Saltus Grammar School staged a thrilling comeback to capture the Primary School Six-a-Side Tournament title, defeating Elliot Primary 3–1 in an exciting final after a day of intense competition.
Elliot Primary started strongly when Taka Benza grabbed the early lead. However, Saltus, known as the Knights, responded with a dominant second-half display to net three unanswered goals and lift the trophy. The comeback was sparked by Declan O’Sullivan’s equaliser, followed swiftly by Freddie Webster putting Saltus ahead. The victory was then sealed by a brilliant long-range strike from Isaac Metschnabel.
Saltus’s journey included a commanding 4–1 semifinal win over Somersfield Academy, highlighted by a phenomenal six-goal performance from O’Sullivan in the earlier 6–0 quarterfinal rout of Bermuda Institute. Elliot Primary’s path to the final was dramatic, as they came from behind to edge Dalton E. Tucker 2–1 in their own semifinal, having previously eliminated defending champions Warwick Academy 1–0. The day confirmed the high level of talent in the island’s primary school football scene.
The Huey helicopter went down in Agusan del Sur on the island of Mindanao, where it was conducting a humanitarian disaster response mission
Philippine Red Cross personnel rescue a resident following torrential rains brought by Typhoon Kalmaegi, in Talamban, Cebu City, Philippines, November 4, 2025. Philippine Red Cross/Handout via REUTERS
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The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines hit 46 on Tuesday, officials said, including six crew of a military helicopter that crashed during the powerful storm that unleashed heavy rains and floods across the central region.
The Huey helicopter went down in Agusan del Sur on the island of Mindanao, where it was conducting a humanitarian disaster response mission, the military said. Six bodies of the crew were recovered and an investigation was underway.
The crash took place before noon about 270 km (168 miles) from the island of Cebu, the worst-hit region, where local authorities said 39 people had been killed by drowning or falling debris. One person was reported dead on the neighbouring island of Bohol.
RUN OF DISASTERS IN PHILIPPINES
The Philippines, which is hit by an average of 20 tropical storms each year, is recovering from a run of disasters including earthquakes and severe weather events in recent months.
In September, Super Typhoon Ragasa swept across northern Luzon, forcing schools and government offices to shut down as it brought fierce winds and torrential rain.
Although Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, has gradually lost strength since making landfall early on Tuesday, it continued to lash the country with winds of 120 kph and gusts of 165 kph as it swept across the Visayas islands headed for northern Palawan and towards the South China Sea.
Tens of thousands were evacuated across the Visayas region, including parts of southern Luzon and northern Mindanao, ahead of a storm that submerged homes and caused widespread flooding.
Cebu provincial information officer Ainjeliz Orong said the number of casualties in the province had jumped suddenly, from three reported earlier in the day, as rescue operations were underway and information had just started to come through.
“Search and rescue efforts continue and there are missing and unaccounted individuals,” Orong said by phone.
Floods in Cebu City had subsided late on Tuesday but power was still out in many places and telecommunications services were intermittent, a Reuters journalist said.
‘THE WATERS KEPT RISING’
Verified videos circulating on social media showed cars and streets under water, with some vehicles carried away in the flow.
After the flood receded in one area of Cebu City, cars shifted by fast-flowing water were left piled up on top of each other, some overturned.
“We were really anxious because the longer the rains continued, the higher the floodwaters rose,” said John Patajo, a housekeeper in the area.
“When the waters rose, we went to our second floor. Yet, the waters kept rising so we decided to head up to our roof.”
The typhoon was expected to leave the Philippines late on Wednesday or early Thursday.
Photos and videos from the Philippine Red Cross showed rescue workers wading through knee-deep floodwaters in Cebu City, using boats to reach stranded residents. In a town on the city’s outskirts, homes were submerged, with only rooftops and top floors visible.
More than 300 flights to and from the affected areas were cancelled on Tuesday, while boats at sea were advised to return.
State weather agency PAGASA had earlier warned of a high risk of “life-threatening and damaging storm surges” that could reach more than 3 metres (9.84 ft) high on coastal and low-lying communities in the central Philippines.
VIETNAM ON ALERT FOR KALMAEGI
The Vietnamese government on Tuesday said that it was preparing for the worst-case scenario as it braced for the impact of Kalmaegi.
The typhoon is forecast to make landfall on Thursday night in Vietnam’s central regions, which have already suffered heavy floods that killed at least 40 people and left six others missing over the past week.
“This is a very strong typhoon, which continues to strengthen,” the government said.
Reporting by Karen Lema and Mikhail Flores in Manila; Additional reporting by Khanh Vu in Hanoi; Editing by John Mair, Kate Mayberry, Martin Petty
Power now restored to all customers hit by Hurricane Melissa
Hamilton, Bermuda (November 4, 2025) – Bermuda Electric Light Company Limited (BELCO) today advised residents power has been restored to all customers following Hurricane Melissa.
The peak number of outages was approximately 19,000 customers on the morning of October 31st following the storm. By 11pm on the same day, approximately 17,200 customers had their power restored.
The storm caused five downed poles which required extensive work to replace and rebuild. When a pole needs to be replaced, crews must first assess the damage and ensure the area is safe. If power lines are attached, BELCO must confirm that the section of the network is de-energized before work can begin. The damaged pole is then removed and a new pole is set in place, which requires heavy equipment and precise placement. All infrastructure such as transformers, crossarms and conductors must then be reattached and tested. Depending on the complexity, a single pole replacement can take anywhere from 4-8 hours.
Another factor that caused many outages was excessive vegetation coming into contact with overhead lines. When carrying out repairs in the case of vegetation, BELCO crews often have to spend several hours cutting and clearing the vegetation before they can begin work to restore power.
There were also a number of pole fires which can cause damage to sections of the impacted pole and associated infrastructure, often requiring support from the Bermuda Fire & Rescue Service. Pole fires occur when there is very little rain in a storm, as was the case with Hurricane Melissa. When the air is heavily laden with salt, and is not washed off by rain, the salt is heated and liquifies which causes electricity to track which can cause a fire.
BELCO Managing Director Shelly Leman said: “While Hurricane Melissa passed to our northwest, the island did experience hurricane force winds which caused outages across the island. Most customers were restored soon after our crews began work when it had been deemed safe to do so. Our crews did experience challenges with several downed poles, pole fires and excessive vegetation in some areas which required our crews to spend time cutting and clearing that vegetation before they could work to restore power. I would like to thank our crews for their tireless work and dedication in getting all our customers’ power restored as quickly and safely as possible, and also thank the public for their patience while we carried out restoration work.”
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About BELCO
Bermuda Electric Light Company Limited (BELCO) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Group Limited. Liberty Group Limited is a Bermuda-based provider of energy and energy-related services, owned by Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., also parent company of Liberty Power and Liberty Utilities (Liberty). BELCO was established in 1904 as Bermuda’s sole supplier of electricity and currently operates generating plant and transmission and distribution systems to service 36,000 metered connections. For further information about BELCO visit www.belco.bm
Two prominent Bermuda internationals, despite missing out on the recent World Cup Qualifying squad, have firmly set their sights on the Emirates FA Cup after the Second Round draw was confirmed.
Striker Nahki Wells and his Luton Town teammates have been drawn away to Fleetwood Town. The tie will be played at Highbury Stadium around the weekend of Saturday, December 6, 2025. Winger Justin Donawa and his non-league side Brackley Town secured a highly anticipated home draw, hosting Burton Albion FC at St James Park on the same weekend. Both players will be desperate to progress to the Third Round, where Premier League clubs enter the competition.
In other football news, Bermudian forward Joshua Joseph made an instant impact for his new English club, Cheadle Heath Nomads. Making his first start, the 25-year-old opened his goal-scoring account, netting moments after the restart in the 46th minute. Joseph’s goal put the Nomads ahead in what proved to be a vital 3–2 victory over New Mills FC, a crucial result in his transition to the English semi-professional circuit.
Pawel Herczynski, the EU ambassador to Georgia, said the South Caucasus country was further away from joining the bloc than when it first became a membership candidate in 2023
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Georgia has gone backwards in its bid to join the European Union, an EU diplomat said on Tuesday after what he called a “devastating” update from Brussels on its membership prospects.
Pawel Herczynski, the EU ambassador to Georgia, said the South Caucasus country was further away from joining the bloc than when it first became a membership candidate in 2023.
The European Commission said in a report on Tuesday that the EU could welcome new members as early as 2030 as it praised Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and Moldova for their progress on the reforms needed to join.
But it accused Georgia of “serious democratic backsliding” and said the former Soviet republic was now considered a candidate country “in name only”.
“The findings of the report are unfortunately devastating for Georgia’s European aspirations,” Herczynski told reporters in Tbilisi.
“Georgia is not on the trajectory to become an EU member state, neither in 2030 nor later.”
Once among the most democratic and pro-Western of the successor states to emerge from the Soviet Union, Georgia has turned increasingly authoritarian since the outbreak of war in Ukraine and has deepened economic ties with neighbouring Russia.
The ruling Georgian Dream party has cracked down on opposition politicians, jailing several, while police have ramped up arrests of protesters attending regular anti-government demonstrations.
Georgian Dream said last year it was freezing accession talks with the EU, although the government says it still wants Georgia to join the bloc while preserving what it calls its traditional Orthodox Christian values.
The speaker of Georgia’s parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, said the EU’s report showed the bloc was trying to subject Tbilisi to “ideological and political dictates”.
“Blackmailing and pressuring Georgia will not work. We are not going to give up. Georgia will continue to prepare the country for EU membership,” Papuashvili was cited as saying by the Interpress news agency.
Georgian Dream said last week it would file a lawsuit to the Constitutional Court to ban the country’s three main opposition parties on the grounds they posed a “real threat to the constitutional order”.
The three parties have rejected the planned lawsuit as politically motivated.
Reporting by Lucy Papachristou;Editing by Andrew Osborn and Mark Trevelyan
Daniel Phillips experienced a day of mixed results on the opening day of the Division One American Fall Individual Tennis Championships, suffering a singles exit before delivering a commanding performance in the doubles draw.
Representing Tulane University, Phillips faced a challenging outing in the Men’s Singles, going down in straight sets 6-2, 6-4 to Alejandro Jacome from Wichita State University. Phillips was unable to break his opponent’s consistency, leading to an early exit from the singles bracket.
However, the Bermudian swiftly rebounded in the Men’s Doubles. Teaming up with partner Hady El Kordy, the Tulane pair were in dominant form, showcasing seamless teamwork to dismantle the University of South Florida duo of Elijah Cham and Guglielmo Verdese. Phillips and El Kordy cruised to an impressive 8-1 victory, securing their passage into the next round of the competitive doubles tournament.
The focus now shifts entirely to the doubles draw, where Phillips and El Kordy will look to continue their winning run.
The Bentley Women’s Swimming & Diving team secured a dominant victory in their home opener, surging past Assumption University with a commanding score of 132-71 at the Dana Center.
The win was spearheaded by a superb individual performance from Bermudian swimmer Taylor White, who showcased impressive versatility by clinching victories across two distinct disciplines.
White first won the demanding Women’s 1000 Yards Freestyle, clock clocking a swift time of 10 minutes, 54.56 seconds (10:54.56). She then demonstrated her speed by recording the fastest time in the Women’s 100 Yard Backstroke, touching the wall at 1 minute, 1.03 seconds (1:01.03).
White’s contribution was crucial to the Falcons’ success, which was further boosted by her swimming the lead-off backstroke leg for the winning 200 Yard Medley Relay team. The comprehensive victory improves Bentley’s season record and sends a strong statement to their Northeast-10 rivals.
The move takes Intuitive Machines beyond its lunar niche as the company aims to become a full-service space firm that can design, build and operate spacecraft
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Lunar lander maker Intuitive Machines said on Tuesday it will buy Lanteris Space Systems, a spacecraft maker formerly known as Maxar Space Systems, from private equity firm Advent International in a deal worth $800 million.
The move takes Intuitive Machines beyond its lunar niche as the company aims to become a full-service space firm that can design, build and operate spacecraft for government and commercial customers.
The deal includes $450 million in cash and $350 million in Intuitive Machines stock and is expected to close in the first quarter next year, pending regulatory approval. Its shares fell about 5% in premarket trading.
CEO Steve Altemus said the deal “moves Intuitive Machines beyond the Moon and into a wider range of space projects.” The combined company is expected to bring in more than $850 million in annual revenue and hold $920 million in future contracts as of September 30.
Lanteris builds satellites and spacecraft used for defense, communications and scientific missions. Advent will retain an undisclosed stake in the combined company.
Lanteris Space Systems was the satellite manufacturing arm of Maxar Technologies, which was taken private by Advent for about $4 billion in 2023.
The acquisition follows Intuitive Machines’ recent purchase of deep-space navigation company KinetX and several U.S. government contracts.
Separately, Intuitive Machines reported third-quarter revenue of $52.4 million, missing analysts’ estimates of $68.1 million, according to data compiled by LSEG. It posted a net loss of $10 million, with a backlog of $235.9 million as it continues work on NASA and U.S. Air Force contracts.
Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed
China’s Shein will open its first-ever permanent shop in the BHV department store in central Paris on Wednesday
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Online retail platforms Shein, Temu, AliExpress and Wish are being investigated in France over alleged dissemination of contents including child pornography on their marketplaces, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.
China’s Shein will open its first-ever permanent shop in the BHV department store in central Paris on Wednesday, but French Finance Minister Roland Lescure threatened a countrywide ban of the brand after a consumer watchdog spotted childlike sex dolls sold on its marketplace.
Shein spokesperson for France Quentin Ruffat told RMC radio on Tuesday that the company would do everything in its power to collaborate with the investigation, including sharing the names of vendors and buyers of the dolls.
A Temu spokesperson told Reuters that accusations against the company were connected to minors accessing certain products on its platform, and that Temu was not being probed for child pornography.
The other companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
PROBE FOLLOWS CONSUMER WATCHDOG COMPLAINT
The Paris prosecutor’s office said it received a complaint from the consumer watchdog known as DGCCRF and referred the case to the National Office for Minors to investigate.
The companies are being investigated on suspicion of the dissemination of violent, pornographic or degrading messages accessible to minors, which can lead to up to three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros for individuals involved, the office said.
Shein and AliExpress are also being investigated for the dissemination of images or representations of minors of a pornographic nature, which can lead to five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros, the prosecutor’s office said.
Shein pulled the dolls from its website on Sunday, and on Monday it imposed a total ban on sex dolls and suspended the “adult products” category from the platform.
French Senator Marie-Claire Carrere-Gee asked on Monday that the Paris prosecutor’s office open a probe into the sellers and clients of child pornographic material, and on Shein for complicity, demanding “exemplary sanctions” on those found in breach of the law.
Reporting by Alessandro Parodi and Gabriel StargardterEditing by Tomasz Janowski
Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has become a flag-bearer for some British nationalists and one of Britain’s most high-profile anti-migration campaigners
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British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson was cleared on Tuesday of committing an offence under counterterrorism laws by refusing to give police his phone PIN, thanking billionaire Elon Musk who he said funded his defence.
Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has become a flag-bearer for some British nationalists and one of Britain’s most high-profile anti-migration campaigners.
He was stopped by police in July 2024 as he drove through border security at the Channel Tunnel train terminal in southeast England.
Prosecutors told London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court at a trial last month an officer had become suspicious because of his demeanour, he was driving a high-value vehicle, a friend’s silver Bentley, and was heading to Benidorm in southern Spain having only bought a ticket on the day.
He and colleagues seized Robinson’s phone and asked him to provide the passcode to unlock it. But he refused, saying he was a journalist and it contained privileged material.
Giving his verdict on Tuesday, Judge Sam Goozee said it appeared the police had detained Robinson because of his political views and so the decision to stop him was unlawful.
“First of all, thank you, Elon Musk … why has it taken an American businessman to fight for our justice here and our fight against terrorism charges for journalists?” Robinson said outside court.
Musk often reposts his messages on X and appeared by videolink at a recent rally in London attended by about 150,000 people that Robinson organised. Before his trial, he said Musk had paid for his defence.
Robinson says he was targeted by the state for exposing wrongdoing, but is denounced by critics as a far-right rabble-rouser with a string of criminal convictions.
“I’m so glad that judge has given such a powerful judgment now that says it how it was – I was targeted because of my political beliefs,” he said. “On behalf of the government, counterterrorism (police) targeted me to try and get access to my phone as a journalist.”
Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Alex Richardson
Amazon has watched Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google snatch big-ticket contracts with their AI-steeped clouds
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Amazon’s $38 billion cloud deal with OpenAI marks a major endorsement for the e-commerce giant’s cloud business after recent setbacks, including ceding market share to rivals and an outage that disrupted large parts of the internet.
After years of leading the cloud computing industry with its highly profitable Amazon Web Services (AWS) business, Amazon has watched Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google snatch big-ticket contracts with their AI-steeped clouds.
Its lead in the cloud market slipped to 29% as of September, from 34% a few months before ChatGPT was launched in 2022, according to data from Synergy Research Group.
Amazon was considered a laggard in the AI race by many investors because it was late to launch a flagship large language model and for failing to offer a consumer-facing chatbot like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Recently, though, the company has ramped up spending on its AI efforts, and last month opened an $11 billion AI data center in Indiana called Project Rainier, where startup Anthropic’s models are being trained using Amazon’s own Trainium chips.
Monday’s deal with OpenAI, a marquee customer, coupled with strong quarterly results last, suggests AWS is regaining momentum, analysts and investors said.
“While it is small relative to other deals OpenAI has made with other cloud providers, it represents a key first step in Amazon’s effort to partner with a company that is spending over a trillion dollars on computing power in the coming years,” said Mamta Valechha, analyst at Quilter Cheviot.
Amazon’s stock rose 5% after the deal to a record high after it traded little changed for most of the year, lagging the gains seen in other Big Tech stock that have surged on cloud-computing deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars with AI startups.
Microsoft last week disclosed a $250 billion OpenAI commitment for its Azure cloud services under a new arrangement that allowed OpenAI to restructure itself, while Oracle has signed a $300 billion deal with the startup. Google has a chip agreement worth tens of billions with Anthropic among other AI tie-ups.
HIGHER AI SPENDING TO DRIVE GAINS
Amazon’s efforts have in part been hampered by executive losses. A key vice president helping oversee generative AI development left for another company, Reuters reported in June.
To stay competitive and fund the costly data centers needed to support the technology, CEO Andy Jassy has tried to cut through management layers and even installed an anonymous complaint line for identifying inefficiencies.
The company said last week it would reduce its corporate workforce by about 14,000 in one of its biggest layoffs. It is also spending more on AI, with its capital expenditure expected to total around $125 billion this year and more the year after.
That is more than Alphabet’s planned outlay of up to $93 billion, and roughly in-line with what Wall Street expects Microsoft to spend this year.
Analysts said the OpenAI deal offers a credible path for Amazon to recoup its spending. Brian Pitz, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets, estimates that this may boost AWS’s backlog by about 20% in the fourth quarter ending December, from $200 billion as of September end.
“It clearly seems like they (Amazon) are finally in the flow of what is happening with these large language models versus before,” said William Lee, an investor at SuRo Capital that holds equity in OpenAI.
Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese and Kritika Lamba in Bengaluru; Writing by Aditya Soni; Editing by Sayantani Ghosh and Saumyadeb Chakrabarty
Seattle-based Getty accused Stability AI of using its images to “train” its Stable Diffusion system, which can generate images from text inputs
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Getty Images largely lost its landmark lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI over its image generator at London’s High Court on Tuesday.
Seattle-based Getty, which produces editorial content and creative stock images and video, accused Stability AI of using its images to “train” its Stable Diffusion system, which can generate images from text inputs.
The company had sued Stability AI for breach of copyright on the grounds Stable Diffusion was trained using Getty’s images, and that images generated by Stable Diffusion reproduced its copyrighted images.
But Getty dropped that part of its case mid-trial, partly due to a lack of evidence about where Stable Diffusion was “trained”, which intellectual property lawyers said could limit the wider significance of Tuesday’s ruling for the law on AI.
Getty’s claims of trademark infringement and for secondary copyright infringement, alleging that Stability AI imported into the United Kingdom an AI model which breached its copyright remained live ahead of the court’s decision.
Judge Joanna Smith said in a written ruling that Getty had succeeded “in part” on trademark infringement in relation to Getty watermarks generated by users of Stable Diffusion, but that her findings were “both historic and extremely limited in scope”.
She dismissed Getty’s secondary copyright infringement claim.
Getty Images said in a statement that the ruling “confirms that Stable Diffusion’s inclusion of Getty Images’ trademarks in AI-generated outputs infringed those trademarks”.
The statement added that the ruling “established a powerful precedent that intangible articles, such as AI models, are subject to copyright infringement claims in the same way as tangible articles”, which Getty said it would use in its parallel lawsuit against Stability AI in the U.S.
The company’s shares were down 3.6% in premarket trading on the NYSE as of 1140 GMT.
Reporting by Sam Tobin; editing by Sarah Young, Alexandra Hudson
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