UK air traffic control breakdown strands hundreds of thousands of passengers
More than 1,000 flights cancelled with disruption continuing on Wednesday and airlines calling for overhaul after third incident in just over three years
Liberal operative denies he invented pink paper record of agreement with fugitive developer, Icac hears
Jeremy Greenwood tells inquiry note contained agreement with Jean Nassif as counsel assisting says ‘threads of your story pull apart very quickly’
Me out of me

For the Irish writer Anne Enright, the discovery that she was pregnant came as a shock. But that was nothing compared with the physical and psychological trauma she was about to face. Here she describes what for her became a journey into an alien world

Blanche d’Alpuget, writer and wife of Bob Hawke, dies aged 82
In her final statement, d’Alpuget said ‘our highest calling and greatest achievement is love’
Australia considers new Israel sanctions but won’t join UK in banning trade with ‘settler terrorists’
Penny Wong has concerns about blanket ban announced by UK, France and Canada, but says new ‘targeted measures’ planned over Israeli settlers
Pilots tried to abort landing seconds before deadly Amazon cargo plane crash that killed five
The five people killed were employees of an aircraft cleaning company who were in a van struck by the plane after it overran the Miami airport runway
Missouri congressional maps thrown into chaos after conflicting court rulings
Tug of war as federal judge says old maps cannot be used in November, hours after supreme court blocked new maps backed by Trump
Elon Musk told ex-girlfriend he needed ‘a legion of children before the civil war’
Ashley St Clair was speaking at the Venice film premiere of Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk, where she warned of his dangerous influence
Lindsay Clancy juror had reasonable doubt but would not agree to acquit, foreperson says
Roni Carlson, in wake of mistrial, says holdout juror could not be persuaded while colleague calls him ‘very arrogant’
NDIS data may have ended up in Palantir’s analytics platform as part of efforts to curb fraud
Exclusive: The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, which has access to NDIA data, used Palantir as part of a multi-agency fraud taskforce
Mamdani releases 170,000 pages of records regarding impact on air quality of 9/11 attacks
Documents available through an online portal launched three days before the 25th anniversary of September 11
US says Iranian tankers ‘destroyed’ after missile attacks on American warship
Tit-for-tat violence surges again in region, with tankers struck by the US in the Gulf of Oman, and reprisal attacks by Iran on a US base in Jordan
‘We all have an expiry date’: Kimberly Akimbo, the achingly funny musical about a teen with a 64-year-old body
The uplifting, award-winning show about a girl aging four times too fast electrified New York. As it hits the UK, co-creator Jeanine Tesori talks about being inspired by the Aids crisis and all her friends who died young
Corrections and clarifications
Paul Smith | Autumn arts guide
Princess’s story: the case that highlights scourge of illegal care provision
Child was sent to live in 11 different Airbnbs or hotels and two ‘barren and inhospitable’ houses, as companies profited
Tokyo tourist hotspot bans short-term rentals amid surge in complaints
Shinjuku ward targets accommodation in residential areas and near cultural sites as locals complain visitors disposing of rubbish improperly and being too noisy