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Getty ImagesThe skyscraper was briefly the world’s tallest buildingThe Chrysler Building, one of the most distinctive high-rises in Manhattan’s skyline, will undergo a major renovation as part of a multi-million-dollar sale deal.The skyscraper, opened in New York nearly 100 years ago, will see its Art Deco crown polished and restored during a refurbishment that will also involve the restoration of the building’s 77-storey façade.Developer Tishman Speyer has taken over the lease from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a private college.Tishman Speyer and its partners will invest $235m (£178m) in the project, as part of which…

Prosecutor General’s OfficeUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv’s allies needed to take “concrete action”At least 30 people have been killed in a Russian glide bomb attack on two civilian buses in the eastern front line city of Kramatorsk, rescue officials say.Authorities said three people were also killed in the village of Bilenke, part of the Kramatorsk community.Another 18 people were wounded, said Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin, accusing Russia of targeting buses carrying passengers to kill as many civilians as possible.Kramatorsk and neighbouring Slovyansk are part of a so-called fortress belt that Moscow is trying to seize as part of…

AlamyCanadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature.Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross the boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”.The Nobel Prize is awarded for a lifetime’s body of work and is regareded as the most prestigious award in global literature with the winner receiving 12 million Swedish kronor (£900,000, $1.2m).In 2019, her performance piece Norma Jeane Baker of Troy…

Inside the £1-an-hour official football shirt factoriesA BBC Sport investigation traces official football shirt production to factories in Cambodia where workers are paid less than £1 an hour.6 hrs agoFootball

BBCBassam al-Hassan is wanted for crimes against humanity during Syria’s Assad regimeA former Syrian general wanted for crimes against humanity is being bankrolled and protected by the US and Lebanese authorities, a BBC News investigation has found.Bassam al-Hassan, who oversaw Syria’s chemical weapons programme and was a senior adviser to former President Bashar al-Assad, is being harboured in Lebanon following the Assad regime’s collapse in 2024.An investigation by the BBC and the US broadcaster NPR has discovered that Hassan has been allowed to remain there under an arrangement involving the FBI, and other US and Lebanese authorities. This is because…

Moment Margaret Hamilton receives Presidential Medal of FreedomThe computer scientist behind groundbreaking research that helped land Nasa’s astronauts on the Moon, has died aged 90. Margaret Hamilton was a trailblazer in her field, leading the team who developed the software for Nasa’s Apollo missions, which coined the term “software engineering”. Hamilton’s former employer, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), confirmed her death, adding she died on 30 September. “To say Hamilton was a pioneer – to say she was ahead of her time – would be a dramatic understatement,” MIT said in its statement, before acknowledging that she was a…

Watch: What we know about Christa Pike’s “shock” recovery in hospitalChrista Pike is “up and walking” while in hospital after last week’s botched attempt to execute her in the US state of Tennessee, a member of her legal team says.Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death after murdering Colleen Slemmer with her then-boyfriend in 1995, survived two lethal injections on 30 September. Experts described it as unprecedented.Speaking late on Wednesday to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, lawyer Stephen Ferrell said he had not spoken to Pike directly but that he had learned she was moving around her hospital room for…

Getty ImagesPatekar suffered a cardiac arrest at his home in GoaVeteran Indian actor Nana Patekar, known for his intense performances and distinct dialogue delivery, has died at the age of 75 in Goa, his son Malhar told BBC Marathi.One of the most recognisable faces of Indian cinema, Patekar won three National Film Awards and became known for playing complex, often volatile characters. He was also a prominent figure in Marathi language cinema and theatre.He was rushed to hospital after being found unconscious at his home in Goa in the early hours of Thursday.”Despite 45 minutes of continuous CPR, he could…

Fida al-Toutah’s family say they witnessed her being killed by Israeli gunfire in their tent two weeks agoIn her tent in central Gaza early one morning last month, 31-year-old Fida al-Toutah, a mother of five, was combing her daughter’s hair when the sound of gunfire erupted.”My mother shouted at us to get down,” her son Ezz recalled, weeping as he spoke.He only realised Fida had been hit when he saw the bloodied hands of his younger brother, who had been clinging onto his mother as the bullets came in.”Our mother was so kind and generous. What did she do wrong?”…

Getty ImagesA death row inmate was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday evening in Texas, the first execution in the US since the failed attempt to put Christa Pike to death last week.Lawyers for 46-year-old Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution in light of Pike’s botched injections last week, according to the BBC’s US partner, CBS News.But courts denied their requests, and he received a fatal dose of pentobarbital at the state prison in Huntsville. He was pronounced dead at 20:03 local time.Howard was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2000 murder of a convenience…