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Dumping Lineker is a move the BBC will live to regret

Watching the flagship BBC News at 10 programme on Monday night, you might have been forgiven for thinking all was well in the world - that Gaza was no longer a killing field, that Ukraine was safe from Putin, that the planet had started to cool down.

Stay-away Starmer needs to spend more time at home

You cannot win in politics. When Rishi Sunak became prime minister, he thought it was more important to stay at his desk, working on the people's priorities, than to waste time taking a plane to Sharm el-Sheikh and back for a photo opportunity with world leaders at Cop27.

Welby shouldn't be punished for the crimes of John Smyth

When the world was reeling from the appalling revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012, almost as shocking as his abuse was that so many good people had known about it and said nothing.

Dozens dead as car ploughs into crowd in Chinese city

At least 35 people were killed and 43 others sustained injuries after a man rammed his car into people at a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai.

Toxic smog over Pakistan can now be seen from space

The thick and toxic smog hanging over Pakistan is visible from space, satellite imagery from Nasa confirmed, as recordbreaking levels of air pollution continued to endanger millions.

Israel flouts US demand to help aid operations in Gaza

Israel has failed to meet US demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, where conditions are worse than at any point in the 13-month-long war, a number of international aid organisations have said.

President-elect chooses Pentagon and CIA chiefs

President-elect Donald Trump moved to build out his foreign policy team yesterday, announcing he is nominating Fox News host and army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his defence secretary and John Ratcliffe, former director of National Intelligence, to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.

Shell wins appeal against landmark emissions ruling

A Dutch court has overturned a landmark ruling ordering fossilfuel giant Shell to significantly cut its carbon emissions, in a blow to climate campaigners. In the original 2021 ruling, hailed as a monumental victory” by activists, Shell was ordered to cut its carbon emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 compared to 2019 levels in line with the Paris climate accords.

Azerbaijan points finger at West as it defends Cop29

President Ilham Aliyev says oil is 'gift from God' and that country should host summit. Stuti Mishra reports from Baku

Edinburgh students told not to be 'snobs' to poorer peers

Edinburgh University has warned privileged students not to be \"snobs\" towards their working-class peers. The university has admitted there is a problem of class-related prejudice on campus, with poorer students being \"inadvertently or deliberately shamed by more privileged students\".

Harvey wins Booker Priz for space novel 'Orbital'

Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her poignant novel, Orbital. Ina ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London last night, the writer was presented the award by last year’s winner, Irish author Paul Lynch.

Frank Auerbach, renowned post-war painter, dies at 93

Frank Auerbach, the renowned figurative painter who fled Nazi Germany as a child, has died aged 93. Having escaped to Britain via the Kindertransport scheme, Auerbach enjoyed a highly acclaimed career spanning seven decades, with his works displayed at every major national gallery around the world.

Campaign to return bible to Salisbury receives £10k gift

A campaign to return a 13th-century copy of the Bible to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral has been hailed by the culture secretary as an example of our country at its best” as it received a 10,000 donation.

NHS pill to help thousands.avoid death from smoking

A daily pill designed to help people give up smoking will soon be rolled out on the NHS as experts hope it could prevent thousands of smoking-related deaths a year.

Hospital league tables to return in NHS reforms

Failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve patient care and take control of finances, the health secretary will say today.

Gray rejects offer of envoy job in fresh blow to Starmer

Sue Gray has turned down Sir Keir Starmer's offer to become the prime minister's envoy for the nations and regions, No 10 said, in yet another blow to the prime minister as questions continue about his Downing Street operation.

Truss was bracing for 'Putin to launch nuclear weapons'

Vladimir Putin was so close to using nuclear weapons in October 2022 that Liz Truss spent the dying days of her premiership preparing for the potential fallout, an updated version of her biography has claimed.

Tories take narrow poll lead after Badenoch's first week

The Conservatives have taken a two-point poll lead over Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party in Kemi Badenoch's first week as leader.

Starmer pledges to slash carbon emissions by 81%

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump are on a collision course over the climate crisis after the prime minister yesterday positioned himself as the international leader spearheading efforts to achieve net zero.

Why has the Archbishop of Canterbury had to resign?

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has resigned over allegations - some of which he has accepted - that he failed to act against a prolific and sadistic paedophile, John Smyth, who had been associated with the Church of England for decades. A number of Welby’s more senior colleagues have openly called for him to stand down, while others remained silent, and the general unease has become deafening.

Welby quits over 'failures' in Church abuse scandal

Archbishop submits to pressure from clergy and PM

It's the unmade Rocky film with a twist... roll up, folks

There is no hate, no love, the gloves are big and the rounds will be short when Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight on Friday night.

While rivals hit the buffers, Liverpool deserve their lead

Alexis Mac Allister can have a footballing eloquence. His job involves reading the game.

United's ship steadied, now Amorim hits deeper waters

It may be the way all Manchester United managers imagine their reign ending.

Supermarket shoppers will soon find ‘every little hurts'

Is chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to hike employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) about to hit us all – and right in the supermarket baskets?

Barclays warns tax rise will hit workers' living standards

Business leaders accuse government of betraying the nation’

How Gary Barlow became accidental king of memes

The singer is currently enjoying a load of nice days out’ on his new travel show. It’s the latest step in his reinvention as an inadvertent icon of hun culture’, says Katie Rosseinsky

Brothers grim: on the dark world of Nineties boybands

As anew documentary series reveals what it was really like to ride the pop train to stardom, Jessie Thompson remembers her own youthful obsession and looks behind the curtain

Cast iron catnip for Gen Z's aspirations of adulthood

Police had to be called after hundreds of frenzied shoppers descended on a cookware sale this weekend. Helen Coffey dons oven gloves to tackle the LeCreuSlay phenomenon

'Some boys wet themselves, some wanted their mothers'

Reckless exposure to atomic weapons tests left young men and later, their children suffering from debilitating illness and disability. Zoé Beaty reports on the long fight for justice