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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/bf6e/live/6e049c80-cc97-11f1-94e6-edd4c60b2e1d.jpg”] PA Media Fire crews responded to more than 1,100 wildfires in England and Wales by mid-August Record wildfires that destroyed homes, scorched thousands of hectares of countryside and stretched fire crews across the UK exposed weaknesses in preparedness, a committee of MPs has warned. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/72d9/live/d85fca80-cd20-11f1-acea-8755f0f28c17.jpg”] LightRocket via Getty Images The Jio Platforms IPO is expected to be the biggest in the country India’s second richest man Mukesh Ambani’s digital and telecommunications venture is tapping public investors for the first time in what’s expected to be the country’s largest share sale. Jio Platforms, a unit of conglomerate Reliance…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2f00/live/823692f0-cca9-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] Lawyer Mohammad Alias Yousaf advised how to avoid paying a £45,000 illegal-worker fine A solicitor has been secretly filmed by the BBC explaining how he could make a £45,000 illegal-working fine go away. Mohammad Alias Yousaf – also known as Alias – made the claim to an undercover reporter, who was posing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a691/live/0777e580-cd28-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.png”] Getty Images/Reuters Elon Musk has spent years building Tesla and SpaceX into a pair of trillion-dollar technology empires. Now, he is considering bringing them together. Asked on Tuesday whether a merger would be a good idea, Musk was clear: “Yes.” The prospect is more than hypothetical. Musk said special committees have been…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2eec/live/c3a0f8d0-cccb-11f1-951b-8fbc7a9ea030.jpg”] BBC Springfield, in south-west Ohio, was thrust into the spotlight in 2024 when Trump repeated a false claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets In this closely fought midterm election campaign, the small town of Springfield, Ohio, has become a symbol of modern America. But it is a symbol that changes dramatically depending…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/5e48/live/4edd0c70-cc9c-11f1-9a39-31b474234113.jpg”] BBC Firefighters have been battling the stubborn blaze for weeks now When the sun hits the smog enveloping Indonesian Borneo, it turns everything the colour of rust. Cars, houses and streets appear and disappear out of a dim russet fog. There are few better words than “apocalyptic” to describe the way this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1718/live/05ef3900-cc80-11f1-bed8-c51b95c602ec.jpg”] Anadolu via Getty Images Nearly 5,000 healthcare workers have been trained to deal with Ebola Kenya is grappling with its first ever outbreak of Ebola, a disease which neighbouring countries, such as Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, are used to dealing with. Nine cases have now been confirmed including its first…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a8ca/live/9dc70340-c7a6-11f1-a624-a3d8608fc192.jpg”] Getty Images A top US official recently met with Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing for the first time in years Has Washington’s long-standing policy of isolating the military regime in Myanmar now changed? The revelation that a top official in the Trump administration met its leader Min Aung Hlaing last month, and…