Russia has launched one of its biggest attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in months, sending nearly 190 drones and missiles across the country as Kyiv prepares for another winter of war.

Norway has opened two days of public parliamentary hearings into the fallout from Jeffrey Epstein’s links to senior politicians and diplomats. Eleven current and former ministers are being questioned as investigators examine foreign-service culture, oversight and elite networks.

The wider scandal also reaches Norway’s monarchy through Queen Mette-Marit’s documented relationship with Epstein.

Donald Trump has launched America.gov, an AI-powered gateway designed to become a single front door to the US federal government. The site can already answer questions from government information, while agencies are being ordered to connect major online services. If the integration works, routine tasks such as passport renewal and Medicare enrolment could become far simpler.

Flydubai flight FZ1073 made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after a violent cockpit incident injured both pilots and triggered emergency signals. The Israel-bound aircraft descended sharply before stabilising and landing safely. Investigators are now examining allegations of a stabbing and whether the confrontation may have been an attempted attack.

A 24-year-old man suspected of playing a role in ShinyHunters has been detained in the Netherlands. Police say evidence found on his laptop also led to a separate investigation into alleged attempts to solicit two murders. Here is what is known about the suspect, the cybercrime case, the murder allegations and what happens next.

The UN is intensifying efforts to contain Yemen’s renewed war after Houthi forces seized Mokha and strategic Red Sea islands near Bab al-Mandeb. The shipping route remains open, but the military balance around one of the world’s most important trade corridors has shifted, raising risks for vessels, energy markets and regional stability.

Thailand's flood death toll has risen to at least 23 after extreme rain hit Bangkok and dozens of provinces. As water begins to recede, Suvarnabhumi Airport is battling cancelled and delayed flights, severe staffing shortages and thousands of stranded bags, exposing how a citywide flood can disrupt one of Asia's busiest international gateways.

France is facing nationwide public-sector strikes and expanding student protests just before the government presents its 2027 budget. Teachers, health workers, firefighters and

Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev has held fresh talks with US officials as Washington renews its push to end the war in Ukraine. The discussions were described as constructive and included future energy cooperation, but no ceasefire or final settlement has been announced. The key question is whether the talks now produce a concrete agreement.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says a “foreign actor” had a hand in the RAF Fairford incident, pushing the investigation into a new international phase. British counter-terror police are examining possible foreign-state proxies, but no country has been publicly identified and Iran denies involvement.

Dennis Haskins, the actor who became instantly recognisable as Principal Richard Belding in Saved By The Bell, has died aged 75. From the original Bayside High years to The New Class, Haskins played the character for more than a decade and remained closely connected to the fans who never forgot Mr Belding.

Todd Rundgren has delivered one of the bluntest Taylor Swift critiques yet, declaring there is an argument that she has “ruined music” and describing her as the “apotheosis of mediocrity.”

But the veteran musician did not stop there. He questioned Swift’s singing, songwriting and dancing, praised Lady Gaga in contrast, and offered an extraordinary theory connecting the rise of female pop stars to young men turning towards video games.

Manchester City’s enormous financial battle with the Premier League may be nowhere near finished. After years of investigations, confidential hearings and legal arguments, the possibility has emerged that the dispute could continue for years more.

Examine why the appeal process could become the most important stage of the entire case, how the timing of any sanction could collide with an active Premier League season, and why rival clubs could potentially create another wave of legal disputes even after the central case ends.

Insight into Manchester City’s history of challenging Premier League financial regulations, the league’s confidential disciplinary system and the uncomfortable possibility that English football could spend several more seasons waiting for genuine finality.

Sylvester Stallone built one of Hollywood’s most enduring images of strength. Rocky Balboa kept getting up. Rambo survived the impossible. But in July 2012, Stallone received a phone call that left him facing something no amount of toughness could defeat.

His eldest son, Sage Stallone, was dead at just 36.

Fourteen years later, Stallone has described the stark words used to tell him, his initial inability to process what “gone” meant, the guilt that followed and the moment days later when the grief finally broke through.

Taylor Swift arrived at the 2026 VMAs with a major reveal already prepared. She accepted the inaugural Artist Director Honors award and premiered her new “Patient Zero” music video starring Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell.

But then fans noticed something else. During her speech, Swift said she had been involved in making “roughly 60” music videos across her 20-year career — while fans counting the catalogue believe “Patient Zero” brings the total to 59. It could simply be rounding.

Or it could be exactly the kind of apparently casual detail that has fueled Taylor Swift theories for years. With the 20th anniversary of her debut approaching and three other new Encore tracks now available, speculation has quickly shifted to one question: if “Patient Zero” is number 59, does Taylor Swift already know what number 60 will be?

Zahara Marley Jolie has made official what the public had already begun to notice. The 21-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is now legally known without Pitt in her surname after a California court approved her name change on September 28, 2026.

But the significance goes beyond a celebrity changing four letters on official paperwork.

Zahara had already begun publicly using Jolie, and other members of the family have made their own legal changes. That turns an individual decision into part of a much bigger story about adulthood, identity and what happens when the children inside one of Hollywood’s most famous families begin defining themselves on their own terms.

Taylor Swift has collected some of the biggest awards in music, broken extraordinary records and transformed album releases into global events. But her latest honour recognises something very different.

At the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift became the first-ever recipient of the Artist Director Honors — an award created to recognise musical artists whose work behind the camera has advanced visual storytelling.

And the timing is impossible to ignore.

With Swift premiering her self-directed “Patient Zero” video, winning Best Direction for “Opalite” and continuing to build increasingly cinematic worlds around her music, the bigger story may be the creative transformation happening behind the spectacle.

Ariana Grande has done something unusual for a superstar at the peak of global attention: she has deliberately become less visible.

After completing the Eternal Sunshine Tour in London, Grande stepped back from public-facing appearances and walked away from major commitments while insisting that the decision was planned, positive and entirely her own.

So what does Ariana Grande’s life look like now? Why was she willing to leave major opportunities behind? And does disappearing from public life actually mean disappearing from music and acting?

There is also one enormous date approaching.

Focker-In-Law, Grande’s new film alongside Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, arrives in cinemas on November 25 — creating the first obvious moment when the world may see her properly re-emerge.

But her return may not look anything like fans expect.

For 50 years, Songs in the Key of Life seemed complete. Then Stevie Wonder opened the vault.

Four previously unreleased recordings from the original 1970s sessions have now been released as a new anniversary EP: “It’s Easier,” “My Life Story of Love,” “I Can See the Sun In Late December” and “I’m Into Livin’.”

These are not modern recreations or newly written additions. They were recorded during the creative period that produced Wonder’s landmark 1976 album and have finally received an official release exactly half a century later.

Joe Biden is once again at the centre of extraordinary online speculation, with searches and social-media claims asking whether the former US president has died.

But behind the viral posts is a much more complicated — and genuine — health story. Biden was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer in 2025 after the disease had spread to his bones, and his public appearances have become increasingly limited.

Yet just weeks ago, Biden personally said his radiation treatment had worked as intended and discussed finishing his presidential memoir. So why are death rumours spreading now?