QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Another tournament favourite strides on to the field. RADIO GA GA v SEE WHAT A FOOL I’VE BEEN Saturday game, take it back to basics. Simply, which do you like more? Vote #Gaga or #Fool by 10pm.

Men v Boys. Minuscule likelihood of first round giant killing

The first record I owned (still have the same copy today). Other than playing it over and over I spent so long reading the inner sleeve (which had an early chronology of the band so far). Probably started my love for vinyl, and probably music.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Today.

1/ Moscow's low-flying plane, Monday night. A quick how-we-know-and-you-can-too thread. (Call it OSint if you like.) Videos and live page post from me are here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

The BBC, alongside AFP, AP and Reuters, is again calling for international journalists to be given access to Gaza youtu.be/-cVKQB2aj54?...

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup It's the "mock George Formby" song (@paulmyersbbc.bsky.social) vs Brian May's bug Highlander effort. (@leguape.bsky.social was first to cry "There can be only one") GOOD COMPANY v WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER Vote #Good or #Live by 10pm, by the Blackpool Tower clock.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Last night Stone Cold Crazy went through to Round 2 to face Another One Bites The Dust. But today, will it be: SPREAD YOUR WINGS Or WE WILL ROCK YOU Winner will face A Kind Of Magic. Really, this is a referendum on We Will Rock You. Vote #Naff or #NotNaff

Not Crossrail (Passing through West Ealing)🚂

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Vote! I'm Going #Slightly Mad v #Stone Cold Crazy

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup GO ABSOLUTELY APE (I didn't plan for this) I'm Going Slightly Mad v Stone Cold Crazy Freddie Mercury's later look at his unreal life, up against the early days when the band accidentally invented thrash metal. This will not go quietly.

#BBCNews - Davey urges US cancer scientists to come to UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Obscure one today. Worth dusting off your vinyl, going to your streaming service of choice, or digging out the tape from under your dad’s car seat. A Winter’s Tale or Save Me? I don’t know them, might even have a listen along. Vote #Tale or #Save by 11pm!

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Fixture congestion! Boo the organising committee! The bracketing has thrown two of my top 10 choices together in Round 1. FLASH (which everybody knows and few openly admit is awesome) v DEATH ON TWO LEGS (operatic grandeur mgmt hate anthem) Vote #Flash or #Death!

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Finally, a Saturday kick-off, say the fans. Watergate, Peter Pan and Star Wars up against our first track off (sort-of frontlashing fan favourite later album) Innuendo. Headlong v Bicycle Race

46 years ago today Pennie Smith photographed Paul Simonon of The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979. She made one of the most famous images in (punk) rock history. #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #PaulSimonon #penniesmith #history #punkrockhistory #otd

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Lunchtime kick-off. A pre-tournament favourite enters the arena. It's double '70s-Mercury today. Don't Stop Me Now vs Lily Of The Valley Vote, by 10pm, #Dont or #Lily

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Delayed kick-off, delayed final whitle. Some are already calling it the ALL OR NOTHING game. I Want It All vs Was It All Worth It Both from 1989's The Miracle, one by May, one by Mercury. Vote #Want or #Worth for your favourite.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Ironically, kick off is late for an all-early Queen encounter. Our first Freddie songs! Our first song off A Night At The Opera. Get pomped, it's... Love Of My Life vs Seven Seas Of Rhye Vote #LOML or #SSOR by 9pm!

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Round 1, Game 2 The Roger Taylor Derby! (Farm that youth engagement.) I’M IN LOVE WITH MY CAR vs A KIND OF MAGIC Vote #Love or #Kind by 9pm.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Do they know it’s Christmas time at all? No. It’s full time. Final whistle of the first game. 34-2 it ends, Another One Bites The Dust, an early tournament favourite is through. Absolute scenes. Another game tomorrow.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup It’s 101 days until one of these songs is relevant, an hour for the other one at this rate. Get your votes in before 9pm by the Wembley clock!

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Let me stat you: Another One Bites The Dust is the first of five entries from The Game album in the tournament. Its writer, John Deacon accounts for 10% of entries in the Cup. Brian May, who half wrote Thank God It’s Christmas, has 38%. Vote #AOBTD or #TGIC

On Israel's destruction of prominent buildings in Gaza City w/ @merlynthomas.bsky.social @paulybrown.bsky.social @richib.bsky.social and @sebkilli.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Halfway through the first half, Barry, and you’ve got to say, with the score… Another One Bites The Dust 24 Thank God It’s Christmas 2 …the only question is what music do we play at the end result? (H/t @sixotf.bsky.social) Vote! #AOBTD or #TGIC

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup They say anything can happen in the Queen World Cup, but coming back from 19-1 down is unlikely. Your votes could make it happen! Another One Bites The Dust #AOBTD or Thank God It’s Christmas #TGIC?

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Another One Bites The Dust, a pre-tournament dark horse for the title has strolled, almost sidled into a 12-1 lead over Thank God It’s Christmas from kick off. Camera shots of kids in Santa hats teary-eyed at one end of the ground. Vote! #AOBTD or #TGIC

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Opening game, at Wembley, natch. ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST vs THANK GOD IT’S CHRISTMAS John Deacon’s disco-like stadium anthem or the front-lashing seasonal number, which is better? Vote #AOBTD or #TGIC in reply by 9pm BST!

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Get yer Queen World Cup wallchart! From secret top 10 Queen song selections, we've got 64 contenders. The eight songs most often nom'd were separated, one in each of eight sections. Then the second eight: one in each, and so on. ROUND 1 LOOKS LIKE THIS:

MAGNIFICO-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh! BEATLES WORLD CUP is no more. #BeatlesWorldCup Tomorrow, we kick off the QUEEN WORLD CUP. #QueenWorldCup. A knock-out tournament, songs going head-to-head each day, until we have determined the greatest ever Queen song. Get hyped. Or don't.

'Freddie would have loved it': Queen wow at Last Night of the Proms www.bbc.com/news/article...

Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reminder: SUNDAY we find out which music act is getting the World Cup treatment, a knock-out tournament where all of you get to vote for their best song. Speculate away, but get ready.

Did Russian drones deliberately test Poland's air defences? 1.1m people have watched the BBC Verify round-up on TikTok. @olgar.bsky.social in charge. @matt-murphy96.bsky.social spoke to experts. @paulybrown.bsky.social and I helped. Plus others.

1/ THREAD Global Sumud Flotilla, the strike on the Family vessel, overnight Monday-Tuesday: What @jcheetham.bsky.social, @sryder.bsky.social and I could put together. Or - call it OSint if you like - let me take you through the five videos we're talking about here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

#BBCNews live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2... Poland shoots down Russian drones after 'unprecedented airspace violation'

BEATLES WORLD CUP #BeatlesWorldCup Rap? Country? Disco? So, the band we'll be doing will be announced THIS WEEK. (Speculation is encouraged.) D.M.s from a select few will determine the seeding of songs, and the tournament will kick off MONDAY 18 SEPTEMBER.

The IDF publish video of controlled demolition of around 20 multi-storey buildings in south Gaza city. They say they're destroying a tunnel. IDF vehicles were stationed at this position until very recently, which suggests they could be advancing again. Drone POV about here: 31.495254, 34.462073.

BEATLES WORLD CUP #BeatlesWorldCup Bo, selecta! He tell me there’s another tournament soon. (Date TBC.) Me, I’ll be running it on here, plus some private votes to prevent band-wagoning. An’, as we found Here Comes The Sun is the Beatles’ best, we will determine the greatest song by another band…

This guy, voiced by ‘Weird’ (probably perfectly lovely) @alyankovic.bsky.social

Israel hit Nasser hospital 4 times in its deadly attack on Monday. Analysis with @merlynthomas.bsky.social and Sebastian Vandermeersch. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kyiv, Ukraine: Emergency services said, 3pm local time, 18 people, including four children had been killed in overnight strikes. BBC Verify (me, Peter Mwai, @jcheetham.bsky.social and @paulybrown.bsky.social) verified 16 videos and nine photos. Our live page summary: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

Some context for the headlines about rising plastic bag use in England - yes there was a rise in the most recent data for 2024-25, but it's still below 2021-22 levels and *far* fewer bags are sold than a decade ago...

Gaza City, explosions to the south, from Wednesday. A quick how-we-know / behind-the-scenes thread. Live page post with @emmapengelly.bsky.social: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj... 1/x

The AI-generated image of world leaders waiting at the White House: How did it, and the understanding it was fake, spread around the world? We went through 250+ copies yesterday. BBC Verify live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx... W/ @robcorp.bsky.social and @olgar.bsky.social.

UKRAINE: As leaders gathered in DC yesterday, Russian strikes in three cities killed at least 10 people. Here's our live page summary: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce... Verification with @danict89.bsky.social, let me explain some techniques to show how we knew what we knew. THREAD 1/x

I’m sick of all this pro-beach propaganda: every experience on the beach is actively unpleasant.

At least 146 people have been killed by flooding in northern Pakistan, according to local authorities. Here's what we could confirm, mainly for context, for the Verify LP: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw... (1/) It provides some verification pointers. (Call it OSint if you like.)

Massive explosion, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, overnight Tues-Weds. BBC Verify live page entry with @emmapengelly.bsky.social this morning: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd... But how do we, and how can you, know what's what? (Call it OSint if you like.) THREAD (1/)

A light weekend’s shopping at TFN.