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BBC News Welcome to our Who am I? game. The rules are simple. Each day there’s a new footballer and the challenge is to guess who they are in as few attempts as possible. After each wrong guess you unlock a new clue. Guess the answer after as few clues as possible to score more […]

BBC News Sir Keir won a landslide general election victory two years ago – but he began losing public support within weeks of arriving in Downing Street after a series of policy mis-steps and U-turns. The final straw for many Labour MPs was when right-wing party Reform UK swept the board at local elections in […]

BBC News Ecstatic Spanish spectators and disappointed Argentine fans spoke to the BBC outside New York New Jersey Stadium after the World Cup final on Sunday. Argentina played extra time with only 10 men when Spain’s Ferran Torres scored the winning goal after 106 minutes. Read more on this story #Watch #Spanish #Argentinian #fans #react […]

BBC News A collection of poems, some scribbled on slips of paper between food deliveries, has won Wang Jibing one of China’s top literary honours. Low Flight, inspired by the everyday challenges delivery riders face, has bagged the Lu Xun Literary Prize – named after a writer who has been referred to as the father […]

BBC News When Spain appointed Luis de la Fuente as head coach in December 2022, few expected him to deliver the Nations League (2023), European Championship (2024) and World Cup (2026) in so short a time frame. Spain had just been knocked out of the World Cup by Morocco in the last 16 in Qatar […]

BBC News Spain and Lamine Yamal have grown through the tournament to leave him with the world at his feet and football’s two greatest prizes in his pocket. As well as having glorious natural gifts, he is also Spain’s lucky charm. They completed their domination of the international stage with Ferran Torres’ decisive 106th-minute strike […]

BBC News Norway has opened a new memorial for the 77 victims of the country’s deadliest terror attack in peacetime, days before its 15th anniversary. On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo and shot dead another 69 – mostly teenagers – at a youth camp on […]

BBC News Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni left his post-match news conference in tears when talking about his future after Sunday’s World Cup final defeat by Spain. Scaloni, 48, was bidding to become only the second manager in history to retain the trophy after overseeing Argentina’s 2022 triumph in Qatar. But European champions Spain proved too […]

BBC News Dr Stuart Lavery, consultant of reproductive medicine at University College Hospital in London, said: “People are understandably using this technology to try to get a greater understanding, and to try and pick up things as early as possible because it has such a profound impact on your life if you’re planning a pregnancy.” […]

BBC News Thousands more parents could receive £27 a week by remembering some paperwork shortly after their baby is born. Child benefit is an allowance that helps with the cost of bringing up children. It is currently worth £27.05 a week for the first child, and £17.90 a week for each subsequent child. Official data […]