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Greta Van Fleet’s detractors are loud as ever – but on new album Palace for the People, Jake Kiszka and his Gibson “Excalibur” come out swinging

Temperatures in Paris were nudging 41C when Erwan Leo opened Le Butter Shop this summer. Wildfires had already been tearing through France and the city was quiet, particularly in the less touristy 15th arrondissement, a flex-your-wealth area near the Eiffel Tower. The last thing it needed, you would think, was a shop that sold loads of butter. “We were just so worried about the fridges,” says Leo, the 34-year-old owner. “We didn’t think anyone would even turn up.”I visit Le Butter, the first shop in Paris dedicated to selling the stuff, two months later in September. It’s a quaint, photogenic spot between a wine shop that was opened by Leo eight years ago and a cafe famous for being blown up in Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Inside there are candy-striped walls, little shopping baskets, a shelf of Instagrammable buttery merch (knives, hats, totes) and two double fridges containing 50 different types of butter. It’s a lot cooler today; the fridges purr away at an exacting 3C. And the past few months have been busy – so much so that Leo has had to erect a bench for those waiting outside, and a retractable barrier to manage the queues.

In a video message for the 100th World Mission Sunday, Pope Leo XIV thanks the faithful for their prayers and support, recalling how they helped nurture his vocation and sustain his missionary work in Peru. Pope Leo has sent a videomessage marking the 100th World Missionary Sunday, marked on the 18th of October 2026. In his video, the reflects on the theme “One in Christ, United in Mission” and expresses his gratitude to all those who have supported the annual celebration over the past century

Plant nursery owner and veteran gourd grower Ian Paton, from Hampshire, UK, is back smashing pumpkins, or at least pumpkin records, once again. A year after he and his twin brother, Stuart, became the first British holders of the heaviest pumpkin title in recorded history, Ian has worked tirelessly to ensure his pumpkin patch continues to flourish, which means he has now raised the bar even higher.

Skip to Main ContentAccessibility HelpMenuCBC GemCBC ListenSearchQuick LinksNewsSportsRadioMusicListen LiveTVWatchnewsTop StoriesLocalClimateWorldCanadaPoliticsIndigenousBusinessThe NationalHealthEntertainmentScienceCBC News InvestigatesDisability LifeGo PublicAbout CBC NewsBeing Black in CanadaVideoWhy Alberta's World Famous Gopher Hole Museum has closed after 30 years | CBC.ca LoadedWhy Alberta's World Famous Gopher Hole Museum has closed after 30 yearsOctober 7|Duration 0:44October 7NewsDuration 0:44A museum full of taxidermied ground squirrels closes its doors after 30 years in Torrington, Alta. Related StoriesAlberta removes habitat protections for endangered greater sage grouse to support industrial developmentSaskatchewan hunters take issue with plan to end chronic wasting disease testingFederal government phasing out seed research in Indian Head, Sask. Sask. farmer trying to sell or donate town's grain elevator to avoid demolitionPopular viewpoint on highway to Banff to closeMore from NewsVideoDuration 2:04Hundreds of young N. S.

Architected material: Cross sections of the titanium lattice cube showing before and after being filled with polyurethane foam for buoyancy. (Courtesy: Sara Tan, RMIT) Open-cell metallic structures are widely employed in the aerospace industry and in biomedical applications that require materials to be extremely light as well as strong. In marine infrastructure, however, their usefulness is limited because water quickly fills their interconnected open pores, preventing them from floating even though their bulk density is much lower than that of water.

Digger is one of those movies where you walk out of the theatre not entirely sure whether you liked or hated it. I’m reasonably certain, however, that I won’t forget it. That contradiction feels right for a filmmaker like Alejandro González Iñárritu. Somehow, the film has managed to keep one of the biggest twists of the entire year under wraps. I remember watching the first trailer for Digger and immediately thinking that the film was going to divide audiences. And thus spoke the prophet: it turns out I wasn’t far off. Digger has been marketed as a comedy, and yet I can’t say that it’s a particularly humorous movie. The villains are cartoonish, the performances exaggerated, and if you watched the trailer and dismissed it as “another climate change movie that’s going to lecture its audience,” you could hardly be blamed. Normally, you might even be right. What is surprising about Digger, though, is that it assumes greater sophistication from its audience than its blunt satire initially suggests. Everything seems obvious until the film eventually reveals what the joke actually is.

The World Climbing Europe Series 2026 concluded in Leipzig, Germany, with closely contested Speed finals. Spain and Ukraine each claimed two medals. Ukraine’s Daria Tkachova won gold in 7.88 seconds, finishing ahead of Poland’s Magdalena Blachnicka, who stopped the clock at 8.58. The victory adds to Tkachova’s bronze medal from St. Pölten, Austria, earlier this year.

Children and families in one of Venezuela's hardest-hit communities continue their recovery after the devastating earthquakes on June 24, 2026. In partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), World Vision has served hot meals to hundreds of children and adults impacted by the disaster. We're also delivering emergency food assistance, hygiene supplies, water, and shelter kits, while supporting children's recovery through Child-Friendly Spaces and providing psychosocial support. (© 2026 World Vision/photo by Luis Colmenarez) Two powerful earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026, less than one minute apart, followed by more than 30 aftershocks. (© 2026 Agencia EFE/photo by Rayner Peña R)Displaced families gather outdoors to set up makeshift shelters following the deadly earthquakes in Venezuela. (© 2026 World Vision/photo by Carlos Arellano)In the Playa Grande neighborhood of Catia La Mar, La Guaira state, World Vision is working alongside local churches and partners to support residents impacted by Venezuela’s devastating earthquakes.

HighlightsSeptember reviewA surge in US Treasury yields and the US dollar alongside a drop in futures positions helped drive prices lower in September, despite impressive gold ETF inflows. Looking forwardUK gold ETFs delivered a stellar Q3. Fiscal concerns may be helping, but this looks less like the short-lived 2022 surge and more like a sustained shift in demand. Divergent investor flowsGold finished September at US$4,176/oz, 8.5% lower m/m, with similar declines across all the major currencies we track (Table 1). Our Gold Return Attribution Model (GRAM) suggests that a rise in yields and a stronger US dollar were major contributors to September’s drop in prices as the US 10-year Treasury yield climbed 53bps to 5.3% and the DXY index rose 2% (Chart 1). Yet September was unusual: despite the price decline, global gold ETFs recorded US$10bn (67t) of inflows across regions. North America led the charge, followed by Europe and Asia. In contrast to strong ETF demand, COMEX positioning contracted sharply.

Our class deep dive series continues with developer insights into two more classes coming in World of Warcraft: Forever. This time, we’re focusing on Mages and Shaman, with an early look at how each class is being updated while holding on to the core tools and playstyles that define them. For Mages, the update leans into the fantasy of choosing the right spell for the moment—whether that means layering control through Frost, building toward heavy Fire critical strikes, or using Arcane power to amplify the rest of the toolkit. New and revised talents give each school a stronger identity while also creating more room for cross-school builds that mix familiar strengths in new ways.

The world’s largest penguin colony has declined by two-thirds since 2011, most likely because of the climate crisis, a study has revealed. Scientists said the rapid demise of chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski, the northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands in Antarctica, increased the risk of a wider ecosystem collapse. Antarctica’s Zavodovski Island is home to the largest penguin super-colony in the world“It is an enormous population crash, equivalent to half a million breeding individuals being lost from that island,” said the leader of the research, Prof Norman Ratcliffe, a penguin ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey. The Guardian revealed in 2020 that chinstrap penguin populations were decreasing on Low in the South Shetland Islands, prompting concerns among scientists that “something is broken” in the world’s wildest ecosystem. A penguin colony below Mount Curry on Zavodovski. The island had the biggest colony in the world in 2011.