Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte dies aged 34 in Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville police say the cause and manner of death await an official determination. Mitte played Walter White Jr across all five seasons of the AMC drama.
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Thatcher at 101: the Brighton line her speechwriter built from a 1948 play
Margaret Thatcher, born on 13 October 1925, told the 1980 Conservative conference she would not U-turn. The line came from playwright Ronald Millar, punning on a Christopher Fry comedy.
Surfer who lost leg near Geraldton says shark ‘winked’ as he struck its eye
Mel Ismail was bitten at Glenfield Beach in Western Australia in September. The 'wink' he saw was most likely the shark shielding its eye, a reflex every surfer should understand.
Shane Gillis hosts SNL a third time, and the monologue stumbles again
Seven years after NBC dropped him before his first episode, Gillis returned on 10 October with musical guest Rosalía, a divisive gym joke and an uncensored slip in a Dr Seuss sketch.
Social Security’s 2027 cost-of-living raise will be set on 14 October
The adjustment depends on September inflation data due from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at 8:30am Eastern on Wednesday. Forecasts point to roughly 3.5%, above 2026's 2.8%.
Powerball reaches $538 million: odds, draw times and what a winner keeps
No ticket matched all six numbers on Saturday 10 October, lifting Powerball's estimated top prize to $538 million. The odds of winning it stay fixed at 1 in 292.2 million.
Jason Mraz bought an avocado grove in 2004. Now it grows coffee too
The 'I'm Yours' singer turned an old San Diego County orchard into Mraz Family Farms, where coffee trees grow in the shade of avocados.
The Labrador still rules 28 states, but a few places have very different favourite dogs
A state-by-state ranking of popular dog breeds crowns the Labrador in most of America, with surprises in Kentucky, North Dakota and Wyoming.
Thirty-nine seconds with Nikai, the 12-year-old wolf the internet keeps coming back to
A short clip of an ambassador wolf at New York's Wolf Conservation Center doing very little has struck a chord. Here's why he matters.
A WWII submarine is out of the water for the first time in 50 years, and due home this month
USS Silversides, one of the war's most decorated subs, has spent the summer on blocks in Wisconsin. Crews found steel nobody had seen since 1954.
Black walnut trees have always paid off in timber. Missouri wants them to pay every year
After decades of breeding, University of Missouri researchers are getting high-kernel black walnut varieties to growers. A farm video about them is pulling in big numbers.
It took five hours, a tranquiliser and a dozen people to get a bull moose out of a skate park
The moose dropped into the bowl at Red Lodge's Hellroaring Skate Park and couldn't climb out. Wildlife officers released it outside town.
An oven-sized spacecraft is heading off to inspect dead satellites for NASA
Starfish Space's first full-size Otter launched on October 1. Its NASA mission is to fly up to defunct satellites and check how they are tumbling.
A storm-wrecked WWII blimp hangar was sold for $1. It reopens on October 29
Oregon's giant wooden Hangar B lost part of its roof in a December storm. A nonprofit took it on for a dollar and plans to reopen the air museum inside.
A Wisconsin painter kept a data centre power line off his land. Many neighbours are still in its path
American Transmission Company refiled its route for a line serving a new OpenAI data centre, leaving out artist Tom Uttech's 52 acres.
A reel found in a locked safe may finally explain the famous 1967 Bigfoot film
The documentary Capturing Bigfoot centres on a 40-second clip from 1966 that its director says shows a rehearsal. It reaches Prime Video on October 20.
The opossum who can only turn left has found her forever couch
Duncan Mae was found abandoned and walking in circles. She can never go back to the wild, but she has become a very contented house guest.
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do”: the Eleanor Roosevelt line she really wrote
Two of her most-shared quotes can't be found in her writing. This one can, and the story behind it is better than the poster version.
The new Street Fighter movie hides a hand-drawn anime inside it
A behind-the-scenes clip reveals 2D animated flashbacks of Ryu and Ken, a nod to the 1990s, ahead of the film's October 16 release.
Wild donkeys and horses dig desert wells that dozens of other animals drink from
Researchers found 57 species drinking from wells dug by feral equids in the Sonoran Desert. At one stream, they were the only water left.
Can’t find a NeeDoh? Kids are making their own squishies instead
With the viral stress toy still selling out, homemade squishy tutorials are pulling in millions of views. Here's what to know before you try one.
Squadron 42 is finally on Steam wishlists, 14 years after it was announced
The Star Citizen spin-off's new trailer puts Mark Hamill and Gary Oldman back in the spotlight, with release now planned for spring 2027.
The water-bottle light a Brazilian mechanic invented now brightens a million homes
Alfredo Moser pushed a bottle of water through his roof during a 2002 energy crisis. The idea spread to more than 20 countries.
How Roman aqueducts made water climb hills without a single pump
Rome's engineers mostly let water run gently downhill. When a valley got in the way, they used pressure to push it up the other side.
Churchill’s famous pig quote is probably real, just not in the words you’ve seen
The line about dogs, cats and pigs is shared everywhere. Churchill's own private secretary remembered a shorter, sharper version.