• Australia No 1 defeated by Lorenzo Musetti 7-5 3-6 7-5 in Turin

• World No 7 needs convincing win over Taylor Fritz to reach last four

Alex de Minaur’s hopes of reaching the ATP Finals last four are hanging by a thread after a heartbreaking three-set loss to Lorenzo Musetti.

The world No 7 went down 7-5 3-6 7-5 after failing to serve out the match, keeping the Italian in the event and now leaving the Australian needing to convincingly beat Taylor Fritz in his third and final group match to reach the semi-finals.

Sberbank head German Gref gives unusually frank assessment; Zaporizhzhia situation has ‘significantly worsened’, says Syrskyi. What we know on day 1,358

A series of statements, articles, photos and even a new national holiday indicate a shift in Beijing’s stance over the island, analysts say

In recent weeks China has released a series of statements, articles and photos, that analysts say signal an escalation in the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s approach to Taiwan.

Beijing claims Taiwan as a province and has vowed to annex it under what it terms “reunification”. China’s military is not believed to be capable of a full invasion yet, but senior officials have recently started using sharper language.

Dozens storm venue at climate conference that has encouraged NGOs and Indigenous groups to play unprecedented role in talks

There were tussles between protesters and security guards at the Cop30 climate talks late on Tuesday night, when a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people stormed the conference centre in Belém.

Several dozen men and women, some in brightly coloured feather headdress, ran through the entrance, pushing at least one door off its hinges, before striding through the metal detectors and entering the Blue Zone.

New law will allow technology to be examined and ensure tools have safeguards to stop creation of material

Tech companies and child protection agencies will be given the power to test whether artificial intelligence tools can produce child abuse images under a new UK law.

The announcement was made as a safety watchdog revealed that reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse material [CSAM] have more than doubled in the past year from 199 in 2024 to 426 in 2025.

I’ve learned that grief and love can coexist, not as opposites but as two currents running in the same river

Pregnancy after loss is full of contradictions. It is hope that feels cautious, like it might dissolve if you breathe too hard. It is learning to live again inside a body that remembers grief.

I am now officially in my third trimester, and each day brings small signs of life: a flutter, a roll, a hiccup, the steady rhythm of his heart. I am growing a baby I will meet, hold and raise. But I have also carried a baby I never got to meet. For 13 weeks, my body held her. It nurtured her, protected her, grew her placenta, still believing she was safe. And in a way, she was. My husband told me then: “She only ever knew love and warmth”, and that has never left me.

• Italian served a three-month suspension in February 2025

• Djokovic adds that timing of punishment was ‘very odd’

Novak Djokovic has warned Jannik Sinner that his three-month doping ban will hang over him like a “cloud” – and questioned the timing of the sanction last year.

Sinner served a three-month ban in February 2025 after the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) accepted his explanation that a banned anabolic steroid, clostebol, entered his system accidentally.

Alyssa Wilson, a resident at a sober living home, stole a minivan and was chased for hours until crossing the border

A woman who had been staying at a women’s sobriety home in California stole a minivan and was chased by police for hours until she crossed over to Mexico on Monday.

A second woman, Nicolle Walters, 45, reported to authorities that her 2004 gray Toyota Sienna was missing, along with her car key, according to a statement by the Ventura county sheriff’s office. Walters, owner and operator of two women’s sober living homes, identified the suspect as Alyssa Wilson, one of the residents at Diana’s House Sober Living in Thousand Oaks, which is about an hour’s drive north-west of Los Angeles.

Fannie Mae officers were investigating whether Trump ally inappropriately accessed mortgage details of Letitia James, Adam Schiff and others

Ethics officials at Fannie Mae were removed from their jobs as they investigated whether a top Trump ally improperly accessed mortgage documents of Letitia James, the New York attorney general, and other Democratic officials, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

William Pulte, a staunch Trump defender and the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), has accused James, Adam Schiff, a California senator, and Lisa Cook, a federal reserve governor, of mortgage fraud. All three have denied the accusations and James was indicted on specious federal charges last month.

Celebs read out fan fiction about themselves, while fuzzy lookalikes graphically act it out. If Giedroyc weren’t host, this would be unbearable

Is there no format that can’t be made to work by hiring Mel Giedroyc to host it? With or without Sue Perkins alongside her, the presence of Giedroyc makes any kind of chat/quiz/contest caper watchable. You can hand her virtually nothing and she’ll turn it into something welcoming and cheekily funny. To demonstrate this beyond dispute, E4 has come up with No Strings Attached, a profoundly silly piece of flim-flam that is objectively awful, and with any other presenter would be unbearable.

The result of a commissioning process that can only be explained by severe staff/budget cuts, a complex blackmail situation or a rogue shipment of hallucinogenic cocaine, No Strings Attached proceeds as follows. A celebrity sits in an armchair opposite La Droyc. Each of them clutches a sheaf of paper, upon which is printed a piece of erotic fiction – written specially for the show by amateur writers who have previously churned out weird fanfic on the internet – where the celeb is the protagonist. As the famous-ish person reads aloud the story of their imaginary sexual escapades, Mel follows the text and reacts, encourages and guides. Lest this become visually stale, we cut regularly to puppets that are performing the actions described, in explicit furry detail.

He may no longer be the ‘Guernsey Grealish’ but deeper role at Bournemouth has earned midfielder a first senior call-up

There was a time, as Alex Scott made his name at Bristol City, when he was known affectionately as the “Guernsey Grealish”. It was the hairstyle, the low socks, the sense of adventure about his midfield play. As Scott puts it, the club’s manager, Nigel Pearson, gave him “a lot of freedom to go out and almost do what I wanted”.

It changed after he made his £25m move to Bournemouth in the summer of 2023; there was a greater need for tactical discipline, for defensive responsibility. He became more of a No 8. So, less like an early years Jack Grealish, who is now on loan at Everton from Manchester City.

• Ex-NFL star accused of firing shots after fight

• Victim says bullet grazed his neck, per warrant

Former NFL star Antonio Brown is returning to Miami to face an attempted murder charge stemming from a May shooting, with his lawyer filing a not guilty plea on his behalf.

Jail records in Essex county, New Jersey, show Brown was released on Tuesday morning for his transfer to Florida. Brown, one of the most popular players in the NFL, had waived extradition to Florida from New Jersey, where he was taken after being arrested in Dubai.

Chris Eubank Jnr hadn’t spoken to his father in four years. This documentary about his fight with Conor Benn – the son of his dad’s great rival – charts a reunion. It’s heart-pulverising stuff

You do not, I would hazard, expect to be moved to tears by a documentary about the Eubank family. But I suspect I am not the only one to find myself unexpectedly moved by The Eubanks: Like Father, Like Son, which follows Chris Sr and Chris Jr (also a successful boxer) as the latter prepares for a fight against Conor Benn, son of his father’s great 90s rival Nigel Benn, and tracing the rapprochement between the Eubanks after four years of estrangement.

Eubank Jr has all his father’s gentleness and none of his eccentricity. He also has less of his need to be noticed, and the patience of a saint. He treats his father with such quiet respect – absorbing all his performative flourishes, and clearly trying to keep his mind’s eye and his heart fixed on Eubank Sr’s underlying love – that your own heart is semi-pulverised long before we get to the meat of the programme.

Chelsea breezed past Austrian outfit St Pölten to seal their second Women’s Champions League victory of the campaign. Two goals from Catarina Macario, a finish from Wieke Kaptein, a double for Sam Kerr on her return to the starting lineup and an unfortunate Lisa Ebert own goal moved them up to second at the halfway stage of the league phase.

It was the perfect night for Kerr who was making her first start for the Blues in 692 days. It has been a long road back for the Australian but with goals in the WSL and now the Champions League, she is starting to gain momentum as she builds up minutes and confidence. There was also a welcome back to the lineup for Naomi Girma, who missed the start of the season with a hamstring problem, while Lauren James got a 15-minute cameo as she made her return from the ankle injury she picked up in the Euro 2025 final.

Medical examiner says Kiss founding member’s death was accidental, caused by blunt force injuries from a fall

Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the glam rock band Kiss, died from blunt force injuries to the head that he suffered in a fall earlier this year, an autopsy has determined.

Frehley died peacefully on 16 October surrounded by family in Morristown, New Jersey, a few weeks after the fall occurred, according to his agent.

Lawsuit alleges doctor at Fort Hood was allowed to continue working despite complaints against him for years

Military officials in Texas have suspended a US army gynecologist over allegations he inappropriately touched and secretly filmed dozens of women during appointments at an on-base medical center.

A civil lawsuit filed in Bell county on Monday alleges that Blaine McGraw, a doctor and army major at Fort Hood, repeatedly groped a woman during a series of seven or eight consultations, and took intimate videos and photographs of her that were later found on his phone.

Plan, which Gavin Newsom, the governor, has said would be ‘dead on arrival’, will allow six lease sales from 2027 to 2030

The Trump administration is planning to allow oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in decades, according to a draft plan shared with the Washington Post.

The move is guaranteed to set up a battle with the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, a staunch opponent of offshore drilling.

Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack are joined by Past Lives star Greta Lee in Disney’s highly anticipated sequel

The first trailer for Toy Story 5 has provided a brief glimpse at the highly anticipated animated sequel out next summer.

The teaser introduces a new arrival and “all-new threat to playtime” with the tagline “the age of toys is over”. The latest character is a smart tablet called Lilypad, voiced by Past Lives and Tron: Ares star Greta Lee, bringing new tech to the old toys.

Gavin Burrows says signature on alleged statement is ‘not mine’ and denies carrying out illegal activity on behalf of Associated Newspapers

A private investigator central to the legal action by the Duke of Sussex and others against the publisher of the Daily Mail has claimed that his signature on an earlier witness statement was a “forgery”, the high court has heard.

Gavin Burrows, linked to the most serious allegations of unlawful information gathering made by seven prominent individuals including Elton John and Doreen Lawrence, retracted his alleged confession, saying it was “completely false”.

Former prince seeks to dissolve Dragons’ Den-style startup competition and his innovation company

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has applied to shut down some of his last remaining business interests including the Dragons’ Den-style startup competition Pitch@Palace Global.

A document announcing the application to dissolve the firm was filed with Companies House on Tuesday, signed by its sole director, Arthur Lancaster.

Teenage defender is the third player from the club to be sidelined with long-term knee injury this season amid fears over match scheduling

On Monday, two days before their Allianz Arena game against Bayern Munich in the Champions League, Arsenal announced the devastating news that their centre-back Katie Reid had sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

The 19-year-old, who was pulled forward to lift the Champions League trophy in front of fans by the captain Leah Williamson at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium celebration in May, had a meteoric rise at the start to the season, partnering Steph Catley in place of the injured Williamson, starting many games ahead of the World Cup winner Laia Codina and double European Championship winner Lotte Wubben-Moy.

• Michelino Sunseri briefly ran on closed trail

• Runner received widespread support on social media

Donald Trump has pardoned a trail runner who briefly took a closed trail on his way to a record time on the tallest peak in the Teton Range of western Wyoming.

The pardon for Michelino Sunseri, unlike recent ones for Trump allies, appeared apolitical.

Only England have qualified so far, and there is sure to be drama aplenty over the next week as everyone else battles to join them

• The standings in full

Could the unthinkable happen? Germany have never failed to qualify for the World Cup but the four-time champions can’t afford slip-ups if they are to seal top spot after losing against Slovakia in their opening game. Julian Nagelsmann’s side lead Slovakia on goal difference and need to beat Luxembourg on Friday and see whether Northern Ireland – guaranteed a playoff after finishing top of their Nations League group – can do them any favours in Slovakia on the same night. Germany finish against Slovakia in Leipzig on Monday in what could be a winner-takes-all showdown. Teams finishing second go into the playoffs.

• Tennis star visits training camp to share experiences

• Steve Borthwick’s side take on New Zealand on Saturday

England’s preparations for their clash with the All Blacks on Saturday have been boosted by some words of wisdom from the former US Open tennis champion Emma Raducanu, who visited their Bagshot training base on Tuesday.

Raducanu took to the training field with Steve Borthwick’s squad, taking part in lineout practice and kicking drills with Marcus Smith before sharing insights with the captain, Maro Itoje. Borthwick also invited the Brighton manager, Fabian Hürzeler, to address the squad this week.