World
US flight outage live updates: FAA grounds thousands of flights as Trump administration looks for cause of nationwide delays
Sean Duffy says technicians from Federal Aviation Administration are investigating; Trump’s homeland security secretary says ‘no indication as of yet’ of cyberattack
Robert Mackey (now); Shrai Popat, Lucy Campbell and Taz Ali (earlier)
Science
SpaceX Starship megarocket blasts off before expected return for reuse
Flight 15 expected to orbit Earth about 14 times over 22 hours, before company catches it at Starbase, Texas
Uwa Ede-Osifo
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US
All passengers and crew accounted for after New Orleans boat crash in ‘miracle on the Mississippi’
No passengers or crew were killed or critically hurt after a tanker collided with a river cruise ship on the Mississippi River, officials say
Ramon Antonio Vargas and Lucy Campbell in New Orleans
US
New Orleans boat crash: all passengers and crew found alive in ‘miracle on the Mississippi’ – as it happened
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Marina Dunbar
Music
Compost your cutlery and avoid campsite ‘Armageddon’: how music festivals are going sustainable
Warmer weather in Australia heralds the peak of the outdoor music and festival season. Compared with securing a ticket, reducing your festival footprint is easy
Petra Stock
Sport
France cling on for furious victory against South Africa after Dupont sizzles
Antione Dupont was key at scrum-half as France won a thrilling match full of twists and turns 21-19 against South Africa
Andy Bull at Stade de France
UK
US Air Force responds to suspected drone activity at RAF Lakenheath
No personnel, aircraft or infrastructure at Suffolk site affected, says US military
Nadeem Badshah
Football
Scotland 2-1 North Macedonia: Nations League – as it happened
Minute-by-minute updates: Andy Robertson won a record-equalling 102nd cap, while John McGinn scored his 23rd and 24th goals for Scotland, on an otherwise undistinguished evening at Hampden. Scott Murray was watching
Scott Murray
Football
John McGinn double saves Scotland’s blushes against North Macedonia
Scotland beat North Macedonia at Hampden Park as Andy Robertson won a record-equalling 102nd cap
Ewan Murray at Hampden Park
Health
Rip out ugly clutter to help revive UK high streets, says thinktank
Exclusive: Report says restricting cars and freeing up pavement space could be a cheap way to entice shoppers
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
What to know about the rare nationwide ground stop issued by the FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for all planes due to take off in the US, delaying and canceling thousands of flights
Robert Mackey
Russia is ‘setting traps’ in Ukraine talks, EU foreign policy chief warns
Kaja Kallas says Moscow is trying to divert attention from its aggression by raising issue of European security
Jennifer Rankin in Dublin
If Gen Z are asked to go to war, it might not be in the way they expect
Brief letters: Fighting for your country | Starbucks | Sparta | Itching powder
Europe should not walk into Russia’s ‘traps’ on Ukraine talks, EU’s foreign policy chief Kallas says – as it happened
Kaja Kallas warns against agreeing to Russia’s proposed sequence of events on talks on Ukraine
Jakub Krupa
Andy Burnham urges Labour to ‘rearm’ for Kemi Badenoch comeback
No 10 sources say PM wants party to refocus on Tories as electoral threat after prioritising Reform and Greens
Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot
Labour chief whip tells Vogue she takes tough approach to keeping MPs in line
Anneliese Midgley surprises colleagues after Burnham said whips office’ should not be ‘something to be feared’
Aletha Adu political correspondent
No 10 considering expanding under-25s benefits overhaul to older age groups
Exclusive: Plans to replace key disability benefits for young people with work and training could affect adults
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
Row breaks out between Tories and Reform at Piddington news conference – as it happened
Tom Ambrose (now) and Taz Ali (earlier)
Nigel Farage’s security paid for by Reform UK despite claim over £5m gift
Anna Isaac and Ben Quinn
Home sales hit 16-year low in October amid soaring mortgage rates
Sales of built units fell to 3.75m in October, down by 8.8% from last year, with mortgage rates at nearly three-year high
Gaya Gupta
Jaguar Land Rover reports £451m quarterly loss after cutting 4,000 jobs
JLR chief executive calls for EU and Britain to join forces amid competition from Chinese electric carmakers
Jasper Jolly
UK-EU deal will ‘dissolve’ £60m a year of costs for plant trade, says Angela Eagle
Signing of agreement to smooth movement of food, plants and animals next week will not recoup huge sums firms were forced to spend
Joanna Partridge
UK’s biggest insurer hit by rise in subsidence claims after record hot summer
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
Microsoft outage shakes up companies, schools and local governments across US
Local officials warn some services remain unavailable even as Outlook starts to resume normal operations after outage
Gaya Gupta in New York
Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption affecting millions and says it’s ‘not related to cyber or AI’ – as it happened
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Nadeem Badshah, Lucy Campbell, Taz Ali, Graeme Wearden, Achol Arok , Jordyn Beazley and Josh Butler
Nvidia scandal: US treasury chief blames Lutnick’s commerce department over alleged lack of action
US commerce secretary faces sack as questions emerge over senior Trump officials’ knowledge of alleged Chinese spy’s ties to Jensen Huang
Shrai Popat in Washington, Jonathan Yerushalmy, Mark Sweney and agencies
How Microsoft outage has affected key public services in the UK
Vikram Dodd and Hannah Al-Othman
Microsoft outage hits hospitals, GPs, schools and police across UK
Ben Quinn, Aisha Down, Andrew Gregory and Jamie Grierson
France cling on for furious victory against South Africa after Dupont sizzles
Antione Dupont was key at scrum-half as France won a thrilling match full of twists and turns 21-19 against South Africa
Andy Bull at Stade de France
A cricketing drama to divide a nation: why the sandpaper scandal is Australia’s Bazball
The sandpaper affair is back, and the reason it has hit Australia so hard is because it is sneaky – or basically quite English
Barney Ronay
Jonbon shines on yet another trying day for troubled home of jumps racing
Popular chaser victorious but ground issues, horses slipping and the low sun are all negatives for Cheltenham
Greg Wood at Cheltenham
Jimmy Kimmel on Trump accusing Democrats of wrongdoing: ‘His mantra is corruption’
Late-night hosts poked fun at the president taking JD Vance off Iran duty to sniff out corruption while expressing annoyance at Democrats for failing to impeach Pete Hegseth
Guardian staff
Seth Meyers on Trump’s midterms denial: ‘Watching you go through the motions is bumming me out’
Late-night hosts discuss US president’s questioning of historic midterms defeat and his unpopular ‘triumphal arch’
Guardian staff
Jimmy Kimmel on Hegseth’s press conference amid impeachment attempt: ‘doozy of a performance’
Late-night hosts discussed embattled defense secretary’s defense of himself amid Republican-led effort to oust him
Guardian staff
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‘Ahead of his time’: AI helps unlock discoveries hidden in notebooks of man who transformed maths
Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems
Alex Bellos
The sinister power of Friday 13th: how this maligned date affects our lives
Property sales that complete on this day have a lower median price. Air fares are cheaper. Weddings are non-existent. And motor collisions increase. How did it become so mired in superstition?
Leah Harper
European survey reveals 900m galaxies – and possibly secrets of ‘dark universe’
Unprecedented view of cosmos provided by Euclid mission throws up many more cases of gravitational lensing
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
What the choice between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen for Senate leader is all about
This is not a personality contest. This is a debate about the future of the Democratic party
Bernie Sanders
The Guardian view on press freedom: authoritarians target journalism because it matters
Editorial: From Cairo to Moscow to Washington, governments are turning up the pressure on media workers
Editorial
The Guardian view on M John Harrison’s Booker win: a new frontier for science fiction
Editorial: The End of Everything is a novel for our age of permacrisis. Genre boundaries belong to the past
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