"The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address 'giftgirl2025' and initially told the museum that they were looking for 'like a sword or something,' according to a person familiar with the discussions." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Powerful photo by my Reuters colleague Thomas Peter of a shopkeeper in Ukraine’s frontline city of Kramatorsk. Her face covered in dust from a drone blast, she stands at her counter, refusing to leave. Full story here: www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...

This is an important editorial by the editor of the Courier about the Dundee “knife incident” and how the law holds the traditional media to higher standards than social media. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...

French President Emmanuel Macron called President Donald Trump after being stopped at a New York street blocked off for his US counterpart's motorcade during the UN General Assembly reut.rs/42acMSC

It's worth reading these expert views compiled by the Science Media Centre ahead of reports that the Trump administration will link paracetamol to autism. www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...

BREAKING: A federal judge struck Donald Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over its content, giving Trump 28 days to file an amended complaint reut.rs/46psF8U

Every crypto story these days reads something like this

A review of Dan Brown’s new book www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Britain is now one of very few countries where Gen Z are firmly left-of-centre

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Finally, the wheels are coming off Thailand's infamous "Temple of Doom," with its abbot's resignation and the overdue burial of AIDS victims who helped generate so many donations. It took the Thai authorities long enough. I wrote this expose in 2008. web.archive.org/web/20240418...

Russian media are hailing the Alaska summit as a big win for Moscow: • “a tactical victory for Russian diplomacy” • “huge diplomatic victory for Vladimir Putin” • “Trump perceived Russia’s interests as legitimate.”

43 celsius is 109-110 fahrenheit www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

“Scientists warn such events could become more common due to factors including global warming, the arrival of invasive species, habitat loss of predators and over-fishing.”

Al Sharif was previously part of a Reuters team which in 2024 won a Pulitzer Prize in the category of Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.

Not quite. Her rival, England keeper Hannah Hampton, threw the bottle into the stands, then tried “so hard not to burst out laughing” when she saw Coll’s reaction. Who said the women’s game was nicer than the men’s?

Staggering numbers of Palestinians now being shot in Gaza as they try to find food at GHF sites, or along UN convoy routes. More than 4,500 people treated in a single Red Cross clinic. Almost 1,400 across two MSF clinics. Total is more than 12,000, according to health ministry.

“Stefanie Anderson avoids crowds, doesn’t go out after dark and flinches when the doorbell rings.” Shocking and important story from my colleagues Linda So, Peter Eisler and Ned Parker. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Spain decides not to buy US F-35 jets because of fears of US political reliability. There will be more of this on.ft.com/41tL4zH via @FT

"Deaf Republic" - an epic modern poem about war, resistance and love - was published in 2019. But with conflict raging in Ukraine and Gaza, it feels more viscerally relevant than ever. Here's my interview with poet Ilya Kaminsky. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/il...

A US group with ties to senior Trump administration officials posted ‘watchlists' of federal employees involved in immigration, education and DEI work. Many are speaking out about what they consider a campaign of intimidation — and some are taking legal action reut.rs/4mdS10o

The U.S. government will no longer demand that its employees send emails listing five things they did last week. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Great read.

Important story. In the words of one lawyer, who resigned from a top law firm that made a deal with the Trump administration: “What is more useless than lawyers if there is no functioning legal system? As lawyers, we have a unique obligation to fight this.” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

“The MIT scientist who is thinking about leaving the U.S. told me that the Swiss scientific powerhouse ETH Zurich had already reached out about relocating her lab to its picturesque campus with a view of the Alps.” www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us

Introducing AI&Us, a new feature series from @reuters.com exploring the surprising ways artificial intelligence is transforming everyday life. First up: @hanirichter.bsky.social on how chatbots are becoming a lifeline for some neurodivergent users. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/it...

As Ukrainian forces were advancing in Kherson province in September 2022, Elon Musk cut off Starlink www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them." reutersagency.com/media-centre...

“Iman al-Shaer, another relative who lives nearby, said the family hadn't eaten anything before the bombs came down. ‘The children slept without food,’ he said.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger. #protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel

"With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organisations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The U.S. government will spend $160,000 to incinerate contraceptives worth $10 million after rejecting offers from the United Nations and family planning groups to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Never gets old.

Israeli fire kills 67 people seeking aid in Gaza, medics say, as hunger worsens - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Devastating interview from Gaza with volunteer surgeon Prof. Nick Maynard on Radio 4’s Today programme. He says young teenage boys are being systematically targeted while seeking food for their starving families, with different body parts shot on different days, sometimes by quadcopters.

From Martin Wolf’s FT column, “A return to tariffs, Taco or not.”

Thrilled to see one of my (many) journals exhibited so creatively at Sarajevo’s WARM Festival 2025. It records a near-disastrous trip to a war-torn South Pacific island in 1997 that taught me a valuable journalistic lesson: if you’re going to do something stupid and dangerous, bring a friend.

Trump’s strategy reminds me of how my grandmother once described her hunt for a job. “I don’t have one yet - but I have many letters out.”

on.ft.com/3IdMfg8 Meta’s AI climate tool raised false hope of CO₂ removal, scientists say

The ICRC says its Red Cross Field Hospital in Gaza is running out of body bags. www.icrc.org/en/news-rele...

“Florida now has a detention camp with merch. Totally normal.” www.miamiherald.com/opinion/edit...

U.S. conspicuously absent from European/Latin American/Canadian/Australian joint statement celebrating Pride yesterday. ⬇️

NATO Hague summit need to know from Team Reuters: Main story below 👇 Defence spending explainer: www.reuters.com/business/aer... Rutte profile: www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The giant banner was unfurled by activists from Greenpeace Italy and a UK group named "Everyone hates Elon.”

News avoidance is higher than ever, according to our Digital News Report 2025. Here are 3 things to know: 1️⃣ Across markets, 40% say they sometimes or often avoid the news, up from 29% in 2017 and the highest we’ve ever recorded. Data by country below buff.ly/pHwz59E

Headline of the day.

Ad on the London Underground.

A sign of the (European) times. on.ft.com/4lixy9H