Pierpaolo Piccioli leaves Balenciaga after just 16 months
Kering says a new creative direction will be announced shortly, after mixed reviews of his collections
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World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
US midterms: Nasdaq enters correction as AI stocks tumble and SpaceX sinks
Wall Street fears tougher scrutiny of data centres after Democratic wins, while Pakistan’s KSE-100 closes higher
Turkish parliament passes first article of Makkah defence pact bill
Lawmakers adjourned after the first vote, with the remaining articles due on Thursday afternoon
NASA unveils X-70 Fractal, a new crewed experimental aircraft
The agency expects a first flight within two years, testing manoeuvres and flight controls never before tried in a crewed plane
NASA’s Swift telescope falls back to Earth over Indonesia after 22 years
The observatory re-entered the atmosphere over North Sumatra. NASA expected most of it to burn up, though some parts may have survived
US sanctions Indian couple’s ‘criminal network’ over fake ship flags for Iran
The Treasury says a Chandigarh-based operation posed as flag authorities for countries from Guyana to Laos, helping Iran’s shadow fleet carry oil
Ozone hole is seventh largest on record, but still healing, NASA says
An unusually strong polar vortex enlarged this year’s Antarctic hole, scientists say, but the layer is on track to recover by the 2070s
US midterms: ‘The reason we lost is the war,’ JD Vance says
The vice president says many Trump voters switched to Democrats, and that they want the war ended, lower prices and a changed relationship with Israel
Russian hacktivists claim Europe’s freezer hacks, but experts have doubts
The groups’ posts have vanished, and researchers say Iranian hackers or even teenagers playing pranks could also be behind the attacks
Hackers reset French blood bank freezers to 110C in overnight attack
A technician spotted the rise in time, France says, as a wave of attacks on refrigeration systems spreads across Europe
