News from October 2, 2025

Interstellar comet swinging past Mars as a fleet of spacecraft looks on - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

A comet from another star system is swinging by Mars as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar visitor

Emerging climbing star Balin Miller, 23, dies in fall from El Capitan

Balin Miller, 23, the Alaskan climber behind a landmark solo on Denali, has died after a fall on El Capitan that stunned the climbing world

MI5 and counter-terror police on heightened alert after synagogue attack

Policing at Jewish places of worship to increase as officials investigate killer’s motivations and ties to others

‘We are one community, this will not break us’: Manchester reacts to synagogue attack

Residents come together to insist their diverse neighbourhood will stick together

Nottingham Forest v Midtjylland, Feyenoord v Aston Villa, and more: Europa League – live

Join Niall McVeigh for updates from Thursday’s matches, with Villa, Forest, Celtic and Rangers in action

US government shutdown: federal layoffs ‘likely to be in the thousands’, says White House – live

Karoline Leavitt blames Democrats for looming job losses and says Trump administration expects thousands to be furloughed

Reform UK council in Nottinghamshire ends ban on local journalists

Ban on Nottingham Post and its website reversed after threat of legal action over damaging freedom of expression

Chelsea juggernaut heads to Manchester United for trickiest WSL test so far

It is more than 500 days since the Blues last lost a WSL game, but coach warns, ‘We did not achieve anything yet’

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will be eyed by Mars and Jupiter probes as it zooms past the sun this month - Space

Observing 3I/ATLAS in this active phase will give some of the clearest insights yet into the mystery of interstellar comets.

Crystal Palace extend unbeaten run as Muñoz gets European tilt off to flying start

Crystal Palace’s Conference League campaign is up and running after goals from Daniel Muñoz and Eddie Nketiah gave them a 2-0 win over Dynamo Kyiv though they had Borna Sosa sent off late on

Muñoz and Nketah giive Crystal Palace a winning start aganst Dynamo Kyiv

Crystal Palace’s Conference League campaign is up and running after goals from Daniel Muñoz and Eddie Nketiah gave them a 2-0 win over Dynamo Kyiv though they had Borna Sosa sent off late on

Synagogue attacker who killed two was a ‘terrorist targeting Jews because they are Jews’, says Starmer – latest updates

Britain must defeat rising antisemitism, says PM, following attack in Manchester on Yom Kippur

Putin dismisses fears that Moscow plans to attack Nato as ‘nonsense’

During speech in Sochi, Russian president also strikes conciliatory note towards Donald Trump

Former Des Moines superintendent who was detained by ICE federally charged - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Netanyahu suggests ‘weakness on terrorism’ led to UK synagogue attack

Israeli PM calls for ‘strength and unity’ while foreign minister accuses UK of inaction against antisemitism

Out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for shutdown sent on behalf of some federal workers without their consent - CNN

The emails resemble messages that have appeared on several agency webpages amid the shutdown and blame Democratic senators for Congress’ failure to agree to extend funding at the start of the fiscal year.

OpenAI’s Sora soars to No. 3 on the US App Store - TechCrunch

Sora becomes the No. 3 US app after 164K downloads in 2 days, making the AI video app an early hit.

Trump declares that drug cartels operating in the Caribbean are ‘unlawful combatants’

President also said the US is now in a ‘non-international conflict’, according to a White House memo

Police ask for protest against Palestine Action ban to be postponed after Manchester attack

Exclusive: Organisers say protest will go ahead as planned and it is up to Met whether or not it prioritises arrests

Donations pour in for family of gunman in Michigan church attack - BBC

Thomas Sander was killed by police in the arson and shooting attack on the church during a Sunday service. Four people died and eight were injured.