Andrew Peach

Here's Ella Bicknall.

Here's Ella Bicknall.

Ella Bicknell reporting. On an earlier Global News podcast, we told you about the upcoming planetary parade, a once-in-a-blue-moon event where all seven planets in our solar system line up in a row. Well, the alignment is happening this week. It's so rare, it'll be decades before stargazers will get another chance to see it. Here's our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh.

Ella Bicknell reporting. On an earlier Global News podcast, we told you about the upcoming planetary parade, a once-in-a-blue-moon event where all seven planets in our solar system line up in a row. Well, the alignment is happening this week. It's so rare, it'll be decades before stargazers will get another chance to see it. Here's our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh.

Paolo Gauche, and apologies if you're listening in the Arctic Circle or other northern latitudes where this phenomenon won't be visible. That's all from us for now. There'll be a new edition of Global News to download later. If you'd like to comment on this edition and the stories we included, drop us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.

Paolo Gauche, and apologies if you're listening in the Arctic Circle or other northern latitudes where this phenomenon won't be visible. That's all from us for now. There'll be a new edition of Global News to download later. If you'd like to comment on this edition and the stories we included, drop us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.

On X, we are at BBC World Service, and you can use the hashtag Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll. The producer was Ella Bicknell. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Andrew Peach. Thanks for listening, and until next time, goodbye.

On X, we are at BBC World Service, and you can use the hashtag Global News Pod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll. The producer was Ella Bicknell. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Andrew Peach. Thanks for listening, and until next time, goodbye.

Education systems are different in every country. To explain in the US, we're talking about tens of thousands of dollars here.

Education systems are different in every country. To explain in the US, we're talking about tens of thousands of dollars here.

Education systems are different in every country. To explain in the US, we're talking about tens of thousands of dollars here.

And just explain to us where the scholarship money comes from.

And just explain to us where the scholarship money comes from.

And just explain to us where the scholarship money comes from.

Do you think you appreciate the place you've got there more because of how hard you had to work to get it?

Do you think you appreciate the place you've got there more because of how hard you had to work to get it?

Do you think you appreciate the place you've got there more because of how hard you had to work to get it?

They have been having a fairly informal discussion about the implications of the Trump administration's blizzard of diplomacy and of rhetoric, which has made a lot of European leaders very nervous, both about the short-term issue of a potential ceasefire deal, even a peace deal, cooked up between Russia and America without proper input from Europe and from Ukraine.

They have been having a fairly informal discussion about the implications of the Trump administration's blizzard of diplomacy and of rhetoric, which has made a lot of European leaders very nervous, both about the short-term issue of a potential ceasefire deal, even a peace deal, cooked up between Russia and America without proper input from Europe and from Ukraine.

They have been having a fairly informal discussion about the implications of the Trump administration's blizzard of diplomacy and of rhetoric, which has made a lot of European leaders very nervous, both about the short-term issue of a potential ceasefire deal, even a peace deal, cooked up between Russia and America without proper input from Europe and from Ukraine.