Karl Bushby, a 57-year-old British adventurer and former paratrooper, walked into his hometown of Hull, in northeast England, on Monday, completing a trek on foot that took about 28 years. He set out from Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, at age 29, and the journey crossed South America, North America, Asia and Europe.
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Cost-of-living protests, many led by young people, are expected in cities across Europe on Saturday, Halloween. France and Germany are the main focus.
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Natalie Portman has welcomed a third child, her first with partner Tanguy Destable, the Oscar-winning actress said in an interview with Harper's Bazaar published Monday. The baby was born in August.
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Police estimated that 110,000 people marched in Paris on Saturday as protests over school funding, wages and living costs spread across France. Up to 70,000 police officers were deployed nationwide, and Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said 135 people had been arrested by early afternoon.
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Researchers from Oxford, Durham, and Toronto have concluded that hydrogen occurring naturally underground, sometimes called "white hydrogen," could be abundant enough to meet the world's entire energy needs for 170,000 years.
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Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his lung. The Vatican said the 90-minute operation was "successfully completed" and that the pontiff "woke up normally" afterward.
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Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing methods to produce a single mirror-image form of a molecule rather than a mixture of both. The prize, announced Wednesday, carries 12 million Swedish crowns, about $1.2 million, to be split between the two laureates.
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Jean Baptiste Perrin advocated the atomic theory and proposed a Solar System model for the atom. He also ran a set of experiments meant to settle a debate that had gone on for centuries: whether matter is made of discrete units or is continuous.
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Chef Íñigo Isao Sakai has published a simplified technique for preparing patatas suflé, the French dish consisting of puffed potato spheres. The traditional preparation requires slicing potatoes two to three millimeters thick and frying them twice, first at 150°C and then at 200°C.
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A new retrospective published Wednesday evaluates eight war films focused on military operations conducted behind enemy lines. The review, written by Senior Music Editor Sarah, spans classic cinema from the 1960s to contemporary releases.
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Production is underway on the biographical film about Josephine Baker, with writer and director Maïmouna Doucouré leading the project. Filming runs through November 13 across multiple European locations, including Paris, the Dordogne, and Sofia.
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