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A section measuring at least 50 metres (164 feet) is missing from the ruptured Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, Swedish daily Expressen reported after filming what it said were the first publicly released images of the damage. Swedish police and prosecutors suspect the leaks that emerged on Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 on September 26 were caused by deliberate subsea blasts, and are investigating the case as an act of gross sabotage. Expressen’s video, captured with a small remotely operated underwater vehicle, or subsea drone, showed bent metal and a wide-open pipeline in murky…

The United States and Mexico said they will seek support from the United Nations for a security mission to restore order in Haiti amid a worsening humanitarian crisis, but did not identify who would lead the mission. Haiti is facing dire shortages of basic goods and a paralysis of economic activity due to the blockade of a fuel terminal by gangs, which has halted transport and left many without food or clean drinking water amid an outbreak of cholera. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres earlier this month suggested sending in a “rapid-action force,” according to a letter seen by Reuters.…

Annual energy bills could reach £4,347 for an average household after the government announced the two-year price freeze will now run for just six months. New chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the universal energy price guarantee will finish next April, with a review being launched on how to then support bills after this period. The government said its changed approach after April will “cost the taxpayer significantly less than planned” and will target those most in need of support. It also confirmed that the energy bill relief scheme for businesses, which will cap corporate energy bills, is also set to end…

Real Madrid’s France forward Karim Benzema won the 2022 Ballon d’Or award for the best men’s player in the world on Monday, while Barcelona’s Spanish midfielder Alexia Putellas won the women’s award for a second time. Benzema, who played a pivotal role in Real’s run to the Champions League title last season, is the first French player to win the trophy since Zinedine Zidane in 1998 and the fifth after Raymond Kopa, Michel Platini and Jean-Pierre Papin. “This prize in front of me makes me really proud. When I was small, it was a childhood dream, I never gave up……

Today we all learned a humiliating political lesson about who is really in charge of the country. At the start of the year, if you had asked anyone who was running the UK, the obvious answer would have been Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Even a couple of weeks ago, most people would have said Liz Truss. Today, it looks like the newly appointed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was in charge. Yet the true answer is none of the above. For years, millions of Euro sceptics believed the EU was effectively running UK government policy, telling us what we could and could not do in our own…

Asking prices for houses in the UK edged higher in October, although demand from first-time buyers has dropped as mortgage rates surge. Despite the economic turmoil since the government’s mini-budget last month, there has been little immediate sign of the housing market slipping, according to Rightmove. The property website said that the average price of a property coming to market this month was up 0.9%, to a new record of £371,158, slightly below the average increase for the time of year. However, Rightmove warned that the effects of wider economic uncertainty could take time to filter through, with some buyers rushing…

Mohamed Salah had seen his number go up before he brought up that of Manchester City. With passions raging and City threatening to wrest a high-end encounter their way, Jürgen Klopp went for a triple substitution. There were 72 minutes on the clock but why was Salah’s No 11 up on the board? Salah had been Liverpool’s most dangerous player. It was a mistake because Salah was going nowhere. Klopp explained that to him on the touchline after Salah had walked towards him looking dejected and the manager made the changes that he actually wanted to make, one of which was…

Jeremy Hunt, the UK chancellor, is to make a statement later on Monday bringing forward measures from the medium-term fiscal plan, the Treasury has announced. Hunt is also due to make a statement in the House of Commons in the afternoon, according to the Treasury. “This follows the prime minister’s statement on Friday, and further conversations between the prime minister and the chancellor over the weekend, to ensure sustainable public finances underpin economic growth,” said a Treasury statement. The chancellor would deliver the full medium-term fiscal plan to be published alongside a forecast from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility…

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles prosecutors on Oct. 14 accused the CEO of a Michigan-based election software company of involvement in a “massive” data breach affecting at least a thousand victims, including minors. Eugene Yu, 64, who heads Konnech, a company that provides software to electoral districts for the management of poll workers, was charged with the felony crime of embezzlement of public funds. He appeared in a Los Angeles County court on Oct. 14. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has accused Yu of stealing personal identifying information of poll workers. The office alleged that such data was stored on servers in China, in…

Sports bras and athletic shirts made by some of the major global sports brands were found to contain dangerous levels of the estrogen-mimicking chemical bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, posing a considerable risk to people’s health, according to legal notices sent by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH). BPA—an endocrine disrupting chemical that upsets the body’s functioning through blocking or mimicking hormones—is linked to developmental and health problems mostly for young children. For adults, studies have found that high levels of the chemical results in heart problems, while experts have connected BPA to obesity, diabetes, ADHD, and other ailments, with more research…