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October 2025

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October 31st
- Sudan stands on the brink of another national schism
- What really happens to all the UK’s stolen cars and phones
October 30th
- How the clock change could impact your finances
- What another poor harvest means for the UK
October 29th
- Are car headlights too bright?
October 28th
- Why are so many prisoners being released by mistake?
October 27th
- Why scientists are attempting nuclear fusion
October 26th
- Why Britain is struggling to stop the ransomware cyberattacks
October 24th
- How climate change poses a national security threat
- Five takeaways from Plaid Cymru’s historic Caerphilly by-election win
October 23rd
- Trump wants to exert control over federal architecture
- The UK-made Storm Shadow missiles Ukraine is using in Russia
October 22nd
- How the online world relies on AWS cloud servers
- Five alternatives to cash ISAs
October 21st
- Five things we learnt from Virginia Giuffre’s memoir
- How will new V level qualifications work?
October 20th
- The disputed claims about Christian genocide in Nigeria
October 19th
- The two-child benefit cap: should it be lifted?
October 17th
- China’s rare earth controls
October 16th
- The Crown vs. Greenpeace: who owns the seabed?
October 15th
- Who are the new-wave hackers bringing the world to a halt?
October 14th
- French finances: what’s behind country’s debt problem?
October 13th
- The Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners being released
October 12th
- The quest to defy ageing
October 10th
- How does the Nobel Peace Prize work?
October 9th
- Pope Leo wants to change the Vatican’s murky finances
- Icarus programme – the ‘internet of animals’
October 8th
- Youth revolts rattle Morocco as calls against corruption grow louder
- The end of ‘golden ticket’ asylum rights
October 7th
- Five key questions about the Gaza peace deal
October 6th
- Syria’s strange post-Assad election
October 3rd
- What are stablecoins, and why is the government so interested in them?
- Child trust funds explained as over £1.5 million remains unclaimed
October 2nd
- How digital ID cards work around the world
October 1st
- The new Stratus Covid strain – and why it’s on the rise

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