Russia and Ukraine continued to exchange attacks despite America’s efforts to bring an end to the war. Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles; Ukraine launched 630 drones towards Moscow. Vladimir Putin said he would enter American-brokered peace negotiations in November after meeting Steve Witkoff,

An image of ink droplets inside a printer has won first prize at the Nikon Small World photomicrography competition, which focuses on images taken through a microscope.

Problem in PHP language that underpins 70% of websites has led governments and companies to pull sites offline while they patch fault

Stockmarkets, and particularly tech shares, took another tumble. Meta was a big loser: in its quarterly results, the American firm reported a big rise in revenues but also forecast higher capital expenditure of $135bn-145bn this year.