Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen say they carried out drone and missile attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh and energy sites on the country’s Red Sea coast.

A column of black smoke was seen rising from what appeared to be fuel tanks near the Saudi capital’s international airport where flights were disrupted temporarily.

City residents had been given an alert and urged to stay indoors, the first such alert since a recent escalation in the conflict with the Houthis.

There has been no official comment from Saudi authorities.

In a statement posted online, Houthi military spokesman Yahya al-Sarea said a “large number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones” had been used to attack “sensitive sites” in Riyadh and Aramco state oil and gas company facilities in Yanbu on the coast.

He added that the attacks were “in response to the Saudi enemy’s criminal attempts” to target the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

Earlier, Sarea had accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out 300 strikes across Yemen during the past week.

The Houthis are locked in a civil war with Yemen’s internationally recognised government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia.

They have attacked targets inside Saudi Arabia on several occasions in recent months, and said this week that they were responsible for downing a Saudi fighter jet over Yemen.

According to an unconfirmed report from AFP news agency, quoting military sources on both sides of Yemen’s civil war, fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces claimed 48 lives on Saturday.

The Houthis said 31 of their fighters had been killed while government sources said their side had lost 17 soldiers, according to the news agency.

On Friday, the International Organization for Migration, a UN body, reported that the number of people displaced as a result of recent fighting had passed 104,796, external.

The US House of Representatives has agreed to hold billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress for defying legal summons related to its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Black – who had business ties to Epstein – did not comply with a subpoena ordering him to appear before the House Oversight Committee earlier this month and share documents related to Epstein.

Lawyers for Black, who has sued over the summons, called the contempt move “outrageous”.

After passage of the measure holding Black in contempt, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said: “No one is above the law.”

“We will continue to seek transparency for the American people and justice for survivors.”

In a statement shared with US media, lawyers for Black called the House move an “outrageous action that ignores the facts and the truth about Mr. Black”.

“The full House is holding him in contempt without any regard to the active litigation challenging the lawfulness of the Committee’s actions and the ethics complaint against Chairman Comer,” they said.

The measure, which passed by unanimous consent, means the matter will be referred to the US justice department, which will decide whether to criminally prosecute Black.

In a statement, the committee’s top Democrat, Congressman Robert Garcia, called the contempt vote “an important step towards justice and accountability”.

“We will continue to center the survivors in our fight to hold those responsible for these horrific crimes,” he said.

Black walked out of voluntary testimony before the House Oversight Committee in June after he was asked about nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) he may have signed, lawmakers said at the time.

Black left Apollo Global Management, which he co-founded, amid scrutiny in 2021 over his Epstein ties. He has denied any wrongdoing with regards to his dealings with Epstein.

The subpoenas, which ordered Black to share NDAs and give an on-camera deposition under oath, were issued after he left the committee meeting in June.

Black has said he hired Epstein as a wealth management adviser, telling lawmakers in June that he gave Epstein $158m (£118m) for legitimate reasons.

The billionaire has said he did not know about Epstein’s crimes until he was charged with sex trafficking in July 2019.

Residents of an Oxfordshire village have voted to become independent from the UK in a symbolic referendum held in protest at plans to house more than 1,000 migrants at a former military base.

Villagers in Piddington, near Bicester, voted on Tuesday over Home Office proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers at nearby MoD Bicester.

The 350 residents were invited to cast their ballot in a small box outside the village hall, the community hub of Piddington.

The referendum was organised by the local parish council and out of 312 votes cast, 285 voted to leave, there were 26 no votes, and one ballot paper was spoiled.

Delivering the result, Susannah Parden, vice chair of the parish council, said: “We are Piddington the village that roars.”

Following the result, council chair Tim McNally said: “This is an example of democracy in operation.

“We went into this village hall as the underdogs – we had a plucky idea. We have given a message to the world.”

Responding to the village saying it had “roared”, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told BBC Breakfast: “I think they have – we have heard it, we are listening.

“I do really understand that when changes are made that affect your community it can be very distressing.

“We inherited an enormous asylum backlog, we are processing claims much more quickly, we are removing people who don’t have the right to be here,” she said.

“Small boat crossing fell this summer for the first time in many years because of the action we have taken.

“While we get a grip on the asylum chaos that we inherited we do need to make sure that we live up to our obligations and house people coming to this country seeking safety.”

Warning: This story contains distressing details

Police in the US state of Mississippi have arrested a man in connection with the death of a black woman found hanged from a tree, and say they could soon take more people into custody.

Tasia Fortune’s body was found in the lot of an abandoned home in Jackson in August, but police only announced they were treating her death as a possible homicide earlier this week.

“That arrest today is an important development in this investigation, but it is not the conclusion,” Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said on Friday. “This case remains active.”

Fortune’s death has worried locals in Jackson, a majority-black city in a state with a history of racial violence and lynching.

During Friday’s news conference, Brackney said the medical examiner had confirmed Fortune’s cause of death was homicide and said there would be a murder charge.

She identified the suspect as Jarques Ratliff, 51, and said there was an “association” between Ratliff, who is also black, and Fortune, but would not elaborate further.

“Additional arrests will be pending as our investigators continue to follow the evidence,” Brackney said, adding that they had interviewed 15 people in the case.

Fortune’s mother, Christy Spivey, told the BBC that she cried when police called to update her about the arrest, saying: “I guess I do feel like a little sigh of relief…like a little bit of peace just come over me.”

“I just hope that they’ve got the right person,” she added.

The arrest of a suspect followed weeks of what Spivey and residents in Jackson described as relative silence and inaction from local officials.

Combined with the grim nature of Fortune’s death and Mississippi’s history of racial lynchings, the lack of information about the case had left the community in shock and fear.

Spivey earlier told the BBC she had tried contacting Jackson police several times over the last two weeks, leaving multiple voicemails, and had not heard back.

Brackney addressed the family’s frustration on Friday, saying: “We have been in constant contact with the mother and the stepfather, as well as the biological father, throughout this case.”

A letter Spivey wrote to officials about the limited communication and speed of the investigation was read during a public city meeting on Tuesday – moments before Jackson police made the announcement about a possible homicide.

“I’m kind of like in awe,” Spivey said. “Like, I can’t believe it. That was quick.”

Earlier this month, Fortune’s death was described by a member of the US Congress as part of a pattern of “possible modern-day lynchings”.

More than 50 members of Congress this week sent a letter, external to the FBI and justice department, saying they were “extremely alarmed by reports of black people found hanging from trees in numerous states” and calling for an independent investigation into the deaths of black Americans.

“The series of deaths raise significant suspicion of foul play given the role of lynching in our nation’s history,” it states.

So far this year there have been at least 10 reported hangings of black people in the US, they said, adding that there were more than 70 lynchings documented between 2000 and 2025.

Warning: This story contains graphic details of the aftermath from the 9/11 attacks.

On 11 September 2001, photographer and documentary filmmaker Paul Berriff was living and working in New York City.

He was caught up in the 9/11 attacks and still remembers the day in vivid detail.

More recently, he has become one of thousands of survivors to be diagnosed with terminal illnesses connected with the long-term effects of that day.

Now aged 80 and living near Northallerton in North Yorkshire, Berriff has recalled the events.

“Somebody came into the office and said a plane had hit the twin towers,” he said.

First thinking it was likely to be a light aircraft or helicopter, often seen flying around the landmark, he phoned his wife who was at their home in Lower Manhattan.

She told him about “fire engines and people running around” and his “news instinct kicked in” and he travelled to the scene to document the events on camera.

As Berriff, a sound recordist and assistant producer approached, they could see “both towers were on fire”.

“We could see these black dots coming down from the side of each building and we wondered what it was,” he said.

“As we got nearer, we could see it was people jumping, so we knew it was pretty serious.”

They headed to the base of the towers, where assistant fire commissioner Steve Gregory was sending firefighters in.

The sanctions were launched alongside France and Canada, who in a joint statement with the UK said the action “marks a further turning point in our approach to protecting the two-state solution”.

Settlements are illegal under international law, and there has been a rise in violence towards Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers in recent months.

In a statement to MPs, Miliband said: “The British government agrees that there is ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank, perpetrated by settler terrorists.

“And all too often the Israeli government has turned a blind eye to this and worse, members of it have made statements and taken actions to support the forced displacement of Palestinians.”

He said ethnic cleansing was defined by the UN as a “purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent means another ethnic or religious from certain areas”.

Miliband said the official view of the government was that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank was unlawful because of the “entrenchment of its control, its intention to extend permanent sovereignty, and its expansionist agenda via illegal settlements”.

He said this position, which is in line with a 2024 advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice, should be reflected in the UK’s “economic relationship” with the occupied West Bank.

As a result, over the next six to nine months, the UK will introduce “a new comprehensive sanctions regime”, he said.

The foreign secretary also announced a ban on advertising illegal West Bank settlements in the UK.

“The sanctions regime will target illegal settlements and settlement expansion, not Israel,” Miliband added.

Later on Tuesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the targeted measures were “aimed not at the Israeli people, but in support of the two-state solution”.

Announcing the closure of the consulate – which represents the UK government in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza – Israel’s Foreign Minister Saar said at a press conference: “We know that we have many friends in Britain.

“Unfortunately, we have a hostile Labour government that is consistently operating against the State of Israel, and it has left us no choice but to respond to its hostile actions.”

He added that 11 UK MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and all five sitting Green Party MPs, would be banned from entering Israel, accusing them of “antisemitic and anti-Israel activity”.

The UK also issued a joint statement with 11 other countries; France, Canada, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Sweden.

It said the group was unequivocally committed to the two-state solution and would introduce national measures or support European restrictions on trading goods with West Bank settlements.

Music also features heavily, from the time Sir Paul McCartney made him a cheese sandwich after a soundcheck at the Hammersmith Apollo, through to being friends with David Bowie from the 80s.

“He was very inquisitive. He used to call me Smithy. He used say, ‘Smithy, why have you got that book? What’s that there?’ He was a very curious man.”

And things came full circle when Sir Paul was commissioned to design a T-shirt to accompany Bowie’s final album Black Star.

“I had a hint he was ill because he was in Switzerland a lot,” he reveals. “So, we lost him for a while.”

For those who heard Sir Paul Smith on Desert Island Discs in 1992 it may be a surprise that he has written a book at all.

When asked to pick his book, he told presenter Sue Lawley: “I have to admit that I’m not a reader at all, because I’ve got this very, very busy mind and it just leaps around all the time and I just can’t hold a book for any length of time.”

He opted for the 1974 Beano Annual, because it had “16 pages of Roger the Dodger”.

In Threads, he explains that he is dyslexic and it was undiagnosed throughout his school days.

“It hasn’t impacted me at all. I just can’t read very well,” he explains. “So when I do talks, which I do quite a lot, I just do it out of my head and hope it sounds all right.”

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portsmouth on Sunday night after around 140 migrants in a single dinghy were rescued in the English Channel.

In the second major anti-migrant protest of the weekend, police faced off with demonstrators as they blocked roads in an effort to stop the people who had arrived on the small boat from leaving the city.

Hampshire Police urged people to avoid the Eastney Landing ferry port area, where the migrants were brought ashore, and said a dispersal order was in place, meaning anyone failing to comply could be arrested.

The government condemned “the intimidating and thuggish behaviour” of the protesters, many of whom were dressed in black and wore masks.

Conservative MP for Isle of Wight East Joe Robertson said on X it was “extremely concerning to see an illegal migrant crossing this far west”.

Protesters said they were trying to stop authorities transporting the migrants to the Manston processing centre in Kent.

Police carrying riot shields protected a number of coaches parked on a road leading a away from Eastney Marina as protesters blocked traffic.

Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tommo – an associate of far-right activist Tommy Robinson – was livestreaming from the scene.

“Roads are all blocked, they are never going to be able to leave here,” he said.

A government spokesperson said: “The right to peaceful protest is fundamental to our democracy, but it must never cross a line into disorder.”

“We thank the emergency services who are working to safely manage this situation.”

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage posted on X: “This week Andy Burnham struck an agreement for 45 more officers on French beaches. Today a boat launched from Baie de Seine, 170 miles from Calais, arriving on the beaches of Hampshire for the very first time. This is a joke. Only Reform will send the boats back.”

Chawawa fell in love with the theatre when he went to see The Lion King when he was 16 and realised it was like “the best movie you’ve ever seen, but in real life”.

However, returning as an adult, he felt out of place as a black man. “In the shows I was going to, it didn’t feel as though they were too welcoming to me being there, just through the small social cues.”

He had a lightbulb moment after watching For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy by Ryan Calais Cameron, which “I still think is the best play I’ve ever seen”. Chawawa found himself thinking, “I wish every black boy in the world could watch this play.”

So he took a group of teenagers to watch it, which he describes as “the most fulfilling and magical and deeply moving experience”.

Inspired by their reactions, Chawawa set up the Black Boys Theatre Club to take groups every month to plays ranging from Dracula to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – followed by a post-show discussion in Nando’s.

“Every time we go and see a play, it’s not about the boys skipping out of it going, ‘I want to be the next Billy Elliot’,” he says. “It’s more just them realising it’s a safe space for you. It can be your home if you want it to be. You will thrive on stage or as an audience member, but just know that theatre is a part of your multiverse.”

With Springbok captain Siya Kolisi calling on his team to honour those who died in nearby Soweto during the fight against apartheid, and national pride stung by New Zealand coach Dave Rennie’s criticism of their scrum technique, Soccer City was braced for a fast start by the hosts.

New Zealand’s smarts initially defused the fire and fury inside the cauldron, however.

After a brave Peter Lakai turnover had halted South Africa momentum, Will Jordan streaked clear to switch play to the other 22.

South Africa fly-half Feinberg-Mngomezulu was shown yellow for knocking down Ardie Savea’s offload and, from the resulting penalty, the All Blacks rolled round the back of a short-range line-out, clearing room for Savea to sweep through some under-staffed fringe defence and score.

With Cheslin Kolbe, with a perfect goal-kicking record so far in the series, having departed with a head knock, South Africa had taken a dent to their confidence, as well as the scoreboard.

New Zealand had ducked and dived to minimise the effect of South Africa’s set-piece supremacy.

Fast strikes from hooker Asafo Aumua had got the ball away from a fast-retreating scrum, while trick plays and the addition of Lakai as a jumping option kept South Africa from competing successfully at the line-out.

South Africa built momentum regardless though and All Black discipline frayed as Damian de Allende shrugged off Carter and fed Kurt-Lee Arendse to score in the 21st minute after a string of penalty offences from the away side.

New Zealand pulled back 12-5 ahead soon after with the agility and speed of second rows Sam Darry and Tupou Vaa’i buying territory and Savea on hand to scoop up and scoot over following Arendse’s tackle on Carter out wide.

It is impossible to keep the South Africa’s coshing scrum power out of the game, however.

Rennie had accused South Africa’s front row of ‘walking around’ their opposite numbers in their second Test win in Cape Town last weekend. Marx, Wilco Louw and Ox Nche duly took route one, ploughing through the All Blacks front row to force a penalty try and ensure parity at half-time.

While another Test awaits in the United States, the sense of an unofficial series being on the line was tangible.

New Zealand have won on South African soil only once before, when the Incomparables of 1996 returned with a 2-1 victory.

Fly-half Ruben Love missed a long-range shot at goal after the interval with the stakes suffocatingly high.

Jordan’s try, from Carter’s pop off the floor, briefly opened up scoreboard space on 55 minutes, but South Africa edged ahead for the first time two minutes later as Kriel shrugged off a soft tackle and scampered in.

The hosts took a 19-17 advantage into the final quarter and, with the All Blacks lacking Savea’s leadership after their captain was forced off with a shoulder injury in the first half, the Boks landed a knockout blow in familiar fashion.

Scrum pressure forced New Zealand replacement Fletcher Newell to his knees, the Springboks punted the resulting penalty into the 22m and a monster maul rumbled infield and forward with Marx crashing over.

Feinberg-Mngomezulu added the extras for a 26-17 lead and slotted a 70th-minute penalty to push the lead out to 12 points.

The 85,976-strong crowd went through their celebratory songbook, dusting off their Cranberries-inspired ode to head coach Rassie Erasmus.

Taukei’aho’s try was too little, too late to change the tune of the contest, but the rest of the rugby world will take heart from how hard his side have pushed the Springboks in all three of their meetings.

South Africa: Kolbe; Arendse, Kriel, De Allende, Hooker; Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Reinach; Nche, Marx, Louw, Etzebeth, Nortje, Kolisi, PS du Toit, Wiese

Replacements: Fourie, Steenekamp, T du Toit, De Jager, Esterhuizen, Hanekom, Van den Berg, Libbok

New Zealand: McKenzie; Jordan, Tupaea, J Barrett, Carter; Love, Roigard; Bower, Aumua, Lomax, Vaa’I, Darry, Lakai, Jacobson, Savea

Replacements: Taukei’aho, Numia, Newell, Holland, Sititi, Preston, Lienert-Brown, Moorby