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as the world's biggest boy band gears up for a world tour and a new album. The seven-man band will split almost 80 dates across 2026 and 2027, and fans are already limbering up to battle for tickets when they go on sale next week. We're going to be fighting for our lives for these tickets, but we will get them. And you know what people say about BTS concerts, like any seat is a good seat, like there is not a bad seat in a BTS concert. Let's go!

The concerts are only possible now after Sugar became the last member to complete mandatory military service, doing 21 months instead of the usual 18. Fans have praised how the group staggered the break, drip-feeding solo projects, content and live streams. So while they left, they never really went away.

And while some had their concerns... I knew they were always going to come back, but there's always that worry. Experts like Dr. Felicity Davies, who did her PhD on South Korean culture, say fans of K-pop boy bands are always prepared for them to have to take a break. Anne told us the current appetite for K-culture, or Hallyu, will smooth the transition back, as everything from K-beauty to Korean TV shows is thriving in global markets.

BTS's previous tour, Permission to Dance on Stage, ran for 12 dates up until 2022 and made more than 200 million dollars. The new one could net them up to a billion, according to insiders, and if the fans are anything to go by, maybe even more.

And that report was by Stephanie Prentiss.

Still to come in this podcast. I could not move because history had me glued to the seat. We look back on the life of a US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who along with Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person and helped to end racial segregation.

Astu toiseen maailmaan Storytelin kanssa. Rakkaustarinoita, trillereitä ja lastensuosikkeja. Täytä talvi yli miljoonalla tarinalla. Kokeile Storyteliä nyt kolme kuukautta puoleen hintaan. Life is better with a story. Sanotaan nyt vaikka, että otat puolisosi kanssa yhteisen asuntolainan. No se, että säätätte pullokuitit pahimman varalle, auttaa vähän. Yhteinen henkivakuutus auttaa paljon.

2025 was one of the world's three warmest years ever recorded, according to scientists. Data from the Met Office here in the UK and the European Copernicus Climate Service show that global temperatures were more than 1.4 degrees Celsius above the levels of the late 19th century, but not quite as hot as 2024. Our climate reporter Mark Ponting has more.

Last year global temperatures were cooled slightly by a natural weather pattern in the Pacific called La Nina. That meant it wasn't quite as hot as 2024, but the long-term trend is clear. The last 11 years were the hottest of all those recorded since the mid-19th century. The deputy director of Copernicus, Samantha Burgess, explains that the planet could soon breach the target of limiting the long-term rise in global temperatures.

Jos katsotaan, kuinka pitkällä aikavälillä 1,5 asteella yli pre-industrialla, se näyttää, että se on lopulta tämän vuoden lopulta.

Mark pointing. The Republican congressman heading the inquiry into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein says his committee will meet next week to hold the former Democratic president Bill Clinton in contempt after he failed to appear before the committee to testify. That could potentially lead to criminal charges. Here's James Comer speaking after Mr. Clinton's no-show.

Both Mr Clinton and his wife Hillary have refused to testify in person, accusing James Comer of potentially bringing Congress to a halt in order to pursue a politically driven process. In a letter shared on social media by Mrs Clinton, the couple said they had tried to provide what little information they had to help with the investigation, and they accused Mr Comer of trying to shift the focus away from the Trump administration's failures.

Yhdysvallat ovat sanoneet, että yhdysvallat voivat käsitellä lakia, joka vahvistaa transgenderit ja naiset kumppaneiden kumppaneiden kumppaneiden kumppaneiden kumppaneiden

Supporters and opponents of the bans held rival rallies outside the court as the hearing took place. Madison Kenyon is a former college athlete who is involved in one of the cases.

Chase Strangio is one of the lawyers representing the trans students. In this moment, in so many halls of power, it feels like people are debating whether or not transgender people exist. Whether or not we deserve protections under our constitution and our civil rights statutes. And today in the Supreme Court we were able to remind the nine justices that we do exist.

North America-korrespondent Anthony Zirka told us more.

Anthony Zerka. Agatha Christie's murder mysteries have captivated the world for more than a century. She is the best-selling novelist of all time. Two billion books featuring characters like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. And now an adaptation of one of her earlier lesser-known stories, Seven Dials, is getting the Netflix treatment, with Mia McKenna-Bruce playing the lead role Lady Eileen Brent, generally known as Bundle.

Well, Mia and the show's writer and executive producer Chris Chibnall have been speaking to Tim Franks about Agatha Christie's enduring appeal. Well, she's an incredible storyteller. She's a page-turning writer. She's a social diarist of the 20th century. She's funny, compelling, thrilling, exciting, prolific. What Agatha Christie is is a cocktail of so many different elements.

She created the murder mystery as we know it. When you think about the classic English country house or village murder, you're really thinking about Agatha Christie. And she created iconic characters. So she was really interested in people and really interested in puzzles as well.

And I have to say, coming to this, I mean, people may well have heard of Miss Marple, may well have heard of Hercule Poirot. I hadn't heard of Bundle Nia, but she's a very attractive character. She's so exciting and supposedly based on a lot of Agatha herself, which when I actually read the book, I was like, oh, that adventurous spirit that she has is kind of like what we know of Agatha Christie. Because did you know she was the first woman to stand on a surfboard? No.