News from October 2, 2025

Dogs and drones: how scientists are saving Washington’s endangered orcas

Experts are finding new and more humane ways to protect the last 74 southern resident killer whales

Maya Yang in the San Juan islands 5 days ago

The Curse of Frankenstein review – Hammer horror with Lee and Cushing shows how it should be done

Terence Fisher’s crisply told 1957 classic is unencumbered with good taste and delivered with absolute conviction

Peter Bradshaw 5 days ago

Science

Saturn's moon Enceladus is shooting out organic molecules that could help create life - Space

Could Saturn's frozen moon be the best place to look for life in the solar system?

Keith Cooper 5 days ago

Technology

Psilocybin targets brain circuits to relieve chronic pain and depression, study suggests - Medical Xpress

Researchers at Penn Medicine have identified specific brain circuits that are impacted by psilocybin—the active compound found in some psychedelic mushrooms—which could lead to new paths forward for pain and mental health management options.

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 5 days ago

Technology

Hakeem Jeffries is seizing on the shutdown fight to raise his national profile - Politico

The House minority leader has made conspicuous moves to make himself a main character in the standoff.

Nicholas Wu 5 days ago

Politics

Reform UK accused by minister of talking ‘utter nonsense’ after Zia Yusuf implies Starmer trying to get Farage killed – UK politics live

Migration minister Mike Tapp accuses Reform UK’s head of policy of ‘snowflakery’

Andrew Sparrow 5 days ago

‘Russia will not stop until they are forced to do so,’ Danish PM warns as she opens European leaders summit – Europe live

More than 45 leaders meet in Copenhagen for the seventh summit of the European Political Community

Jakub Krupa 5 days ago

The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet review – a monument to Afghan resilience

A sweeping social history of Afghanistan is seen through the lens of Kabul’s InterContinental hotel, where staff endured the horrific realities of life in a war zone

William Dalrymple 5 days ago

The Shadow’s Edge review – Jackie Chan as watchable as ever as fisticuff-prone cop-turned-dog-walker

This bloated cops-and-robbers thriller is overlong and unnecessarily complex but thankfully Chan is never more than 10 minutes from a fight or a shootout

Leslie Felperin 5 days ago

Blackburn MP’s baby target of ‘depraved’ online abuse hours after being born

Independent Adnan Hussain says the racist and sexist posts expose ‘dark abyss of hatred and despair’ in UK being left to grow unchecked

Alexandra Topping 5 days ago

Stars and stripes flags for Trump UK visit had to be changed for brighter red

Switch of 66 hand-sewn flags for use along Mall and at Windsor Castle cost estimated £52,800 in public funds

Matthew Weaver 5 days ago

Gaza aid flotilla: more than a dozen vessels intercepted by Israeli forces; Greta Thunberg arrested – live

Israeli foreign ministry posts video of Thunberg’s arrest; vessels carrying about 500 activists intercepted about 75 miles off coast of war-torn territory

Aneesa Ahmed (now), Adam Fulton and José Olivares (earlier) 5 days ago

PNG approves delayed defence treaty with Australia – as it happened

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Catie McLeod and Nick Visser 5 days ago

News live: PNG approves delayed defence treaty with Australia; Commonwealth Bank restores services after outage

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Catie McLeod (now) and Nick Visser (earlier) 5 days ago

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

Deborah Cole Berlin correspondent 5 days ago

Business

Thames Water lenders submit new rescue plan to stave off collapse

Creditors in control of firm say they will write off loans, invest more and commit to paying pollution fines

Jasper Jolly 5 days ago

Business

Thames Water creditors propose new rescue plan; Tesco ups profit outlook despite pressure on household budgets – business live

Outstanding fines for sewage spills will be paid under rescue plan

Julia Kollewe 5 days ago

Israel’s Gaza flotilla interception triggers protests, diplomatic expulsions and calls for strikes

Thousands marched in cities across the world following the interception of the flotilla and detainment of activists including Greta Thunberg

Jonathan Yerushalmy and Carmela Fonbuena 5 days ago

Afternoon Update: Erin Patterson to appeal convictions; PNG’s defence treaty with Australia; and Nirvana’s legal win

Patterson’s barrister Richard Edney confirmed she would appeal during a short hearing in Melbourne

Mike Hohnen 5 days ago

China’s fifth-ranking official was suspect in dropped Westminster spy case

Person who was thought to have received intelligence is understood to be Cai Qi, de facto chief of staff to Xi Jinping

Amy Hawkins and Dan Sabbagh 5 days ago