Daily Inshorts - 18 December 2025

Daily Inshorts - 18 December 2025

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Democrats release latest batch of Epstein photos as justice department deadline looms

The materials include photos of women's passports, and Lolita quotes written across a woman's body.

Zelensky gives stark warning as EU leaders decide on Russia's frozen assets

The EU is deciding whether to loan tens of billions of euros of Russian money to fund Ukraine's military and economic needs.

Golfer Rory McIlroy wins Sports Personality of the Year

Rory McIlroy is crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2025 after clinching the career Grand Slam and playing a key role in Europe's Ryder Cup win.

UK names Christian Turner as ambassador to US, replacing Peter Mandelson

Turner has spent a nearly 30-year career working across Whitehall and the Foreign Office.

Will pre-Christmas interest rate cut be enough to boost UK economy next year?

The Bank of England is hoping the interest rate cut will inject some much-needed momentum into the economy.

Mehbooba asks Omar Abdullah to allocate ‘unproductive land, not orchards’ to BSF

“On one hand, there is unemployment, on the other such productive orchards were being handed over to the BSF. Where will locals go?,” Ms. Mufti said

Congress MLC Pradnya Satav abandons party just before local polls to join BJP

The BJP has been all about ‘money from power, and power from money’, Cong leader Nana Patole said

Diabetes Atlas projections indicate 900 million people will have diabetes in 2050

The paper stresses stronger efforts to slow down progression of the disease around the world, with strategies tailored appropriately across countries and population groups

In Rajya Sabha, Opposition flags lack of consultations before tabling new rural jobs Bill

They also invoked the example of the three farm laws, which they said were passed under similar circumstances and later withdrawn after a prolonged farmers’ agitation. This Bill will also face the same fate, they said.

Opposition sits on overnight protest in Parliament against passage of VB-G RAM G Bill

Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha deputy leader Sagarika Ghose accused the Union government of bulldozing the VB- G RAM G Bill, as Opposition MPs sat on a 12-hour dharna in the Parliament complex.