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Silent Hill, the psychological survival horror franchise from Japanese studio Konami, has for the most part been set in America, although the most recent excursion - Silent Hill f - was based in Japan in the 1960s era.

Now in Silent Hill Townfall, made by the Glasgow-based team Screen Burn, that location is in an entirely new place - Scotland, albeit a fictional part of it - St Amelia. Scotland was initially going to be more of an influence than a setting, but the team ultimately decided to embrace it fully.

Director Jon McKellan spoke to BBC Tech Now's Laura Cress at Gamescom, Cologne.

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It has been just over two weeks since a crash on the A66 duel carriageway near Middlesborough, which killed seven people - including two police officers.

The BBC's Ed Thomas has travelled to the Grangetown area of the city, which, along with the South Bank area, has been the focus of a large police operation into organised crime following the tragedy.

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Cleveland Police's Chief Constable Victoria Fuller has said she is proud of her "brave" force but that it was being "let down" by the way it was funded, following the fatal crash.

She said her officers are dealing with some of the highest crime levels in the country akin to those faced by metropolitan forces, but with less than half the number of officers.

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The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has declared a mistrial after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether she was criminally responsible when she strangled her three young children. The ruling, reached after seven days of deliberations, leaves the case unresolved and allows prosecutors to try Clancy again.

The final day of the trial took a dramatic turn when the judge gave Clancy’s attorney a chance to appeal the mistrial order. Her lawyer was angry that a note from the jury had suggested that a single juror wouldn’t follow the court’s instructions about reasonable doubt. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ultimately denied the appeal.

Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, doesn’t deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023. Clancy’s legal team has argued that postpartum psychosis led to her actions, while prosecutors say she knew what she was doing.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Ione Wells in Massachusetts.

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The judge in the trial of Lindsay Clancy - the US mother accused of murdering her three children - has officially declared a mistrial, meaning the trial has collapsed without a verdict.

Court will reconvene at the end of the month to decide what happens next.

The decision follows a last-ditch appeal from the defence after the jury said earlier that "with a heavy heart" they were "unable to come to a unanimous decision".

Clancy, 36, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children - Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and eight-month-old Callan - at their Massachusetts home in 2023.

She does not deny killing them, but her lawyer argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, and could not distinguish right from wrong.

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After the US returned to military strikes on Iran, and Tehran carried out retaliatory attacks across the Gulf, people across the region ask where the war might go next.

Elsewhere, fighting flares up in Yemen around the Bab al-Mandab Strait, as the Iranian-backed Houthis clash with government forces supported by Saudi Arabia.

Diesel prices hit the highest ever recorded in the US, with oil supplies still impacted by disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.

And after a brief meeting between the presidents of China and Iran, is the long-term relationship between the countries being strained by the war?

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Rescue crews in Nepal have saved two workers from a blocked hydropower tunnel, nine days after they were trapped by debris from flash floods. An advisor to the rescue operation has describes it has “layer upon layer of layer of miracles”.

About 40 people are believed to still be trapped in the tunnel. Flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border last week has left almost 1,300 people dead, and more than 5,000 missing.

Also in the Global News Podcast:

05:15 Britain's right-wing Reform party says it's investigating, after two officials – including a senior aide to leader Nigel Farage – were filmed appearing to suggest ways of getting round electoral laws which ban foreign funding

09:15 Two Palestinian teenagers are killed in an incursion by Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank

12:29 False claims of “genital theft” have led to dozens of killings across Africa

16:29 Volkswagen says it will cut another 50,000 jobs by 2030

18:26 Psychiatrists in New Zealand are authorised to prescribe MDMA – the active ingredient in Ecstasy – to some patients

The Global News Podcast brings you the best of the BBC’s news coverage and analysis from around the world.

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Three of Dolly Parton’s songs have reached the UK top 10 charts, following her death - the highest she has ever reached in the UK charts.

Dolly Parton’s death sparked an extraordinary outpouring of love from fans and stars the world over - but what was it about Dolly that made her so universally adored? From her music and her humour to her look and philanthropy, we get reaction on Dolly’s life, legacy and worldwide appeal.

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The UK's position on the Falkland Islands is "unwavering", Downing Street has said after Argentina's president said the islands were "historically and legally" Argentinian.

Javier Milei said the "winds of change" favoured his country's claim to the islands and pledged sanctions on firms planning to exploit oil close to the islands.

More than 40 years after the war over the territory, sovereignty of the archipelago in the south-west Atlantic Ocean remains hotly disputed between Britain and Argentina.

President Trump hinted the US would not help the UK in any future Falklands conflict because Britain "had not been there to help me" during his war with Iran.

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01:15 Where are the islands & who lives there

02:13 The history and 1982 war

03:48 What did Javier Milei say

04:57 What has President Trump said

05:56 How serious is it?

07:02 Reaction from the Falklands

07:58 Reaction from Argentina

08:58 UK government reaction

10:10 Could there be military action?

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The reporter Jonathan Swan gained unprecedented access to the inner workings of Donald Trump’s White House in the first year of his second administration.

Who were the main characters fighting for the president’s attention? How were decisions made in the Oval Office? And how was the decision taken to go to war with Iran?

On today’s episode, Sumi sits down with Jonathan to talk about the reporting he did alongside Maggie Haberman for their book ‘Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump’. The president says the book is “mostly made up” but that has not stopped inquiries inside the White House as to how Swan and Haberman were able to gain such close access to operations.

From the early days of Trump’s presidency inside Mar-a-Lago to his relationship with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, we assess the key relationships within Trump’s top team and the differences between senior figures like JD Vance and Marco Rubio.

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AI Decoded breaks down the extraordinary scenes from the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, where robotic athletes broke world records, boxed, danced and sometimes spectacularly failed in front of a global audience.

China now produces around 90% of the world's humanoid robots and is investing heavily in what it calls "embodied AI". But despite remarkable advances in hardware, many experts believe the biggest obstacle isn't engineering at all. It's intelligence.

So why can AI write software but not unload a dishwasher? Why is picking up a cup still harder for a robot than solving complex problems? And how close are we really to robots that can operate autonomously in the real world?

Joining Christian Fraser and Priya Lakhani are Professor Ingmar Posner, Founder of the Oxford Robotics Institute, and Dr Maria Stamatopoulou, Co-Founder of Laelaps AI

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