🗣️ As teams of firefighters left the tower, their ashen faces and haunted stares when they removed their breathing apparatus gave a stark insight into the tragedy they had witnessed inside

🗣️ As I was wearing a suit and tie they approached me, pleading for help. I explained I was just a journalist with no more facts about the fate of their relatives than them. It did not matter

🗣️ They wanted the names and photographs of their mothers, fathers, sons and daughters published in the newspaper

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Majority of Israeli public — and his own defence minister — want a deal to free hostages from Gaza, but the PM is sticking to his aim of eradicating Hamas. This is how court of public opinion turned on Binyamin Netanyahu’s war thetimes.com/world/israel-h…

A teenager carrying a rifle with a fixed bayonet was shot dead by German police in an exchange of fire near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in Munich thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

🔺 Update: Royal Navy chiefs are investigating whether a fatal Merlin helicopter crash on Wednesday night was caused by a “double engine failure”, it can be disclosed ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

President Putin has suggested that Harris’s “infectious” laugh made him prefer her over Trump thetimes.com/world/us-world…

Britain is rediscovering its “moral compass” under Sir Keir Starmer, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has suggested as he defended his decision to seek an arrest warrant for Binyamin Netanyahu ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

BMW will deliver its first volume-produced hydrogen-powered cars in 2028 as it increases its bet on the future of the next-generation fuel for passenger vehicles ⬇️ thetimes.com/business-money…

Hunter Biden intends to change his plea in his tax evasion trial to guilty, his lawyer said on Thursday. The president’s son, who was convicted of gun charges in June, is accused of failing to pay $1.4m to the US government thetimes.com/world/us-world…

The French woman sedated by her husband who invited dozens of men to rape her while she was unconscious said she had been “sacrificed on the altar of vice” thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

The latest in Taylor Swift world? Her ‘break-up contract’ with Travis Kelce. After a supposedly leaked document, the pop star’s relationship with her American football boyfriend is under intense speculation ⬇️ thetimes.com/life-style/cel…

James Roddis was tipped to become the head of the army. But his career came to an end when he was charged with sexual assault, making him one of the most senior army officers to be court-martialled in the past 200 years thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

The architecture firm behind the Grenfell refurbishment project, which led to the tower being wrapped in flammable cladding, has been prevented from being wound down because of the disaster ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

The founding chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has blamed the BBC’s cult-like culture for its summer of scandals ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/media/artic…

🔴 Hunter Biden pleads guilty to tax evasion and faces 15 years in jail thetimes.com/world/us-world…

Georgia shooting suspect's aunt appeals for mercy. She says ‘only hurt people hurt people’ as she describes the troubled life of the 14-year-old who is set to be charged as an adult for the murder of four people thetimes.com/world/us-world…

Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors and Tory Burch are among the names getting the biannual month of fashion shows off to an all-American start thetimes.com/life-style/fas…

Drug gives patients with rare tumour-causing disease hope at last thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…