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The evening’s are growing darker and the urge to hibernate is getting stronger, but thankfully there’s plenty ahead to keep you venturing out into the world. Major new exhibitions in Paris and London focus on two of the world’s most famous impressionist painters, Monet and Renoir, while Tom Cruise stars as an eccentric oil tycoon with a hero complex in Digger. There’s also new music from former The Smiths’ member Johnny Marr, and a crime drama starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as a drug dealer-turned-art dealer on a mission to take down some hit men. Keep scrolling to find out more… Exhibitions…
The Labour Party conference enters day two under the shadow of a suspected terror plot at RAF Fairford and whether the Iranians were involved.As Donald Trump offers his account, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy examine the conflicting versions of events, the emerging security concerns around the Gloucestershire airbase and the political reaction. Meanwhile in Liverpool, the chancellor takes centre stage, but why is he keeping a low profile? Sam and Anne discuss the building economic tensions between Number 10 and the Treasury on the approach to the economy, investment and fiscal rules. Plus, with John Healey’s headroom getting squeezed further,…
Aleksander Miszalski, who was recalled in May, had governed Kraków for more than two years. Although he pushed through several reforms that were widely seen in a positive light, including a substantial pay rise for professional foster families and faster procedures for building the metro, residents quickly began to notice his favourable treatment of developers and the resulting chaos in city management. The final straw, however, was the creation of a Clean Transport Zone in the city, which in its original form was set to hit owners of older car models hard in the pocket. Several months after the referendum…
The attack struck the Saltivskyi district at about 4am, destroying apartments on the lower floors. Emergency crews rescued 32 people from the building and searched the damaged floors for anyone still trapped inside. The injured children were aged between three and 15. Two boys, aged eight and 12, were taken to hospital, while the others received treatment at the scene. Several victims were also treated for injuries and acute stress reactions. Rescue workers, police and medical teams continued clearing debris on Monday. Authorities said investigators were trying to determine which weapon had been used. The strike came during a wider…
By Doloresz Katanich with AP Published on 28/09/2026 – 12:09 GMT+2•Updated 12:11 Turkish prosecutors have lifted asset restrictions on companies and funds named in an investigation into the country’s investment fund crisis. More than 450,000 investors hold stakes in funds worth more than $18 billion that are now being liquidated. As part of the investigation into investment funds and suspected market manipulation, authorities froze the assets of 46 legal entities, 18 funds and 42 individuals over the weekend, according to Justice Minister Akın Gürlek. Following a new assessment by the Capital Markets Board, the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office lifted restrictions on 45…
Published on 28/09/2026 – 12:06 GMT+2 North Korean hackers are suspected of stealing $387.5 million (€332.8mn) in cryptocurrency from major global cryptocurrency exchange Bitget in what appears to be the biggest crypto theft of the year. In a statement, Bitget said it detected unauthorised transfers from some of its hot and warm wallets on Thursday. Hot wallets are connected to the internet so an exchange can process transactions quickly, while warm wallets have more limited online access. The company said its cold wallets, which are kept more isolated, were not affected. The company identified IP addresses whose VPN usage appeared…
Le Pen, who polls show is the front-runner in next year’s presidential election, said on X that her party’s new Senate group “will serve as an essential platform during the presidential campaign.” On the other end of the spectrum, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left France Unbowed movement also won its first-ever seat in the chamber. The Senate will remain controlled by an alliance of lawmakers from the conservative Les Républicains and a centrist group, though the bloc lost several seats. A centrist senator, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, said the National Rally winning a group was “the culmination of their…
The EU is drawing up a new mechanism to coordinate its response to Russian sabotage and other hybrid attacks, as European officials warn that Moscow is planning further operations across the continent. European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday have been tasked with developing the bloc’s so-called “emergency security protocol,” designed to help member states coordinate their responses quickly when a hybrid threat is identified. “We need to be vigilant because we see in the intelligence that Russia is planning more sabotage acts,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said as she arrived for the talks. Kallas said such…
The number of schools in Russia has fallen by 45% since the start of the century, with rural communities losing the most, according to a report by the Higher School of Economics published this month. Russia’s secondary school network has shrunk from 68,800 institutions in 2000 to just under 38,000 in 2026, the report says. The school-age population has fallen by around 13.5% over the same period, from 20.5 million to 17.7 million children. Russia now has fewer schools than Germany, even though its population is roughly half the size. Germany has more than 40,000 schools in 2026. Closures have…
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić resigned on Sunday to pursue a bid to become prime minister in upcoming snap parliamentary elections that will test his rule in the Balkan country, which was rattled by nearly two years of protests. Vučić’s second presidential term would otherwise end in May next year. He is banned by the Serbian Constitution from seeking a third term and said he was resigning to lead his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party in the 25 October vote. The governing populists face a major challenge at the ballot box from a youth-backed movement that led protests triggered by the 1…