🇨🇳 🇪🇺 China has opposed "using Cold War mentality" to stoke conflict over the Arctic, after the European Union linked Beijing's cooperation with Russia in the region to security concerns. ➡️ tinyurl.com/bpa7n6ja

⚽ Enzo Maresca said it is his job as Manchester City boss to help Phil Foden rediscover his best form after the England international ended his long goal drought. ➡️ tinyurl.com/38jxwxp2

🇨🇦 'This is not defeat': Alberta separatists react after losing independence Separatists insist "this is not defeat" as Canada's province of Alberta rejects a plan to hold a binding independence referendum.

🇮🇱 🗳️ Gadi Eisenkot, the man who could unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, almost always dresses in plain black, speaks halting English and, reflecting the military culture that shapes him, responds in interviews in bullet-point lists. For some voters, the 66-year-old Eisenkot's lack of charisma may be one of his greatest assets. ➡️ tinyurl.com/yudbu2ax

🇬🇧 The local communities being pushed out by Britain’s padel boom Padel is surging in popularity across the UK, but the sport’s rapid expansion is creating tensions.

🪸 🐠 Nearly all of the world's shallow-water coral reefs face an "extremely high risk" of collapse by 2075 due to climate change, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned Thursday. ➡️ tinyurl.com/433dx78b

🇬🇷 Greek students and teachers protest over education provision Inspired by demonstrations in France and other parts of Europe, thousands of Greek students protested around the country against the high cost of living, saying they face many of the same problems.

🚵 Edinburgh will host the most northerly Tour de France start in 2027 while the Pyrenees will provide the competitive finale of next year's route, which was announced in Paris on Thursday. ➡️ tinyurl.com/627rhsfv

🤿 Hong Kong hosts gruelling underwater hockey tournament Hong Kong's annual underwater hockey tournament, ominously advertised as "physical hell", drew a roster of hardcore enthusiasts from countries across Asia to the Chinese city over the weekend.

🇪🇺 Facing US sanctions, the International Criminal Court was on Thursday awarded the European Union's top rights prize, in a show of support that risks upsetting President Donald Trump. ➡️ tinyurl.com/y6eku6d7

🇫🇮 Finnish town braces for change from massive Google data centre With its cool climate and relatively stable and cheap electricity, Finland has seen a spike in data centre investments. But as dozens of the energy guzzling centres are now under construction and many more planned by companies including Google, Microsoft and TikTok, uncertainty around energy prices, grid capacity and environmental effects have sparked a public debate in Finland.

🇺🇸 🗳️ Republicans face Latino backlash ahead of midterms For nearly two years, Donald Trump's deportation drive has sowed fear in immigrant communities. Now, with midterm elections looming, many Latino voters who helped propel Trump to power in 2024 say they are fed up.

🇦🇱 Still smiling at 117, Albanian may be world's oldest woman At 117, Qamile Marra is not particularly concerned with proving she may be the world's oldest woman, but official documents suggest she is two days older than Ethel Caterham, recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living woman.

🇲🇲 The son of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday he was allowed to speak to the detained former democratic leader for the first time in more than five years. ➡️ tinyurl.com/2wvb4wwf

🎭 Tehran billboard depicts Trump-masked actor in prison cell In Tehran's Tajrish Square, an actor wearing a mask depicting US President Donald Trump stands inside a mock prison cell, in the Iranian capital's latest billboard against the American leader.

⚠️ Artificial intelligence has found critical security flaws in a major programming language called PHP, with many websites taken offline as organisations worldwide scramble to fend off would-be hackers. ➡️ tinyurl.com/25k83yxk

⚠️ Governments and companies around the world shut down websites as they raced to protect themselves from hacks after artificial intelligence uncovered critical flaws in a widely used programming language called PHP. ➡️ tinyurl.com/52n9dvct

🇳🇬 Nigerians 'alarmed' at first Ebola case in Africa's latest outbreak Nigerians respond to the news that the country has identified its first Ebola case in Africa's latest outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of the virus.

🐢 Green turtles offer glimmer of hope as other species decline Green turtles have made the rare jump from endangered to "least concern" in global conservation rankings, thanks to decades of efforts including egg relocation, marine protection and trade bans.

In the Mexican town that makes emblematic Day of the Dead garlands. The multicolored paper perforated with intricate folk art designs is known as "papel picado" (pecked paper). It is a central element in the lavish altars erected to the deceased on November 1-2 and is also used to festoon homes and streets tinyurl.com/5ct8wdd9