Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Posted on Saturday July 18, 2026

Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.

Ruthless plotter or dad dancer? Insiders reveal the real Andy Burnham
Posted on Saturday July 18, 2026

Who is the real Andy Burnham? Laura Kuenssberg talks to more than 20 people who know him to work it out

Control, threats, disfiguring surgery: My life inside Jeffrey Epstein's 'cult'
Posted on Saturday July 18, 2026

"Anya" gives the BBC a rare account of how sex-criminal financier Epstein lured and abused his “assistants”.

Russian online retail warehouses hit by deadly Ukrainian strikes
Posted on Saturday July 18, 2026

Drones targeted Wildberries facilities near Moscow and in Tambov. Ukraine's leader called them "major logistics facilities" supplying "sanctioned components".

Laos says it can't determine cause of tourist deaths linked to methanol
Posted on Saturday July 18, 2026

Officials say they have no evidence of poisoning over the 2024 deaths because autopsies were not conducted.