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- We spent thousands on a Tui river cruise but ended up on coach trips
[7 hours old]: Passengers have described their anger after their itineraries changed to involve hours spent on coach trips instead.

- Three people killed in Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia airports, officials say
[2 hours old]: The Houthis have claimed responsibility for the attacks, which mark an escalation in the conflict.

. Aviation faces hotter, stormier skies – and passengers might have to accept more disruption
[775 hours old]: Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?

. Fears coastal town road closure could leave Watchet 'desolate'
[22 hours old]: Businesses in Watchet are concerned by the closure of the main road into Watchet.

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- Burnham to hold security talks with German chancellor in Berlin
[1 hours old]: Downing Street said deeper co-operation in the face of rising hybrid threats from Russia would be high on the agenda during Burnham's first official visit to Germany.

* Syrian general accused of atrocities paid and protected by US and Lebanon, BBC finds
[1 hours old]: Bassam al-Hassan, linked to reporter Austin Tice's abduction, is being sheltered in return for information.





- 'Come all the way' back to EU, French finance minister tells UK
[2 hours old]: Roland Lescure tells the BBC that being in the bloc enables members to better address the challenges facing the world.

* 'Every day there is killing': Gazans face Israeli strikes despite ceasefire as peace deal stalls
[1 hours old]: Many Palestinians are still living in cramped tent cities, with the US plan to end the war largely stalled.

* Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90
[1 hours old]: Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

* UK bluefin tuna comeback shows nature can recover, says WWF
[1 hours old]: The tuna is one of several wildlife recoveries highlighted in a major new report from WWF.

- Trump wants a new Camp David-like retreat at his Florida golf club
[3 hours old]: Trump's estate would stand in stark contrast to the rustic Camp David and mark another tradition transformed by Trump.

- Watch: What we know about Christa Pike's ‘shock’ recovery in hospital
[10 hours old]: The US death row inmate's legal team said at a press conference that she is now "conscious and speaking" after her failed execution.

- Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests dies
[6 hours old]: Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.

- 'Stop throwing shade' - the woman trying to stop firms leaving the UK
[7 hours old]: British people need more incentives to invest in big firms listed in the UK, Dame Julia Hoggett, boss of the London Stock Exchange, says.

- Hedgehog among four animals chosen to feature on new banknotes
[7 hours old]: The decision comes after nearly half a million people voted on a shortlist of 18 creatures.

* 'I was blamed for my baby's death now NHS needs to change'
[0 hours old]: Neil and Katie Russell are working with the hospital where their daughter died on the scheme.

* Watch: The extreme motorsport where women keep winning
[0 hours old]: Swedish driver Susanne Callin has won the European Top Fuel championship for the second year in a row. Is drag racing the first gender-equal sport?


* Why hotter summers are making British potatoes smaller
[0 hours old]: Farmers say yields are down because they have had to harvest smaller potatoes earlier than normal.

- France's school protests: What lies behind the anger
[2 hours old]: Students' blockades and marches spring from real grievances – and from France's habit of settling policy on the street.

- The Papers: 'Kemi's family home pledge' and 'Badenoch invokes core Tory values'
[2 hours old]: Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch's speech at the Tory conference dominates Thursday's papers.

- How toxic haze is causing Singapore’s landmarks to disappear
[8 hours old]: The BBC’s Tessa Wong breaks down how one of Indonesia’s worst wildfire seasons is impacting countries around South East Asia.

- She made India fall in love with women's cricket - now her era as captain is over
[6 hours old]: The skipper who led India to the historic 2025 World Cup win has stepped down from her role in all three formats.

- AI chip boom pushes Samsung profits to record bn
[4 hours old]: The tech giant is also expected to get a boost from its latest folding devices that were launched in August.

- Guardiola set to attend Man City's first home game since club's guilty verdict
[10 hours old]: Pep Guardiola managed Manchester City for a decade, leaving in the summer, and has backed the club's owners since the verdict.

- Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expected to face more charges this week
[7 hours old]: The new charges are expected to accuse Maduro and his wife of playing a role in the torture of Americans in Venezuelan prisons, US media reports.

- Israelis mourn 7 October attack victims three years after deadly Hamas raid
[9 hours old]: Memorial events have taken place in Israel on the third anniversary of the Hamas-led attack that sparked the devastating Gaza war.

* Holborn and St Pancras by-election gets under way
[0 hours old]: Voters in north London are going to the polls to choose a new MP after Sir Keir Starmer resigned.

- New York court hears arguments in ongoing 9/11 families' lawsuit against Saudi Arabia
[7 hours old]: The families allege that men with links to the Saudi government helped those who carried out the 2001 attacks, something the country denies.

* Inside the £1-an-hour official football shirt factories
[0 hours old]: A BBC Sport investigation traces official football shirt production to factories in Cambodia where workers are paid less than £1 an hour.

* Faster than F1: The extreme motorsport where women keep winning
[0 hours old]: Top Fuel drag racing is the only elite motorsport class where women frequently beat men to major titles.

- Rahm to leave LIV Golf over 'unacceptable' terms
[9 hours old]: Jon Rahm will leave LIV Golf after deeming the terms for LIV 2.0 "unacceptable", his lawyer has told a bankruptcy court hearing.

- Guardiola set to attend Man City's first home game since guilty verdict
[10 hours old]: Pep Guardiola managed Manchester City for a decade, leaving in the summer, and has backed the club's owners since the verdict.

- Do England already have their Kane replacement - or is he yet to emerge?
[14 hours old]: Harry Kane's record-breaking England career can't go on for ever. But do the Three Lions already have a ready-made replacement?

- How an 'absolute fluke' exposed sandpapergate scandal
[15 hours old]: How a team of South Africa camera operators discovered Australia's sandpapergate scandal as it happened.

- Compulsory media duties like something in an autocracy - Venter
[14 hours old]: Saracens' Brendan Venter compares Prem Rugby's media obligations to "something from an autocratic land" after reluctantly speaking at a press conference.

- What independence could mean for oil-rich Alberta's economy
[7 hours old]: Albertans vote this month on staying in Canada or moving ahead to a binding independence referendum.

* New electric car 'make or break for Jaguar'
[1 hours old]: Prof David Bailey says there is a lot riding on the Type 01 in terms of jobs and investment.

- OpenAI says teen ChatGPT use limited but research finds it an 'unacceptable risk'
[9 hours old]: The research found that important guardrails for teens using ChatGPT often failed.

- Boots sold in £7bn deal to Canadian billionaire family
[13 hours old]: The sale of the High Street chain was announced on Wednesday.

- Japan beer giants raided over alleged price-fixing cartel
[5 hours old]: Asahi, Sapporo, Kirin and Suntory confirmed to the BBC that their premises had been searched by the Japanese competition authority.

- Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes
[15 hours old]: Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.

* Hygiene poverty at tipping point, charity warns
[1 hours old]: The BBC hears people "you would not expect" can no longer afford items to be clean and healthy.

* Funding to help more people access healthy food
[1 hours old]: Local authorities in Hull and Lincolnshire have each been given £220,000.

- Fuel prices added to Google Maps as petrol and diesel costs soar
[6 hours old]: A search for forecourts will now display their pricing, using the government's Fuel Finder scheme.

- No child should have to learn in a cold classroom - children's commissioner
[13 hours old]: The EA suggests cost-saving measures as it warns school gas and electricity bills are set to rise.

* New vape tax made me swap e-cigs for dartboards
[1 hours old]: The Vaping Product Duty will be imposed at a rate of £2.20 per 10ml of e-liquid from April 2027.

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. Brad Pitt stars as a raw recruit on a dangerous mission in WWII
[366 hours old]: Film following a battle-hardened US tank crew taking on the enemy’s brutal rearguard action

. Half the harvest, twice the bills: how drought hit farms
[25 hours old]: Farmers gathered much less wheat in 2026 and dairy farmers' costs rose.

. Ex-bankers jailed for rigging rates have convictions quashed
[16 hours old]: Jay Merchant, Jonathan Mathew, Philippe Moryoussef, Alex Pabon, Colin Bermingham had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.


. Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 jobs
[17 hours old]: The postal service firm wants to cut head office and other non-frontline jobs by the end of 2027.

. Jaguar unveils new electric car after 'woke' ridicule
[22 hours old]: Two years after JLR relaunched Jaguar into a blizzard of controversy, it has launched its new EV.

. Froyo's made a comeback. But at £12 a tub will it last?
[31 hours old]: Frozen yoghurt, which was a huge craze in the 2000s and 2010s, has made its return with multiple chains popping up across the wider UK.

. Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds
[23 hours old]: Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?

. The AI telling farmers when to harvest
[175 hours old]: Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?

. The start-ups hoping to return battery making to the US
[199 hours old]: Batteries based on sodium-ion technology could be made in the US with locally sourced materials.

. X-planes: Are they needed in the new era of drones?
[319 hours old]: Where do America's X-plane projects fit in an era of cheap drones?

. How the oil capital of the US welcomed a solar power boom
[343 hours old]: Texas is now the country's biggest producer of solar-farmed electricity.

. Spain battles climate change on several fronts
[381 hours old]: A summer of wildfires and heatwaves underlines the threats to the country's economy.

. The virtual worlds where robots are trained
[487 hours old]: Training systems that allow robots to negotiate the real world are getting more sophisticated.

. Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?
[511 hours old]: Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic are all now selling their own limited edition fashion lines.

. My hometown shows that high streets have to change or die
[247 hours old]: Aberdeen is launching an ambitious bid to revive its struggling centre. Could it offer lessons for other high streets?

. Europe's car makers are in crisis. Will the threat of war rescue them?
[309 hours old]: Auto executives across Europe hope rearmament can help them flex their industrial muscles once more.

. Why the UK is dithering over what to do about e-scooters
[1854 hours old]: Why is it taking so long for the government to regulate them, and what are the consequences of delay?

. Why Gen Z are planning for life without a state pension
[2383 hours old]: Many younger people do not believe the state pension will exist when they are older

. How much is your salary?
[72 hours old]: And would you reveal it in a job interview?

. Watch: Why has UK diesel price hit an all time high?
[133 hours old]: Diesel has now hit an average of £2 a litre in the UK, the RAC motoring group says, with petrol prices also rising.