At least 20 people have been killed, including five children, and dozens are missing after a war-damaged building collapsed in the Gaza Strip, according to local rescue teams. Video footage shows the search for bodies and survivors continuing in the rubble of the multi-storey building in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City, its floors sandwiched together. Locals said 10 families had been living in the apartments despite warnings that they were unsafe. Members of the Hamas-run Civil Defence rescue service said they had initially been working with empty hands due to tight Israeli restrictions on equipment allowed into Gaza. However, they have since been able to borrow some heavy machinery.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A runaway horse was chased by police on motorbikes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when it escaped before a parade on 13 September. The unharmed horse was eventually cornered by police, before being lassoed. Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy. The horse was given a drink of water before being walked back to the start of the Desfile de la Gente parade, Santa Fe Police Department said in a post on Facebook.

A shop owner has described how she locks her door during opening hours and customers have to ring the bell to get in after her store was targeted by thieves last year. Paige Mengers, who runs a designer boutique in Surrey, has been speaking about the impact of shoplifting, with recorded offences remaining above pre-pandemic levels. Home Office figures show there were 42,674 shoplifting offences across Kent, Surrey and Sussex in 2025/26 compared with 28,048 cases in 2019/20. The government said overall offences in England and Wales fell 4% last year, with more suspects being charged. Mengers, who has stores in Cobham and south-west London, said she boosted security after a raid in January 2025 involving men with wire cutters.

'Complete failure to protect babies' and'Sterling mess' Image caption, The landmark inquiry into Lucy Letby's murders and attempted murders leads several of today's papers. After finding there was a complete failure to protect babies under Letby's care, the inquiry chair, Lady Justice Thirlwall, has called for cot cameras or monitors to be used on neonatal units in hospitals, the Daily Express reports. Letby is serving 15 whole-life prison terms for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more. Image caption, The damning Letby hospital report is also the focus of the Daily Mirror's front page, with Health Secretary Yvette Cooper weighing in on the reprehensible treatment of parents who lost their babies. According to the paper, the inquiry found there was a complete failure to protect newborns at the Countess of Chester Hospital and parents were kept in the dark for years over the concerns.

Haitian gang member Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, who told ICE cameras "Biden forever" during his viral arrest, has been deported to Haiti by the Trump administration.

Another Metropolitan Police officer has been dismissed following BBC Panorama's undercover investigation into the force's Charing Cross station. PC Mason O'Connor was sacked after a hearing found he had breached standards of professional behaviour, relating to a comment he made to a female colleague, the Met said. O'Connor was reported to a proactive wider investigation following the broadcast of the programme in October 2025 and he has become the 13th officer to be sacked since then, the force added. Other officers who were covertly filmed for the documentary were seen calling for immigrants to be shot, boasting about excessive use of force and joking about rape and sexual assault. O'Connor's dismissal relates to a comment he is alleged to have made to a female colleague while off-duty in a pub in October 2024.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A report into how serial killer Lucy Letby was able to murder seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital has found that some deaths could have been prevented. Letby is serving 15 whole-life prison terms for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more. She was convicted in 2023 and has twice been denied permission to appeal against her convictions. Responding to the report, the hospital says it is sorry for the events that occurred in 2015 and 2016, and it's a different organisation today with new leadership, stronger governance and safety processes.

FBI Director Kash Patel is set to tell senators on Tuesday that the bureau delivered historic crime reductions and major counterterrorism gains.

'I Felt Super Violated': Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag As anxieties over surveillance tech grow, unsuspecting singles are sharing stories of being covertly filmed on dates by Meta smart glasses. Courtney McAnuff was out of a year-long relationship in the summer of 2024 and starting to date again when she agreed to grab drinks with a potential suitor. They met at a bar in midtown Manhattan . He arrived wearing a baseball cap pulled low and sported a pair of black-framed glasses, she says. As conversation flowed, from discussions about navigating life in New York to past relationships, he mentioned that his glasses were Meta Ray-Bans.

A new bipartisan effort in Congress to rein in automated license plate readers takes a page from the national drinking age: Comply, or risk losing federal highway funding. A bipartisan pair of US lawmakers tell WIRED they plan to introduce legislation today that would strip federal funding from states that fail to restrict the use of Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers. The devices, which help police track the location of vehicles tied to crimes, have become the subject of nationwide backlash in recent months over more nefarious uses by officers. The No FLOCK Act--for Federal License-Plate Observation and Camera Keeping--directs the US secretary of transportation to withhold 10 percent of annual financial support due to states for highways, roads, and bridges if it fails to ban Flock and similar devices for all but five use cases. Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat representing Chicago suburbs, and Michael Cloud, a Republican whose Texas district includes Corpus Christi, are cosponsoring the bill.