Companies exploiting welfare system by using residents as 'cash cows,' BBC finds
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:59:47 GMT
Agents try to attract people on housing benefit by using social media videos that offer free rooms and holidays.
France's government under pressure after widespread violence
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:16:46 GMT
Political tension grips France after rioting marred protests over the cost of living and struggling public services, Katya Adler writes.
Inside the shadowy world of anti-Putin sabotage from within Russia
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:06:25 GMT
Two men tell of the work they say they have been doing to support Ukrainian intelligence during the war.
Watch: Russian saboteur working for Ukraine shares reconnaissance videos
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:28:44 GMT
In a BBC World Service documentary, the man claims to have played a role in drone attacks on his home soil.
Home sellers cut asking prices on 3,000 properties a day
Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:00:45 GMT
More property asking prices are being cut than at any time in 15 years, data shared with the BBC shows.
Watch: Inside Chicago's battle against the synthetic drugs flooding the US
Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:00:22 GMT
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville reports from Chicago, where communities are battling a new wave of synthetic drugs.
NHS bosses say smaller maternity units may have to close
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:24:25 GMT
The NHS Alliance said "difficult decisions" lie ahead and some maternity services may have to be consolidated.
'Postcode lottery' driving children's inequality in England, commissioner warns
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:37:06 GMT
Dame Rachel De Souza's landmark report says children are being failed by a "postcode lottery".
Burnham says youth employment and training crisis is a 'moral failure'
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:40:53 GMT
The UK faces "economic catastrophe" with one million young people not in work or training, the prime minister says.
Funding shortages force World Food Programme to cut aid to Gaza
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:00:18 GMT
The number of people helped by the UN agency in the Palestinian territory will drop by about a third - from 1.6 million to 1.1 million.
