Fallon Sherrock pulls off shock defeat of world darts No 1 Luke Littler in live TV battle -- GUARDIAN

Trump beware: US voters are concerned about government corruption -- GUARDIAN

Virgin Media O2 to axe thousands of jobs in sweeping shake-up -- SKY

Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out -- REGISTER

Martin McDonagh Says Art Can Change the World. Just Not as Much as Murder. -- NYT

Cost of living protests to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Halloween -- GUARDIAN

Why Haley Stevens Can’t Stop Talking About Abdul El-Sayed -- NYT

Plan for More Protests, This Time on Halloween, Causes Jitters in France -- NYT

Iran Braces for More War, No Matter the Outcome of the U.S. and Israeli Elections -- NYT

How Locals and Shopkeepers Tried to Save One Paris Street From Rioters -- NYT

Talarico Makes Final Election Pitch to Texans: ‘You Are My Slingshot’ -- NYT

Pete Ricketts Leads Dan Osborn in Nebraska Senate Race, Poll Finds -- NYT

Trump and GOP Close Midterms With Ugly Personal Attacks -- NYT

Pick Another Protein? Americans Still Want Beef, Despite the Price. -- NYT

Fans Can’t Get Enough of ‘A Court of Thrones and Roses’ (Or Its Merch) -- NYT

Queens of the Stone Age Returns, and 8 More Songs We’re Talking About -- NYT

Busy Philipps Might Be Listening to Your Outdoor Convo -- NYT

In San Francisco’s A.I. Boom, a First Date Has Become an Interview -- NYT

How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine -- NYT

Why Does Culture Feel So Samey? A Walking Tour Reveals the Math. -- NYT

In the Fog of War, Native American Veteran Artists Find Inspiration -- NYT

The La Brea Tar Pits Faces a Huge Task in its Remodel -- NYT

Actress Selma Blair says she's 'so sorry' in first public remarks since incident on plane -- SKY

Zelenskyy Warns Of Long Delay As US Approves Patriot Interceptors Sale -- RFE

Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan -- REGISTER

Florid language and long silences: five things we learned from week three of Russell Brand’s rape trial -- GUARDIAN

‘The last fortress’: historic Athens cafe closes as countercultural area gentrifies -- GUARDIAN

Nigel’s ‘chiselled cheekbones’ make the news – Reform’s the Reformer, digested by John Crace -- GUARDIAN

Avanti West Coast paid out £20m in ‘delay repay’ passenger refunds this summer -- GUARDIAN

Shoes, Fees, Competition: Why the NYC Marathon Is Out of Reach for Many -- NYT

Travelling beyond the borders of Baku through fiction -- EURONEWS

Storm warnings for Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane as cold front ‘packs a punch’ -- GUARDIAN

Eight in 10 homes in London’s poshest postcodes now sell below asking price, Coutts finds -- GUARDIAN

Riot police deployed to Poland’s constitutional court after judge suspended -- GUARDIAN

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers file to dismiss state charges, citing double jeopardy law -- GUARDIAN

Burnham 'open' to slavery apology - as King continues Caribbean tour -- SKY

The cursed cruise: how the dream of never-ending luxury at sea became a nightmare -- GUARDIAN

Albanese looks for reset on world stage as ‘spot fires burn’ domestically and likely interest rate hike looms -- GUARDIAN

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy praises US over $2.1bn Patriot missile deal but warns it could take years -- GUARDIAN

War Is Hell—And The Mosquito Bowl Won’t Let Us Forget It -- TIME

US cancels G20 ‘family photo’ after Australia, UK and others refuse to appear with Russia -- GUARDIAN

A Century-Old Queens Costumer Says Goodbye -- NYT

The True Story of Tragedy and Perseverance Behind Everest: The Other Side -- TIME

A top-secret spy mission, a decades-old scandal – and the Austin Powers-esque saga to lift the lid -- GUARDIAN

Big Tech’s Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall St. -- NYT

Alina Habba’s Husband Ignited Drama in Trump’s Circle. Now He’s Under Scrutiny. -- NYT

Obamacare Policies Hit Again With Steep Premium Increases for 2027 -- NYT

Retired Michigan teacher released from Russian prison believed he would never be freed -- GUARDIAN

Breaking Down the Supernatural Ending of Dead-End Job -- TIME

Alaska prosecutor investigates alleged Democratic plot to confuse voters with second Dan Sullivan -- GUARDIAN

Ebola outbreak kills more than 5,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo -- SKY

Polymarket and Kalshi Face a Major Accuracy Test: The Midterms -- NYT

Patrick Stewart Brought Elegance To ‘Star Trek’ as Jean-Luc Picard -- NYT

'Social Media on Steroids.' Advocates for Children Call for Guardrails Around AI -- TIME

Elke Sommer, Star of 1960s Comedies and Spy Films, Dies at 85 -- NYT

Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Is Just the Start of a Risky New Era -- NYT

House Democrats Demand Trump Preserve Grok AI Chats After TIME Report -- TIME

Elon Musk’s Endgame -- NYT

How Patrick Stewart Brought Shakespeare to ‘Star Trek’ Fans -- NYT

A Democratic Wave In the Midterms Could Change How Companies Talk About Climate -- TIME

Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts -- REGISTER

House Democrats Criticize Justice Dept. Support of OpenAI in Copyright Suit -- NYT

Carney Sets Target for E.U. 'Associate' Membership Amid U.S.-Canada Trade Standoff -- TIME

HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare -- REGISTER

Canada and EU announce new alliance open to like-minded countries -- GUARDIAN

Crim spent $7K on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see -- REGISTER

Kosovo Protests Grow Over Killing Of Woman Who Pleaded For Police Protection -- RFE

How crypto hacking funds isolated North Korea’s nuclear programme -- GUARDIAN

See the Best Photos From the 2026 TIME100 Next Gala -- TIME

Motorist who dragged cyclist under his car for more than a mile guilty of murder -- SKY

Evacuation of civilians begins in besieged Ukrainian city of Oleshky -- GUARDIAN

The Greatest Is a Biographical Drama That Understands Why Muhammad Ali Became a Legend -- TIME

GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement -- REGISTER

Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us -- REGISTER

John Turturro Will Pick Your Pocket and Steal Your Heart -- TIME

Himalayan Communities Are Relying on Centuries-Old Water Solutions In the Face of Climate Change -- TIME

The Key Climate Issues to Watch In The Midterm Elections -- TIME

Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment -- REGISTER

Binance Suspends Withdrawals After Crypto Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion -- NYT

The Heartbreaking True Story of War and Football in The Mosquito Bowl -- TIME

Bugatti CEO chases down car thief - then offers him lift home -- SKY

AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS -- REGISTER

'The Phantom of the Opera' haunts French cinemas again -- FR24

‘Amateur morons’: Flávio Bolsonaro’s short-lived ‘president-elect’ claim met with mockery -- GUARDIAN

Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case -- GUARDIAN

NASA ponders a Hubble servicing mission or a controlled deorbit -- REGISTER

Keira Knightley Knows What Spying Feels Like. Now She’s Putting It to Use. -- NYT

Cybersecurity Is Economic Security -- TIME

Evacuations, Humanitarian Mission Begin In Russian-Occupied Ukrainian City Of Oleshky -- RFE

AI projects not paying off? Keep at it, says Uni Productivity Institute -- REGISTER

Gulf states must rethink trillion-dollar defence in light of US-Iran war, says report -- GUARDIAN

NHS quango warns of risk to GP patient data after website vendor collapse -- REGISTER

John Turturro Gives a Career-Best Performance in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York -- TIME

British intelligence agency misplaced 'thousands' of storage devices, years later still can't say how many -- REGISTER

Star's Tech Starcrush -- TIME

This Device Uses A.I. and Lasers to Kill Mosquitoes -- NYT

Why Is Every Book ‘Gothic’ Now? -- NYT

Beijing Queer film festival cancelled after harassment from authorities -- GUARDIAN

Accenture AI agents are sifting through applicants -- REGISTER