent wave of international interest in Japanese culture and content, though, has many producers rethinking old assumptions. The discussion…

Getty Images Chelsea have the unenviable task of an almost 3,000-mile trip from Stamford Bridge to the Tofig Bahramov Republican Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday, facing Qarabag in the Champions League. It’s a place where Copenhagen have already fallen, but for Blues boss Enzo Maresca, the challenge of managing extensive travel with the demands of the Premier League can also present an opportunity for younger players in the squad.The Blues were able to capitalize on that last season in the Conference League, but with the uptick in competition, Maresca has had to stick to his core squad in Champions…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. If you have ever let a container of hardboiled eggs spoil or visited a volcano that is spewing lava and gas, you’ve likely taken a whiff of hydrogen sulfide. This colorless and flammable gas has a uniquely unpleasant rotten egg smell.  However that nasty smell (and the gas it belongs to) could have a new use treating pesky infections.  Specifically, a team from the University of Bath and King’s College London believes that the gas could be used to treat difficult nail infections. In a study…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

George Wright,in London, Virma Rivera,in Manila and Koh Ewe,in SingaporeMoment Philippines floods move shipping containersAt least 66 people have been killed while hundreds of thousands fled their homes as one of strongest typhoons this year ripped through the central Philippines, authorities say.Typhoon Kalmaegi has flooded entire towns on the most populated central island of Cebu, where 49 of the fatalities were located. Twenty-six others are missing, a civil defence official said in a radio interview on Wednesday.Videos show people sheltering on rooftops, while cars and shipping containers have been swept through the streets.The official death toll includes six crew members…