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- Cracked windscreen forces US defence secretary's plane to land in UK
[3 hours old]: The Pentagon says Hegseth and other military leaders on board, who were travelling back from a Nato meeting, are safe.

. How will the EU's new border system work?
[87 hours old]: The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.

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* Government publishes key witness statements in collapsed China spy case
[0 hours old]: Deputy national security adviser concluded China was "highly capable and conduct large-scale espionage operations against the UK".

- Hamas returns two more bodies but says it cannot retrieve remaining dead hostages
[2 hours old]: The group's armed wing says it has returned all the bodies of hostages it can reach in the ruins of Gaza.

- Funeral director admits fraud charges after inquiry into human remains at his premises in Hull
[7 hours old]: Robert Bush denied 30 counts of preventing lawful burials but admitted fraud charges.

- 'Worse than starting from scratch': How big is the task of rebuilding Gaza?
[5 hours old]: BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take bn and decades to repair.

- Giuffre accuses 'entitled' Andrew in posthumous book
[1 hours old]: Virginia Giuffre, who took her life earlier this year, gives her account of meeting Prince Andrew.

- Reeves says she is looking at tax rises ahead of Budget
[8 hours old]: The chancellor also said she was considering further measures on public spending, in a bid to put the UK's finances on a firmer footing.

* Celia Imrie's fart steals the show on Celebrity Traitors
[1 hours old]: The veteran actress blamed nerves for her releasing wind at a tense moment during the game.

- Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m
[4 hours old]: PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

- Dozens in court over alleged support of Palestine Action
[3 hours old]: About 2,000 people are likely to be charged, meaning 400 trials could need to be held.

- Man who murdered girlfriend in hot tub is jailed for life
[7 hours old]: Aren Pearson will spend at least 25 years in jail for stabbing Claire Leveque to death in Shetland in 2023.

- Ukraine imposes blackouts in most regions after Russian power grid attacks
[4 hours old]: This will be the fourth consecutive winter of outages since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

- 'Time to begin healing together': Israeli hostage couple reunited after 738 days
[11 hours old]: Avinatan Or and Noa Argamani were kidnapped from the Nova music festival on 7 October2023 but held in separate locations.

- Watch: Freed detainee finds family alive after thinking they had been killed
[10 hours old]: Shadi Abu Sido told the BBC an Israeli prison officer said his family had been killed.

- Gaza experts work to identify bodies of 90 Palestinians returned by Israel
[7 hours old]: Under the Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel has agreed to hand over the bodies of 15 Palestinians in return for every dead Israeli hostage.

- Trump demands Hamas disarm as group moves to assert control with public execution
[13 hours old]: BBC Verify analyses footage of Hamas fighters in Gaza, including one of an execution in the centre of Gaza City.

- After the PM's appearance at PMQs, what more do we know about the collapsed China spy case?
[8 hours old]: The detail of this story is enormously complicated, and it is possible the release of witness statements do not signal the end of the saga.

- D'Angelo: A musical pioneer who reshaped soul
[10 hours old]: The singer, who has died aged 51, was credited with creating the album that became the genre's blueprint.

- 'I never used the word retirement' - Daniel Day-Lewis is back on screen after a seven-year break
[15 hours old]: The three-time Oscar winner appears in the family drama Anemone, his first film since 2017's Phantom Thread.

- Controversial UK oil field publishes full scale of climate impact
[8 hours old]: The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2.

- Watchdog urges Phillipson to speed up trans guidance
[6 hours old]: The equalities watchdog says updated guidance on single-sex spaces needs to be approved quickly.

- Student arrested after chanting about putting Zionists 'in the ground'
[7 hours old]: Video appears to show Samuel Williams allegedly leading the chant at a pro-Palestinian march in London.

- UK targets Russian oil market in fresh sanctions
[7 hours old]: The government has also targeted a major Indian energy company and Chinese oil terminals in new sanctions.

- Bankers to get bonuses faster under rule change
[7 hours old]: The change is a relaxation of rules that were brought in after the 2008 financial crash.

* Six by-election candidates take part in rowdy debate
[1 hours old]: The takeaways from BBC Wales' head-to-head with six of next week's Senedd by-election candidates.

- Uni cricket club suspended over 'degrading' initiation event
[7 hours old]: Cardiff Students' Union said it would not tolerate "intimidating or degrading behaviour".

- England's lucky escape - what are the problems to address?
[3 hours old]: After a near-miss against Pakistan, England are unlikely to survive any more batting scares with their toughest opponents in India and Australia on the horizon.

- 'Mercedes deals end Verstappen speculation - for now'
[6 hours old]: The spectre of Max Verstappen has hung heavily over both Mercedes drivers this season - and over Britain's George Russell more so than rookie Kimi Antonelli.

- Icon, trailblazer & Wales hero - Fishlock's seismic legacy
[7 hours old]: On the eve of her international retirement, a look at how Wales midfielder Jess Fishlock's seismic impact has gone beyond her remarkable on-pitch exploits.

- GB men's basketball team barred from internationals
[6 hours old]: Basketball's world governing body Fiba suspends the British Basketball Federation and bars the British men's team from international competition because of governance issues.

- England escape with a point as match against Pakistan is rained off
[6 hours old]: England avoided a shock defeat by Pakistan at the Women's World Cup, being saved by heavy rain in Colombo.

- How are World Cup favourites shaping up - and who will win?
[5 hours old]: Now England have booked their place at the 2026 World Cup attention turns to how they might fare in North America next summer - and how some of their rivals are looking.

* Reeves urged to make Budget 'bold' or risk future tax rises
[0 hours old]: The Institute for Fiscal Studies says Reeves needs to find £22bn to make up a finance shortfall.

- US blasts China as 'unreliable' as trade tensions mount
[6 hours old]: Top Trump administration officials, in an unusual staged attack, called China's plans to curb exports of rare earths "economic coercion".

- Energy standing charge plans could backfire, MPs told
[6 hours old]: Bosses of the UK's biggest energy suppliers were quizzed by MPs about support for their customers as prices rise.

* Netherland's renewables drive putting pressure on its power grid
[0 hours old]: Homes asked to use less electricity as network is overloaded by the rush to wind and solar power.

- As US shutdown starts to bite, how much could it hit economy?
[7 hours old]: As workers start to miss pay, the impact of the shutdown will start to ripple out across industries.

- Vets must publish prices so pet owners not overcharged, watchdog says
[10 hours old]: Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, the Competition and Markets Authority found.

- Royal Mail fined £21m after nearly a quarter of first-class post was late
[12 hours old]: It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued.

- Legal challenge begins against Gatwick expansion
[10 hours old]: Campaign group CAGNE wants to stop the construction of a second operating runway at London Gatwick.

- Post-Brexit rules mean Northern Ireland customers pay more – catering boss
[10 hours old]: Andrew Lynas' comments come as a House of Lords committee finds the Windsor Framework is "impossible to navigate".

- What are the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage and how much are they worth?
[9 hours old]: Three and a half million low-paid workers across the UK benefit from minimum wage rates.

- When is the Budget and what might be in it?
[10 hours old]: Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out her economic plans in her second Budget on 26 November.

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. Pictured: Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025
[24 hours old]: South African photographer Wim van den Heever takes the main prize for his shot

. 'It gave me my voice back': How group singing is helping new mums with postnatal depression
[23 hours old]: New research suggests singing can be clinically effective at treating the symptoms and cost effective for the NHS.

. I said goodnight to my mum's ashes for five months, then I found out it wasn't her
[18 hours old]: Brian Allison says an unexplained mix-up with his mother's ashes tormented his late sister as she battled cancer.

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[24 hours old]: Paralympic swimmer Jess Smith, says representation means being seen as part of the AI world that's being built.

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. Bitcoin worth bn seized in US-UK crackdown on alleged scammers
[19 hours old]: The UK has also frozen assets linked to the alleged scammers, including a £100m London office building.

. Trump says US will not 'waste our time' helping Argentina if Milei loses
[24 hours old]: Trump warns if Milei's coalition is defeated in this month elections, "we are not going to be generous".

. UK will be second-fastest-growing G7 economy, IMF predicts
[27 hours old]: But the UK is also predicted to suffer the highest rate of inflation in the G7 both this year and next.

. Wage growth slows slightly over summer
[37 hours old]: Annual growth in employees' average earnings was 4.7% in the three months to August.

. Personal data potentially stolen in Asahi cyber-attack
[36 hours old]: Asahi is still investigating the full impact of the attack which stalled all its Japanese production.

. Tens of thousands of homes insulated under government schemes need repairs
[40 hours old]: Insulation programmes costing billions of pounds have led to widespread problems with damp and mould.

. Trump tariffs on kitchen cabinets and lumber come into force
[34 hours old]: There are concerns the new levies, meant to protect US manufacturers, could raise housing costs.

. US-China trade tensions back as port fees take effect
[41 hours old]: New US tariffs on imported timber, kitchen cabinets and upholstered furniture also came into effect on Tuesday.

. US shipping chaos: I fear my wedding sari is destroyed
[41 hours old]: Customers worry about missing parcels as shipping companies struggle to handle a flood of packages facing new customs and tariff rules.

. Cyber attack contingency plans should be put on paper, firms told
[36 hours old]: Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

. Vodafone says outage affecting thousands of customers resolved
[38 hours old]: Vodafone said its Monday outage, which knocked broadband and mobile data users offline for several hours, was caused by a "non-malicious software issue".

. Carmakers go on trial over 'dieselgate' emissions cheat claims
[56 hours old]: The trial is the latest chapter of what has become known as the "dieselgate" scandal.

. Lloyds warns car finance scandal could cost it £2bn
[59 hours old]: The bank has set aside an additional £800m, saying the number of eligible claims is expected to be higher than previously thought.

. Reeves urged to avoid 'half-baked' tax fixes in Budget
[61 hours old]: The think tank says the government should seize the opportunity to reform the tax system.

. Why AI is being trained in rural India
[48 hours old]: Smaller Indian towns are becoming centres for training and correcting artificial intelligence models.

. Paraguay – the Silicon Valley of South America?
[71 hours old]: The country hopes to build a big tech sector, fuelled by its vast amount of cheap hydroelectricity.

. How hackers forced brewing giant Asahi back to pen and paper
[118 hours old]: The maker of Japan's most popular beer, Super Dry, was hit by a major cyber-attack last month.

. Has the clock stopped on Swiss US trade?
[144 hours old]: Swiss exporters are looking at new markets after being hit by heavy US tariffs.

. Food firms scramble to meet the high-protein craze
[216 hours old]: The dairy industry rallies and start-ups emerge thanks to the fashion for high-protein foods.

. The indigenous weavers who aim for empowerment over exploitation
[240 hours old]: The makers of Colombia's popular mochila bags can earn good money, but are at risk of being underpaid.

. The people turning to AI for dating and relationship advice
[312 hours old]: More people are turning to AI for help with their relationships, but is that a good idea?

. Hurricane season brings financial fears in the Caribbean
[336 hours old]: As islands brace for this year's big storms, many homes don't have household insurance.

. The picturesque Dutch village set to charge tourists an entry fee
[408 hours old]: Zaanse Schans, popular for its windmills, has a population of just 100 people - but more than two million tourists will have visited this year.

. 'There's no way we can afford 0,000': Small firms scramble over H-1B visa fees
[503 hours old]: Startups and smaller firms could bear the brunt of Trump's new H-1B visa fee, and some fear it could thwart US innovation.

. Zimbabwe is tobacco country. But some think the future lies in blueberries
[432 hours old]: "The future is food, not a bad habit," horticulture specialist Clarence Mwale tells the BBC.

. Libraries to host Halloween costume swap shops
[17 hours old]: The scheme will run until 2 November and aims to help reduce costs for families.

. Child poverty is a 'crisis that cannot be ignored'
[18 hours old]: Public health officials issue an "urgent" call for action to help some 27,000 children in poverty.

. How Milei's 'Thatcherite' economics divided his nation - but won over Trump
[34 hours old]: Ahead of Milei's visit to the White House - amid protests and anger on the streets back at home - Ione Wells unravels the paradox that Argentina's president has created

. Trump's state visit is mired with potential pitfalls despite careful planning
[720 hours old]: Months of preparations have gone into this state visit - but the Lord Mandelson question is not the only concern troubling insiders.

. The UK car industry is at a tipping point - can it be saved?
[1536 hours old]: Tariffs, Brexit, pandemic havoc... All of this caused short-term disruption - but the impact concealed a deeper problem for the UK automotive industry

. Trump's global tariffs 'victory' may well come at a high price
[1824 hours old]: The US president considers it a win - but if this all triggers a foundational realignment, the results may not break in his favour

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