Not for the first time, the BBC is in crisis. The past week has brought accusations of doctored footage, systemic bias and a high-level cover-up. This time, insiders say, the threat is “existential”.

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Scientists have created an unprecedented "brain atlas" that could reveal where — and how — schizophrenia, autism and even cancer begin.

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They can, however, be seen from space. As can 150km of excavations and the abandoned remnants of an extraordinary vision. “They say…it can’t be done,” said Prince Mohammed in 2023. “They can keep saying that. We can keep proving them wrong.” Maybe not in the case of The Line.

At the midpoint of The Line, the vision is for a harbour carved from the desert. Ships enter via an arch with a 30-storey skyscraper hanging upside down as a “chandelier”. How will toilets flush upside down? The Saudis are unperturbed. For good measure, a 45,000-seat stadium is to be perched on top.

Renders for The Line depict a glass-clad linear city stretching 170km across the desert and, at 500 metres, rising higher than the Empire State Building. Placed in central London, it would tower over the UK’s tallest buildings and stretch from London to the Norfolk coast.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has a fantastical vision for a new way of living. But The Line, his plan for a vertical city in a vast mirrored wall, is rapidly being undone by the laws of physics and finance.

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It’s election day in New York, and Zohran Mamdani looks set to beat Andrew Cuomo to become the city's first Muslim socialist mayor. Mamdani has captured imaginations with his wild promises of rent freezes, free buses and free universal child care. Can he deliver?