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1. Trump-BBC live: Nandy attacks ‘biased’ critics of the BBC after US president’s $1bn legal threat

   After Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit, US president claims broadcaster ‘tried to interfere in election’

2. Texas dam compromised as officials plead residents to evacuate before failure

   Residents in southeast Texas were evacuated after the discovery of an eight-inch hole in the dam’s embankment

3. Voices: The UK used to proudly lead the world on international aid – now we don’t save lives that we should

   The £150m cut to the UK’s contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a mistake, writes MP Fleur Anderson. But the upcoming Budget is a chance to change course

4. The number of prisoners wrongly freed from UK jails this year revealed

5. Graham Platner got an accidental nazi tattoo. The artist who covered it wants us to forgive him

   ‘We all make mistakes and we don’t have teams to cover it up for us’

6. Man accused of pleading for crypto donations to fund Angela Merkel’s assassination

   Merkel and Olaf Scholz were among those on the man’s list and investigators had been monitoring a ‘right-wing extremist’ platform he had featured on since June

7. ‘Shook the ground under my feet’: Witnesses recount horrific aftermath of car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort

   After at least eight people were killed and dozens wounded in a car explosion near Delhi’s iconic Red Fort, eyewitnesses recall the panic and chaos of the evening in the aftermath of the blast, as Arpan Rai reports from Delhi

8. Trump explains new 50-year mortgage plan

9. Founding Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley died from injuries suffered in fall, autopsy shows

   Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the glam rock band Kiss, died from blunt force injuries to the head that he suffered in a fall earlier this year

10. Celebrity Traitors has exposed the fatal flaw of I’m a Celeb

    After the flatulence and fanfare of ‘Celebrity Traitors’, the return of ITV’s annual jungle series and its predictable lineup falls seriously flat. The show’s bosses could learn a thing or two from the BBC, writes Rachel McGrath