CultureHot-air balloons float above Afyonkarahisar’s 3,000-year-old Phrygian rock carvings. Its mineral-rich thermal springs have attracted visitors since 1200 BC, while poppy seeds are central to a UNESCO-recognised culinary tradition.
CultureHot-air balloons float above Afyonkarahisar’s 3,000-year-old Phrygian rock carvings. Its mineral-rich thermal springs have attracted visitors since 1200 BC, while poppy seeds are central to a UNESCO-recognised culinary tradition.
SportsArgentina said goodbye to football icon Lionel Messi after a 3-0 victory over visiting Benin in Buenos Aires. In his final international appearance, Messi delivered one last standout performance, scoring once and setting up two goals.
WorldIsraeli ambassador Zarka says France has a serious antisemitism problem. The world is marking three years since Hamas’s 7 October attacks, which deeply shocked Israel and reverberated across the region and beyond. Meanwhile, the war against Hamas in Gaza continues to cause a human catastrophe, with tens of thousands dead and no path to peace.
WorldThe press review highlights high school protests spreading across France and appearing on front pages at home and abroad. Israeli newspapers mark the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, while Argentina’s press bids farewell to Lionel Messi after his final international match. A British adventurer also completes a 28-year walk around the world.
PoliticsFresh developments in the United States’ most competitive midterm contests are the focus of Sean Hannity’s Fox News program.
WorldAt least two people were killed in Russian drone and missile attacks on Kyiv, damaging buildings, cars and warehouses. Russia’s defence ministry said its forces conducted a “massive strike” on targets in Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions, and also hit port facilities in the Odesa region.
PoliticsVisiting U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis are set to deliver a joint statement in Athens.
Science35:51The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is announcing the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in a live broadcast.
PoliticsIsrael’s ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, said antisemitism is an issue in France and across Europe and has risen significantly since October 7. He spoke as National Rally leader Jordan Bardella and MEP Rima Hassan face accusations of antisemitism.
CultureThe first episode of the new podcast series The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story recounts the stabbing death of 16-year-old Cassie Stoddart. Three unlikely suspects and a strange alibi emerge.
EconomyAnna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore examine the day’s key themes for analysts and investors on Bloomberg’s The Opening Trade, focusing on how markets are trading fiscal risk in Europe compared with the United States.
WorldA memorial ceremony is being held near the Nova festival site for victims of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Festivalgoers were among those targeted; nearly 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.
SocietyABC News investigates abandoned and old mines beneath the United States that can cause sinkholes and other incidents, and examines why the government may not even know where they are.
PoliticsOpposition Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch delivers remarks during the party’s annual conference in Birmingham.
TechElon Musk’s electric-vehicle company is using a social-media campaign to blame European traffic deaths on red tape. Experts say its safety claims do not withstand scrutiny, yet regulators are beginning to give way.
Health3:05Belgian virologist Marc Van Ranst describes the plague outbreak in Siberia as an “isolated incident”. He says plague cases are reported each year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar, but adds that the laboratory link makes this episode “a little more serious”.
CultureActor John Cena reflects on his childhood in “Matchbox the Movie,” which turns his childhood toy cars into a supersized action story. Cena plays Sean, a CIA agent whose return home draws his childhood friends into an international crisis.
World19:24The World Health Organization says the likelihood of a plague epidemic remains low after a laboratory worker died in Siberia. The programme also covers recent drone attacks that sank ships off Romania and Bulgaria, while EU envoys are expected to approve the bloc’s largest Russia sanctions package since 2022.
Politics20:35Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan addressed the growing US-China rivalry at the Milken Institute Asia Summit. He said Singapore would seek to preserve trust with both powers and handle the relationships carefully, while warning that artificial intelligence presents a real control problem.
TechUkraine says more than a dozen AI-assisted robotic gun turrets around Kyiv have shot down Russian jet-powered attack drones. As Russia uses faster drones that are harder for conventional air defenses to intercept, Ukraine’s Air Force says the systems use machine vision to track targets and aim .50-caliber machine guns.
CultureDowntown Nashville has gained a major new music attraction with the official opening of Dolly Parton’s SongTeller Hotel and the adjacent Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum, drawing enthusiastic fans.
SocietyThe French government is urging students, teachers and officials at high schools nationwide to discuss the conditions behind widespread protests and blockades. Demonstrations spread across France on October 6, the largest day in what Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu called the most violent student protests in decades.
PoliticsU.S. Vice President JD Vance praised Alaska’s incumbent senator for efforts to make Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson one of the country’s strategic military bases. He also pledged to complete Alaska’s ambitious LNG project despite a recent disagreement with South Korea over Korean investment in it.
ScienceLive coverage from Stockholm follows the 2026 chemistry Nobel reveal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.