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The Chancellor has announced welfare and spending cuts to try to restore her £9.9bn “headroom”, so she can meet her rules on the economy. BBC Verify’s Ben Chu looks at how she’s made her sums add up. Produced by Jemimah Herd. Motion graphics by Mesut Ersoz. Read article in full at source...

The Rugby Football Union would slide into months of “rancour and disruption” should a rebel motion to oust chief executive Bill Sweeney pass on Thursday, interim chair Bill Beaumont has warned. A collective of clubs, led by those in the second-tier Championship, have forced a referendum on Sweeney’s leadership. They claim the organisation has lost...

Lily Jamali Reporting fromSan Francisco EPA Signage outside of the offices of the biotechnology company 23andMe in South San Francisco. Photo by GEORGE NIKITIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock The computer systems of 23andMe have been struggling to cope with the sheer volume of customers racing to delete their data, after the DNA-testing company announced that it was filing for...

Clara Bullock BBC News, Bristol PA Media Prince William filmed with Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland during a visit to Somerset The Prince of Wales will appear in an upcoming episode of Clarkson’s Farm. Prince William was joined by stars of the show Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland as he met young farmers in Somerset...

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial for allegedly attempting to stage a coup against current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, after a ruling from the country’s top court. The Supreme Court’s five-member panel voted unanimously in favour of the trial going ahead. Bolsonaro, 70, denies trying to block Lula’s inauguration and says...

Brian Wheeler Political reporter Reuters Rachel Reeves has squeezed the welfare budget further and boosted defence spending in a Spring Statement aimed at kick-starting the faltering economy. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – the government’s financial watchdog – halved its growth forecast for this year to 1%. The chancellor blamed global instability, arguing that...

Joshua Askew BBC News, South East TOLGA AKMEN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock “Quite a lot of anomalies” had been detected in the area, said the council Every resident affected by a sinkhole in Surrey is set to return home, a local authority has said. Lloyd Allen, Surrey County Council’s infrastructure team manager, said those impacted by the collapse in...

US President Donald Trump has named conservative media critic and pro-Israel commentator Leo Brent Bozell III as ambassador to South Africa, amid worsening diplomatic ties between the two countries. Mr Bozell ‘s nomination follows Washington’s expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, for remarks deemed critical of Trump. The Trump administration has condemned South Africa’s...