The world, in perspective.

Journalist Linda Mason has died at 84. She was a pioneer behind the scenes over a nearly 50-year career, including on the "CBS Evening News" with Walter Cronkite.

After starting as a radio desk assistant in 1966, Linda Mason went on to become the first female producer of the "CBS Evening News" and held several other high-profile positions at CBS News.

The first map of the Mason-Dixon Line dividing U.S. Northern free states from Southern states that had slavery decades before the Civil War is going up for auction.

The chancellor has had to grapple with a mix of public finances and household finances being a mess.

Political editor Chris Mason analyses Chancellor John Healey's Budget 2026 announcements.

Support on the cost of living, and in particular energy bills, as well as announcments on devolution will be central to John Healey's first Budget.

From Brexit debates to North Sea oil, there is plenty getting the cabinet, the Labour Party and the country talking.

Jackdaw and Rosebank are case studies in the slow motion awkwardness the UK has over energy.

The BBC's political editor Chris Mason looks at the fallout from the Lib Dem frontbench resignations.