Real Madrid's Vinícius Jr sends surprise message to boy who lost his legs in Sudan's war To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Watch: Vinícius Jr's surprise message to boy who received prosthetic legs after Sudan drone strike In a dark room in Cairo, a 13-year-old boy looks up at a television screen, barely blinking. The screen flickers and Real Madrid's superstar winger Vinícius Júnior appears addressing the young boy directly, in Arabic: Zaher, mahaba - Hello Zaher. Zaher barely moves, his eyes wide, locked on his favourite footballer. We first met Zaher a year ago in the ruins of Sudan's capital, Khartoum.

Is the war entering a new phase? Ukrainian strikes kill three in Russia's Belgorod region Share Ukrainian strikes kill three in Russia's Belgorod region on social media Ukrainian drone strikes have killed three people in Russia's Belgorod region, while attacks cut power to multiple cities in Ukraine and parts of Russian-occupied Crimea, officials reported. Local Russian authorities in Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, announced the three deaths on Wednesday. In Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia's overnight attacks damaged power generation facilities and substations in nine regions leaving emergency outages in many cities. Ukraine has repeatedly said Moscow is targeting its energy grid as temperatures drop before winter.

Delhi is once again battling worsening air pollution as the onset of winter brings a familiar deterioration in air quality to India's capital. The city's air quality index (AQI) - which measures PM2.5, fine particulate matter that can clog lungs - has crossed 300, entering the very poor category and raising health concerns for millions of residents. Breathing such polluted air over prolonged periods can cause respiratory problems and worsen existing illnesses, with children and older people particularly vulnerable. Authorities have responded by invoking Stage II of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), introducing measures to curb dust, vehicle emissions and other sources of pollution. GRAP is a set of emergency measures that become progressively stricter as pollution levels rise.

'Massive' Russian attack on Ukraine kills at least six, damages power sites Share'Massive' Russian attack on Ukraine kills at least six, damages power sites on social media Russian air attacks have killed at least six people in Ukraine and left hundreds of thousands without power, days after United States President Donald Trump announced an "energy ceasefire" in the more-than four year war. The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had carried out a "massive" strike against communications and energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported. Other targets included a heating and power plant in Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv, along with a thermal power facility which the ministry said supplied the Ukrainian military in the southeast of the Kharkiv region. Moscow said its forces had also hit a data centre in Kyiv which it said was used to gather intelligence on Russia's military. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko urged people to remain in shelters.

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As Russia's attacks on Ukraine's cities intensify and autumn's cooler temperatures hint at another tough winter to come, Ukrainians are wrestling with how to meet the twin challenges ahead: Russian drone and missile strikes and the biting cold. It was a very difficult winter last year in Kyiv, says mother of two Mariia Shostak, who is now packing her bags and leaving her small flat. With prolonged periods of sub-zero temperatures and frequent power cuts brought about by Russia's attack on the country's power grid, last winter was one of the hardest so far. There were some days and weeks that were unbearable.

Is the war entering a new phase? Ukraine launches major drone attack on Russia's Moscow region, killing two Share Ukraine launches major drone attack on Russia's Moscow region, killing two on social media Ukraine has launched a major drone attack on Moscow, killing two people and setting fire to a warehouse in the capital city, Russian officials say. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Tuesday that the overnight assault involved 650 drones heading towards the city, most of which were shot down, as both sides intensify long-range strikes on infrastructure before winter. He said seven people had been injured and that 47 houses, four apartments and three cars had been damaged. He said 185 drones were "destroyed or neutralised" over the wider region.

Two Russian drones have hit one of Kyiv's main bridges, bringing public transport in the Ukrainian capital to a halt and signalling a new stage in Moscow's attacks. The Pivdennyi or Southern bridge came under fire as a metro train was travelling across. Passengers described how dust from a blast wave entered their carriage through the ventilation system. The Pivdennyi bridge is one of the main arteries across the Dnipro river dividing western and eastern Kyiv. Kyiv's bridges had not been hit before Thursday's strikes - and despite a dramatic explosion close to a main support section, city authorities said preliminary checks did not find any critical damage to the structure.

Explosions have rung out in Addis Ababa as fighting between Ethiopia's federal forces and a coalition of armed opposition groups widens in the country's north. Three diplomatic sources told the Reuters news agency on Thursday that the blasts were heard overnight in the Ethiopian capital. The blasts came hours after Addis Ababa instituted a ban on drone-flying in the capital and surrounding areas. The alliance unites seven armed groups, including the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and groups from the Amhara, Afar, Somali and Benishangul-Gumuz regions. It says it wants to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.

More than half a million faces were scanned in some of the capital's busiest transport hubs during the trial. More than half a million faces were scanned in some of the capital's busiest transport hubs during the trial. Tue 29 Sep 2026 05.48 EDTLast modified on Tue 29 Sep 2026 07.53 EDT A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London's railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers' time led to one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital's busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. A freedom of information document obtained by Liberty Investigates and shared with the Guardian shows that equipment hire and police staffing for the 18 deployments across the trial cost £320,786 and led to only one alert on a watchlist, which turned out to be an incorrect identification, also known as a false positive.