US backs Elon Musk's bid to overturn €120m EU fine against X

The EU had said X “deceives users” by selling blue ticks without “meaningfully verifying” accounts.
Xi got Trump's red carpet welcome – but not everything he wanted

China wanted progress on trade, technology and Taiwan – but hasn’t got as much as it would have hoped for.
The world’s two most powerful men just met. How did it go?

The BBC’s China correspondent Laura Bicker unpacks how the trip panned out for Beijing and Washington.
Netanyahu defends Israeli military action as delegates walk out before UN speech

The Israeli leader labels those who left his speech at the UN General Assembly as “moral cowards”.
From Nagaland to a path to the Oscars: Indian film brings a rarely seen world to global cinema

After a major win at Toronto, Angh, a film from northeastern India, is now on a path towards the Oscars.
Hundreds of thousands expected in Paris for Pope's visit

The highpoint of his time in Paris will be a giant Mass attended by more than half a million people.
X-planes: Are they needed in the new era of drones?

Where do America’s X-plane projects fit in an era of cheap drones?
Italy ministers agree to ban burqa and niqab in school and cap foreigners in class

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the measures as “common-sense tools that do not divide but really help to integrate”.
Priest killed and four injured in knife attack at Polish abbey

A male suspect from Ukraine was arrested after the stabbings in the town of Jarosław, police say.
Four civilians killed in Pakistani strikes in Afghanistan, Taliban says

Pakistan says it struck 10 targets, adding the strikes were “strictly limited to identified military objectives”.