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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/d2f7/live/66218770-b2ee-11f1-9c21-0f3ad502fa3d.jpg”] Antonia Duffin When Antonia Duffin, 34, started going to the gym, she wanted to lose weight and tone up. It became such a big part of her life that she decided to become a personal trainer alongside her day job in operations for a supermarket chain – and now runs her own…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ce2e/live/7c8182b0-b738-11f1-bc1f-3f186ca4140c.png”] BBC The UK faced its hottest summer on record this year, with much of the country experiencing drought and repeated heatwaves. But temperatures and rainfall were not the same everywhere. Type in your postcode to see what summer 2026 was like in your area. High-pressure weather systems sat over the UK for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/b7c4/live/d45fc990-b839-11f1-b1d1-571ed4d7ff2c.jpg”] Watch: Indian film brings a rarely seen world to global cinema There is something pleasingly improbable about Angh. The film comes from Nagaland, a mountainous state of fewer than two million people on India’s northeastern frontier, and is in Konyak, a tribal language unfamiliar to most Indians, never mind audiences abroad. It…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c7dd/live/5ddfe0d0-b8c4-11f1-b1d1-571ed4d7ff2c.jpg”] Watch: Pope Leo XIV arrives in Paris for four-day visit Pope Leo XIV has issued a warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) at the start of his four-day visit to France. The pontiff cautioned against “losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines” in wide-ranging remarks to Church and state…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/44d0/live/25738d60-97e9-11f1-a7ab-8b30adf0800a.jpg”] NASA/Carla Thomas The long nose of the X-59 is designed to damped the plane’s sonic boom There’s a weird and wonderful jet flying over the US. It has the nose of anteater, parts cannibalised from other planes and a cockpit so far back the pilot depends on a camera to see where…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0a1b/live/c8b49cd0-b053-11f1-89e4-0bbff5cb7e23.png”] Watch: We ask New Yorkers to share the smallest amount they’d ask a friend to pay back You pick up the bill for dinner, pay for the taxi home or grab a friend’s coffee with the promise they’ll pay you back later, but days go by and the money never arrives. At…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a848/live/1fc45340-b85f-11f1-93a5-e363768bffbc.jpg”] Getty Images Canadian authorities have confirmed a shooting near a synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, was a “hate-motivated” attack targeting the Jewish community. The shooting took place outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue on Sunday night during Yom Kippur, the holiest night in the Jewish calendar. Belleville police chief Murray Rodd said during…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/c2b0/live/3fa7a9e0-b8b5-11f1-8257-a79ccb54f692.png”] Michael Phillips played at Llwyneinion lagoon as a child and wants people like him to be tested When she moved to the countryside two years ago, Natalie Dugdale thought it would be the perfect spot to raise her family. Close to a lagoon in north Wales, she thought she could walk her…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/89db/live/0ae36480-b813-11f1-9172-17f860da9de7.jpg”] Eoin Carey Cathie Boyd has overseen turning Pollok House into an arts venue The stately Pollok House in Glasgow’s southside has seen many visitors in its 274 years – but surely none quite like this. In one room, glowing lightbulbs flash on and off while electronic music pulses alongside the lights. In…