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Pope Leo XIV’s plane was escorted by fighter jets as he travelled to Metz, the final stop of his four-day tour of France. The visit comes as the Pope seeks to rebuild trust in the Catholic Church following a 2021 report that uncovered decades of child sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church. Metz marks the concluding stage of the Pope’s France tour.

Zahara Marley Jolie has legally removed Pitt from her surname, becoming the latest of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s children to take the step. Court documents show a California judge approved the 21-year-old’s petition without objection. She will now be known as Zahara Marley Jolie rather than Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt. Zahara filed the petition in June, around the same time as her brother Maddox took steps to remove Pitt from his surname. Both siblings later confirmed their intentions through legal notices published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal in July, in line with California law. Pitt and Jolie have six…

Florida’s attorney general has asked a judge to temporarily halt OpenAI’s development of new artificial intelligence models unless independent safety safeguards are put in place. James Uthmeier filed the 49-page motion on Monday, September 28, in the 10th Judicial Circuit Court in Highlands County. The application forms part of an 83-page lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, filed by the state on June 1. Florida seeks restrictions on OpenAI The proposed injunction would prevent OpenAI from developing new models without external safety approval and would impose a series of restrictions on ChatGPT’s operation in Florida. Uthmeier is…

Constable Mia Lay was remembered by her family, colleagues and senior politicians at the National Police Remembrance Day service in Sydney on Tuesday, days after the 20-year-old officer was killed in a patrol car crash. Lay died on Friday when the marked Volkswagen Tiguan she was travelling in struck a tree in Redfern, in Sydney’s inner south, while responding to a reported vehicle theft. She had been stationed at Redfern police station, about 100 metres from the crash site. Her parents, Clem and Tamara, siblings and partner, fellow officer Constable Daniel Vasquez, attended the ceremony at the NSW Police wall…

Two US Navy pilots were rescued from the water after being ejected from their aircraft during an unspecified mishap off the coast of Virginia. The incident took place at about 6.18pm on Monday while the aviators, who were assigned to the carrier air wing aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, were operating from the aircraft carrier. Both pilots were recovered quickly and returned to the ship, where they were being assessed by medical personnel, the US Navy said. Four other shipboard personnel were injured. One sailor was taken to a local hospital for treatment of injuries described as non-life-threatening. The…

A funding crisis could leave 8.3 million people without aid, a United Nations agency has warned. The warning highlights the potential impact of a shortfall in funding on people who rely on humanitarian assistance.

Lindsay Clancy’s holdout juror has broken his silence after the Massachusetts murder trial ended in a mistrial, urging the public to shift attention away from him and back to the three children at the centre of the case. Michael Desronvil addressed the backlash surrounding the jury’s deadlock in a brief video statement shown on Fox News programme Hannity. “I know the whole focus has been on me, but we want to reel everything back and put the focus on the three angels,” he said. Jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision on whether Ms Clancy was legally responsible for the…

A San Francisco bar owner has been arrested after allegedly attacking a clothing-shop employee with a baseball bat, hours after a dispute over a parking space. Cyril Hackett, 63, who owns Mad Dog in the Fog and Kezar Pub, was booked shortly after 1am on Saturday on suspicion of second-degree robbery and assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm. The original argument took place outside Further, a Grateful Dead-themed clothing shop on Haight Street, near Mad Dog in the Fog. Drew Wood, an employee at the shop, said the disagreement began when Hackett tried to take a space…

Approaching retirement at 59, Antony is facing an uncertain working pattern as he tries to plan for life after work. He may complete three shifts in one week and 10 the next, leaving his future shaped more by instinct than certainty. His experience reflects the unease of many Australians nearing retirement, who are attempting to decide when they can stop working while still afraid of what lies ahead.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has met Qatari mediators in New York over a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as the United States insisted that any agreement must address Tehran’s nuclear programme. Araghchi said the mediators would take the ideas discussed to Washington and that he hoped to receive a final US response by Tuesday. He was due to return to Tehran within hours rather than remain in New York to await the reply. “We talked about ideas and how to find solutions to fulfil Iran’s conditions and how to implement those conditions,” he told Iranian state media.…