A fire broke out at the COP30 venue in Belém, halting the UN's climate talks. Metaphors like this only threaten to become more heavy-handed as the crisis goes on

Brand new episode hosted by Gabby Logan, with Cathy Newman and Nish Kumar, tonight at 9pm on BBC One & iPlayer!

The official Covid inquiry has found that Dominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street, by insisting on bringing up politics at those lockdown parties

MI5 has alerted MPs to Chinese spies adding them on Linkedin, who they warn often use “false personas”, and may even be leaving “spy” off their experience section

Nigel Farage has brushed off allegations of racist behaviour during his teenage years, urging people to focus on the terrible things he says now

MI5 has warned of Chinese spies gathering intelligence on the British parliament, making them the only ones who know what’s going on there

A Cloudflare blackout brought down a number of apps including X today. So if you can’t see this, that’s probably why

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: the Epstein files after Trump’s sudden call to release them

A home office minister says their new asylum plans will help ensure people enter legally and integrate. Labour plans to set an example by fully integrating with Reform UK

Half of all jobs shed since Labour came to power are among the under-25s, according to the Guardian. We’d normally do a tweet about it but there’s no intern

Jeff Bezos has launched his NASA mission to Mars, kicking off a new space race with Elon Musk. A winner might be hard to decide, given many of Musk’s fans don’t believe the first space race happened

Japan’s prime minister said she gets two hours of sleep a day due to the pressures of leading, but others have found ways around this

Rachel Reeves has renewed her commitment to making 'hard choices' on the economy, by making a new one every day

As the longest ever US government shutdown comes to an end, the Democrats have finally shown they’ll take action – when their job is to do nothing

Wes Streeting compared the rumours of his plot to become PM with Celebrity Traitors - except to be on that, the public needs to know who you are

New documents show Peter Mandelson was in contact with Jeffrey Epstein over email until 2016. More recently, they've been forced to change their means of communication

The UK has paused ‘intelligence sharing’ with the US following concerns over American military strikes against boats in the Caribbean. In response the US has paused ‘intelligence having’

Following Wes Streeting’s sudden popularity boost, the rest of the cabinet hopes Keir Starmer's aides will ‘kneecap’ them too

Figures released by the AA Driving School revealed that two people have taken their practical test 37 times without passing. Only one person has done more U-turns

Chinese-made buses in the UK are to be investigated due to the possibility they could be remotely “stopped or rendered inoperable” by their manufacturer. Though this wouldn’t explain how they made all the others late

An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”

As President Trump’s $1billion legal deadline looms on Friday, BBC execs wonder where the money is going to come from

At the Grand Sumo Tournament in London, winner Yokozuna Hoshoryu prepares for a quick victory snack of sushi

After another early defeat, with more injuries and medical time-outs, British women’s tennis Number One Emma Raducanu shows fighting spirit before her next tournament

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to democracy activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela – in unrelated news, US announces 10,000% trade tariff on Venezuela

ABTA says more holidaymakers are using AI to plan their trips – but it still can’t do realistic hand luggage

At Conference, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch reveals a bold new initiative: not the usual three-word slogan, but a four-word slogan (with one word repeated, and then the whole thing done twice)

Kemi Badenoch:                                                  On herself, Sep. 2024: “I don’t have gaffes. I never have to clarify, because I think very carefully about what I say.”        On Brexit, Oct. 2025: “The last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave”

Britain is paying the highest electricity prices in the world for the second year running – Net Zero, is how many good ideas this guy has

A company linked to Baroness Mone has to pay £122m in damages after supplying Covid PPE sterile gowns that weren’t sterile – that’s plastic surgical gowns, not those velvet, ermine, fur, silk and gold-lace gowns, those are fine

At Labour’s Conference, an unapologetic Keir Starmer announces drastic cuts – traditional three-word slogans are to be slashed by 33%

GAZA LATEST: the so-called peace plan is limited by Netanyahu ‘forcibly resisting’ the notion of Palestine’s statehood, and having Trump’s backing on any future action – so, exactly the same deal Trump has with Putin over Ukraine

ITV celebrates 70 years on air by broadcasting lots of archive content – featuring the likes of Sir Bruce Forsyth, who was lured out of retirement to host 1955’s opening night

EasyJet have suspended a pilot for walking around a hotel naked, as an investigation begins into his inability to put away his landing gear

Over 70s will soon have to pass an eye test to keep driving, as the government realises that pensioners are more of a threat on the road than on a demo

Cash for access scandal: people paying £9.5k to access 'influential government policy makers', although so far they've only met Labour MPs

Angela Rayner wants to give local councils the right to sell off allotments, although she will make exceptions for anyone growing potatoes for vodka

A new biography is making some bold accusations about the Royal Family. Prince Andrew comes across as an insensitive, vulgar bully. So it'll be interesting to see how he's portrayed in the book

A child has been born using an embryo frozen in 1994, making it 'the world's oldest baby', although it's already facing some stiff competition for the title

Heathrow has moved a step closer to building a third runway or, given current problems with getting planes off the ground, Britain's most expensive parking space

Angela Rayner's housing department has spent a record £4.7m on air travel. When Labour promised more homes, no-one thought they meant second ones for airline bosses

The BBC announces it will air the latest series of MasterChef: re-editing doesn't get tougher than this

In a speech yesterday Nigel Farage said Britain needs "a bit more fear", and then obliged by unveiling policies he'd bring in as Prime Minister

A government report into British water companies has concluded they are not operating efficiently. No shit, would be a good starting point

Keir Starmer has suspended four Labour MPs for voting against him, with one source accusing them of, "persistent knobhead-ery", and you wouldn't want that spreading across parliament

New reports in Washington suggest The President is starting to doubt Vladimir Putin has honest intentions, showing, once again, that nothing gets past Donald Trump

As the government announces a bold new policy to tackle unwanted visitors, Keir Starmer spots the opportunity to get the ball rolling

Social Media platform X has deleted pro-Nazi comments made by its AI Chatbot Grok, as it remains a complete mystery where it got those ideas from

Emmanuel Macron says the migrant crisis can be solved by 'making Britain less appealing', something Labour have been working on tirelessly since they came to power

Airports have begun lifting the ban on carrying more than 100ml of liquids. Good news for passengers, bad news for flight attendants on the Glasgow to Alicante route