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Russell says F1 title loss 'tough to deal with'
George Russell says the way his season "unravelled" while Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli marched to the title have been "tough to deal with".

Fifa to share confidential World Cup sell-off plan documents
Council members will need to travel to Fifa's headquarters in Zurich to see the documents, and will be subject to "strict review protocols".

The US Midterms Unpacked In 39 Minutes
Everything you need to know about the US midterms and what they mean for America.

King's role is not policy making, says Palace in slavery apology row
Buckingham Palace says the King has a unifying role in the Commonwealth rather than making political decisions.

Legal challenge to Australia's social media ban to start in High Court
A rights group will argue the world-leading policy robs under-16s of their right to free communication.

Fake nuclear warning from hacked app sparks unease but not panic in Ukraine
Many Ukrainians, who have faced years of Russian attacks, did not take the messages seriously and doubted their veracity.

Man who drugged and raped wife with strangers 'led double life'
Nine men are on trial accused of helping a Stockport man fulfil "barbaric fantasies" against his wife.

Two boys arrested after Halloween party stabbings
Two teenage boys, both from Southampton, have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

What Florida jet audio and flight data tells us about its final moments
A private jet crashed in Florida on Sunday, killing all nine people on board, according to US authorities.

'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack
Dozens of supermarkets in seven European countries dumped huge quantities of food after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack.

Mahmood scraps settlement plans for migrant care workers
The home secretary laid out a revised proposal for changing when migrants can claim permanent residency.

England call up Spencer and Randall as injuries hit
Ben Spencer and Harry Randall are named in England's squad for this month's Nations Championship after injury hits Alex Mitchell and Archie McParland.

Who produced the kind of performance Moyes loves? - player ratings
Newcastle United and Everton's players rated following their Premier League match.

Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail
Police officers found the animal in the back seat of John McNeil's car on the M74 in Glasgow.

Labour MPs pull their punches on immigration changes
Angela Rayner previously said plans were "un-British" and ministers shouldn't shift "the goalposts".

US midterms campaign 'shattering' spending records to be most expensive ever
The 2026 campaign is projected to cost nearly $12bn - BBC Verify looks into where all that money has come from.

Prosecutors hint at retrial for Lindsay Clancy on murder charges
Judge William Sullivan said if the case is headed to a retrial, that could happen as soon as March 2027.

Fighting returns to Kherson region after longest Ukraine war ceasefire
Though unprecedented, the six-day truce has done little to alter the wider trajectory of a war that continues to grinds on.

MP Carla Lockhart quits DUP in Drumcree row
Lockhart had called for the DUP to remove First Minister Michelle O'Neill from office.

Russian bombing kills 26 people at Ukraine aid centre, Kyiv says
Officials say at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit a southern Ukrainian village in what the president called an "utterly horrific" attack.