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New York Times - Oct 25, 2026

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Rosebank: Life on the oil field at the centre of a political storm

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Scotland editor James Cook finds out what life is like on board a ship in an untapped oil field awaiting its fate.

Heating oil costs 'more than double' ahead of winter

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How families are cutting the cost of Halloween as spending grows

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China’s tech giants are paying 1 million yuan for a new kind of AI engineer

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