Footage of what appears to be a UFO flying over Gants Hill in Essex, UK earlier today.
With approval ratings as high as 80 percent, German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves office with support that leaders across the world can only envy. But her popularity wasn't enough to lead her conservative bloc to victory in Sunday's elections. Instead, the CDU/CSU plummeted to historic lows, gathering just over 24% of the vote compared to the centre-left SPD's 25.7%. So what might a post-Merkel Germany look like? And can French politicians learn anything from the experience as they prepare for presidential elections in April of 2022? Leo Klimm, a German journalist based in France, joined us for Perspective.
We should not allow the Anglosphere to distort the history of libertyThe Aukus deal reveals some still prefer to perpetuate the myth of the Anglo-Saxons as defenders of liberty than face the reality of today’s struggles President Joe Biden announces the Aukus deal with Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/REX/Shutterstock
Covid has wiped out years of progress on life expectancy, finds studyPandemic behind biggest fall in life expectancy in western Europe since second world war, say researchers The study analysed data from 29 countries and found 27 had experienced reductions in life expectancy. Photograph: Jorge Mantilla/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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US records largest annual increase in murders in six decadesNational murder rate rises nearly 30%, with figure increasing across all regions and from small towns to cities The increase in murders does not erase safety gains since 1991. Photograph: Jay Paul/Reuters
Copenhagen’s Christiania neighborhood is turning 50
Small boats arrivals in 2021 now stand at more than double the figure for the whole of 2020, when 8,417 people crossed the Dover Strait.
A resident in Dudhamali, a small village in India's Gujarat state, was shaking when he came home to find an uninvited guest that had made itself comfortable in his house.
More than 6,500 people were killed in the six-week conflict for control of the region.View on euronews
New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea has praised the actions of officers with the 102nd Precinct in Queens who intervened to save a distressed man who was “perched on top of a parking garage”.Video timestamped to September 21 shows the intervention, as an officer who identifies himself as Frank asks the man to talk.The video shows Frank approach the man and offer him a cigarette, at which point officers pull him to safety.Shea said the man was now “getting the help he needs.” Credit: NYPD via Storyful
Ford and a partner company say they plan to build three major electric-vehicle battery factories and an auto assembly plant by 2025
‘Great grandma went to the Met Gala’: woman identifies A$AP Rocky’s quilt. Quilt-style cape worn by rapper and designed by Eli Russell Linnetz was based on great grandmother Mary’s design
More than 100 people gathered at General Gordon Square in Woolwich to hold a vigil in memory of 15-year-old Tamim Ian Habimana, who was stabbed to death while walking home in south-east London. His mother, Hawa Haragakiza, called for more to be done to protect people on the UK’s streets.
The 'Murder on the Dancefloor' singer says she believes her story will be heard now in a way it wouldn't have been two decades ago.
President Joe Biden receives his Covid-19 booster shot in line with US government health authorities' guidelines at the White House in Washington, DC.
Rising infections among children could have been avoided if the vaccine rollout for 12- to 15-year-olds had been started before the reopening of schools, say scientists
Swipe comes as Labour leader wins conference support for rulebook reforms
A 36-year-old man will appear in court later charged with the murder of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa. Koci Selamaj, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, was arrested in the seaside town in the early hours of Sunday, and a light-coloured Nissan Micra was seized in a residential street around half a mile away. Ms Nessa was killed as she walked through Cator Park in Kidbrooke, southeast London, on her way to meet a friend on 17 September.
Spice Girl among stars to begin phone-hacking claims against Murdoch empire. Melanie Chisholm, Boyzone’s Shane Lynch and S Club 7’s Hannah Spearritt latest to allege voicemail interception
A man sought by police investigating the murder of Sabina Nessa was believed to be holding a mystery shiny item on the night of her death. Officers say they are keeping “an open mind as to whether this was used in the attack on Sabina” in Kidbrooke, south east London. CCTV footage appears to show the man holding a reflective red item on Pegler Square on September 17, it is believed.
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