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BBC Verify looks into the shadow chancellor's plan to cut some building regulations to reduce construction costs.

Appointment of experienced troubleshooter follows internal disquiet over delay in replacing Deborah Turness

The BBC has brought in one of its most trusted troubleshooters to oversee BBC News, as it battles concerns about a crisis in trust in mainstream television news coverage.

Rachel Jupp will start her new job almost immediately, after internal frustrations over the time it has taken to replace Deborah Turness, who resigned last year following the fallout from claims of BBC bias.

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The US withdrew its bombers from RAF Fairford after an investigation into an alleged planned terrorist attack on the base. At least 10 B-1 bombers used by the US military in the Iran conflict flew out of Fairford on Sunday, suggesting US officials were taking the threat seriously. Last week, five men in three vans near the military base were arrested, followed by a sixth British-Iranian national. All were released on bail, drawing criticism from the Pentagon. Lucy Hough speaks to Dan Sabbagh, the Guardian’s defence and security editor – watch on YouTube

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Family of Virginia Giuffre criticizes Colorado’s Jeff Crank for voting to block a vote to release the Epstein files

Two relatives of Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent Jeffrey Epstein victims who died last year, appeared in a political attack ad targeting Colorado Republican congressman Jeff Crank, accusing him of refusing to meet with them.

Sky Roberts, Giuffre’s brother, and his wife, Amanda Roberts, expressed disappointment that Crank had voted to block a vote to release the federal investigative files relating to Epstein.

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The leadership team for Skydance, the merged entity of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, will include Bari Weiss, Mark Thompson and Casey Bloys.

"Harlan Coben's Final Twist" is back for a new season of shocking real-life mysteries. The author sits down with "CBS Mornings" to talk about it.

Michael Lewis, who wrote "Moneyball," "The Big Short" and "The Blind Side," sits down with "CBS Mornings" to discuss his new book, "Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State," about Elon Musk's DOGE cuts and government layoffs at the beginning of President Trump's second term.

The men are accused of stealing around 2,700 cats in Ho Chi Minh City, allegedly to be slaughtered for food.

Israel was ready to implement a long-practiced protocol after the captain of a FlyDubai plane was attacked in the cockpit, Israeli sources told CBS News.

Ashmolean museum, Oxford

She’s the ultimate female nude, a Greek goddess who inspired centuries of artists. Yet despite some world-class loans, her story here is jumbled

Botticelli’s Venus has parked her shell outside your house and come to pay a night-time visit. The glowing strands of her hair glitter against blackness as she looks past you at a mystery only she can see, while your eyes follow those river-like locks down to a hand that gathers a looping cascade between her thighs. She is, unmistakably, the goddess from Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus in the Uffizi, Florence. This very similar painting from about 1490, also by Botticelli and his workshop, suggests his Uffizi masterpiece was already such an icon that someone commissioned this version without the zephyrs and green sea, just that goddess body.

So it goes. Venus, in art, is just a word for “female nude”. Botticelli started a modern appetite that has never ended. From his hypnotic paintings a host of lush sex goddesses rose up, or reclined, to rule European art through to Michelangelo Pistoletto’s ironic 1967 assemblage Venus of the Rags, also here, in which a heap of old clothes overflow from a corner around a marble nude seen from behind, the mix of beauty and chaos resembling a rubbish-strewn Naples piazza.

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UN warns US boat strikes in the Caribbean counter-drug war may violate international law and human rights principles.

Demonstrations over housing rights and crumbling schools are a sign the younger generation is withdrawing political consent

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In Spain, tens of thousands of people in 50 cities have taken to the streets amid mounting fury over the country’s housing crisis, their feelings made plain on a banner at the burgeoning protest camp in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol plaza: “You can speculate on watches, jewels, crypto-bros and Ferraris. But not on our fucking homes.”

In France, as high school pupils clash with police in often violent protests over long hours, missing teachers, crumbling classrooms and an opaque university admissions system, the angry slogans include: “More hours in class than for sleep”, “Fund study, not repression” and “I’d like to be worrying about my maths exam, not my future.”

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The extended international break was brought in with player welfare in mind, but has it been a success?

Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will begin her new role at Fox News on Nov. 1.

The latest in our series of writers’ favorite comfort films is a tribute to the lovably quirky 80s musical

The key to a feelgood movie, beyond the necessary rewatchability, is familiarity – the real kind that lets you look away or fall asleep without doubting your affection. Musicals are perfectly suited to this particular subgenre since the majority of them, especially the classic ones adapted for film, atrophy with second-act problems. That’s where writers suddenly remember the plot they’d introduced and drop all that singing and dancing to arrive at some type of conclusion.

The first act of Funny Girl? A near-flawless parade of showstoppers, Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice having the time of her life falling in love. I’ve probably seen it 200 times. The second act … well, who ever cared about her husband’s gambling addiction?

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