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Luke Littler missed out on the chance to hold the senior and youth world titles simultaneously after suffering a surprise semi-final defeat at the World Youth Championship. The 19-year-old world number one was beaten 6-5 by world number 68 Cam Crabtree, who will face German Jan Schmidt in the final on 29 November. That match will take place on finals day at the Players Championship Finals in Minehead – an event Littler has also yet to qualify for having skipped the majority of Pro Tour events this season. He is currently ranked 126th in the Players Championship order of merit and only the top 64 qualify. Four Players Championship events remain, but two of those are in Den Bosch in the Netherlands - where Littler withdrew from events recently after being subjected to boos by the crowds. Littler has won successive full World Championships and won the youth title as a 16-year-old in 2023, but the semi-final loss to 23-year-old Crabtree was his second successive exit at that stage having lost to Beau Greaves in 2025. He could though enter four more times, with the tournament open to players aged 23 or under at the start of the season.

CanadaA 911 outage that lasted nearly an hour and a half in several Canadian provinces last month was caused by a previously undetected bug in Bell's software, the company said in a report on Friday. None of the missed calls during outage led to 'critical public safety incident,' provider tells CRTCRhianna Schmunk · CBC News · Posted: Oct 02, 2026 5:44 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 2Listen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A person uses a phone in downtown Vancouver in 2020. Bell said a 'latent software issue' caused an 87-minute 911 outage in six provinces last month. (Ben Nelms/CBC)A 911 outage that lasted nearly an hour and a half in several Canadian provinces last month was caused by a previously undetected bug in Bell's software, the company said in a report on Friday. The report said a "latent software issue" triggered the outage across Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island at 3:13 a.m. ET on Sept. 17.

The spacecraft delivered materials and equipment for new research studies to the station.

Mud from a fjord shows an Atlantic air pattern brought wetter, colder spells to southern Greenland, a clue to how its ice may fare. Greenland’s ice is shrinking as the planet warms. But in the island’s southwest, rainfall and snowfall have been influenced by the same North Atlantic air-pressure pattern for at least 5,000 years. When that pattern tipped one way, the region turned wetter and colder. The record comes from mud on the floor of a Greenland fjord, and it suggests snowfall, not only temperature, shaped how the area’s ice grew and shrank. It doesn’t yet show how glaciers there will respond to the warming ahead. Johan Faust, a researcher at MARUM, the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen in Germany, led the work with colleagues in Germany, Norway, Denmark and Canada. A seesaw in the airThe pattern is called the North Atlantic Oscillation. It’s the difference in air pressure between a low that sits near Iceland and a high near the Azores, and it’s strongest in winter. When that difference is large, the pattern is in its positive phase. Northwestern Europe and southwestern Greenland both get more rain and snow.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher Isaiah Santistevan led the development of three-dimensional simulations exploring how a nuclear device could deflect or disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth. Credit: Blaise Douros/LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth.