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'Washington Post' CEO departs after going AWOL during massive job cuts Washington Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis has departed just days after the newspaper announced massive layoffs.

Washington Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis has departed just days after the newspaper announced massive layoffs.

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

The Taliban rift at the top of the leadership in Afghanistan The Taliban leader once warned of a split: A BBC investigation reveals how attitudes to women, the internet and religion are dividing the group at the very top.

Rift at top of the Taliban: BBC reveals clash of wills behind internet shutdown

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Chris Rea, Driving Home for Christmas and Road to Hell singer, dies at 74 The singer died in hospital on Monday following a short illness, his family said in a statement.

Driving Home for Christmas singer Chris Rea dies aged 74 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

> Starting in uni, it is the soundtrack to my annual pilgrimage home for the best time of year. Thanks for the tune. 🚘 🎄

'It's ruined my life': Flat-owner says building work by freeholder has left her homeless A botched roof extension caused the ceiling to collapse at Kate Morris’s top-floor flat.

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The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires

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'Prof Ashton found the evidence he was looking for when he wandered away from the main dig to have a sit down under a tree.'

Parents threatened by authorities as 1,000 adopted children returned to care Families seeking help for their children’s complex needs describe threats of police action against them.

Parents threatened and blamed by authorities as 1,000 adopted children returned to care

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"What if we just can't do this any more?" The social worker's reply came without a moment's hesitation: "You'll be prosecuted for child abandonment."

Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.

Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war
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Crime network behind UK mini-marts is enabling migrants to work illegally Undercover reporters were told how easy it was to make big profits selling illegal vapes and cigarettes.

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Train hero who saved passengers during attack named The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.

The train worker who intervened during a knife attack has been named as 48-year-old Samir Zitouni.

British Transport Police described his response as “nothing short of heroic” and credited him with saving multiple lives.

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Sudan war: Reports of mass killings in el-Fasher in Darfur have echoes of country's dark past Some are warning of a genocide unfolding in Darfur - violence that is linked to killings there 20 years ago.

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BBC 'deeply concerned' about journalist unable to leave Vietnam The journalist has been in Vietnam for several months while authorities have withheld their renewed passport.

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Archive on 4 - A People's History of Gaza - BBC Sounds Gaza's history, from the 1940s to the 2010s, told through the memories of ordinary people

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 👇 an excellent listen

MindsEye: How ex-Grand Theft Auto boss’s grand vision became a £200m flop Lesley Benzies was one of the architects behind one of the most successful video games in history.

This month between 250-300 people lost their jobs at the company, which had 448 employees at the end of 2024.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year: snapping the world's rarest hyena Photographer Wim van den Heever got the winning shot beside an abandoned diamond mining settlement.

Featuring a white rhino embryo, observant beetle and scene-stealing rodent

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Performative male contest London: Best crowned after Soho Square event Competitors with tote bags full of sanitary pads and feminist literature faced off in central London.

He reads, buys flowers and plays the ukulele. A dream man or is it all a performance?

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YouTube video by BBC The BBC Calls For Access To Gaza

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

Britain is getting hotter – but are air conditioners the answer? Air-con sales are rising but there are fears over its medical, financial and environmental impacts.

Brits are buying more air-con units after another roasting summer - due to be hottest ever recorded - and I tried to find out if it was worth getting one too.

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Marineland orcas: Male 'sexually stimulated' to avoid inbreeding Wikie, 24, and her 11-year-old son Keijo still don't have a new home despite months of wrangling.

It's all getting rather weird at Marineland Antibes, where two orcas are kept in a shuttered marine zoo.

The place closed in January but nobody can agree where the pair should be moved to. A bureaucratic nightmare, it seems, with no end in sight.
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Methanol poisoning: Man saw kaleidoscopic light before going blind Calum Macdonald and the families of three people who died in South East Asia call on the Foreign Office for clearer travel advice.

I saw a kaleidoscopic light before going blind, says survivor of Laos methanol poisoning www.bbc.com/news/article...

VJ Day: The WW2 veteran who moved Queen Camilla to tears Yavar Abbas reflects on his experiences on the front line - and the wars engulfing the world today.

An Indian nationalist who fought for the Empire against the fascists - a truly remarkable story
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Beels: Murrayfield anthem could have been the worst moment of my career, instead it's the highlight Beels: Murrayfield anthem could have been the worst moment of my career, instead it's the highlight

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Working class students divided on civil service summer internship reform Some feel left out of a new government jobs scheme, but others are excited about the opportunity to get into the civil service.

Spoke to four students on why they want to work for the civil service, what it means to be working class and where they go now after reforms to the summer internship programme.
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Cross-channel migrant-smuggling gang exposed by BBC undercover filming Exclusive: Secret filming reveals smugglers' forest hideout and cash deals at UK train station.

Violent Channel-smuggling gang's French and UK network exposed by undercover BBC investigation

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> public buses, cash in envelopes and deals in Birmingham’s train station

BBC Sounds - Sport's Strangest Crimes - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Sport's Strangest Crimes on BBC Sounds.

Another excellent series from Sport's Strangest Crimes, this time on how South Africa's beloved captain went from helping win games to fixing them. He died in a plane crash shortly afterwards.

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Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

England's Shoaib Bashir (L) and Joe Root celebrate their team's victory on the fifth day of the third Test against India at Lord's cricket ground in London, on July 14, 2025

#BREAKING England beat India by 22 runs to win third Test at Lord's #AFPSports #ENGvIND

Floyd Steadman: Meet the man who inspired British Lions captain Maro Itoje The remarkable story of Floyd Steadman, who inspired British and Irish Lions captain Maro Itoje to play rugby.

Sleeping in sheds, put into care, discovering rugby, captaining Saracens, encouraging Maro - what a story

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London bombings: I survived 7/7, but still see the suicide bomber everywhere Dan Biddle recalls a bright, white flash as a bomb was detonated just metres away from him on a London Underground train.

Eye-opening read from @bbcdomc.bsky.social about a man who was within touching distance of one of the suicide bombers. Amazing how he survived, rebuilt his life and went back to the scene.

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