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Why did a Russian warship fire at a British yacht?

2

Will the UK’s social media ban work?

3

What’s in the US-Iran deal and will it work?

4

How social media is fuelling far-right riots

5

Who’s behind the Nigel Farage crypto scam?

6

The business of climbing Everest

7

What’s behind the protests against the Kushner-Trump luxury development in Albania?

8

Why are football World Cup tickets so expensive?

9

Why is Ghana criminalising LGBTQ+ people?

10

Why is Gen Z increasingly discontent with AI?

11

The fallout from the Henry Nowak case

12

What is Trump’s endgame in Cuba?

13

Why can cold water be so dangerous?

14

The Pope’s AI warning

15

Will an El Niño event cause even hotter summers?

16

Peter Murrell’s embezzlement scandal

17

Why is the government pushing for price caps?

18

Will the UK rejoin the EU?

19

Is social media damaging London’s tourist trade?

20

Could the Married at First Sight allegations change the TV industry?

21

How serious is the new Ebola outbreak?

22

Smart glasses: the new era of covert recordings

23

Why is the Strait of Hormuz still closed?

24

Why are elite athletes doping for the Enhanced Games?

25

Will jet fuel prices ruin your holiday?

26

How worried should we be about hantavirus?

27

How are the police using AI?

28

How much trouble is Keir Starmer in?

29

How could the government tackle antisemitism?

30

Why does South Africa have a xenophobia problem?

31

How could thousands of miscarriages be prevented?

32

Why is Elon Musk suing OpenAI?

33

Are stalking cases soaring in Britain?

34

Will the government’s plan to stop young people smoking work?

35

Why is the Michael Jackson biopic such a hit?

36

How a sub-2 hour marathon finally happened

37

Why your hayfever is getting worse

38

Is Ticketmaster ripping off fans?

39

What does Apple’s new CEO tell us about its future?

40

Why is Keir Starmer on the ropes?

41

Why is the UK paying to switch off wind energy?

42

Trump vs the Pope. What does it mean?

43

Why do Reform councillors keep quitting the party?

44

Who really revealed Banksy’s identity?

45

Why are beta blockers so popular?

46

Why is Israel continuing to attack Lebanon?

47

The downfall of Europe’s great populist

48

We’re losing the race to save the emperor penguin

49

US vs. China: the new space race

50

Will the US-Iran ceasefire hold?

51

Why are art heists on the rise?

52

Is shared ownership housing really an affordable option?

53

Is the Iran War dividing MAGA?

54

How is the Iran war affecting our cost of living?

55

The economics of K-pop and BTS

56

Are war crimes happening in the Iran war?

57

Why are Meta and Google liable for social media addiction?

58

What’s behind changes to the abortion law in England and Wales?

59

Is Cuba Donald Trump’s next target?

60

Are AI chatbots encouraging violence?

61

Why did Scotland reject assisted dying?

62

Why has the Middle East conflict spread to Lebanon?

63

The Meningitis outbreak: How serious is it?

64

Anthropic vs the Pentagon: who decides how AI is used?

65

Why are Iranian footballers refusing asylum?

66

The Mandelson files: How much did Starmer know?

67

How to win an Oscar

68

War in the Middle East: How bad is the economic shock?

69

What went wrong at BrewDog?

70

What does Britain's immigration shake-up mean?

71

How are Dubai’s influencers reacting to conflict in the Middle East?

72

Why are there mixed messages about why the US attacked Iran?

73

Why are maternity services in England in crisis?

74

Who’s the man behind looksmaxxing?

75

What does the bombing of Iran mean for the Middle East?

76

What does the killing of a cartel boss mean for Mexico?

77

Why did the BBC broadcast a racial slur at the Baftas?

78

How a mountaineer's death could change climbing forever

79

Why is youth unemployment in the UK rising?

80

Russia’s war with Ukraine: four years on

81

Is the one-in-one-out asylum policy with France working?

82

What does Andrew’s arrest mean for the royal family?

83

Is Canada doing enough to stop gun violence?

84

The drug 500 times as strong as heroin

85

Why won’t it stop raining?

86

China’s new wave of crackdowns on pro-democracy activists

87

Can the royals distance themselves from Andrew?

88

The UK’s million pound illegal waste problem

89

Why are so many people trapped by student debt?

90

The politics behind Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance

91

Why are the social media giants on trial?

92

Why does the Peter Mandelson scandal threaten to bring down Starmer?

93

Why is surrogacy controversial?

94

Will we see driverless cars on the streets of London this year?

95

What’s holding up the assisted dying bill?

96

Are British pubs dying?

97

The battle for the heart of chess

98

Is Trump scaling back ICE’s operations in Minnesota?

99

Will the Iranian regime survive?

100

Will Donald Trump’s Board of Peace bring stability to Gaza?