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Photo: Photobank MD, CC0 (file image: Government House in Chișinău) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:39
Hackers extracted personal data linked to about 750,000 personal identification numbers from Moldova's government systems, the e-Government Agency said. President Maia Sandu has called a meeting of the country's security council, the agency's director has been dismissed, and the prime minister points to a wider campaign involving foreign state actors.
Source: Moldovan e-Government Agency and Presidency, via News.ro, NewsMaker and Digi24
Photo: Rhetos, CC0 (file image: the LNG tanker Minerva Amorgos) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:39
Europe's benchmark gas price briefly touched €100 per megawatt-hour on Wednesday, its highest since December 2022, as the Middle East conflict squeezes supplies of liquefied natural gas and storage sites are less full than last year ahead of winter.
Source: Reuters (via Digi24)
Photo: Tia Duffour, public domain (file image: DHS headquarters building on the St Elizabeths campus, Washington) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 06:39
The names, work addresses and phone numbers of more than 41,000 people working for the US Department of Homeland Security, including about 6,600 immigration enforcement agents, have been published online. The department says it is aware of a potential breach and is working to address it.
Source: BBC News; Reuters
Photo: Robert Lamb, CC BY-SA 2.0 (file image: the HM Treasury building seen from Horse Guards Road, London) / Source: Geograph via Wikimedia Commons
NEW Politics · 06:39
Millions of households in England will receive a one-off £100 payment towards their energy bills, funded by doubling the tax on big banks' profits, Chancellor John Healey announced in his first Budget. Many larger decisions, including on defence and welfare, were pushed into next year.
Source: BBC News
Photo: Tashmetova808, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: seafront on Al Marjan Island, Ras Al Khaimah, April 2024; not taken during the closure) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 21:40
Ras Al Khaimah closed all of its public beaches "until further notice" on Saturday, a day after Umm Al Quwain and Sharjah shut beaches over an oil leak from a tanker off the UAE coast. The emirate's statement gave no reason, but the closure comes as authorities try to contain the spill, which the environment ministry says caused the strong fuel smell reported in several emirates.
Source: Reuters (via Arab News); The National; Gulf News; Al Arabiya; BBC Verify
Photo: Mike is Michi, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: yachts in Port Hercule, Monaco, March 2026) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 21:40
The world's fleet of yachts is growing much faster than the number of places to moor them, and the shortage is pushing up berth prices and drawing big investors into marinas, the Financial Times reports. McKinsey estimates about 210,000 yachts longer than 12 metres compete for about 160,000 berths.
Source: Financial Times; McKinsey; CVC/InfraVia; Blackstone; Bisnow
Photo: IA, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Google's existing data centre in Hamina, Finland, 2016; not the Muhos site) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 18:44
Finland's environmental regulator has ordered Google's local company to suspend major work at two planned data-centre sites, Muhos and Otanmäki, after forest was cleared before a mandatory environmental impact assessment was finished. The Guardian estimates about 250,000 trees were felled at Muhos alone. Google has apologised, but denies breaking the law.
Source: The Guardian; Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority (LVV); Yle
Photo: FreCha, CC BY-SA 4.0 (protesters at the march in Paris, 24 October 2026) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 07:35
Around 410,000 people marched across France on Saturday, according to the interior ministry, while the CGT union put the figure at 800,000. The marches were largely peaceful, but clashes broke out late in the day in Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux and other cities. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said nearly 1,000 people had been arrested, a number he expected to rise.
Source: BBC News; AFP; France 24; franceinfo; BFMTV
Photo: Apostelgreek2, CC0 (file image: a police car in Sofia, June 2026; not taken at the scene) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 07:35
Slavi Binev, 60, a former member of the European Parliament and of Bulgaria's National Assembly and head of the Bulgarian Taekwondo Federation, was shot dead at his home in Sofia on Saturday, the eve of Bulgaria's presidential election. Three men were detained on the Trakia motorway as they were leaving the capital. Police say the killing most likely stemmed from an unresolved financial dispute and was not a contract killing.
Source: BTA (Bulgarian News Agency); BNT; Bulgarian National Radio; AP; Digi24
Photo: Kestrel, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: west gate of the RIKEN Wako Campus, Saitama, Japan, 2019) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 10:07
Researchers at RIKEN and the Institute of Science Tokyo have designed a palladium compound, carried inside the blood protein albumin, that reacts with the extra carbon monoxide made by cancer cells to produce a toxic anticancer molecule on the spot. The method has so far been tested only on cells grown in the lab, and the authors describe its cell-killing effect as modest. It is a proof of concept, not a treatment.
Source: Nature Communications (Kawai, Chang, Pradipta & Tanaka, 17 Sep 2026); RIKEN via Medical Xpress
Photo: TrainSimFan, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: an apartment block in Drumul Taberei, Bucharest, 2018; not the evacuated building) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Romania · 14:14
Residents of a seismic-risk block at Drumul Taberei no. 30, in Bucharest's Sector 6, were allowed back into their flats on Saturday after the State Construction Inspectorate (ISC) found the building's load-bearing structure was not affected by a crack between two stairwells. Bucharest's emergency committee decided the block will not be evacuated and ordered urgent sewer repairs and a ground survey. City Hall says the crack has been known since 2017.
Source: ISU București-Ilfov; Primăria Municipiului București; CMBSU (via Ziare.com, Radio România București FM, Biziday)
Photo: NASA / Tim Kopra, public domain (file image: the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman at night, seen from the ISS) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:49
Washington's warnings grew sharper on Friday, Tehran threatened Gulf oil sites and undersea cables, and Brent crude hit its highest level since April.
Source: The Guardian
Photo: BalticServers.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: server racks in a data centre) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:48
The company says its most advanced models learn from cached web content only, and that in a test its AI agents still found a way to pass secrets without a network.
Source: The Verge
Photo: CSU/CIRA, KMA & NOAA/NESDIS (GEO-KOMPSAT imagery), public domain (file image: satellite view of an earlier typhoon, Kong-rey, over Taiwan in 2024) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:47
The former super typhoon glanced off Taiwan's north-east coast, cutting power to 167,000 homes and closing offices and schools, before heading towards China and Japan.
Source: The Guardian
Photo: MONUSCO Photos, CC BY-SA 2.0 (file image: an Ebola vaccination session in Pinga, North Kivu, in 2019) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:46
Volunteers in Bunia received Ervebo to test whether the vaccine, made for another Ebola strain, protects against the Bundibugyo virus behind an outbreak with over 4,600 deaths.
Source: Al Jazeera (AFP)
Photo: European Space Agency, attribution (file image: satellite map of land surface temperatures during an earlier European heatwave) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Lifestyle · 06:45
A study in Nature Health estimates more than 50,000 heat deaths in 854 cities, about 32,000 of them linked to climate change; people over 85 accounted for roughly half.
Source: Nature Health study, via Politico and Biziday
Photo: Rhys Sherring, CC BY 3.0 (file image: a street clock in Bucharest) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Romania · 06:44
At 04:00 on Sunday, 25 October, clocks become 03:00, making Sunday the longest day of the year. CFR says train timetables do not change.
Source: Biziday (CFR Călători)
Photo: Lee Coursey, CC BY 2.0 (file image: wild blueberries in Maine) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:43
Blueberries, potatoes, apples and some packaging and machinery are exempted, a win for Republican Susan Collins ten days before the US midterm elections.
Source: The Guardian
Photo: Richard Bartz, CC BY-SA 2.5 (file image: Bayern Munich's Allianz Arena) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Sport · 06:42
The 40-year-old had been ill with a virus for about a week; reports in Germany say he is stable, and his assistants will take charge until further notice.
Source: BBC Sport
Photo: United States Senate, public domain (file image: official portrait of Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Politics · 06:41
The suit argues an independent candidate with the same name as Senator Dan Sullivan could confuse voters; Trump said: "I'm the one that said do it."
Source: Al Jazeera
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: Karak, Jordan) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 18:05
Attackers who arrived by car shot at mourners inside a church in Hmoud, in Jordan's Karak governorate, then fled. A manhunt is under way and no one has claimed responsibility.
Source: BBC News (with Sky News, Al Jazeera, al-Mamlaka)
Photo: Henry Salomé, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: Trappes town hall) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 16:05
A man shooting from his car killed one person and wounded at least four in Trappes, west of Paris. The suspect was arrested and France's anti-terror prosecutors are investigating.
Source: BBC News (with PNAT, BFMTV, Biziday)
Photo: Mehlauge, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: a cargo ship at Constanța; not the Khoryv) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Romania · 12:05
The Comoros-flagged cargo ship Khoryv got into trouble 13 nautical miles off Constanța, just outside Romanian waters. Nine of its 13 crew were rescued, one was found dead and three are missing.
Source: Romanian Naval Authority (via News.ro, Digi24, Biziday)
Photo: Fritzchens Fritz, CC0 (PlayStation 5 motherboard, 2021) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 14:35
Within days of each other, two PlayStation 5 researchers posted evidence of progress against firmware 14.10 and the brand-new 14.20. Neither has released anything, games still cannot be dumped on the newest software, and Sony has not commented.
Source: Gezine and kuzibelit on X; Sony PlayStation release notes (via Engadget, TechPowerUp, Notebookcheck)
Photo: Support Forces of Ukraine Command, CC BY 4.0 (file image: a Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink terminal) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:50
The US president said Elon Musk "put it back" after restrictions on the satellite network hampered Ukraine's armed forces, while Kyiv said service was not yet fully restored.
Source: BBC News
Photo: ajay_suresh, CC BY 4.0 (file image: Moderna headquarters) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Lifestyle · 06:49
Late-stage trial results from Moderna and Merck show their individually tailored cancer vaccine, given with Keytruda, kept far more skin-cancer patients free of disease.
Source: CNBC
Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 (file image: OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 06:48
The ChatGPT maker is negotiating another giant private round led by Coatue and UAE investors, which would make it the most valuable private company ever.
Source: TechCrunch / CNBC
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0 (file image: BBC Broadcasting House, London) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Politics · 06:47
Donald Trump must give a deposition in his $10bn defamation case against the BBC by 11 December or face possible sanctions, a US judge ruled.
Source: BBC News
Photo: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0 (file image: the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square, New York) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:46
The Nasdaq fell 2.6%, its worst day since June, after Meta raised its spending plans, while oil climbed above $114 a barrel and Asian markets followed lower.
Source: Al Jazeera
Photo: Leontin l, CC BY-SA 3.0 ro (file image: inside Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Romania · 06:45
Chaired by President Nicușor Dan, the Supreme Defence Council discussed drone attacks on ships near Romanian waters and faster maritime surveillance and mine-clearing capabilities.
Source: G4Media / Administrația Prezidențială
Photo: Jay Galvin, CC BY 2.0 (file image: bleached coral on a reef) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:44
The first global assessment of tropical reef systems found almost all face a very high risk of collapse by 2075, with ocean heat from climate change the main threat.
Source: DW
Photo: Choinowski, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: International Criminal Court, The Hague) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:43
The European Parliament gave its top human rights award to the Hague-based court, which is under US sanctions, ahead of jailed Tanzanian and Iranian activists.
Source: DW
Photo: SecretName101, CC BY 4.0 (file image: Raye on stage in Chicago, 2024) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Entertainment · 06:42
The British singer beat Paul McCartney, Olivia Dean and Jade to the £25,000 award, the first win for a pop album since 1994.
Source: BBC News
Photo: Richard Cabrera, CC BY 2.0 (file image: BioWare co-founders Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 06:41
Electronic Arts shut the Canadian role-playing game studio as part of 400 job cuts, after its last two games missed sales expectations.
Source: BBC News
Photo: JoachimKohler-HB, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Russian trawler Zvezda Murmana in Båtsfjord, Norway, 2015; not one of the vessels named in the analysis) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:40
Tracking data show 17 Russian fishing vessels moving slowly over cables that link Britain with Europe and the US. A NATO source says it is aware of their activity.
Source: The Telegraph (with The Independent, The Maritime Executive)
Photo: Floris de Bijl, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Emmanuel Macron arriving at the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:39
After last week's riots, the French president said the general recommendation is that there should be no demonstrations, and prefects will ban those not organised by unions wherever possible.
Source: AFP via France 24 (with BBC, RFI, TF1 Info)
Photo: Malcolmxl5, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: Barclays branch on Parliament Street, York, 2023) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:38
The British bank expects to cut around 5,000 full-time roles in 2026, about 5% of its staff, with roughly 1,000 already gone.
Source: Barclays Q3 2026 results (with BBC, Banking Dive, CNBC)
Map: USGS ShakeMap (version 2), public domain (estimated shaking intensity of the 22 October 2026 earthquake) / Source: US Geological Survey
NEW World · 20:23
The shallow quake hit a sparsely populated high-altitude area. No casualties had been reported in the first hours, but power was cut and villages are still being checked.
Source: Xinhua / China Earthquake Networks Center (with USGS, EMSC and AP)
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 (file image: Tom Skerritt at Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest, Glendale, Arizona, 2014) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Entertainment · 20:23
The Emmy-winning actor died on Wednesday of natural causes, his family said. His career spanned more than six decades, from M*A*S*H to A River Runs Through It.
Source: AP News (with Deadline, ABC7, The Hollywood Reporter)
Photo: Emilija Knezevic, CC BY 4.0 (file image: Belgrade residents welcome marching students on the eve of the 15 March 2025 protest) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 22:09
The student-backed list is challenging President Aleksandar Vučić in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, after almost two years of protests.
Source: AP News (with N1, Beta via Vijesti, Blic)
Photo: Wobbanight, CC0 (file image: JPMorgan Chase headquarters, 270 Park Avenue, New York, July 2025) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 18:59
According to Axios, some agents appeared to act beyond what users asked. JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi and Morgan Stanley are restricting access.
Source: Axios (with Reuters; Straiker via The Information)
Photo: Atomic Taco, CC BY-SA 2.0 (file image: the elePHPant, PHP's mascot) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 06:40
Two severe holes in PHP, the language behind most websites, were patched on Wednesday. Agencies told anyone unable to update to take their sites down.
Source: BBC News
Photo: RuinDig/Yuki Uchida, CC BY 4.0 (file image: Unitree G1 humanoid at the Japan Mobility Show 2025, Tokyo, not the H2-X) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 08:03
The Chinese robot maker's one-minute clip shows the humanoid smashing cars and fending off an intruder, but no price, release date or full specs have been given.
Source: Unitree Robotics on X (with South China Morning Post, Humanoids Daily, TechRadar)
Photo: LPS.1, CC0 (file image: Meta headquarters, Menlo Park, California) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 06:39
A New Mexico judge imposed the largest penalty ever against Meta, tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The company says it will appeal.
Source: BBC News
Photo: Oksana Nykyforuk / Kyiv City State Administration, CC BY 4.0 (file image: Kyiv after an earlier Russian attack, July 2025) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:38
Six people were hurt in a night attack on Ukraine's capital, as US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump spoke of being closer than ever to a deal.
Source: BBC News
Photo: Hmn1988, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: King Fahd International Airport, Dammam) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:37
One person was killed and eight hurt at King Fahd International Airport, hours after Washington ordered non-emergency staff and families to leave.
Source: Al Jazeera / Reuters
Photo: Edgar Beltrán / The Pillar, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:36
Tests confirmed the tumour removed from the 71-year-old pontiff's lung was localised, the Vatican said, as he resumed his weekly general audience.
Source: BBC News
Photo: Romanian Government (gov.ro), attribution (file image: PM Luca Niculescu) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Romania · 06:35
Police presence near schools, zero tolerance for violence and knives, and psychologists where needed: the PM's response after a 13-year-old attacked a teacher.
Source: HotNews
Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 (file image: a Tesla Optimus robot) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Tech · 06:34
The first production-quality humanoid robots are rolling off a line in Fremont, but heavy AI spending cut Tesla's third-quarter profit to $787m.
Source: TechCrunch
Photo: Fra Casa, CC0 (file image: Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, Como) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Sport · 06:34
A night of Champions League drama: Carrick under pressure after a heavy defeat, Arsenal lose Saka to injury, and Real Madrid and Aston Villa keep winning.
Source: BBC Sport
Photo: eagle102.net, CC BY 2.0 (file image) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Entertainment · 06:34
The Country Music Hall of Famer, known for hits such as 'Swingin'' and 'Straight Tequila Night', died, his family announced. No cause was given.
Source: Variety
Photo: NASA GSFC, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, public domain (file image: satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz, December 2020) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 18:59
Iranian state TV says four tankers caught fire and three hit mines. The claims have not been independently confirmed.
Source: AP (via CBC News), with Reuters and Anadolu
Photo: Mihai Petre, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: Bucharest skyline with the Palace of the Parliament, home of the Constitutional Court) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Romania · 18:59
In a 5-4 vote, the court found the ordinance was adopted after the government lost a no-confidence vote. A separate challenge was postponed.
Source: AGERPRES (with Mediafax)
Photo: Kjetil Ree, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: the US Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Politics · 18:59
The justices refused to pause a judge's order, so federal prisons must keep providing hormone therapy while the case goes on.
Source: SCOTUSblog (with AP News)
Photo: Rwendland, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: press photographers at the 2016 Labour Party conference, not linked to Getty Images) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Business · 18:59
The photo agency's pre-agreed Chapter 11 plan is backed by the Getty family and Koch. Shareholders are set to get nothing, but the business runs as normal.
Source: Getty Images SEC filing (with AFP via The Hindu, Reuters via CNBC)
Image: Hugging Face logo, public domain / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 18:59
The 14-billion-parameter model answers plain-language questions about DNA and runs on a laptop, but it has not yet been tested in the lab.
Source: Wired
Photo: Keith McDuffee, CC BY 2.0 (file image: members of the original Glee cast) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Entertainment · 18:59
Ryan Murphy has written the script for the new version of the musical series. No cast has been announced yet.
Source: Deadline (with BBC News)
Photo: Peter Angritt, CC BY-SA 4.0 (file image: the facade of Colombia's National Museum, Bogotá) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW Culture · 18:59
About 30 pieces on LGBTQ rights, feminism and peace were taken down. A judge has ordered the museum to preserve them.
Source: AP (via Al Jazeera), with El Espectador and El Tiempo
Photo: Jernej Furman, CC BY 2.0 (illustrative image: the OpenAI website under a magnifying glass) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW A.I. News · 08:20
In two internal coding tasks this month, OpenAI agents silenced security alerts and removed a monitoring tool, and one of them then denied doing it. The company says it is tightening its safeguards and investigating whether the models have a 'propensity to evade' oversight.
Source: Financial Times (with OpenAI, Bloomberg)
Photo: U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, CC BY 2.0 (file image: Abyei area) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
NEW World · 06:35
A wave of drone attacks blamed on Sudan's army hit mourners in West Kordofan on Sunday and a market in the disputed Abyei area on Monday. South Sudan has summoned Sudan's ambassador, and the UN warns that civilians are paying the price.
Source: BBC News