“He grabbed a guitar and strummed it. I said, ‘What the hell tuning is that?’” Charlie Starr on the joys of fingerpicking in Csus2 – the open tuning that doesn’t have a bad chord anywhere - Guitar World

How The Beatles found their drummer at Butlin's5 hours agoKarl BirdIn SkegnessMichael Ochs ArchiveRingo Starr joined The Beatles in 1962 while he was playing Butlin's in SkegnessA Lincolnshire holiday camp played a little-known but crucial part in the birth of The Beatles. A young, bearded Ringo Starr was playing drums with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes at the Butlins in Skegness in the summer 1962 when Paul McCartney and John Lennon arrived to try and recruit him to the band. Bobby Thomson, who was bassist in the Hurricanes, recalls the duo arriving early one morning after driving all night from Liverpool. "I think that was the whole idea, to invite him to join the Beatles," he said. "Because I was with Ringo they didn't come out with it. They could have, it wouldn't have bothered me. "He said that a few weeks later in mid August the band were having breakfast when an announcement over the speaker system asked Starr to report to reception. He asked Thomson to come with him and the pair arrived to find a phone call from Beatles manager Brian Epstein asking if Starr would like to join the group.

WorldUkrainian attacks set an oil export terminal ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday, as Kyiv launched more than 1,000 drones across Russia in one of its largest ever aerial bombardments. Ukraine targets Russian oil sites, while Russia launches attacks on ZaporizhzhiaThe Associated Press · Posted: Oct 18, 2026 6:48 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A car burns after a Russian airstrike on a residential neighbourhood in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2026. (Kateryna Klochko/The Associated Press)Ukrainian attacks set an oil export terminal ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday, as Kyiv launched more than 1,000 drones across Russia in one of its largest ever aerial bombardments. The attack comes amid deepening tensions between Ukraine and Washington, with U. S. President Donald Trump criticizing Kyiv for its strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.

Pope Leo XIV has made his first major public appearance since his lung cancer surgery, appearing at the same spot in the Vatican that he announced he was going in for an operation.

Welcome back to Off the Record after another hectic week. I like to joke with our Deputy Head of EU News, Maia de la Baume, that things cannot get crazier with each passing week. Every time, I’m proved wrong. It’s bad news for my immune system, which has finally succumbed to a cold.

A protester wraps a French flag around them in front of the burning tourism office during a demonstration in Lyon, France, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. Addressing the protests in a post on social media on Saturday evening, French President Emmanuel Macron said there was "no place for violence" in France.