To help preserve mangrove forests researchers have to take on demanding field work.

As Wimbledon scraps human line judges, sport insiders suggest how we can make games more exciting.

As more AI tools are rolled out, some argue they are contributing to employee burnout.

Greener software could make devices last longer and use less electricity.

A Sheffield school bans pupils from using smartphones and watches on its premises.

How live updating of online maps is helping humanitarian work around the world.

We all use messaging apps such as WhatsApp for free, but what's in it for them?

Alcon Entertainment says it denied a request to use material from the film at the Tesla cybercab event.

Zhang Yiming's fortune has leapt to almost $50bn, according to a newly published rich list.

WordPress's tools are used by 40% of the world's websites, making this a spat with big consequences.

The accounts are part of pro-Trump and pro-Harris networks sharing each other’s content multiple times a day.

The BBC speaks to social media moderators, whose job it is to find and remove distressing and illegal content.

Seaweed production has been affected by warming seas – this is how farmers are adapting.

The photographer who spent 50 years fighting to protect indigenous people.

How the first South Asians who moved to Britain coped far away from their homeland.

Maids in Qatar often work long hours without a day off, despite changes to employment law.

Britain could revise its medals target for London 2012 following the team's success at the Beijing Olympics.

This week marks 15 years since BBC Online was born. At about the same time, the BBC's news website also went live. The number of people visiting the news site has grown enormously over the years, and here you can see how traffic has increased, spiking at key news events, and how the appearance of the site's front page has changed over the years too. Meanwhile, for the 15th anniversary, the BBC's Director of Future Media Ralph Rivera has blogged about the significance of BBC Online today and the continuing importance of innovation to the BBC.

Steve Herrmann is editor of the BBC News website.

BBC World News will soon be available in Burma. Those are words that, even six months ago, I would not have imagined writing. But Burma, a byword for media censorship and repression, is starting to open up.

In September I visited Burma to begin the negotiations which led to this breakthrough in BBC distribution. I was struck by how rapid the media changes are for a country where state media had been long stuck in a repressive timewarp.

A World Service team visited the state broadcaster. We saw the most surreal newsroom I have ever visited. There were no journalists there. "Why not?" we asked. "We don't need them yet. The news hasn't arrived."

We learnt the news is literally delivered once a day by the state news agency. The job of the journalists was to read it out, word for word, unaltered.

But those journalists and editors are now keen to have the BBC's help in learning about open and balanced journalism. It will be a long road, given the ingrained habits of censorship and self-censorship.

But the BBC, through its pioneering media development charity BBC Media Action, is able to offer training to editors and journalists to teach them what independent journalism is. Even officials from the Ministry of Information, the former censors, asked if they could go on BBC journalism courses. Alongside the desire for training, the opening up of Burma to international broadcasters is naturally to be welcomed.

However, there is a long way to go. The massively popular BBC Burmese service, which we estimate is listened to by more than eight million people a week, is not yet allowed to broadcast within Burma. It is transmitted only on shortwave, faithfully listened to, as Aung San Suu Kyi has done for so many years. We urge the government to fully open its airwaves.

And we told the Burmese government that the BBC would continue to scrutinise the country closely. Indeed, as it becomes possible for our journalists to travel within the country, reports such as Fergal Keane's recent searing Newsnight film on human rights abuses in Rakhine state, will form a key part of the BBC's role in the country.

We will also continue to report the progress being made in the political and economic spheres.

At this early stage of opening up, it is hard to know if the hopes of media freedom will be fulfilled, but it is at least an encouraging sign that the BBC can now report from and to the country in English.

Authoritarian governments everywhere are asking themselves if they can and should hold back the free flow of news any more. And, as they ask themselves these questions, politicians, officials and journalists are looking to the BBC as the international exemplar of quality, impartial and independent journalism.

Peter Horrocks is the director of BBC Global News

But school leaders do not agree on how quickly the government should be pacing itself.

Drew Povey's school was featured on the 2017 Channel 4 documentary series.

A 17-year-old student was hailed as a genius, until it emerged she'd cheated.

Richard Russell was named on official documents as the boss of the online ticketing site.

The BBC has "agreed in principle a contract extension through to the 2026 World Cup," with Lineker.

Plus, Bishop calls on Archbishop to resign over Church abuse scandal.

Nik is worried assisted dying could lead to coercion - but Elise, who has cancer, wants the choice.

The first book set in space to win, Orbital follows astronauts in the International Space Station.

The warming impact of the vapour trails that emerge from airplanes is being discussed at climate gathering.

The Paralympic torch design has a mirrored finish so its colour adapts to its surroundings and also shines.

ParalympicsGB name three sets of brothers in their boccia, judo and powerlifting squads for the 2012 Games

The former One Direction star has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Argentina.

The BBC's Georgina Rannard shows a virtual rendition of Valeriana - which has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under the jungle canopy in Mexico.

El Litoral prison is notorious for its deadly confrontations between members of rival gangs.

Geraint Thomas writes for BBC Sport after beating Australia to team pursuit gold in Melbourne thriller

Joanna Rowsell, Dani King and Laura Trott follow their male counterparts in defeating Australia for world team pursuit gold.

Chris Boardman tells the BBC he will end his nine-year association with British Cycling after London 2012.

British Cycling head coach Shane Sutton says Geraint Thomas should race in the Tour de France instead of going for a second Olympic gold.

Enzo Maccarinelli is ordered to a rematch against Shane McPhilbin for the British cruiserweight title.

Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard implores Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao to fight, for the sake of their own legacies.

Guernsey's Lee Merrien is in the form of this life as he prepares to try and qualify for the Olympics in Sunday's London Marathon.

Left me pondering

The Russian Government has disclosed that both Luxembourg and Malta have agreed to change their double tax agreement with Russia to increase withholding tax rates on cross-border dividends and interest income.

The Russian Government has announced the signing of a double tax Protocol with Malta, to increase the amount of tax that Russia may collect at source on cross-border payments of dividends and interest to 15 percent.

At its December 22 plenum, Russia's lower house of parliament approved revisions to the country's double tax agreements with Cyprus and Luxembourg.

Hong Kong's Legislative Council has passed a bill to reduce the profits tax for certain insurance businesses.