The Italian fashion designer and billionaire brand owner Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91.

He was the archetype of Italian style and elegance, reimagining men's and women's suits for a modern audience.

Armani, which began as a fashion company, expanded into beauty, music, sport and even luxury hotels.

He was also a revered businessman, with his company bringing in more than £2bn a year.

• Armani: The legendary designer who revolutionised fashion

In a statement on the brand's Instagram page, it said Armani " worked until his final days, dedicating himself to the company, the collections and the many ongoing future projects".

It also said he was "indefatigable to the end" and "driven by relentless curiosity and a deep attention to the present and to people".

The designer was seen as a pioneer in many ways, elevating red carpet fashion to what we see today.

He was also the first designer to ban underweight models from the runway, after the death of model Ana Carolina Reston in 2006 from anorexia nervosa.

In a profile in The Financial Times, in one of the designer's last interviews, Alexander Fury wrote: "He put women into a uniform of suits just as radical as Chanel's, creating forceful, confident clothing that helped to power the working woman's social revolution of the 1980s.

"By contrast, he relaxed menswear, deconstructing traditional tailoring in a manner that has affected how just about every suit in the world is made."

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The Prince and Princess of Wales have visited the Natural History Museum in their first official engagement since the summer.

Catherine, who is patron of the museum, and William were shown the gardens, which are used recreationally as well as for research and teaching, by the institution's director Doug Gurr.

The visit comes as the new school term starts for their three children, George, Charlotte and Louis.

The young family was last seen in public driving to church close to Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, last month.

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In August, the BBC was told that the family will be moving into the eight-bedroom Forest Lodge in Windsor Great Park.

They currently live in Adelaide Cottage in the castle grounds, where they have been since August 2022, but have decided to make a change after a challenging 18 months, during which the princess was dealing with a cancer diagnosis.

Thursday's visit saw the royal couple meet children participating in educational programmes in the museum gardens, designed to help them connect with nature and boost biodiversity.

The Natural History Museum's gardens opened in 2024, and features grassland, wetland and woodland habitats, and are described as a living laboratory where visitors and scientists can identify and monitor wildlife in an urban environment.

The princess has previously spoken about how important it is for children to spend time in nature. In 2019, she helped create the back to nature play garden that exhibited in the Chelsea Flower Show.

Earlier this year, she urged people to "reconnect to nature and celebrate a new dawn within our hearts" in Spring, her social media video series on seasons.

Catherine and William will also be shown how technology is being used to inform the Natural History Museum's research diversity projects and conservation.

Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has gone on trial in London on charges of harassment and criminal damage against a transgender woman.

The Irish comedy writer, who also created The IT Crowd and Black Books, has pleaded not guilty to the two charges.

Before going into Westminster Magistrates' Court, the 57-year-old did not speak to the media but did pose with a supporter's sign saying "There's no such thing as a 'transgender child"' on one side and "Keep men out of women's sports" on the other.

This trial is not connected to the allegations that led to his much-publicised arrest at Heathrow Airport on Monday.

He said he was met by five armed officers over messages he had previously posted about trans people on X, sparking a backlash from some public figures and politicians, and inflaming a fierce debate about policing and free speech.

In that case, he was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence, and has been bailed "pending further investigation".

Meanwhile, the trial that opened on Thursday is hearing allegations that he harassed Sophia Brooks, 18, a transgender activist, on social media last October, and damaged her phone.

He is accused of posting abusive comments on social media, and of causing damage to a phone to the value of £369 during the Battle of Ideas conference in London.

He appeared in the dock and spoke to confirm his identity.

Julia Faure Walker, prosecuting, said: "The defendant, Graham Linehan, faces two charges, one harassment of Sophia Brooks between 11 October 2024 and 27 October 2024," PA Media reported.

"The second charge is criminal damage of Ms Brooks' mobile phone on 19 October 2024.

"There are some matters that are not in dispute. It's not in dispute that the defendant sent the relevant social media posts between 11 October and 27 October, and it's not in dispute that the defendant seized and threw the phone of the complainant.

"Ms Brooks is now 18 but at the time of these events she was 17."

The first trailer for Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights is full of longing stares, sexual tension and even some bread kneading.

Fennell, whose film Promising Young Woman won her an Oscar for best original screenplay in 2021, also directed the 2023 thriller Saltburn, which went viral with scenes involving bathtubs and graveyards.

She has now turned her attention to adapting Emily Brontë's 1847 classic novel, which stars Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi and Adolescence star Owen Cooper.

Those who have seen Saltburn won't be surprised by some of Fennell's artistic choices in the short clip, which appears to be more erotic and sexually charged than the 1847 gothic novel.

The trailer includes a topless Elordi toiling outdoors, bread being suggestively kneaded and broken eggs being handled. It is arguably more outwardly erotic than fans of the novel may expect.

The footage also suggests at suppressed sexual urges, with corsets being tightened, lingering shots of the main characters and brooding images of the Yorkshire Dales.

A story of passion and revenge, it is based on the original story of the destructive, obsessive love between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff.

The story also explores the relationship between the Earnshaws and the Lintons, two wealthy land-owning Yorkshire families.

Fennell's project was subject to a bidding war last year, with Netflix reportedly offering $150m (£111m) for it, according to Variety.

Eventually the rights were won by Warner Bros, who are believed to have paid $80m (£59m) but with the promise of a cinema release and extensive marketing.

The film isn't being released until Valentine's Day next year, but already billboards promoting the film have appeared in the UK and the US with the tagline "drive me mad", which also features in the trailer.

Music for the film will include original songs by Charli XCX and a score by Anthony Willis.

During a promotional tour for another project, actor Jacob Elordi, who also starred in Saltburn, told Deadline, "It's an incredible romance, it's a true epic, it's visually beautiful. The script is beautiful, the costumes are incredible".

"The performances from everyone - it's breathtaking," he also added.

There has been some backlash over Elordi's casting as Heathcliff - who is described as having dark skin in the book.

Casting director Kharmel Cochrane defended the decision, and told Deadline: "You really don't need to be accurate. It's just a book. That is not based on real life. It's all art."

Wuthering Heights, which has been adapted twice before in 1939 and 2011, featured a white actor as Heathcliff in the 1939 film and a black actor in the 2011 version.

This has formed part of the social media discourse on the trailer, with others highlighting how the book hinges on its lack of sexual contact.

The original book also inspired Kate Bush's song of the same name, which topped the charts in 1978 when she was just 18.

An investigation has been launched after a grandfather mistakenly took home the wrong child from a daycare centre in Sydney, Australia.

The man arrived to collect his grandchild from First Steps Learning Academy in the southern suburb of Bangor, on Monday afternoon.

But he accidentally took home a different child, who was asleep in a dark room.

The mistake only became clear when the mother of the child arrived at the centre to find that her one-year-old was not there, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

"I can't explain the feeling," she told the newspaper.

"They couldn't tell me his [the man's] name, they couldn't tell me who he was, they couldn't tell me who he was meant to pick up. They couldn't tell me what he looked like, apart from that he was wearing shorts and he was an older gentleman," the mother, who asked not to be named, explained.

As part of safety protocols, childcare centres do not allow children to be collected by anyone else except recognised parents, guardians or carers

But she also said the grandfather is not to blame.

"We are not angry with him. We are not upset at him – we blame the day care."

The grandfather's wife told the Sydney Morning Herald that her husband is "devastated" and has "owned the mistake".

"When he realised, he raced that child back so fast," she said.

First Steps told the BBC that the educator involved in the incident has been stood down.

"We sincerely apologise to the families directly involved in this deeply upsetting and isolated incident," nursery director Trisha Hastie said.

She added that has never happened before at any of First Steps' nurseries, and it has strengthened procedures to "ensure this never happens again".

An investigation is underway into the "deeply concerning and serious incident", the New South Wales Early Childhood Education and Care Regulatory Authority said.

The incident comes at a time of heightened awareness surrounding safety at Australia's childcare centres, and last month, new legislative changes were announced aimed at improving safety standards in the sector.

An NHS vascular surgeon who had his own legs removed has admitted two counts of insurance fraud and three of possessing extreme pornography.

Neil Hopper, 49, of Truro, Cornwall, carried out hundreds of amputation operations before having his own legs removed in 2019.

Truro Crown Court heard he lied to insurers by claiming that injuries to his legs were the result of sepsis and not self-inflicted.

It heard that in May 2019 Hopper had below knee amputations after a "mysterious illness". In fact he had used ice and dry ice to freeze his own legs so they had to be removed, the court heard.

Tempted by 'greed'

It heard Hopper had a "sexual interest in amputation".

Hopper had both legs amputated in May 2019 after complaining that his feet were in pain.

He was treated for suspected sepsis before he was told by surgeons that he should have amputations and he was operated on.

He did not tell the medics the real cause of his injuries, the court heard.

The fraudulent insurance claims from two firms totalled more than £466,000 the court heard.

He was tempted by "greed" the court was told.

He had messaged a friend about the claims saying he should "milk it".

More than £50,000 of insurance money was sent to wife, £22,000 on a camper van, another £255,000 on building works and home improvements and a hot tub.

He "enjoyed" the interest from the media in his case, prosecutors told the court.

"His motivations were a combination of obsession with removing parts of his own body and a sexual interest in doing so," the court was told.

"It seems to have been a long-standing ambition of his," the court heard.

Hopper, who is originally from Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, had been employed by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust from 2013 until he was arrested in March 2023.

After Hopper was charged, the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust released a statement.

A spokesperson said: "The charges do not relate to Mr Hopper's professional conduct and there has been no evidence to suggest any risk to patients.

"Mr Hopper worked in at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals from 2013 until he was suspended from duty in March 2023, following his initial arrest."

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Giorgio Armani, who has died at the age of 91, was the first designer since Coco Chanel to bring about a lasting change in the way people dress.

Born in a pre-war era of rigid traditions and styles, his creations followed - and helped make possible - increasing social fluidity in the latter half of the 20th Century.

Chiefly, he will be remembered for reinventing the suit - feminising it for men and popularising it for women.

Armani took away the restrictions and confinements of stiffer styles that went before him - making men feel sophisticated and women empowered in the workplace.

Newspapers hailed him the "first post-modern designer". In many ways, he was a revolutionary.

Giorgio Armani was born in Piacenza, northern Italy, on 11 July 1934.

His family's comfortable middle-class lifestyle was destroyed by the war and, with food hard to find, his earliest memory was hunger.

Armani played with unexploded artillery shells in the street, until one suddenly went off. He was severely burned and a close friend was killed.

"War," he later said, "taught me that not everything is glamorous."

As a young man, Armani drifted.

In 1956, he began a medicine degree - but dropped out after three years and joined the army.

Swiftly tiring of life in the military, he found a job as a window dresser at La Rinascente - a department store in Milan - where he moved swiftly through the ranks.

Most designers learn their trade as apprentices or at fashion school - but Armani's education took place on the shop floor.

He learned what fabrics the customers liked, and went to the textile mills to buy them. He became an expert in how the cloth was constructed, and used his knowledge to perfect the tailoring.

Soon, Armani was working for Nino Cerruti - an influential haute couture designer. Within months, Cerruti asked him to restructure the company's approach.

The 1960s middle classes could not afford haute couture, but yearned for a stylish, distinctive look of their own.

With his expertise in fabrics, Armani provided an answer. His fine cloths made possible a menswear range with neat, precise cuts that could be manufactured at scale.

Its distinctively Italian style began to influence the way the fashionable dressed.

In 1966, Armani met Sergio Galeotti, a young apprentice architect. Galeotti soon abandoned his own career and started to work at his lover's side.

With immense confidence in Giorgio's ability, he encouraged Armani to set up on his own.

Galeotti masterminded the business side of the company - and sold his Volkswagen car to raise seed capital.

They started small - their first office was so dingy that Armani took the shades off the lamps in order to see the fabrics. But their work was nothing short of a revolution in fashion.

In broad terms, Armani softened menswear and hardened womenswear.

Men's suits were made softer and more sensual.

It reflected a change in the way men saw themselves in the 1960s, but it had not yet been captured in fashion.

And with more women entering the workplace, Armani spotted an opportunity.

"I realised that they needed a way to dress that was equivalent to that of men," he said. "Something that would give them dignity in their work life."

With Armani's elegantly tailored power suits, women were offered an alternative to the stiff and stuffy dresses their mothers had worn to work. They exuded femininity, but were a powerful statement of equality.

In 1978, the company signed an agreement with clothes manufacturer GFT - which gave it the ability to produce luxury ready-to-wear clothes in volume.

At the same time, Armani pulled off a huge marketing coup.

He won a contract to dress Richard Gere in American Gigolo. In almost every scene of the 1980 film, Gere's handsome fantasy-figure form appears head-to-foot in Armani.

It was Armani's vision projected by the power of Hollywood - and publicity that money couldn't buy.

He went on to dress stars on the Oscar night red carpet, and design costumes for dozens of film and television shows: notably The Untouchables and 1980s crime series Miami Vice.

Within a decade, he had become the biggest selling European designer in the United States. As a result, Milan emerged as serious commercial and creative force in world fashion - second only to Paris.

He moved to extend his brand. He launched both Armani Jeans and Emporio Armani - and a deal with L'Oreal added fragrances to his arsenal.

He went on to introduce glasses, sportswear, cosmetics and accessories. Now, there was an entire lifestyle - under one label - to which the fashionable could aspire. GQ magazine described it as the "total look".

In 1985, Sergio Galeotti died of an Aids-related illness at the age of 40.

An intensely private man, Armani retreated into himself and considered retirement. Eventually, he decided to persevere rather than "abandon all of Sergio's hopes".

Paying tribute to his long-term personal and business partner, Armani said that "he helped me believe in my own work, in my energy".

In a rare interview in 2001, Armani was asked about the greatest failure of his career. "Not being able to stop my partner dying," he answered.

With no family to distract him, he dedicated his life to expanding his empire.

While fashion conglomerates bought up other brands, Armani resisted external investment.

Instead, he built the company into the vast global business it is today - and retained control of its finances and creativity. It made him a multi-billionaire.

In 2000, the Guggenheim Museum in New York hosted an exhibition of his work.

It recognised Armani's powerful influence on social change in the previous century - and boldly stated that "design could be art".

He stopped using models with low body mass indexes when one - Ana Carolina Reston - died of anorexia.

Hotel design was added to the portfolio with the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010. Armani himself designed the interiors.

A keen sports fan, he also designed suits for Chelsea and the England football squad - and made the uniforms for Italy's Olympic team in 2012.

He had a very public falling-out with US Vogue editor Anna Wintour when she failed to attend the launch of his new season in 2014.

She claimed a diary conflict, but was rumoured to have remarked that "the Armani era is over".

As he entered his tenth decade, Armani continued to present new ranges on the catwalks of Paris and Milan.

In March 2025, he said his Milan show aimed to pour oil on the troubled waters of global politics.

"I wanted to imagine new harmony," he said, "because I believe that is what we all need."

In person, he was trim and business-like.

New York magazine described him as "notoriously disciplined" and "dedicated to a self-control and self-containedness that can come off as coolness".

Each morning, Armani would do lengths in his swimming pool. It was 50 yards long but just one yard wide - and contained just enough water to facilitate the laps.

To some, the design of the pool encapsulated the designer's single-minded approach to life and business. It was minimalist, precise, and engineered for a purpose.

Throughout his career, his styles remained in lockstep with changing society.

The acute sense of social direction came from Armani's early experience on the shop floor of that Milanese department store.

There, it was the customers who mattered - and a good designer ensured he adapted to their changing needs.

For 65 years, Armani dedicated himself to that task. And it amassed him a fortune estimated by Forbes at $13bn (£10bn).

"I'm never satisfied," he once told a reporter.

"In fact, as someone who is forever dissatisfied and obsessive in his search for perfection, I never give up until I've achieved the results I want."

The Italian fashion designer and billionaire brand owner Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91.

He was the archetype of Italian style and elegance, reimagining men's and women's suits for a modern audience.

Armani, which began as a fashion company, expanded into beauty, music, sport and even luxury hotels.

He was also a revered businessman, with his company bringing in more than £2bn a year.

• Armani: The legendary designer who revolutionised fashion

In a statement on the brand's Instagram page, it said Armani " worked until his final days, dedicating himself to the company, the collections and the many ongoing future projects".

It also said he was "indefatigable to the end" and "driven by relentless curiosity and a deep attention to the present and to people".

The designer was seen as a pioneer in many ways, elevating red carpet fashion to what we see today.

He was also the first designer to ban underweight models from the runway, after the death of model Ana Carolina Reston in 2006 from anorexia nervosa.

In a profile in The Financial Times, in one of the designer's last interviews, Alexander Fury wrote: "He put women into a uniform of suits just as radical as Chanel's, creating forceful, confident clothing that helped to power the working woman's social revolution of the 1980s.

"By contrast, he relaxed menswear, deconstructing traditional tailoring in a manner that has affected how just about every suit in the world is made."

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The leaders of about 30 Western countries are taking part in a summit in Paris with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, with the aim of giving Kyiv security assurances if a ceasefire is agreed, and persuading the US to provide support.

Hopes of a deal to end the fighting have receded since Russia's Vladimir Putin met Donald Trump in Alaska, although the US president said on the eve of Thursday's talks that "we're going to get it done".

Trump was due to talk to leaders of the "Coalition of the Willing" by phone after the Paris summit, and French officials said it was important for many European partners that any military guarantees for Kyiv involved an "American safety net".

Last month he said the US was willing to help "probably" with air support, and Western allies are keen for Trump to confirm that.

The summit opened on Thursday, chaired by France's Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and many of the leaders took part remotely.

Nato chief Mark Rutte said the aim was to have "clarity" on what the coalition could deliver so they could discuss what the Americans could provide.

Air support could include help with air defence or intelligence, but details so far are vague.

A source at the Élysée Palace said there were three aims behind the security guarantees: to strengthen Ukraine's armed forces; to support them by deploying a separate force to make it clear to Russia that Ukraine has Western backing; and to have a US safety net, which the Americans would obviously have to maintain.

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said ahead of the talks that Kyiv had received "signals" from the Americans that they would provide a backstop.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Paris ahead of the summit and reports said he was due to meet Zelensky.

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More than 40 months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin has said this week that there is "a certain light at the end of the tunnel" and that "there are options for ensuring Ukraine's security in the event the conflict ends".

However, Russia has made clear that no Western forces should be deployed to Ukraine and it has insisted that it should be one of the countries acting as "guarantors" - an idea rejected by Kyiv and its allies.

Putin has also raised the unrealistic prospect of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky coming to Moscow for talks.

Mark Rutte said on Thursday that Russia had no veto on Western troops being deployed to Ukraine: "Why are we interested in what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? It's a sovereign country. It's not for them to decide."

President Trump told CBS News on Wednesday that he remained committed to reaching a deal to end the war and said he continued to have a good relationship with both Putin and Zelensky.

"I think we're going to get it all straightened out," he said.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has praised Trump, who he says "brought Putin into talks" and "not closed off any options".

Ukraine is looking to the Coalition of the Willing to come up with a reassurance force involving British, French and other European troops. Germany has said it is too soon to make that kind of commitment.

The Russian leader, who spent Wednesday with China's Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, claims that his country's military is pushing forward on all fronts in Ukraine.

He warned that without a deal Moscow was prepared to "resolve all our tasks militarily".

While Ukraine and its allies say a ceasefire should be agreed initially, Russia has insisted its campaign will not end before a full peace deal.

The source at the Élysée Palace said it had already become clear that Russia had no intention of having a ceasefire as part of a peace deal.

The source pointed to the demarcation line between North and South Korea, where a ceasefire had lasted for years with a powerfully armed, allied American deployment serving as a signal to North Korea. That concept was extremely important for the Ukrainians, the source added.

US President Donald Trump has downplayed suggestions he wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize, after weeks of speculation.

"I have nothing to say about it," Trump told CBS News. "All I can do is put out wars." The president added: "I don't seek attention. I just want to save lives."

The comments appear to be at odds with previous statements on the matter, when he has said he should be given the prestigious accolade for his part in ending several conflicts.

In the same telephone interview, Trump told the outlet that he was committed to helping to secure a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. He said: "Something is going to happen. We are going to get it done."

Trump is expected to speak by phone to pro-Ukraine European leaders who are meeting in Paris on Thursday. His special envoy Steve Witkoff is attending in person.

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is due to be announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on 10 October. Four previous US presidents have been awarded the honour, including Trump's political adversary Barack Obama.

• BBC Verify: How many wars has Trump ended?

In February, Trump lamented: "They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. I deserve it, but they will never give it."

His press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, reinforced the message in July, arguing that it was "well past time" that Trump won the prize.

Other members of his top team have added to the crescendo. At a cabinet meeting last week, his envoy Steve Witkoff called him the "single finest" Nobel candidate in history due to his "game-changing" work.

The five Nobel panel members are appointed by the Norwegian parliament. Trump has reportedly discussed his prizewinning hopes with Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg - though Stoltenberg has not confirmed this.

The US president has been nominated by several countries, including Israel and Pakistan. Trump took credit for cooling tensions between Pakistan and neighbouring India earlier this year.

That was one of six or seven wars that Trump has previously said he has "ended".

The claim has drawn scrutiny from analysts who say some of these conflicts lasted just days - though they were the result of long-standing tensions. It is unclear whether some of the peace deals will last.

BBC Verify has explored Trump's role in cooling down seven conflicts - including a conflict between Israel and Iran, and others.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, 53, has won a rare third term in office after his Labour Party sailed to victory in Monday's election.

The Caribbean nation's electoral commission said the Labour Party had won 34 seats, beating the opposition People's National Party (PNP), which secured 29 seats, according to preliminary figures.

The candidate for the PNP, Mark Golding, has conceded defeat.

Holness campaigned on a promise to lower the income tax rate from 25% to 15%, while Golding had said he would raise the income tax threshold.

The incumbent was also credited by many voters for bringing down the number of homicides in the country after the murder rate fell to its lowest in 25 years in the first quarter of 2025, according to official figures.

While there was some criticism of the measures used to bring about the drop in crime - such as states of emergency being declared in some regions - the increased sense of safety seems to have helped propel Holness to another term.

But the economy was at the centre of the election campaign with the Labour Party pointing to the low unemployment rate of 3.3% as one of its achievements in office.

The main opposition party, the PNP, accused the government of squandering money, citing the high cost of second-hand school buses it had purchased.

It also raised questions about the Holness's integrity, citing a report which had questioned his income and assets declaration.

Holness denied any wrongdoing and accused the PNP of using the report as a "distraction" because, he said, the government's record was such that there was little the opposition could criticise.

While turnout was low at 39.5%, an observer mission sent by the Organization of American States (OAS) praised Jamaican voters for being "calm and orderly with a sense of civic maturity and pride".

Holness thanked voters for "this historic third term" and for their "trust, your faith and your belief in the vision of a stronger, safer, more prosperous Jamaica".

A swarm of jellyfish has caused major disruption at one of France's largest nuclear power plants, for the second time in a month.

The jellyfish entered the filters of the pumping station and the Paluel nuclear plant, France's national energy firm EDF said.

The incident reduced output at the plant in Normandy by 2.4 gigawatts and crews are working to restore it to full operation.

In August, generation at another major nuclear site in France was also disrupted by jellyfish, after a "massive and unpredictable" swarm forced the Gravelines plant to temporarily cease operations.

The hit represents a near halving of Paluel's 5.2 gigawatt output, after one of its four reactors was shut down and a second was reduced as a protective measure.

Nuclear makes up about 70% of Frances' energy consumption, according to the World Nuclear Association (WNA).

Paluel is one of France's largest nuclear power plants, with each of its four units generating over 1,300 megawatts of power.

EDF said in a statement that they took the measures at 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after the "arrival of jellyfish" in the filters of the non-nuclear part of the plant.

The company added that its teams were "carrying out the necessary diagnostics and interventions" to get both reactors fully back online.

An investigation has been launched after a grandfather mistakenly took home the wrong child from a daycare centre in Sydney, Australia.

The man arrived to collect his grandchild from First Steps Learning Academy in the southern suburb of Bangor, on Monday afternoon.

But he accidentally took home a different child, who was asleep in a dark room.

The mistake only became clear when the mother of the child arrived at the centre to find that her one-year-old was not there, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

"I can't explain the feeling," she told the newspaper.

"They couldn't tell me his [the man's] name, they couldn't tell me who he was, they couldn't tell me who he was meant to pick up. They couldn't tell me what he looked like, apart from that he was wearing shorts and he was an older gentleman," the mother, who asked not to be named, explained.

As part of safety protocols, childcare centres do not allow children to be collected by anyone else except recognised parents, guardians or carers

But she also said the grandfather is not to blame.

"We are not angry with him. We are not upset at him – we blame the day care."

The grandfather's wife told the Sydney Morning Herald that her husband is "devastated" and has "owned the mistake".

"When he realised, he raced that child back so fast," she said.

First Steps told the BBC that the educator involved in the incident has been stood down.

"We sincerely apologise to the families directly involved in this deeply upsetting and isolated incident," nursery director Trisha Hastie said.

She added that has never happened before at any of First Steps' nurseries, and it has strengthened procedures to "ensure this never happens again".

An investigation is underway into the "deeply concerning and serious incident", the New South Wales Early Childhood Education and Care Regulatory Authority said.

The incident comes at a time of heightened awareness surrounding safety at Australia's childcare centres, and last month, new legislative changes were announced aimed at improving safety standards in the sector.