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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/72e5/live/17d2eee0-8181-11f1-a117-633a3b1f8a33.jpg”] Getty Images China has hit out at the nationalisation of British Steel, saying it “firmly opposes and is strongly dissatisfied with the British government’s decision”. On Thursday, the UK government said that taking the loss-making firm into public hands would protect jobs and safeguard a “vital national capability”. The UK took control…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/5a1a/live/e4141ed0-7f6e-11f1-8812-63adb81ec20b.jpg”] Netflix Kit Connor (left) and Joe Locke (right) have played Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring in Heartstopper since 2022 Heartstopper has been described as “a lifeline for many” young LGBTQ+ viewers and something that has “changed countless lives” through its heartwarming depiction of the secondary school romance between Nick Nelson and Charlie…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/99ff/live/e74f4460-8065-11f1-bf5f-a7a6eeea7412.jpg”] Reuters This World Cup has been bigger than any tournament before it. More countries taking part and more matches means more eyeballs on the action – as well as more opportunities to make money. As the planet’s footballing stars create historic moments on the pitch, billions of dollars are being generated off…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/254d/live/67655330-7934-11f1-8d20-776ad947bebb.jpg”] Sarah Reeve Sarah and Lee have been together for 25 years and have always had a joint bank account When Sarah Reeve got engaged she gave fiance Lee an ultimatum: he had to pay off his debt before she would marry him. “I was paying my mortgage and bills whereas he was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/3dd1/live/af6ad550-815a-11f1-b976-0b9c15b0ccfc.jpg”] Getty Images US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged countries to collaborate against what he called a growing threat of left-wing terrorism. The Trump administration hosted representatives from more than 60 countries in Washington, where it argued left-wing political violence was the result of a “unique evil rooted in a deep…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/0928/live/249f8fb0-80ec-11f1-9bcb-d9018057bd1c.jpg”] Hindustan Times via Getty Images Environmental activist Sonam Wangchuk has survived for 19 days on just salt water at a hunger strike in Delhi It took 58 days without food to change India’s map. When Potti Sriramulu began fasting in October 1952, he was asking for something then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru…

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