The government has said it is "doing everything in our power" to overturn a ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending a football match in Birmingham and is exploring what additional resources could be required.

On Thursday, Aston Villa said the city's Safety Advisory Group (SAG) decided that fans of the Israeli club should not be permitted to attend the Europa League fixture on 6 November over safety concerns.

Facing mounting pressure to resolve the situation, the government said it was working with police and exploring what additional resources are required.

A meeting of the SAG to discuss the match is expected next week, the Home Office said.

Sir Keir Starmer called the move to block fans attending "wrong", adding "we will "not tolerate antisemitism on our streets", while there has also been criticism from other party leaders.

The SAG - which advises the council on whether to issue safety certificates - will review the decision if West Midlands Police changes its risk assessment for the match, Birmingham City Council said.

On Thursday, West Midlands Police said it had classified the fixture as "high risk" based on current intelligence and previous incidents, including "violent clashes and hate crime offences" between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv fans before a match in Amsterdam in November 2024.

The Home Office was briefed that restrictions on visiting fans might be imposed last week, but the BBC understands officials were not informed about the final decision until Thursday.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the revelation left the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, with "serious questions to answer" about why her department did "nothing" to avert the ban.

She said: "This is a weak government that fails to act when required."

A source close to Mahmood told the BBC that "this is categorically untrue".

"The first time the home secretary knew that the fans were being banned was last night," they added.

A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks.

More than 100 countries had gathered in London to approve a deal first agreed in April, which would have seen shipping become the world's first industry to adopt internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions.

But President Trump had called the plan a "green scam" and representatives of the US administration had threatened countries all week with tariffs if they had voted in favour.

Reflecting the pressure countries faced, the Secretary General of the Internatiobal Maritime Organisation issued a "plea" for this not to be repeated.

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A "superdog" rejected from five homes for his energetic nature has won an international award for his ability to help catch criminals and save wildlife.

Henry, a 10-year-old Springer Spaniel, has been named Animal of the Year by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), which recognises the unsung heroes of animal welfare.

He was rescued by Louise Wilson, of Conservation K9 Consultancy in Wrexham, at eight months old when he was a "lost soul" struggling to find a home.

Now Henry can detect seven scents, ranging from birds of prey to hedgehogs, helping police track down those involved in wildlife crime.

Henry can locate bird carcasses and even small monitoring tags removed from birds, and his nose has helped police target criminals who kill or steal birds of prey.

Although not a police dog, he has been invaluable to the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) in their work protecting birds of prey.

Det Insp Mark Harrison, from the NWCU, said Henry's work is crucial in helping police to gather evidence for potential crimes.

"If we don't recover anything, the investigation grinds to a halt," he said.

"We had a search recently and underneath a load of heather where you couldn't see a thing from the surface, Henry recovered a tiny bird's skull."

Det Insp Harrison also said intelligence showed that offenders are "scared and worried" by the work being done by animals like Henry.

As well as working with police, Henry also helps conservationists with "ecological monitoring", including for pine martens, hedgehogs, otters and water voles.

Louise has worked around the world with dogs detecting firearms, explosives and tobacco, but said Henry was one of a growing number involved in conservation detecting and tackling wildlife crime.

She said Henry's strong will and "unruly energy" make him the perfect detection dog.

"He's got so much energy and drive and as soon as we trained him for conservation detection we were able to give him focus," she said.

Henry was honoured at the 25th Animal Action Awards in London on Thursday, alongside human conservations from around the world.

Wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan, who presented the awards, described Henry as a "superdog", praising Louise's work training him.

"To be able to train a dog like Henry to do the work that he does needs an enormous amount of time, patience, dedication and commitment," she said.

"The two of them together are a formidable team for wildlife protection."

The government has said it is "doing everything in our power" to overturn a ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending a football match in Birmingham and is exploring what additional resources could be required.

On Thursday, Aston Villa said the city's Safety Advisory Group (SAG) decided that fans of the Israeli club should not be permitted to attend the Europa League fixture on 6 November over safety concerns.

Facing mounting pressure to resolve the situation, the government said it was working with police and exploring what additional resources are required.

A meeting of the SAG to discuss the match is expected next week, the Home Office said.

Sir Keir Starmer called the move to block fans attending "wrong", adding "we will "not tolerate antisemitism on our streets", while there has also been criticism from other party leaders.

The SAG - which advises the council on whether to issue safety certificates - will review the decision if West Midlands Police changes its risk assessment for the match, Birmingham City Council said.

On Thursday, West Midlands Police said it had classified the fixture as "high risk" based on current intelligence and previous incidents, including "violent clashes and hate crime offences" between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv fans before a match in Amsterdam in November 2024.

The Home Office was briefed that restrictions on visiting fans might be imposed last week, but the BBC understands officials were not informed about the final decision until Thursday.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the revelation left the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, with "serious questions to answer" about why her department did "nothing" to avert the ban.

She said: "This is a weak government that fails to act when required."

A source close to Mahmood told the BBC that "this is categorically untrue".

"The first time the home secretary knew that the fans were being banned was last night," they added.

Alice Webb thought she'd be home in time for the school run.

In September last year, she had booked a non-surgical Brazilian butt lift (BBL) with Jordan Parke, a self-styled practitioner known as the "Lip King". The procedure typically sees dermal filler injected to make the buttocks bigger.

Hours later she was dead.

The BBC has discovered that while Mr Parke - who was arrested but not charged - is not currently offering Brazilian butt lifts, he is still operating in the cosmetics industry, illegally selling prescription-only weight-loss jabs on social media.

Speaking for the first time since her death, Alice's family say our findings make them "incredibly angry".

The morning had begun like any other. Alice had dropped her five children at school in her pink-and-gold-wheeled car, country music blasting from the speakers.

"I had been in touch with Alice quite a lot that day," recalls her sister April Palmer, "we'd been talking about the children."

A few hours later Alice stopped texting. Several messages and calls went unanswered. April eventually got through but it was a paramedic who picked up and told her Alice was unresponsive and being taken to hospital.

The family got there as quickly as they could, but on arrival doctors explained just how serious the situation was.

"It was probably an hour until she passed," says April, her voice shaking. "And then we spent until the early hours of the morning with Alice.

"We said we loved her, we held her hand, stroked her hair."

Alice passed away before her children awoke that morning. April and the girls' fathers faced the heartbreaking task of telling her five daughters.

Ben recalled: "We all met at the house at about half past six, we wanted to tell them before they got up for school. We didn't want them getting ready. It was awful."

Mr Parke was arrested on suspicion of her manslaughter last September. He is still on bail but hasn't been charged.

While it appears Mr Parke is not currently offering BBLs, our investigation has uncovered that he is still operating in the cosmetics industry. We have now found him illegally selling prescription-only weight-loss jabs on social media.

This isn't anything new - in 2023, another woman told the BBC she had ended up in A&E vomiting blood after taking weight-loss jabs from him.

After that incident, and in the wake of Alice's death, we investigated whether it was still possible to purchase jabs from him.

After a quick Instagram exchange and a payment of over £200 our order went through.

The kits were delivered by post. We opened the unlabelled white envelope and found needles, mixing agents and a vial of unlabelled white powder. There were no instructions in the package.

Lab tests by Dr Stephen Childs at the University of Sunderland confirmed it was semaglutide, which is also found in the diabetes drug Ozempic and the weight-loss drug Wegovy.

When prescribed by a professional, the medication can be self-administered as weekly injections via pre-filled pens. People must have at least one existing weight-related health condition, such as high blood pressure, and be obese to qualify.

This medication is carefully controlled and Mr Parke is not legally allowed to prescribe it.

In 2023, Maddy, then 32, says she bought similar jabs from him. After her first injection she says she became extremely ill, bed-bound and vomiting. Mr Parke said it would pass and advised anti-sickness tablets.

But when she tried the same jabs again weeks later, Maddy says the reaction was worse.

"It was bad," she told the BBC. "I was throwing up all night, to the point where I was throwing up stomach acid, blood, white foam."

When we told Maddy that Mr Parke was still selling weight-loss jabs, she said it gave her "goosebumps".

"I'm honestly disgusted. I remember being in A&E and wanting to die because I was suffering that much. It was horrendous."

Dr Sophie Shooter, an experienced aesthetic doctor, said it was "shocking" Mr Parke could sell weight-loss jabs in this way. She warned that when not prescribed correctly semaglutide can lead to serious medical conditions, including thyroid problems and pancreatitis, which can be life-threatening.

Dr Shooter said preparing drugs for injection was something she was specially trained to do as an anaesthetist and not something the customer should be doing at home, without training.

"You could give yourself more or less than intended and that is fraught with danger," explaining that usually, weight-loss jabs come already mixed and measured.

"The fact that Jordan Parke is able to do this is an embarrassment," she said. "We're the laughing stock of the rest of the world, because I don't know a single other country where this would be allowed to happen."

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is responsible for investigating claims involving the unlicensed distribution or sale of prescription-only medicines.

Police said selling weight-loss jabs without a prescription wouldn't breach Mr Parke's bail conditions.

Alice's family are furious that Jordan Parke is illegally selling weight-loss drugs.

"He shouldn't be [selling them]," says Ben, the father of Alice's eldest daughter Delsie. "It's as simple as that. I don't know how he sleeps at night."

The family say every milestone and occasion is marked by the shadow of her absence. The day one of her children learnt to ride a bike didn't feel right without her. Neither did buying Delsie a dress for school prom.

In Gloucestershire, Alice's mother Rachael is turning preserved funeral blooms into wreaths for friends and family - a small talisman to mark the one-year anniversary.

"She was special to a lot of people," Rachael says.

For the family, the anniversary is a moment to both grieve and reflect - but the ongoing police investigation hangs over them.

The BBC approached Jordan Parke for comment and to offer him a chance to speak but he did not respond.

Gloucestershire Police told us: "Alice's death is believed to have been the first death of this kind in the United Kingdom, and there are numerous complexities for the team to investigate."

"We understand and appreciate that Alice's family want answers and we are actively investigating her death and working with medical specialists in order to determine what happened in order to provide those answers."

Following her death, Alice's family, together with safer cosmetics charity Save Face, launched a campaign calling for a ban on liquid BBLs from high-street beauty clinics.

And in August the government announced plans to strengthen regulation of the cosmetics industry.

Only qualified surgeons will be able to carry out non-surgical BBLs and clinics will need to meet strict rules to obtain licences to offer fillers and Botox.

A Department for Health and Social Care spokesperson said: "This government is taking action to root out dangerous treatments, with tough new measures to make sure only qualified healthcare professionals will be able to perform the highest-risk procedures."

"For anyone considering a cosmetic procedure, please check the provider's qualifications and insurance - and avoid treatments that appear suspiciously cheap."

There's no clear date for implementation yet. Until then, oversight sits with local authorities – who say they lack the powers to control the industry.

There have been more than 1,800 complaints about practitioners since 2022, according to freedom of information data we requested from councils. Of those, 799 providers have been investigated and 85 shut down.

There are also 156 councils in the dataset which have had more than one complaint made but not carried out inspections in the year of the complaint.

The Local Government Association - which represents local authorities - say they welcome government plans for a licensing scheme but argue more funding is needed.

Victor Ktorakis, from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, says they are pressing for urgent action.

"My fear is we're going to get to a point where there are so many premises and practitioners operating, that it is going to be very, very difficult to manage it from a public safety point of view - which is why we need something in place as soon as possible.

"And we do need time scales, and we need clarity."

US actors Danielle Deadwyler, Natasha Lyonne and Eli Roth will join the cast of Euphoria when it returns for its third season next year.

The hugely popular series will be broadcast in the spring of 2026 after a nearly four-year break, broadcaster HBO confirmed on Friday.

The new stars join the previously announced returning cast including Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, Hunter Schafer and Colman Domingo.

Euphoria follows a group of young students as they navigate issues such as love, friendship, drugs, sex, trauma and social media.

The third season of the Emmy-winning show went into production earlier this year in Los Angeles, and will consist of eight episodes.

According to reports, the new series will feature a time jump that moves the show's younger characters out of high school.

The second season concluded with Zendaya's character Rue getting sober, but with several storylines unresolved.

It's taken several years for the show to return, partly because showrunner Sam Levinson has been working on other projects.

But the show also made huge stars of its young cast, who have become major Hollywood stars since the show launched and appeared in a string of other projects in the intervening years.

Storm Reid, who played Zendaya's onscreen sister, is not returning for series three.

Actor Angus Cloud, who played drug dealer Fezco, died aged 25 after season two, which ended on a major cliff-hanger involving his character.

Details of the new characters and their plot lines have not yet been announced.

Who is joining Euphoria for season three?

The 18 newly announced cast members include Danielle Deadwyler, who has been nominated for several major awards for her performance in films such as Till and The Piano Lesson.

Natasha Lyonne, who has starred in Orange is the New Black, American Pie and His Three Daughters will also join for season three.

American Hustle and Apocalypse Now star Colleen Camp, Hostel star and creator Eli Roth, and singer and YouTuber Trisha Paytas have also joined the cast.

Other actors to join include The Wire's Kwame Patterson, Ozark's Madison Thompson, True Blood's Sam Trammell, The Unit's Rebecca Pidgeon, and NFL star-turned-actor Matthew Willig.

Cailyn Rice, of Yellowstone spin-off 1923 and Bella Podaras, known for Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love will also star, alongside Gideon Adlon, who appeared in Netflix's The Society and Jessica Blair Herman of American Crime Story.

The new cast is rounded out by Bill Bodner, Jack Topalian, known for General Hospital, Hemky Madera, who has appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Netflix series Kaleidoscope, and Homer Gere, son of actor Richard Gere.

Who else will appear in the series?

Sharon Stone and Rosalía are among the other cast members who were previously confirmed to be joining the show this year.

Other new actors announced earlier include Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Toby Wallace, Marshawn Lynch, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kadeem Hardison, Priscilla Delgado, James Landry Hébert, Anna Van Patten and Asante Blackk.

The show's principal starts set to return include Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Eric Dane, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Colman Domingo, Martha Kelly and Chloe Cherry.

A mother whose stillborn baby was discovered in a Hull undertakers almost two years after his funeral says she is trying to forgive the man responsible.

Jasmine Beverley gave birth to her son, Sunny Beverley-Conlin, prematurely in May 2022. They held a funeral and were given ashes.

But two years later they discovered the ashes were not his - and police later found their son's body, still at the funeral home.

On Wednesday, former undertaker Robert Bush appeared at Hull Crown Court after an investigation into human remains found at his premises. He pleaded guilty to 35 counts of fraud by false representation, one of which related to Mrs Beverley. He faces a trial on other charges in October 2026.

"I am trying to forgive him," said Mrs Beverley, "but I am finding it hard, there must be some reason why he did this."

She described Sunny's original funeral service in June 2022 as "beautiful". It was held in an on-site chapel at Legacy's headquarters.

Following the ceremony, her family were presented with an urn of ashes. They were informed by police in March 2024 they were the remains of an unidentified stranger.

Jasmine and her husband Ben Conlin returned those ashes to police. She said she had polished the urn daily and "whoever was in there, was loved like they were my own baby."

Mr Bush also admitted deceiving three other women into thinking ashes he gave them were those of their unborn babies.

Humberside Police began investigating Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in March 2024 after they received a "call of concern for the deceased". They announced at the time 35 bodies and the ashes of at least 163 people were recovered from the firm's headquarters.

Sunny was the only stillborn baby found at the premises.

Mrs Beverley received the call that Sunny had been found whilst she was pregnant with her fifth child. She said it "ruined" the final months of her pregnancy and plunged her into a depression. At times she said she had suicidal thoughts.

Mrs Beverley said it had highlighted to her how pregnancy loss was still a taboo subject and reliving Sunny's birth had added "further distress".

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The family held a second funeral before Sunny was buried alongside his great-grandparents, Mrs Beverley said she was "happy that he is finally home".

Reflecting on Mr Bush's guilty plea in relation to her family, she said she felt "mixed emotions" because other families were "playing a waiting game" for next year's trial.

Mr Bush denied 30 counts of preventing lawful and decent burials and one charge of stealing money from charity collection boxes, during Wednesday's hearing at Hull Crown Court.

He was bailed until his next court appearance and will be sentenced after the conclusion of his trial.

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The UK's stock market has fallen sharply after a warning from two US banks sparked a widespread sell-off in global shares.

Two US regional lenders, Western Alliance Bank and Zions Bank, said on Thursday that they had been hit by either bad or fraudulent loans, sparking fears that other banks may be exposed.

Some of the UK's biggest banks, including Barclays and Standard Chartered saw their share prices fall more than 5%, taking the FTSE 100 index of leading shares down about 1.5% at one point.

Stock market indexes around the world, including Germany's Dax and the Cac 40 in France, also fell.

On Thursday, Zions Bank said it would write off a $50m loss on two loans, while Western Alliance disclosed it had started a lawsuit alleging fraud.

"Pockets of the US banking sector including regional banks have given the market cause for concern," said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.

"Investors have started to question why there have been a plethora of issues in a short space of time and whether this points to poor risk management and loose lending standards."

"Investors have been spooked," he added, saying that while there was no evidence of any issues with UK-listed banks, "investors often have a knee-jerk reaction when problems appear anywhere in the sector".

Investors have also been nervous following the failure of two high-profile US firms, car loan company Tricolor and car parts maker First Brands.

These failures have raised questions about the quality of deals in what is known as the private credit market - where companies arrange loans from non-bank lenders.

In addition, there have also been warnings that the surge in artificial intelligence investment has produced a bubble in the US stock market - including from Jamie Dimon, the boss of America's biggest bank, JP Morgan - leading to fears that shares are overvalued.

The market turbulence on Friday saw the price of gold reach a fresh record high of $4,380 per ounce, as investors looked for safe havens for their money.

Another closely watched measure of market nerves, the VIX volatility index sometimes called the "Fear Index", hit its highest level since April.

The BBC has confirmed it will go ahead with broadcasting the latest series of Celebrity MasterChef, featuring sacked co-presenter John Torode.

Torode was sacked in the summer after an allegation against him using "an extremely offensive racist term" was upheld. He has said he has "no recollection" of it.

In a statement on Friday, the BBC said it had not been a "straightforward decision" but that all of the celebrities, contestants and guests involved had confirmed they were happy for the shows to be aired.

Two Christmas specials will also be aired, the corporation confirmed on Friday.

The latest series of Celebrity MasterChef was recorded earlier this year.

It was fronted by Torode and food critic Grace Dent, who stepped in after BBC News first revealed separate allegations against former host Gregg Wallace.

Wallace has said he was "deeply sorry for any distress" he caused but that "none of the serious allegations against me were upheld" by a report conducted by production company Banijay.

The same report also upheld a claim against Torode of using a severely offensive racist term.

Both presenters were sacked in July.

The BBC decided to go ahead and still show this year's amateur series of MasterChef, with both Wallace and Torode in it, for the sake of the chefs who had taken part in it.

The corporation has now confirmed that Celebrity MasterChef, featuring 15 stars, will also be aired from this autumn.

Those taking part include rugby star Alun Wyn Jones, TV personality Chris Hughes, author and broadcaster Dawn O'Porter, gladiator Jodie Ounsley, and pop star Michelle Heaton.

"Banijay UK has consulted the celebrities, contestants and guests featured and all have confirmed that they are happy for the shows to be aired," a BBC spokesperson said.

"As we have said previously, these are not straightforward decisions. We have approached this with care and consideration for all involved and we appreciate not everyone will agree with us."

The summit has not been set in stone, but if Russia's Vladimir Putin does go to Budapest to meet US President Trump in the next two weeks, he would need to clear a few hurdles first.

When Putin travelled to Alaska for his Anchorage summit in August, the US granted special permission for the presidential plane - a modified Ilyushin Il-96 airliner dubbed the "Flying Kremlin" that has four engines and is bristling with defence systems.

Russian planes are banned from US air space, and from EU air space too. So if Putin does fly to Budapest he would need special dispensation if he decided to fly over an EU member state.

It is perfectly possible, but landlocked Hungary is not the easiest destination to get to for a Russian president who rarely sets foot abroad and has not travelled to the EU for years.

"For now, of course, it's not clear," says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. "What we do have is the willingness of the presidents to hold such a meeting."

Days after Putin ordered Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU froze the assets of both its leader and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

A blanket ban was also imposed on all Russian aircraft flying through the airspace of all 27 EU countries. Hungary and many of its neighbours are Nato member states too.

Putin has also been accused by the International Criminal Court of war crimes of unlawfully deporting and transferring of Ukrainian children to Russia.

So there are complications, although Hungary believes they can all be sorted out. Hungary is in the process of pulling out of the ICC anyway.

Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orban, probably his closest ally in the EU, have already discussed the planned summit over the phone, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has told reporters "we will of course ensure that he can enter Hungary, hold successful talks here, and then return home".

The EU is unlikely to create obstacles either.

Its executive commission has said any meeting that moves forward "a just and lasting peace for Ukraine" is welcome and it supports President Trump's efforts towards that.

One of the main drivers for its latest proposed sanctions on Russia - the 19th package so far - is to bring the Russians to the negotiating table, it says. And it points out there's no travel ban on Putin, only an asset freeze.

The biggest sticking point is how Russia's leader will fly from Moscow to Budapest. Clearly he will not be buying an Air Serbia ticket to Belgrade and catching the train to Hungary, which may be the most direct route to take.

He will want his Il-96 plane to guarantee his safety, but that will probably mean using the air space of an EU and Nato member state and obtaining permission to break the EU's ban on Russian planes.

European Commission spokeswoman Anitta Hipper said on Friday that "in terms of the direction of travel, member states can give derogations but it must be given by member states individually".

Nato has also referred the issue to respective national authorities, and as Trump is involved they may acquiesce.

Even with dispensation, a look at the map shows Putin may have to take a circuitous route. Ukraine is out of the question, and probably Poland too because of Warsaw's icy relations with Moscow.

Perhaps the most direct route goes via the eastern coast of the Black Sea and Turkey, through Bulgaria and either Serbia or Romania into Hungary.

Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vucic, knows Putin well and Air Serbia has direct flights to Moscow over EU airspace. Serbia is a candidate to join the EU but is not a member.

It is the EU countries, Bulgaria or perhaps Romania, that would need to give consent, and they would have to escort Putin's plane through their airspace.

Romania has what is set to become the biggest Nato base in Europe, and Bulgaria is also building a Nato base as part of efforts to shore up the defensive alliance's eastern flank.

The BBC has approached the foreign ministries of both countries for comment.

If Putin wants to play it even more safely, he could fly via Turkey, around the south coast of Greece and then up through Montenegrin airspace before going over Serbia. But it is a far longer route.

Budapest is not then the easiest of venues, even if it works very well for Viktor Orban, who has long had good relations with both Putin and Donald Trump.

A high-profile international summit will do Orban no harm at all, as he is trailing in the polls before elections next spring.

Within hours of Budapest being named as a venue, Orban was on the phone to Putin and declared on his Facebook page: "Preparations are in full swing!"

Orban has little time for the EU's backing of Ukraine and he was quick to make clear Brussels would have nothing to do with the talks.

"Since the EU is pro-war, it is logical that it will be left out of this peace process," he told Hungarian radio on Friday.

European leaders will have other ideas when they see him at next week's summit in Brussels next week.

A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks.

More than 100 countries had gathered in London to approve a deal first agreed in April, which would have seen shipping become the world's first industry to adopt internationally mandated targets to reduce emissions.

But President Trump had called the plan a "green scam" and representatives of the US administration had threatened countries all week with tariffs if they had voted in favour.

Reflecting the pressure countries faced, the Secretary General of the Internatiobal Maritime Organisation issued a "plea" for this not to be repeated.

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China has warned the UK of "consequences" amid an escalating row over its delayed application to build a mega-embassy in London.

It comes after the government confirmed it had pushed back a decision on the controversial site for a second time, to 10 December.

On Friday, Beijing's foreign affairs ministry said the delay went "entirely against the UK's commitments and previous remarks about improving China-UK relations".

Downing Street said it did not "recognise any claims of commitments or assurances".

Beijing's application for the embassy was initially rejected by Tower Hamlets Council in 2022 over safety and security concerns.

However, it was taken over by the UK government housing department last year, after China resubmitted an application one month after Labour came to power.

Asked about the latest delay on Friday, Beijing's ministry of foreign affairs accused the UK of "constantly complicating and politicizing the matter".

Spokesman Lin Jian said the UK had "repeatedly put off the approval of the project citing various excuses and linked the project with other issues".

"That goes entirely against the UK's commitments and previous remarks about improving China-UK relations," he added.

"We once again call on the UK to fulfil its obligation and honour its commitments at once, otherwise the consequences arising therefrom shall be borne by the UK side".

Downing Street hit back at Mr Jian's comments, saying: "We do not recognise any claims of assurances, and I can't explain the statement they've set out."

The PM's official spokesman added: "Protecting the UK's national security is our first duty.

"In terms of the planning process, as set out yesterday, this is a decision that is independent of the rest of government."

He added it would not be "appropriate for me to comment further" on a decision being made by the housing department.

China bought the site of the proposed new embassy, at Royal Mint Court near the Tower of London, for £255m in 2018. At 20,000 square metres, the proposed complex would be the biggest embassy in Europe if it goes ahead.

The pending decision on whether to approve the new embassy has attracted close scrutiny because of concerns about the security implications of the plan, including the location, size and design of the building.

There are concerns held by some opponents that the site could allow China to infiltrate the UK's financial system by tapping into nearby fibre optic cables carrying sensitive data for firms in the City of London.

Some residents nearby also fear it would pose a security risk to them and attract large protests.

The proposed complex would include offices, a large basement area, housing for 200 staff, and a new tunnel to connect the Embassy House to a separate building on the embassy grounds.

Sir Keir Starmer said last year that Chinese President Xi Jinping had raised the embassy issue during their first leaders' phone call in August.

Speaking in November, the prime minister told China's leader "you raised the Chinese embassy building when we spoke on the telephone, and we have since taken action by calling in that application".

"Now we have to follow the legal process and timeline," Sir Keir added.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have urged the government to throw out China's application.

A murder trial without a body which transfixed France has ended with 38-year-old painter-decorator Cédric Jubillar convicted of killing his wife.

Throughout the four-week trial, Jubillar maintained his innocence but was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 30 years in jail.

In four weeks of hearings in the southern town of Albi, the defence argued that because the body of his wife Delphine had never been found there was no certainty a crime had been committed.

But the jury of six civilians and three magistrates decided that even in the absence of a body there was enough circumstantial evidence to conclude that Jubillar was guilty of murder.

Prosecutors had called for a 30-year sentence, and Jubillar's lawyers have said they will appeal.

"We respect the jury's decision," said defence lawyer Alexandre Martin. "Of course we're disappointed, but we knew there would be a second battle, and we will get back to work on this appeal.

"Delphine was killed by her husband's hands," said Laurent Boguet, acting for the couple's two children. It was now for Jubillar to "tell us where his wife's remains are and return them to the family".

With its central mystery of his wife's missing body, the case has been hotly followed across news and social media since it broke five years ago. Amateur detectives proliferated online, much to the annoyance of police and families, with theories of what happened.

It was on the night of 15-16 December 2020, in the middle of the Covid pandemic, that 33-year-old Delphine Jubillar disappeared from the house in Cagnac-les-Mines where the couple lived with their two children aged six and 18 months.

Cédric Jubillar contacted police at around 04:00 on 16 December to say he had been woken up by the crying of the younger child and discovered that his wife had gone missing.

Police and neighbours conducted extensive searches in the local area – including in its many abandoned mines – but no body was ever found.

The court heard during the trial how Cédric and Delphine's relationship had turned sour. She had asked for a divorce, and was beginning an affair with a man she met over a chatline.

According to the prosecution, on the evening of her disappearance she had told Cédric Jubillar for the first time that she had taken a lover. This led to a row – during which Delphine's screams were heard by a neighbour – and then he killed her, probably by strangling.

Jubillar was then said to have disposed of her body somewhere in the countryside nearby, which he knew well.

A key piece of evidence was that Delphine's car on the street outside was facing in the opposite direction from the way she normally parked it, suggesting he had used it on the night.

Other key elements were:

• a broken pair of Delphine's glasses in the sitting-room
• the lack of steps recorded on Jubillar's phone pedometer, even though he claimed to have been out searching for his wife
• and a statement by their son Louis about an argument between his parents taking place "between the sofa and the Christmas tree".

• France transfixed by murder trial without a body

Psychological assessments presented Jubillar as a feckless character with a rough childhood, who smoked marijuana every day, had difficulty holding down a job and thought of little but his personal gratification.

He was said to have shown little concern over the disappearance of Delphine – drawing money from her bank account a short time later, for example.

And there was crucial evidence from Cédric Jubillar's mother, who recalled him telling her when he first heard that Delphine wanted a divorce: "I've had enough. I'm going to kill her and bury her, and they'll never find her."

Jubillar's defence lawyer Emmanuelle Franck said none of this amounted to more than speculation – and that the accused's habits and attitudes could not be taken as signs of criminal responsibility.

"Courts do not convict bad characters. They convict the guilty," she said.

According to the defence, there were alternative explanations for all the circumstantial clues. They said witnesses had been coached by investigators, in order to corroborate the theory of guilt.

They argued that in any normal crime of passion, there were tell-tale signs left at the scene – blood, or evidence of a clean-up. But all this was absent from the Jubillar home.

His lawyers said that details told in court of Cédric Jubillar's behaviour were all irrelevant: his use of pornography, a pair of panda pyjamas with ears and tail that he was wearing when police came, and making his son Louis sit on Lego bricks as a punishment.

"Either [Cédric] is a criminal genius, or he is a bit of an idiot – you have got to decide," said Emmanuelle Franck.

The defence offered no alternative explanation for Delphine's disappearance.

Convictions for murder without a body are rare because of the difficulty of proving the existence of a crime. But they do happen, with jurisdictions in many countries concluding that circumstantial evidence alone can constitute proof.

For a guilty verdict in France, jurors need to have an "intimate conviction" that a crime has been committed – a concept that is left vague in law. If more than two of the nine jurors dissent, then the accused is found not guilty.

The UK's stock market has fallen sharply after a warning from two US banks sparked a widespread sell-off in global shares.

Two US regional lenders, Western Alliance Bank and Zions Bank, said on Thursday that they had been hit by either bad or fraudulent loans, sparking fears that other banks may be exposed.

Some of the UK's biggest banks, including Barclays and Standard Chartered saw their share prices fall more than 5%, taking the FTSE 100 index of leading shares down about 1.5% at one point.

Stock market indexes around the world, including Germany's Dax and the Cac 40 in France, also fell.

On Thursday, Zions Bank said it would write off a $50m loss on two loans, while Western Alliance disclosed it had started a lawsuit alleging fraud.

"Pockets of the US banking sector including regional banks have given the market cause for concern," said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.

"Investors have started to question why there have been a plethora of issues in a short space of time and whether this points to poor risk management and loose lending standards."

"Investors have been spooked," he added, saying that while there was no evidence of any issues with UK-listed banks, "investors often have a knee-jerk reaction when problems appear anywhere in the sector".

Investors have also been nervous following the failure of two high-profile US firms, car loan company Tricolor and car parts maker First Brands.

These failures have raised questions about the quality of deals in what is known as the private credit market - where companies arrange loans from non-bank lenders.

In addition, there have also been warnings that the surge in artificial intelligence investment has produced a bubble in the US stock market - including from Jamie Dimon, the boss of America's biggest bank, JP Morgan - leading to fears that shares are overvalued.

The market turbulence on Friday saw the price of gold reach a fresh record high of $4,380 per ounce, as investors looked for safe havens for their money.

Another closely watched measure of market nerves, the VIX volatility index sometimes called the "Fear Index", hit its highest level since April.

Baek Se-hee, the South Korean author of the bestselling memoir I Want to Die but I Want To Eat Tteokbokki has died at the age of 35.

Her 2018 book, a compilation of conversations with her psychiatrist about her depression, was a cultural phenomenon with its themes of mental health resonating with readers across the world.

Originally written in Korean, it found international acclaim after its English translation was published in 2022.

The details surrounding her death are unclear.

Baek donated her organs - her heart, lungs, liver and kidneys - which have helped to save five lives, the Korean Organ Donation Agency said in a statement on Friday.

The statement also included comments from her sister, which said that Baek had wanted to "share her heart with others through her work, and to inspire hope".

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, published in 2018, has sold more than a million copies worldwide and been translated in 25 countries.

The runaway bestseller was celebrated for normalising mental health conversations and its nuanced take on inner struggles - most notably, the author's personal conflict between depressive thoughts and her appreciation for simple joys.

"The human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too," goes the book's most famous line.

Born in 1990, Baek Se-hee took creative writing in university and worked for five years at a publishing house, according to her short biography on Bloomsbury Publishing, which produced the English version of her 2018 memoir.

For a decade she received treatment for dysthymia, a mild but long-lasting type of depression, which formed the basis of her bestseller, said her Bloomsbury bio.

A sequel, I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki, was published in Korean in 2019. Its English translation was published in 2024.

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The government has failed in its attempt to block a challenge against its decision to ban Palestine Action under terrorism laws.

In a highly significant ruling, the Court of Appeal paved the way for the review of the ban before a High Court judge next month.

The co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, had won permission earlier this year for that judicial review.

The ban, which started on 5 July, makes membership of, or support for, the direct action group a criminal offence.

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The UK's stock market has fallen sharply after a warning from two US banks sparked a widespread sell-off in global shares.

Two US regional lenders, Western Alliance Bank and Zions Bank, said on Thursday that they had been hit by either bad or fraudulent loans, sparking fears that other banks may be exposed.

Some of the UK's biggest banks, including Barclays and Standard Chartered saw their share prices fall more than 5%, taking the FTSE 100 index of leading shares down about 1.5% at one point.

Stock market indexes around the world, including Germany's Dax and the Cac 40 in France, also fell.

On Thursday, Zions Bank said it would write off a $50m loss on two loans, while Western Alliance disclosed it had started a lawsuit alleging fraud.

"Pockets of the US banking sector including regional banks have given the market cause for concern," said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.

"Investors have started to question why there have been a plethora of issues in a short space of time and whether this points to poor risk management and loose lending standards."

"Investors have been spooked," he added, saying that while there was no evidence of any issues with UK-listed banks, "investors often have a knee-jerk reaction when problems appear anywhere in the sector".

Investors have also been nervous following the failure of two high-profile US firms, car loan company Tricolor and car parts maker First Brands.

These failures have raised questions about the quality of deals in what is known as the private credit market - where companies arrange loans from non-bank lenders.

In addition, there have also been warnings that the surge in artificial intelligence investment has produced a bubble in the US stock market - including from Jamie Dimon, the boss of America's biggest bank, JP Morgan - leading to fears that shares are overvalued.

The market turbulence on Friday saw the price of gold reach a fresh record high of $4,380 per ounce, as investors looked for safe havens for their money.

Another closely watched measure of market nerves, the VIX volatility index sometimes called the "Fear Index", hit its highest level since April.

Two men have pleaded not guilty to plotting a series of arson attacks at properties connected to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Ukrainian nationals Roman Lavrynovych, 21, and Petro Pochynok, 35, were accused of targeting two properties and a car linked to the PM, along with Ukrainian-born Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 27.

The men appeared at the Old Bailey via video link from HMP Belmarsh in south-east London on Friday.

The charges relate to three incidents: a vehicle fire in Kentish Town, a fire at the prime minister's private home on the same street, and a fire at an address where he previously lived in north-west London.

Mr Lavrynovych, of Sydenham, and Mr Pochynok, of north London, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life.

The charge alleged that the men "together with others" conspired to damage by fire property "belonging to another and intending to endanger the life of another or being reckless as to the life of another would thereby be endangered".

Mr Carpiuc, of Romford, was not asked to enter his plea for the same charge.

The prosecution indicated that the case was not being treated as having a terrorist connection.

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said the circumstances of the alleged offences were "somewhat opaque".

"Plainly they are co-ordinated and must have some motive or purpose behind them," she told the court.

The three men were assisted by interpreters during Friday's court hearing.

They were remanded in custody, with the next hearing scheduled for 28 November. A provisional trial date has already been set for 27 April 2026.

On 8 May, a car previously owned by the prime minister was found on fire on a street he previously lived on in Kentish Town, north London.

Three days later, a fire was discovered at flats linked to the PM in nearby Islington. Firefighters rescued one person with the help of breathing apparatus.

On 12 May, a fire was discovered at the entrance to Sir Keir's Kentish Town home, which was being rented out.

A charity is calling for a GP to be suspended over his "harassment" of a woman who was raped by his son.

Dr Andrew McFarlane, 61, was arrested and charged with communications offences in August after he called Ellie Wilson a "manipulative liar", a "slut" and a "hippo" in a series of posts on X.

In 2022 his son Daniel McFarlane was convicted of raping Ms Wilson, who has since become a campaigner for survivors of male sexual violence.

Rape Crisis Scotland has complained to the General Medical Council (GMC) twice about Dr McFarlane's conduct, but he is still able to see patients in NHS Highland.

The GP has yet to appear in court over the charge. The BBC has made several attempts to contact him, but he has not responded.

'Constantly worried'

Dr McFarlane began posting about Ms Wilson's case earlier this year, claiming his son was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

He said Ms Wilson threatened, blackmailed and abused his son.

He also posted screenshots of private and sexual conversations between his son and Ms Wilson.

Daniel McFarlane attacked Ms Wilson between December 2017 and February 2018 when he was a medical student at the University of Glasgow.

He was found guilty of two rape charges and sentenced to five years in prison in July 2022.

His conviction was secured, in part, because Ms Wilson had covertly recorded a conversation she had with McFarlane, in which he admits to raping her.

McFarlane tells Ms Wilson: "I feel good knowing I am not in prison."

His father, Dr McFarlane, began tweeting about the case earlier this year and was reported to the GMC for his conduct in July.

The following month, Sandy Brindley, the chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland, wrote to the GMC, saying Dr McFarlane was causing "a great deal of distress" to Ms Wilson, "who finds herself constantly worried about what he may post next".

Ms Brindley asked the GMC to "urgently investigate" the GP's ability to practise medicine in light of "deeply troubling behaviour".

She argued that the GP's posts were "abusive" and "particularly concerning" coming from someone whose profession "relies on their ability to handle patient information sensitively".

She said: "Given the content and volume of his online posts, we are particularly concerned about the potential for Dr McFarlane to cause harm or distress to any patients who may have experienced sexual violence or domestic abuse themselves."

Tribunal ruling

The GMC is an independent regulator responsible for dealing with complaints about doctors.

It decided to refer Dr McFarlane's case to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS), which make decisions about fitness to practise.

Rather than suspend him, the MPTS decided in August to impose special conditions on his medical registration – he was charged with communications offences over his posts less than a week later.

Dr McFarlane is now personally required to inform the GMC if there are any changes to his job title or contact details for his employer.

On 4 September, Ms Brindley wrote to the regulator again, expressing "grave concerns about the lack of seriousness by which the GMC appears to be treating this matter".

She called for the GP's suspension to be reconsidered.

"It can take a lot of courage for survivors of rape to disclose their experience, and GPs are frequently the first professional a rape survivor may disclose to," Ms Brindley said.

"Survivors seeing a practising GP harassing and publicly calling into question whether a woman has been raped (despite her perpetrator being convicted and currently in jail for his crimes) could jeopardise their relationships with their own GPs."

In any case where a doctor is arrested, the GMC pauses its own internal investigations.

Dr McFarlane was previously employed as a locum GP at the Alness and Invergordon Medical Group, but the BBC understands he has not worked there for around a year.

He is free to see patients within NHS Highland, but it is not clear whether he is currently employed.

The health board said it was taking "all necessary and appropriate steps" to ensure the safety and wellbeing of patients.

A spokesperson for the GMC said: "As soon as we became aware of the concerns, we took immediate action — launching an investigation and referring Dr McFarlane to an interim orders tribunal.

"A full investigation is now underway alongside ongoing criminal proceedings. Dr McFarlane is currently subject to interim conditions on his practice."

You'd forgive Tiah-Mai Ayton for being overwhelmed by a boxing world champion describing her as the future of the sport.

But the 19-year-old tells BBC Newsbeat she "fangirled" when Katie Taylor tipped her to become a star.

Tiah-Mai, who turned professional last year, is set to fight Hungarian bantamweight Beata Dudek at London's York Hall later.

"Hearing Katie say I could be the greatest of all time is crazy," she says.

"Everyone looks up to Katie. Little me would be going crazy right now.

"It showed me I'm on the right track."

Speaking to DAZN, two-weight undisputed champion Taylor described Tiah-Mai as "a seasoned pro" after watching her defeat France's Lydie Bialic in September.

"I can't believe she's just turned 19. This is scary," said Taylor at the time.

"I don't think we've seen a talent like this in a long time."

Being hyped up as "the future" by one of her heroes fuelled Tiah-Mai's desire to make Taylor's prediction come true.

As a child, the Bristol-born boxer's dad encouraged her and her sister to turn sibling squabbles into training in the ring.

While fighting remained a hobby for her sister, it became Tiah-Mai's career.

Her potential to turn professional was clear to those who watched her excel as a five-time national champion at youth level.

As she racked up titles as a teenager, Team GB had Tiah-Mai on its radar as a future Olympian.

"I knew from a young age that I was going to be a professional boxer," she says.

"I didn't think about anything else.

"If I didn't have it, I would be so lost."

'Better under pressure'

Tiah-Mai dreams of following Taylor to the top and hopes doing so sparks the next generation of female fighters.

"I want to inspire them," she tells Newsbeat.

"Women's boxing is getting big but it could get better.

"Hopefully by the time I've finished my career, it'll be easier for women to be treated the same as men in the sport."

Her similiarities with Katie Taylor go beyond having big reputations.

They share a promoter after Tiah-Mai signed with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing.

While she aims to be part of a main event in future, the teenager's on the undercard before Kieron Conway's title defence against George Liddard on Friday.

She says she fights "better under pressure" and is eyeing her first knockout despite admitting she knows little about her opponent.

"No-one has ever stopped her," says Tiah-Mai.

"I think if I do stop her, it's going to be a big statement from me."

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Viral social media memes being shared by millions of users gleefully declare that humanity's final evolutionary destination is not robots nor extinction - but crabs.

Experts at Crab Museum in Margate say they now have people come in "every day" questioning if humans really will end up sprouting claws.

Ned Suesat-Williams, director of the museum, told BBC Sounds he had never been able to give visitors a "satisfactory" answer.

But Professor Matthew Wills, from the University of Bath, believes he might have an explanation to the joke. He said it was rooted in a genuine evolutionary phenomenon called carcinisation - meaning "to become more crab-like".

Over millions of years, nature has reinvented the crab at least five separate times across various lineages of crustaceans in a bid to improve protection and mobility.

These "imposter crabs" have evolved independently through natural selection, as a rounded shell and signature sideways scuttle offer better chances of survival.

Crabs belong to a group of ten-footed crustaceans called decapods.

Some decapods, like lobsters and shrimp, have a thick cylindrical abdomen with a muscular tail for snapping backwards at high speed and burrowing on the seabed.

True crabs, by contrast, live in shallow coastal waters and rocky shores, with a compressed abdomen tucked away under a flattened, rounder shell.

This presents fewer vulnerable areas for predators to grab onto, and enables their legs to move sideways so they can escape quickly and shelter in crevices.

But at least four groups of decapods - including sponge crabs, porcelain crabs, king crabs and the Australian hairy stone crab - are "imposters" that have gradually transformed their shape by tucking their tail underneath.

This means crabs are not a real biological group. They are a collection of decapods that have evolved over millions of years to look the same.

Dr Wills, a professor of evolutionary palaeobiology, said imposter crabs sacrifice their muscular abdomen for better armour.

This process of carcinisation is a form of convergent evolution.

"This is where groups that are not closely related come to look, behave, or be in some sense genetically similar, but they don't share a common ancestor that also had that attribute," he said.

"Evolution keeps finding the same answer in different lineages and places."

Dr Wills gave another example of birds and bats, which both developed wings because they face similar environments, despite being different species in "different major branches of the vertebrate tree".

"[Crabs] converge because it's an efficient solution to a particular set of physical problems," he explained.

"A compact, broad, armoured body with a tucked abdomen helps with defence, crevice-living, wave-swept hydrodynamics, sideways agility, and broad protection."

Dr Wills said it had been amusing to watch the internet debate unfold, but "the answer is still no", humans will not evolve into crabs.

"The convergent evolution of crabs has happened about five times in history, but it's happened within the group of decapods."

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John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser, has arrived at a federal court to surrender to authorities on charges of mishandling classified information.

The 18 charges stem from allegations he shared or retained sensitive materials, including some characterised as top secret.

Bolton served during Trump's first administration but parted with the White House contentiously, and has become one of the president's most vocal public critics.

The indictment makes Bolton, 76, the third of the US president's political opponents to face charges in recent weeks. Bolton has said he would defend his "lawful conduct".

On Friday, Bolton did not respond to shouted questions from reporters as he entered the courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, to surrender to authorities.

He is expected to make an initial appearance before a judge and may have to stop at US Marshals office for "possible" fingerprinting and booking photo, CBS News, the BBC's partner in the US, reported.

Prosecutors have accused Bolton of using personal messaging apps and email to illegally transmit sensitive information.

"These documents revealed intelligence about future attacks, foreign adversaries, and foreign-policy relations," prosecutors wrote.

Responding to the charges, Bolton said he would defend his "lawful conduct."

He added he had "become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he [Trump] deems to be his enemies with charges that were declined before or distort the facts."

The indictment issued this week accused Bolton of sharing "diary-like entries" with two unnamed individuals, and using his personal email account to transmit messages with sensitive materials.

The indictment also states that between 2019 and 2021, Bolton was allegedly the target of a hacking attack from a "cyber actor believed to be associated with the Islamic Repubilc of Iran" gained access to his account, exposing the classified materials.

An indictment in the US justice system is a formal accusation issued by a grand jury - a group of members of the public set up by a prosecutor to review evidence to determine if a case should proceed.

Bolton has been scrutinised for his handling of classified information since 2020, when he sought to publish a book about his time in the first Trump administration.

The Justice Department tried to block the book's release, alleging it could contain classified information.

A federal judge ruled against the government, but rebuked Bolton in his decision, writing he had "gambled with the national security of the United States".

An investigation into Bolton continued into the Joe Biden administration.

Manchester Arena bombmaker Hashem Abedi has pleaded not guilty to attempting to murder three prison officers in a terrorist attack.

The 28-year-old is serving a life sentence for helping his suicide bomber brother Salman Abedi murder 22 people in the 2017 Manchester Arena atrocity.

Hashem Abedi entered not guilty pleas to three counts of attempted murder, one of assault causing actual bodily harm, and one of having offensive weapons inside a prison.

The Old Bailey in London was told the alleged offences had a "terrorist" motivation.

Prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward KC said Abedi twice shouted "Allahu akbar" - meaning "God is greatest" - during the attack at HMP Frankland in County Durham on 12 April.

Prosecutors allege he attacked four prison officers and was found with multiple makeshift knives.

Abedi is also accused of throwing boiling liquid at the officers during the attack.

Three of the prison officers – two men and a woman – were taken to hospital, two with stab wounds.

Prosecutors said Abedi had three makeshift knives during the initial assault, and then collected two more from his cell.

He appeared by video link from HMP Belmarsh flanked by five prison officers dressed in riot masks and protective body armour.

Abedi was dressed in a grey prison tracksuit.

He spoke to confirm his name and date of birth and also confirmed he did not want to be legally represented.

The accused also told the judge, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grub, that: "I don't wanna intend anyway that's what it is."

He is due to stand trial from 18 January 2027.

Abedi was remanded in custody and will next appear at the Old Bailey on 30 January 2026.

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The director of public prosecutions is facing mounting pressure to further explain the collapse of a case against two men accused of spying for China.

MPs are demanding Stephen Parkinson give a "fuller explanation" of why charges against parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash, 30, and academic Christopher Berry, 33, were dropped last month. Both men deny the allegations.

Parkinson has blamed the collapse of the case on a failure by the government to provide enough evidence showing China was a threat to the UK's national security.

But calls for clarification have grown after the government published witness statements on Wednesday outlining the threat posed by Beijing.

The chairs of four parliamentary committees have given Mr Parkinson, the boss of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), until Friday next week to answer a series of questions about why the case collapsed.

He is also likely to hauled before MPs to give evidence, with a joint national security committee of MPs and peers also launching a formal inquiry.

Labour MP Matt Western, who chairs the committee, said there were "many questions yet to be answered" by both Mr Parkinson and the government.

Western added that the committee would hope to hear from "the government and officials" as soon as possible.

Another parliamentary group, the intelligence and security committee, has launched a separate probe into how classified material was used during the case.

Witness statements

Mr Cash and Mr Berry were charged last year under the 1911 Official Secrets Act, accused of gathering and providing information prejudicial to the safety and interests of the state between December 2021 and February 2023.

This legislation requires prosecutors to prove that suspects have passed on material that could be "directly or indirectly useful to an enemy".

In a letter to MPs last week, Mr Parkinson said a court ruling in a separate case following the charges meant this included countries deemed to pose a "threat to the national security of the UK" at the time of the alleged offences.

He added that CPS lawyers had dropped the case after failing to obtain sufficient evidence from the government describing China to this effect.

It prompted a row with ministers, with Sir Keir Starmer saying he was "deeply disappointed" the prosecutions did not go ahead and taking the unusual step of publishing government witness statements given to the CPS.

The three statements, written by deputy national security adviser Matthew Collins, are clear that the Chinese are carrying out spying operations against the UK.

In the documents, he said China was carrying out "large scale espionage" against the UK and was "the biggest state-based threat to the country's economic security".

Criticism of Starmer

Mr Parkinson met senior MPs on Wednesday, and is reported to have told them the government's evidence fell "5%" short of what would have been required to stand a chance of getting a conviction.

But some MPs have continued to question why the CPS did not deem it had enough evidence to continue the case.

It has thrust Mr Parkinson, who was appointed director of public prosecutions in September 2023 under the previous Conservative government, into the heart of an abnormally public row with ministers.

The episode is especially unusual because Mr Parkinson is himself a successor to Sir Keir, with the prime minister having led the CPS between 2013 and 2018, before he first entered Parliament two years later.

A former senior partner at law firm Kingsley Napley, Parkinson initially trained as a barrister before switching to become a solicitor in 2005.

Before his appointment as director of public prosecutions, he had been critical of Sir Keir's own time in the role, describing the now-prime minister as "an average DPP" in a May 2023 interview with The Times.

He was quoted as saying the Labour leader "was over-reliant on advice given by others; he had no in-depth experience of prosecuting… he was a defence and human rights lawyer".

In an interview in April, Mr Parkinson described how he had initially not applied to university due to poor predicted grades, before deciding to reconsider after his actual results turned out to be better than expected.

He took a year out to apply to study law, during which he worked as a dustman, on a kibbutz and as a ballpoint pen salesman in South Africa.

The BBC committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the narrator of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas official, UK media regulator Ofcom has ruled.

An Ofcom investigation into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone has concluded that the programme was "materially misleading".

The BBC's director general has previously apologised, saying there had been "a significant failing in relation to accuracy".

Ofcom has ordered the BBC to broadcast a prime-time statement about its conclusions.

"As this represents a serious breach of our rules, we are directing the BBC to broadcast a statement of our findings against it on BBC2 at 21:00, with a date to be confirmed," it said.

'Potential to erode trust'

The watchdog's statement said: "Our investigation found that the programme's failure to disclose that the narrator's father held a position in the Hamas-run administration was materially misleading.

"It meant that the audience did not have critical information which may have been highly relevant to their assessment of the narrator and the information he provided.

"Trust is at the heart of the relationship between a broadcaster and its audience, particularly for a public service broadcaster such as the BBC.

"This failing had the potential to erode the significantly high levels of trust that audiences would have placed in a BBC factual programme about the Israel-Gaza war."

The documentary was pulled from iPlayer in February after the boy's family links emerged, and in July an internal BBC review found it breached the corporation's editorial guidelines on accuracy.

A BBC spokesperson said: "The Ofcom ruling is in line with the findings of Peter Johnston's review, that there was a significant failing in the documentary in relation to the BBC's Editorial Guidelines on accuracy, which reflects Rule 2.2 of Ofcom's Broadcasting Code.

"We have apologised for this and we accept Ofcom's decision in full. We will comply with the sanction as soon as the date and wording are finalised."

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Alan Carr's days on The Celebrity Traitors looked perilous from the start. Just 32 minutes into the first episode, after the comedian had been selected as a "traitor", his body started to betray him.

Beads of sweat began forming on his forehead, making his face shiny. "I thought I wanted to be a traitor but I have a sweating problem," he admitted to cameras. "And I can't keep a secret."

Professor Gavin Thomas, a microbiologist at the University of York, was watching the episode. "[Alan] does sweat a lot - and it looks like eccrine sweat," he says, referring to a common type of sweat, which comes from glands all over the body that can be activated by stress.

Yet it was Carr's willingness to talk about his sweatiness - and the excitement of viewers who were quick to analyse it on social media - that was most striking of all.

Alan Carr is not the first. All sorts of well-known people, from Hollywood actors and models to singers, have opened up about bodily functions in ever more brazen detail over the last decade. (Fellow Traitors contestant, the actress Celia Imrie, admitted in an episode this week: "I just farted... It's the nerves, but I always own up.")

On sweat struggles specifically, Steve Carrell and Emma Stone have talked openly, and model Chrissy Teigen revealed in 2019 that the perspiration around her armpits was so irritating that she had Botox injections to prevent it. Then, singer Adele announced on stage in Las Vegas in 2023 that she had contracted a fungal infection as a result of perspiring.

"I sweat a lot and it doesn't go anywhere, so I basically am just sitting in my own sweat," she told the thousands of people in the audience.

Now fitness shops sell "sweat suits", for use during exercise - and then there is the very name of the longstanding British activewear brand Sweaty Betty. Its founder declared a few years ago: "It's cool to sweat now."

So, does this all really signal the end of the once-widespread taboo about talking about perspiration?

The sauna business meeting

At a sauna in Peckham, south London, young professionals sit on scorching hot, wood-panelled benches, dressed in swimming trunks and bathing suits. Outside, they dunk themselves in metal ice baths. A DJ plays music in the background.

Josh Clarricoats, 33, who owns a food start-up nearby, is a frequent visitor. He meets his business partner there every fortnight for meetings.

"Actually our best creative thinking happens when we're there," he admits. "It's something about sweating, being uncomfortable and the endorphins it releases."

Some professionals might have once felt awkward about sweating in front of colleagues, he concedes - but less so today. "You get sweaty, you see your colleague dripping in sweat, I don't think people really worry about that."

Ultra-hot bathing houses have long been part of everyday life in Finland, where they are associated with löyly - the idea that sweat, heat, and steam help you reach a new spiritual state. But in recent years they've trickled into English-speaking countries.

There is a small but growing trend among British and American professionals, in particular, who are adopting the Finnish saunailta tradition, and meeting work colleagues inside saunas.

Last month The Wall Street Journal declared that the sauna has become the "hottest place to network". The idea is that sweat puts everyone on the same level, lowering inhibitions and making it easier to forge relationships.

In Scandinavia, "sauna diplomacy" has long been used to lubricate high-level talks - in the 1960s, Finnish president Urho Kekkonen took the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Krushchev, into an all-night sauna to persuade him to allow Finland to repair relations with the West.

Chains of high-end saunas are now springing up in San Francisco and New York too, with members paying as much as $200 (£173) per month to sweat together - in luxury.

There are now more than 400 saunas in the UK, according to the British Sauna Association, a sharp rise from just a few years ago.

Gabrielle Reason, a physiologist and the association's director, has her own surprising view on why. "When you're sweating [in a sauna] … you look an absolute mess but there's something actually very liberating about that, in a world that is very image-focused.

"You smell, you're bright red... You just stop caring what you look like."

Deadly sweat - and shame

It wasn't always this way. We've long had a complicated relationship with sweat - and for years, it was a source of fear.

In medieval England, word spread about a so-called "sweating sickness" that was said to kill its victims within six hours. Some think that Mozart died after contracting the "Picardy sweat", a mysterious illness that made victims drip with perspiration (though the composer's real cause of death remains unclear).

But this fear of sweat was turbocharged in English-speaking countries in the early 20th Century when hygiene brands realised they could use it to sell deodorants, according to Sarah Everts, a chemist and author of The Joy of Sweat.

She says the most "egregious" marketing was aimed at young women. One advert for a deodorant called Mum, published in an American magazine in 1938, urged women to "face the truth about underarm perspiration odour".

It said: "Men do talk about girls behind their backs. Unpopularity often begins with the first hint of underarm odour. This is one fault men can't stand - one fault they can't forgive."

This shame is embedded into Western culture, says Ms Everts, who has long suffered embarrassment about her own clammy skin.

"In a hot yoga class, I'd notice that the first drip of sweat would always come from me," she says. "And I started to think, 'this is a space where I'm supposed to be sweating, and yet I'm mortified'."

But in recent years, that shame has started to fritter away - at least in some quarters.

Rise of the 'sweaty hot girl' aesthetic

The new mood is driven in part by the beauty industry and its new mantra: embrace your perspiration.

Back in 2020, the business magazine Forbes described public sweatiness as the "hottest and coolest fashion trend", whilst Vogue Magazine has run photo features on the charm of a sweaty face, known as "post-gym skin".

Dove, the brand owned by Unilever, launched a marketing campaign in 2023 urging customers to post photographs of their sweaty armpits under the hashtag "Free the Pits".

Remi Bader, a TikTok beauty influencer with more than two million followers, who partnered with them, said in a promotional interview: "I'm very, very open with my followers about how I'm very sweaty. It's so normal."

And what started as niche or a marketing ploy may well have filtered down to the rest of us.

Zoe Nicols, a mobile beauty therapist and former salon owner in Dorset, says she's had customers asking for a "sweaty makeup" look. She calls it a new "Sweaty Hot Girl aesthetic … you want to look like you've just done a hot yoga class or stepped out of the sauna."

But Ms Everts is more sceptical. Whilst it's "wonderful" that people are speaking more positively about their bodies, in her view the trend has been hijacked by the personal hygiene industry for commercial gain.

"It's the next generation of these marketing strategies," she says. "Instead of being like, 'You smell - and that sucks', they say, 'you smell - but we all smell, here's a product that is the solution to that problem'.

"It's a little egregious to be capitalising on the body positivity cultural trend."

'Sweating is an enormous superpower'

There has been much discussion about possible health benefits of sweating - spas offer services promising to "sweat out toxins," using steam, heat, and infrared light. The trend has taken off on social media too, though some of the claims are more reliable than others.

Scientists are sceptical of the idea that you can remove a meaningful amount of "toxins" from your blood via sweating, however.

"I haven't seen any strong empirical evidence," says Davide Filingeri, a physiology professor at the University of Southampton.

Ms Everts is more blunt: "It's completely bananas."

But perspiration is of course beneficial in a very basic way: it cools us down.

Dr Adil Sheraz, a dermatologist at the Royal Free NHS Trust, says the most common form of sweat - eccrine sweat - does a good job of regulating body temperature.

It comes from tiny glands - each person has between two and five million of them - then evaporates from our skin, lowering our temperature.

Ms Everts has traced the benefits of sweating to prehistoric times, when it allowed early humans to work vigorously for long periods in the sun. "Evolutionary biologists point to sweat as one of the things that makes our species unique," says Ms Everts.

"It's an enormous superpower."

'I avoid shaking hands'

Hidden away from all of this is a group for whom sweating can feel like anything but a superpower. Those are people with a medical condition called hyperhidrosis - which causes excessive sweating, even when there's no obvious cause.

It is thought to affect somewhere between one and five percent of people, but has only recently pierced public consciousness.

Doctors say it's not dangerous but it can be distressing.

Melissa, who did not want to share her surname, first noticed the symptoms in childhood. "My hands and feet were constantly sweaty, even when it wasn't hot or nervous," she recalls.

"Other children could hold hands or play without thinking about it, but I'd always be aware of my slippery palms and damp socks."

Even now, she says it affects her confidence. "It makes everyday tasks tricky - holding a pen, using my phone... I sometimes avoid shaking hands or physical contact because I worry people will notice or react badly."

But she has been buoyed by the growing willingness to talk about the condition. And, she adds, "I've learned to adapt."

Ultimately, experts I spoke to predict that our interest in sweat is only likely to grow in the future, as temperatures rise.

Prof Filingeri, of Southampton University believes that climate change will show the limits of perspiration, as humans won't be able to produce sweat quickly enough to compensate for higher temperatures. (Although the spread of air conditioning may mitigate some of this effect.)

"As humans, we're very limited in that physiological capacity."

But Ms Everts believes that the discussions around sweat can only be a good thing in light of this. "Humans will certainly be sweating a lot more in the future," she says.

"I'd argue we need to ditch [any lasting] shame and develop a lot more serenity about sweating."

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The BBC has confirmed it will go ahead with broadcasting the latest series of Celebrity MasterChef, featuring sacked co-presenter John Torode.

Torode was sacked in the summer after an allegation against him using "an extremely offensive racist term" was upheld. He has said he has "no recollection" of it.

In a statement on Friday, the BBC said it had not been a "straightforward decision" but that all of the celebrities, contestants and guests involved had confirmed they were happy for the shows to be aired.

Two Christmas specials will also be aired, the corporation confirmed on Friday.

The latest series of Celebrity MasterChef was recorded earlier this year.

It was fronted by Torode and food critic Grace Dent, who stepped in after BBC News first revealed separate allegations against former host Gregg Wallace.

Wallace has said he was "deeply sorry for any distress" he caused but that "none of the serious allegations against me were upheld" by a report conducted by production company Banijay.

The same report also upheld a claim against Torode of using a severely offensive racist term.

Both presenters were sacked in July.

The BBC decided to go ahead and still show this year's amateur series of MasterChef, with both Wallace and Torode in it, for the sake of the chefs who had taken part in it.

The corporation has now confirmed that Celebrity MasterChef, featuring 15 stars, will also be aired from this autumn.

Those taking part include rugby star Alun Wyn Jones, TV personality Chris Hughes, author and broadcaster Dawn O'Porter, gladiator Jodie Ounsley, and pop star Michelle Heaton.

"Banijay UK has consulted the celebrities, contestants and guests featured and all have confirmed that they are happy for the shows to be aired," a BBC spokesperson said.

"As we have said previously, these are not straightforward decisions. We have approached this with care and consideration for all involved and we appreciate not everyone will agree with us."

Three Nazi-worshipping extremists convicted of terror offences have been jailed.

Christopher Ringrose, 34, Marco Pitzettu, 25, and Brogan Stewart, 25, were found guilty in May of planning terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues.

Stewart, from West Yorkshire, was jailed for 11 years, Ringrose, from Staffordshire, was jailed for 10 years, and Pitzettu, from Derbyshire, will serve eight years.

Sentencing them at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday, Mrs Justice Cutts said she believed they all continued to adhere to their extreme right-wing ideology.

The judge outlined how the online group the trio belonged to was preparing for an attack on an Islamic education centre in Leeds before they were arrested by counter-terror police.

During their trial it emerged the men, who are not believed to have met in the real world before appearing in court, were preparing to use more than 200 weapons they had amassed, including machetes, swords, crossbows and an illegal stun gun.

Ringrose had also 3D-printed most of the components of a semi-automatic firearm.

Prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford KC said the three defendants were "followers of an extreme right-wing Nazi ideology" and styled themselves as an armed military group.

Mr Sandiford said by 2024 they were seeking further recruits and hoping to acquire more deadly weapons.

He said by January and February they were planning their first attack and had identified a target in Leeds, harbouring an "intention to commit acts of extremism which involved killing multiple victims".

The three men were arrested when security services believed an attack was imminent after undercover officers infiltrated their online group.

A jury had rejected arguments the defendants were fantasists with no intention of carrying out their threats and found all three guilty of a charge of preparing acts of terrorism and charges of collecting information likely to be useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism.

Ringrose was also convicted of manufacturing a prohibited weapon.

'Vile views'

Counter-terror police said the self-styled "militant" online group provided an "echo chamber of extreme right-wing views where they shared horrific racial slurs, glorified mass murderers and encouraged violence against anyone deemed an enemy".

Head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East Det Ch Supt James Dunkerley said they were a group who "espoused vile racist views and advocated for violence, all to support their extreme right-wing mindset".

"Some of their defence in court was that it was all fantasy or just part of harmless chat, however all three took real-world steps to plan and prepare for carrying out an attack on innocent citizens."

He said it had been a complex case involving multiple police forces.

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King Charles and Pope Leo are to become the first British monarch and pontiff to pray together at a church service since the Reformation in the 16th Century.

This historic moment will be in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, during next week's state visit by King Charles and Queen Camilla.

Under the chapel's famous ceiling painted by Michelangelo, the service will bring together clergy and choirs from both the Roman Catholic church and the Church of England, of which the King is supreme governor.

The visit will be seen as an important symbol of reconciliation, in a trip that will also see the first meeting between the King and the new US-born Pope.

The state visit to the Vatican has been rearranged after the previous visit was postponed because of the ill health of Leo's predecessor, Pope Francis.

The King and Queen had a private meeting with Pope Francis on their 20th wedding anniversary in April, in one of the late pope's last meetings with high-profile visitors before he died.

The state visit on 22 and 23 October will see a series of meetings and services emphasising the warm relations between the Church of England and the Catholic church.

The King and Queen will meet the Pope and senior Vatican officials and there will be a special ecumenical service, bringing together Catholic and Anglican traditions, which will see the King and Pope praying together.

The service in the Sistine Chapel will be focused on protecting nature, in recognition of the King's enthusiastic support of environmental causes.

But its purpose will be to show harmony between the two religious denominations, with the Sistine Chapel Choir singing alongside the Choir of St George's Chapel and the Choir of His Majesty's Chapel Royal.

The richly-decorated 15th Century chapel is the setting for the conclave of cardinals that elects the pope.

There have been meetings between monarchs and pontiffs before, including by the late Queen Elizabeth II.

But according to Buckingham Palace and the Church of England, there has been no similar moment, with a British monarch and pope praying alongside each other at a shared church service, since Henry VIII's split from Rome in the 16th Century.

Royal sources have emphasised the historic significance of this occasion, with the King having a long commitment to building bridges between faiths.

There will be another connection with the pre-Reformation era, when the King attends a service at the church of St Paul's Outside the Walls.

This church and abbey, which contains the tomb of St Paul, was traditionally associated with the English monarchy, going back back to medieval and Anglo-Saxon rulers who had once helped with the upkeep of this building in Rome.

The insignia of the Order of the Garter has been on display here for centuries, reflecting the links with the English monarchy.

And the King will take an honorary, spiritual title associated with the abbey, becoming what's called a "royal confrater", as part of the abbey's confraternity.

A Church of England spokesman said the title was a tribute to the King's "work over many decades to find common ground between faiths and to bring people together".

The King will sit in a purpose-made seat, decorated with the King's coat of arms, which will stay in place for the King's future use and his successors.

State visits are carried out on behalf of the government and a Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "The Catholic Church is the largest denomination of the world's largest religion."

As such, the King and Queen's visit will "strengthen the UK's relationship with this crucial and influential partner", she said.

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