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Two dead and one missing as floods hit Spain's Catalonia after 'mini-hurricane' rains

Two people have died and a third is missing after torrential rain flooded parts of Spain's Catalonia region on Sunday, with a man killed by a collapsing wall in Tordera and another death in Montornès del Vallès.

By Sarah Whitfield · 4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Former Bachelor star Sam Wood charged over alleged domestic violence incident in Noosa

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Up to 500 French high schools to close Monday as pupil protests intensify, minister says

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'Rwandan genocide hunter' Dafroza Gauthier dies at 72

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Russian strike hits Kyiv's Northern Bridge as Germany's Merz visits capital

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SNP demands Burnham account for £200m Grangemouth pledge as Syngenta mulls closure

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Nawaqanitawase's double fires Roosters past Knights to 16th NRL title

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Court quashes Home Office block on Gaza mothers and children joining families in UK

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NTIA opens a second BEAD round: states can spend leftover billions on missed locations

14 Sep 2026 · 4 min read

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Policy & Regulation

FCC tees up September 30 vote on unlocking satellite spectrum for rural broadband

8 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Satellite Internet

SpaceX's Starship to try first orbital flight on September 28 — carrying the first V3 Starlinks into service

15 Sep 2026 · 3 min read

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UK Broadband

New telecoms minister promises 99% gigabit coverage by 2032 in first speech

15 Sep 2026 · 3 min read

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West Virginia backs $100M+ Armstrong fibre push for 10,000 rural homes and businesses

10 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Government mulls £11-a-month broadband levy to replace BBC licence fee

24 Sep 2026 · 1 min read

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Fibre won two-thirds of BEAD locations — satellite and fixed wireless took the rest 22 Sep 2026 · 5 min read

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Paul Bunyan nears finish line on 1,800-location fibre build in central Aitkin County

15 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Network Rollouts

Comcast finishes Eastern Ohio rural build: 2,300 unserved homes and businesses now live

27 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

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OPEC+ keeps oil output targets unchanged for November as Hormuz closure keeps barrels off market

4 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

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G20 trade ministers split in Milwaukee over US drive on excess industrial capacity

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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TG Jones to shut 22 stores this October in major high-street restructuring

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Former Bachelor star Sam Wood charged over alleged domestic violence incident in Noosa

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Rapper Lucki injured in ComplexCon altercation as LAPD investigates attempted murder

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Punjabi influencer 'Mad Sandhu' shot dead in Amritsar; police launch probe

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Goncourt prize drops bestselling novel after author accused of using AI

25 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Ed Sheeran's two Gillette Stadium concerts cancelled as nor'easter approaches New England

25 Sep 2026 · 1 min read

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How the BEAD Challenge Process Works — and Why It Decided Who Gets Funded

23 Sep 2026 · 5 min read

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Fibre vs Fixed Wireless vs Satellite: How BEAD's Three Technologies Compare

23 Sep 2026 · 4 min read

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What "Unserved" and "Underserved" Mean — the Two Words That Decide BEAD Funding

23 Sep 2026 · 4 min read

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Over 250 join trial of Gilead's obeldesivir as Ebola prevention pill in Congo

4 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

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Florida dengue outbreak is largest in continental US in decades, AP reports

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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WHO says medical supplies wait median 74 days for Gaza clearance as hospitals stay crippled

3 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

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Maharashtra signs ₹10,520 crore BharatNet agreement for rural broadband push

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Policy & Regulation

Consumers' Research urges FCC to shut down the $4.5 billion High Cost Fund

2 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Policy & Regulation

FCC chief Carr says taxpayer-funded Trump TV ads merit no review

1 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

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PTI long march under way from Lakki Marwat as government rules out entry into Islamabad

4 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

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Green Party passes 'Zionism is Racism' motion at Brighton conference

4 Oct 2026 · 2 min read

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Trump pledges $5,000 to every adult American if Republicans keep Congress

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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The week in rural broadband: a new telecoms minister, Starlink on the farm, and Cambium in administration (Sep 7–13)

13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read

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Medvedev warns blocking Russia's Rassvet satellite network would trigger 'full-scale space warfare'

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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British satellite firm Open Cosmos plans 200-satellite network to rival Starlink

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

Satellite Internet

Cold War US spy satellite breaks apart in orbit, scattering debris — cause unknown

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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First type-I superconductor found breaking time-reversal symmetry

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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NASA awards $1.4bn logistics support agreements to 16 companies

2 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Two new islands spotted around Anak Krakatau after major September eruption

2 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Nawaqanitawase's double fires Roosters past Knights to 16th NRL title

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Daryz storms to back-to-back Arc de Triomphe titles at Longchamp

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Curtain falls on Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games as Doha 2030 takes the flag

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Shapiro announces $448 million in BEAD awards for Pennsylvania broadband

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Indiana signs $400m+ BEAD contracts with 24 ISPs to connect 122,000 homes

1 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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BEAD enters 'cleanup phase' as NTIA prepares supplemental round for missed locations

30 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

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Federal judge calls Flock searches 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and throws out evidence

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Apple to tighten macOS Full Disk Access controls over AI agent risks

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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California attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over AI cybersecurity risks

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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SNP demands Burnham account for £200m Grangemouth pledge as Syngenta mulls closure

4 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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UK Broadband

Court quashes Home Office block on Gaza mothers and children joining families in UK

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Cutting inheritance tax is 'morally right', Badenoch says as Tory conference opens

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