“I’m not afraid of prison. I’ll keep my head held high, including at the prison gates,” Sarkozy told La Tribune de Dimanche. He has been ordered to present himself at the gates of La Santé prison in the south of Paris early on Tuesday morning. He said he had asked for “no privileges” in his treatment behind bars.
Sarkozy, 70, told Le Figaro that he had packed family photos and three books, as permitted for the first week. “I’m bringing The Count of Monte Cristo and two volumes of the biography of Jesus by Jean-Christian Petitfils,” he said. He is expected to be held in solitary confinement for his own security, in an individual cell of about 9 metres squared. He will have no mobile phone, but will have a small television. A security-controlled phoneline will allow him contact with his lawyers and family. He is expected to have the right to two visits a week from family. He told Le Figaro that he’d been advised to take earplugs. “At night you hear lots of noise, shouting, screaming,” he said.
Louvre heist: hunt on for thieves after eight ‘priceless’ jewellery pieces stolen Read more Sarkozy will be able to leave his cell for one hour a day, to walk in an interior courtyard, with the opening to the sky protected by wire mesh. Three prison guards will accompany him when he leaves his cell.
Sarkozy will be able to leave his cell for one hour a day, to walk in an interior courtyard, with the opening to the sky protected by wire mesh. Three prison guards will accompany him when he leaves his cell.
As Kyiv tries to bolster support in its war against Russia.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will attend a meeting of Ukraine’s allies known as the “coalition of the willing” in London on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron said, as Kyiv tries to bolster support in its war against Russia. This Friday, we will have a meeting of the coalition of the willing.
The so-called “coalition of the willing” – put together by France and Britain in February – has held talks for months at various levels to try to define plans for what they could contribute militarily for Ukraine and to deter Russia from attacking it again once there is a final truce.
Zelenskyy on Monday painted his meeting last week with President Donald Trump as a success that yielded progress on acquiring new air defense systems, in contrast to other reports that Trump had berated him with obscenities in the White House.
OSAKA Major Japanese game developers Nintendo Co and Capcom Co are stepping up efforts to bring their iconic game characters and worlds to the big screen.
Nintendo plans to release the animated film “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” in April 2026, followed by a live-action adaptation of “The Legend of Zelda” in May 2027.
In August, the company reorganized a subsidiary to strengthen its business in live events and merchandise based on movie characters.
The move comes after the 2023 release of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” co-produced with major U.S. animation studio Illumination, boosted sales of games in the franchise after becoming a record-breaking global hit.
Shigeru Miyamoto, executive fellow at Nintendo and the creator of Super Mario, views such adaptations as a gateway for fans to reconnect with the company’s games as part of a broader strategy to grow Nintendo into an enduring global brand.
“Games eventually stop running when newer versions come out, but films remain forever,” he said.
Capcom too has long sought to boost game sales through film adaptations, with the company involved in 21 movies since the 1994 “Street Fighter” action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. A new film in the franchise is set to hit theaters in October 2026.
The company has also produced live-action film adaptions for its other popular games such as “Resident Evil” and “Monster Hunter.”
Hideki Yasuda, a senior analyst at Toyo Securities, said effective utilization of intellectual properties helps diversify revenue and boost recognition.
With gaming now spanning generations, “films evoke nostalgia that leads people to repurchase the games, creating a synergistic effect across media,” he said.
Trump spoke at a White House event on Monday where he honored college baseball champions.
He said: “I’m so busy, I don’t get to watch baseball too much. I did watch the other night, however. I turned on and there happened to be a Japanese player who is not bad.” The comment drew laughter from the audience.
Ohtani started as a pitcher in Friday’s game, striking out 10 and holding the Milwaukee Brewers scoreless until he left the mound in the middle of the seventh inning.
He also blasted three home runs as the designated hitter, helping the Dodgers punch their ticket to the World Series.
Trump said Ohtani is “one of the best pitchers I’ve ever seen, one of the best hitters I’ve ever seen, and that all makes for a nice contract.”
He had also applauded Ohtani back in April when the Dodgers paid a courtesy visit to the White House after winning the 2024 World Series.
The president noted that Ohtani had hit more than 50 home runs and stolen 50 bases in a single season, calling the 50-50 feat an “accomplishment unparalleled” in MLB history. Trump also quipped that Ohtani “looks like a movie star.”
Israel and Hamas are blaming each other, and Trump dispatched his top negotiators to Israel to shore up the truce.
Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to discuss the “developments and updates” in the region.
The details of the talks remain unclear. But Israeli media outlet Haaretz had reported earlier that the second phase of the peace deal, including the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the disarmament of Hamas, was likely one of the topics.
Israel and Hamas reaffirmed their commitment to the ceasefire plan after Sunday’s hostilities. The Israeli military said two of its soldiers had been killed when Hamas fired an anti-tank missile and shot at its troops in southern Gaza. The group denied involvement in the attack, but that prompted retaliatory airstrikes from the Israeli forces.
Hamas released a statement saying it has fully adhered to the agreement. Israel said it received the remains of another deceased hostage on Monday. But it continued to insist that Hamas is stalling in returning the bodies.
Israeli government spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian said: “Let it be known and understood. We are still demanding for the bodies of our deceased hostages to be returned by the terror organization Hamas. We know Hamas can return them and we know that Hamas is aware of where they are located.” The Israeli spokesperson also said US Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit the country soon and meet with Netanyahu.
More than 1,000 apps and websites – including banks such as Lloyds and Halifax – were impacted by problems at the heart of the cloud computing giant’s operations in the US, according to platform outage monitor Downdetector.
Many of the world’s largest websites, including Snapchat, Reddit and Roblox, were knocked offline on Monday after a huge Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage.
It said user reports of problems globally had soared to more than 6.5 million during the outage on Monday morning.
Amazon later said it had fixed the underlying problem, but issues for some services persisted, and experts said the outage demonstrates the perils of many companies relying on a single, dominant provider.Amazon has not yet fully detailed what caused Monday’s outage or issued an official statement regarding it.
It said in an update on its service status web page the issue “appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1”.
DNS, which stands for Domain Name System, is often likened to a phone book for the internet.
It effectively translates the website names people use (like bbc.co.uk) into numbers which can be read and understood by computers.
This process basically underpins the way we use the internet, and disruptions to it can leave web browsers unable to locate the content they are looking for.
Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare, told the BBC the AWS outage highlighted the power cloud services have over how the internet works.
“Everyone has a bad day, today Amazon had a bad day,” he said.
“There are amazing things about the cloud, it allows you to scale… but if you have an outage like this it can take down a lot of services we rely on.”
And Cori Crider, head of the Future of Technology Institute, told the BBC it was “a bit like a bridge collapsing”.
“An essential part of the economy has fallen to pieces,” she said.
And with so much of cloud computing relying on Amazon, Microsoft and Google – estimated at around 70% – she said the status quo was “unsustainable”.
“Once you have a concentrated supply in a handful of monopoly providers, when something like this falls over, it takes a huge percentage of the economy out with it,” she said.
“We should really look at trying to buy more local services, rather than relying on a handful of American monopoly platforms.
“That’s a risk to our security, our sovereignty and our economy and we need to look at structural separations to make our markets more resilient to these kind of shocks.”
One computer science expert says some of the responsibility rests with the companies that use AWS.
“Companies using Amazon haven’t been taking enough adequate care to build protection systems into their applications,” says Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell University in New York.
Outages like the one on Monday occur frequently, although not always at this scale.
Birman tells the BBC that app developers should take care to invest in backing up mission-critical applications that live in the cloud.
“We know how to make these systems stronger, and we know how to do it securely,” Birman says.
The question of responsibility could well land in the courts.
More than a year after the massive CrowdStrike outage, Delta Airlines is still wrangling with the company to recover more than $500m in losses.
Even after CrowdStrike had fixed the issue, the airline said it had to manually reset 40,000 servers, leading to major flight delays over several days-BBC
The report recommends that the city’s other funiculars remain out-of-service until investigators can confirm that they’re safe for passengers. The funicular that crashed in Lisbon killing 16 people in early September had a faulty cable, the official inquiry said Monday, recommending the city’s vehicles stay out of service until their safety can be confirmed.
The funicular accident that killed 16 people in Lisbon resulted from “the disconnection of the cable between the two cabins” that were connected, the Air and Rail Accident Investigation Bureau revealed on Saturday, without explaining at this stage the causes of the disaster.
“The scheduled visual inspection, carried out on the morning of the accident, did not detect any anomaly in the cable”, the investigators said in their first note, which is supposed to reflect confirmed findings and not precise conclusions on the causes of the accident.
Donald Trump and Anthony Albanese announced an agreement on rare earth minerals and expressed support for the “AUKUS” nuclear submarine deal. The agreement comes as the US seeks to reduce dependence on China.
Albanese, Trump sign critical minerals deal, with both leaders holding up a document to show so Donald Trump is hosting Australia’s Anthony Albanese at the White House
US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Monday signed an agreement on Australia’s rare earth minerals.
The agreement comes as China puts new restrictions on rare earth exports, prompting Trump to impose an additional 100% tariff on imports from China from next month.
“In about a year from now, we’ll have so much critical mineral and rare earths that you won’t know what to do with them,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Trump was hosting Albanese this morning at the White House and the leaders signed the document before the media.
Albanese described the deal as an $8.5 billion pipeline “that we have ready to go.”
US and Australia sign critical minerals pact Under the critical minerals pact, both the US and Australia will each invest $1 billion over the next six months into mining and processing projects that will be available immediately, the prime minister’s office said.
The projects are divided into three groups — joint investments between the US and Australia; sole projects in Australia; and joint projects between the US, Australia and Japan.Under the critical minerals pact, both the US and Australia will each invest $1 billion over the next six months into mining and processing projects that will be available immediately, the prime minister’s office said.
The projects are divided into three groups — joint investments between the US and Australia; sole projects in Australia; and joint projects between the US, Australia and Japan.
Remains found in shallow grave amid search for missing woman Kada ScottHuman female remains found in…Show more Human remains found Saturday have been confirmed to be 23-year-old Kada Scott, who had been missing since going to work on Oct. 4, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office confirmed on Monday.
“It has been confirmed that these are the human remains of Kada Scott, and that has been confirmed by DNA,” Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said at a press conference when asked if the identity of the remains had been confirmed.
Krasner’s comments came during a press conference on Monday morning where his office announced new charges against Keon King, who was previously charged with kidnapping in Scott’s disappearance.
Officials in Philadelphia are searching for Kada Scott, a 23 year old woman who has been missing for nearly a week. Philadelphia Police Department King, 21, is now facing charges including arson causing catastrophe, conspiracy, unauthorized use of an automobile, tampering with evidence, recklessly endangering another person and receipt of stolen property, Krasner announced on Monday.
Krasner also said his office will proceed with filing homicide charges against King “when we can very precisely confirm everything we need for probable cause,”
“We will do so as quickly as we can, once we have confirmed what we need to establish probable cause for that particular charge,” he said.
ABC News has reached out to King’s attorney but requests for comment were not returned.
Assistant District Attorney Ashley Toczylowski said on Monday that the DA’s office has reason to believe other people were involved in Scott’s disappearance, but they do not know who those people are at this point.
Suspect held on $2.5M bail in alleged kidnapping of missing 23-year-old Philadelphia woman: Police The new charges come after police told ABC News over the weekend that female human remains found Saturday morning in a shallow grave on the grounds of an abandoned school were “believed” to belong to Scott.
The remains were found in a deeply wooded area behind Ada H. Lewis Middle School, an abandoned school near Awbury Arboretum in Germantown around 10 a.m. on Saturday after police received a “very specific” anonymous tip overnight, First Deputy Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department John Stanford told reporters during a press conference on Saturday evening.
The Dev Deepavali is the festival of Kartik Poornima celebrated in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Temples across Malaysia and India glowed with lamps and chants as Hindus nationwide ushered in Deepavali with prayers, rituals and gatherings celebrating faith, family and the triumph of good over evil.
The joyous occasion featured homes adorned with colourful kolams and flickering oil lamps as Malaysians of all backgrounds joined in the festive cheer.
Thousands of devotees gathered at the Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple in Batu Caves as early as 6 am to perform prayers with offerings of fruits and flowers.
Deepavali’s origins trace back thousands of years, with variations across India’s diverse regions and linguistic traditions. Its underlying message, however, remains constant: the victory of light over darkness.
In North India, the festival commemorates Lord Rama’s return to Ayodhya after defeating the demon king Ravana, an event described in the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana. Citizens lit oil lamps to welcome Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana home after their 14-year exile, and those lights came to symbolise the power of righteousness and hope.
In South India, many associate Deepavali with the triumph of Lord Krishna over the demon Narakasura, who had imprisoned thousands of women. The day represents liberation and the restoration of moral order. In other traditions, Deepavali celebrates the goddess Lakshmi, the bringer of prosperity, or marks the start of a new year in the Hindu calendar.
These different interpretations share one spirit: Deepavali is a reminder that goodness ultimately prevails and that renewal – both moral and spiritual – is always possible.
TRADITIONS AND SYMBOLISM Preparations for Deepavali begin well before the festival itself. Homes are thoroughly cleaned and decorated, symbolizing the removal of negativity and the welcoming of blessings. In many Hindu households, new clothes are purchased, debts are settled, and relationships mended before the celebration begins.
Oil lamps, or diyas, are lit inside and outside the home, often in intricate arrangements. They represent enlightenment and the light of inner truth. Many Malaysians also adorn their entrances with kolam, beautiful patterns made with coloured rice or powder, believed to bring prosperity and invite the goddess Lakshmi’s presence.
Festive meals take centre stage during Deepavali. Tables overflow with sweet and savoury treats such as murukku, laddu, gulai, and samosa. Families visit one another’s homes in an open-house tradition, sharing food, laughter, and goodwill.
There is much symbolism of light’s triumph over darkness during Deepavali | Image Credit: The Pride SKM DEEPAVALI IN MALAYSIA In Malaysia, Deepavali is both a national public holiday and a vibrant showcase of the country’s multicultural spirit. The festival is celebrated primarily by the Indian Hindu community, but it resonates far beyond religious lines. Many non-Hindus join in the festivities, enjoying open houses, temple visits, and street celebrations.
In the days leading up to the festival, neighbourhoods in cities such as Kuala Lumpur, Penang, and Ipoh burst into colour. Little India in Brickfields becomes a hub of activity, with stalls selling saris, jewellery, decorations, and traditional sweets. The air fills with the aroma of jasmine, incense, and spiced snacks as families prepare for the big day.
Temples, including the Sri Mahamariamman Temple in Kuala Lumpur and the Arulmigu Balathandayuthapani Temple in Penang, hold special prayers and rituals. Devotees offer flowers, fruits, and coconut milk to the deities, seeking blessings for peace and prosperity. Many also observe rituals at dawn, beginning the day with an oil bath, an act symbolizing purification and renewal.
The sense of community is palpable. Streets are lined with lights and festive music, while television networks air Deepavali specials featuring dance, song, and storytelling that reflect Malaysia’s Indian heritage. It is a time not only for devotion but also for celebration, unity, and pride in cultural identity.
Beyond its religious roots, Deepavali has evolved into a broader celebration of light, kindness, and resilience. In a fast-paced modern world, its themes remain deeply relevant. The lighting of lamps is no longer seen only as a ritual act but also as a symbol of hope and humanity… a call to dispel prejudice, ignorance, and despair.
In Malaysia’s multicultural setting, Deepavali stands as a reminder of shared values that transcend belief systems: the importance of family, the pursuit of goodness, and the power of renewal. It offers an opportunity for reflection and gratitude, a pause to acknowledge how light – both literal and metaphorical – continues to guide daily life.
Each year, Malaysians of all backgrounds come together in appreciation of the festival’s warmth and meaning. Corporate offices, schools, and public institutions decorate their spaces and organize Deepavali events, reflecting how deeply the celebration has become woven into Malaysia’s social fabric.
Even as traditions adapt to modern life, the spirit of Deepavali endures. It is seen in the flickering lights across suburban neighbourhoods, in the aroma of sweets shared among friends, and in the quiet moment of prayer at dawn when devotees offer thanks for another year of blessings.
For Malaysia’s Hindu community, Deepavali remains one of the year’s most anticipated celebrations – a time to honour faith, family, and the enduring belief that light will always overcome darkness.
