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Blue Planet III, the David Attenborough-narrated BBC series, deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footage so viewers can trust what they see is authentic and not AI-generated, its producers said. The series starts Sunday 1 November on BBC1 and iPlayer.
Spain's conservative People's party (PP) posted a campaign deepfake video this week that appears to show Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife and other Socialist-linked figures admitting to wrongdoing, weeks before the general election on 29 November. By Friday it had nearly 2 million views.
The White House dropped some US tariffs on Canadian goods on Friday, citing the public interest, delivering exemptions for Maine covering nine agricultural products including blueberries, potatoes, apples and seaweed. Senator Susan Collins, who faces a tight re-election race, had pressed the administration for the relief.
A Trappes shooting west of Paris on Friday killed one person and wounded five others, including a 12-year-old girl, when a gunman drove through the area firing - an attack President Emmanuel Macron called a 'racist terrorist attack'.
Cybersecurity leaders warned that AI-enabled hacking will expose deeper weaknesses in global internet infrastructure after researchers used AI to help uncover critical PHP vulnerabilities in October, a period dubbed 'Black October'.
UK children are no less likely to encounter harmful content on social media nine months after the Online Safety Act's children's duties took effect in July 2025, Ofcom's first review of the rules has found. The regulator called the lack of change in children's social media harm concerning.
Foreign ministers of eight European and Middle Eastern countries, meeting at an Istanbul summit convened by Turkey, urged the US and Israel not to launch fresh strikes on Iran, warning a new outbreak of fighting would spread conflict and push oil prices higher.
Historic England archaeologist Dr James Wright says the George Inn in Norton St Philip, Somerset, is England's oldest pub, having served continuously as an inn since around 1430-1432, after tree-ring dating dismissed more than two dozen rival claims.
France is putting about 70,000 police on the streets nationwide this Saturday after violent cost-of-living protests last weekend, in an operation announced by interior minister Laurent Nuñez that includes elite counter-terrorism and hostage-rescue units.
A data leak from Germany's far-right AfD has revealed more than a decade of efforts by the party to court Donald Trump and his Maga allies. The trove of over 420,000 emails, documents and personnel records, released via Distributed Denial of Secrets, spans the party's 2013 foundation to the present.
Environment secretary Angela Eagle has told water suppliers in England and Wales that the UK government plans unprecedented intervention in the next Ofwat price review, directing companies to cut costs, stop leaks and sewage overflows.
Conductor Étienne Jarrier and his volunteer orchestra kept playing as CRS riot police fired teargas to disperse demonstrators around Place de la République in central Paris last week, and stopped only when the musicians came under direct fire. Jarrier says the police went on gassing them for about 20 minutes even after the square had emptied.
Customs and Border Protection commissioner Rodney Scott defended the $46bn Big Bend border wall plan in Texas on Thursday, calling border fortification 'non-negotiable' despite a bipartisan opposition and a judge's court-ordered pause on construction.
Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee in the Florida governor race, campaigned at Broward county's Green Glades West ranch without once mentioning Donald Trump, even as Trump prepares a Friday rally in Fort Myers days before the 3 November election.
Finland's public broadcaster Yle is drawing millions of viewers to Pentulive, a 24-hour puppy livestream following mother dog Hilkka and her six newborn Lagotto Romagnolo puppies. The show, in its sixth season, is part of the Nordic slow TV phenomenon.
UK consumer confidence dropped 11 percentage points to -24 in October, the fastest fall outside the Covid pandemic since the 2016 Brexit vote, according to GfK, days before John Healey's first budget on Wednesday.
Ukrainian and European officials say Ukraine's Starlink Ukraine access via the military Starshield system remains limited, contradicting Donald Trump's Thursday claim that the service was again running at full speed, in a growing dispute over who ordered the restrictions.
At least five people have died in the Spain flooding brought by Storm Adam, with 145 municipalities in Valencia and Alicante placed under temporary lockdown on Monday, as the UK's first named storm of winter tracks through the Channel.
About 150,000 backers of Serbia's opposition student movement marched through Belgrade on Thursday, rallying at Slavija Square three days before Sunday's parliamentary election.
Serbia votes in a snap parliamentary election in which the Student List, a leaderless protest movement born after the Novi Sad railway station collapse that killed 16 people, is challenging President Aleksandar Vučić's 12-year grip on Serbian politics.
Diplomats say a deadline on the youth mobility scheme between the UK and the EU could be deferred by six months to ensure the "reset" summit in Brussels on 20 November succeeds. The youth experience scheme (YES) visas remain deadlocked over tuition fees, quotas and the NHS surcharge.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers heads into December's mid-year budget update with forecasts downgraded to slower growth and higher unemployment, and a set of choices where each fix makes another problem worse.
Heat killed an estimated 50,000 people in European cities between June and August 2026 - the worst summer on record - and researchers attribute about two in three of the deaths to human-caused climate change.
Donald Trump's push for a Trump Atlantic Ocean rename on Google Maps went nowhere, he told a South Carolina rally on Wednesday: Google CEO Sundar Pichai declined to make the change, according to Trump's account.
An Amy Winehouse musical is in early development for London's West End, with Tony award-winning producer Catherine Schreiber attached and casting reported to be under way, according to Variety.
Donald Trump rebuked Ohio governor Mike DeWine on Thursday after the Republican urged Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign to pull an attack ad against Democrat Amy Acton, telling the candidate to keep it airing ahead of the 3 November midterms.
The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority have proposed relaxing the senior managers regime, the post-2008 rules holding City bosses accountable for wrongdoing, freeing about 140,000 managers from extra checks.
The federal government has asked the European Space Agency to fly astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg to the International Space Station on a mission slated for 2028, which would be the first flight to space by a qualified astronaut under the Australian flag.
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Friday, October 23, 2026
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Blue Planet III, the David Attenborough-narrated BBC series, deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footage so viewers can trust what they see is authentic and not AI-generated, its producers said. The series starts Sunday 1 November on BBC1 and iPlayer.
By LiveDigest · 23:29 GMTSpain's conservative People's party (PP) posted a campaign deepfake video this week that appears to show Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's wife and other Socialist-linked figures admitting to wrongdoing, weeks before the general election on 29 November. By Friday it had nearly 2 million views.
By LiveDigest · 21:48 GMTThe White House dropped some US tariffs on Canadian goods on Friday, citing the public interest, delivering exemptions for Maine covering nine agricultural products including blueberries, potatoes, apples and seaweed. Senator Susan Collins, who faces a tight re-election race, had pressed the administration for the relief.
By LiveDigest · 20:59 GMTA Trappes shooting west of Paris on Friday killed one person and wounded five others, including a 12-year-old girl, when a gunman drove through the area firing - an attack President Emmanuel Macron called a 'racist terrorist attack'.
By LiveDigest · 20:10 GMTCybersecurity leaders warned that AI-enabled hacking will expose deeper weaknesses in global internet infrastructure after researchers used AI to help uncover critical PHP vulnerabilities in October, a period dubbed 'Black October'.
By LiveDigest · 19:21 GMTUK children are no less likely to encounter harmful content on social media nine months after the Online Safety Act's children's duties took effect in July 2025, Ofcom's first review of the rules has found. The regulator called the lack of change in children's social media harm concerning.
By LiveDigest · 18:33 GMTForeign ministers of eight European and Middle Eastern countries, meeting at an Istanbul summit convened by Turkey, urged the US and Israel not to launch fresh strikes on Iran, warning a new outbreak of fighting would spread conflict and push oil prices higher.
By LiveDigest · 17:43 GMTHistoric England archaeologist Dr James Wright says the George Inn in Norton St Philip, Somerset, is England's oldest pub, having served continuously as an inn since around 1430-1432, after tree-ring dating dismissed more than two dozen rival claims.
By LiveDigest · 16:54 GMTFrance is putting about 70,000 police on the streets nationwide this Saturday after violent cost-of-living protests last weekend, in an operation announced by interior minister Laurent Nuñez that includes elite counter-terrorism and hostage-rescue units.
By LiveDigest · 16:05 GMTA data leak from Germany's far-right AfD has revealed more than a decade of efforts by the party to court Donald Trump and his Maga allies. The trove of over 420,000 emails, documents and personnel records, released via Distributed Denial of Secrets, spans the party's 2013 foundation to the present.
By LiveDigest · 15:19 GMTEnvironment secretary Angela Eagle has told water suppliers in England and Wales that the UK government plans unprecedented intervention in the next Ofwat price review, directing companies to cut costs, stop leaks and sewage overflows.
By LiveDigest · 14:26 GMTConductor Étienne Jarrier and his volunteer orchestra kept playing as CRS riot police fired teargas to disperse demonstrators around Place de la République in central Paris last week, and stopped only when the musicians came under direct fire. Jarrier says the police went on gassing them for about 20 minutes even after the square had emptied.
By LiveDigest · 13:37 GMTCustoms and Border Protection commissioner Rodney Scott defended the $46bn Big Bend border wall plan in Texas on Thursday, calling border fortification 'non-negotiable' despite a bipartisan opposition and a judge's court-ordered pause on construction.
By LiveDigest · 12:46 GMTByron Donalds, the Republican nominee in the Florida governor race, campaigned at Broward county's Green Glades West ranch without once mentioning Donald Trump, even as Trump prepares a Friday rally in Fort Myers days before the 3 November election.
By LiveDigest · 11:57 GMTFinland's public broadcaster Yle is drawing millions of viewers to Pentulive, a 24-hour puppy livestream following mother dog Hilkka and her six newborn Lagotto Romagnolo puppies. The show, in its sixth season, is part of the Nordic slow TV phenomenon.
By LiveDigest · 11:08 GMTUK consumer confidence dropped 11 percentage points to -24 in October, the fastest fall outside the Covid pandemic since the 2016 Brexit vote, according to GfK, days before John Healey's first budget on Wednesday.
By LiveDigest · 10:18 GMTUkrainian and European officials say Ukraine's Starlink Ukraine access via the military Starshield system remains limited, contradicting Donald Trump's Thursday claim that the service was again running at full speed, in a growing dispute over who ordered the restrictions.
By LiveDigest · 09:29 GMTAt least five people have died in the Spain flooding brought by Storm Adam, with 145 municipalities in Valencia and Alicante placed under temporary lockdown on Monday, as the UK's first named storm of winter tracks through the Channel.
By LiveDigest · 08:38 GMTAbout 150,000 backers of Serbia's opposition student movement marched through Belgrade on Thursday, rallying at Slavija Square three days before Sunday's parliamentary election.
By LiveDigest · 07:51 GMTSerbia votes in a snap parliamentary election in which the Student List, a leaderless protest movement born after the Novi Sad railway station collapse that killed 16 people, is challenging President Aleksandar Vučić's 12-year grip on Serbian politics.
By LiveDigest · 06:59 GMTDiplomats say a deadline on the youth mobility scheme between the UK and the EU could be deferred by six months to ensure the "reset" summit in Brussels on 20 November succeeds. The youth experience scheme (YES) visas remain deadlocked over tuition fees, quotas and the NHS surcharge.
By LiveDigest · 06:09 GMTTreasurer Jim Chalmers heads into December's mid-year budget update with forecasts downgraded to slower growth and higher unemployment, and a set of choices where each fix makes another problem worse.
By LiveDigest · 05:20 GMTHeat killed an estimated 50,000 people in European cities between June and August 2026 - the worst summer on record - and researchers attribute about two in three of the deaths to human-caused climate change.
By LiveDigest · 04:30 GMTDonald Trump's push for a Trump Atlantic Ocean rename on Google Maps went nowhere, he told a South Carolina rally on Wednesday: Google CEO Sundar Pichai declined to make the change, according to Trump's account.
By LiveDigest · 03:41 GMTAn Amy Winehouse musical is in early development for London's West End, with Tony award-winning producer Catherine Schreiber attached and casting reported to be under way, according to Variety.
By LiveDigest · 02:52 GMTDonald Trump rebuked Ohio governor Mike DeWine on Thursday after the Republican urged Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign to pull an attack ad against Democrat Amy Acton, telling the candidate to keep it airing ahead of the 3 November midterms.
By LiveDigest · 02:02 GMTThe Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority have proposed relaxing the senior managers regime, the post-2008 rules holding City bosses accountable for wrongdoing, freeing about 140,000 managers from extra checks.
By LiveDigest · 01:11 GMTThe federal government has asked the European Space Agency to fly astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg to the International Space Station on a mission slated for 2028, which would be the first flight to space by a qualified astronaut under the Australian flag.
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