Make the most of the early-autumn glut of fruit with this quick, squidgy-crumbed bake that’s bursting with berries

Every year, I get annoyed with myself for not making the most of blackberry season, and then it’s gone before I’ve had a chance really to enjoy them. They’re such great berries to bake with, and here I’ve scattered them in a simple ricotta cake. It’s a quick, one-bowl bake with a perfectly squidgy crumb that’s bursting with fruit.

The al-Qaida leader envisaged an economically battered US withdrawing from the Middle East – and a global Muslim uprising. Then the tide turned

On 11 September, 25 years ago, Osama bin Laden drove with a small number of al-Qaida retainers and aides to a remote location in eastern Afghanistan. His convoy of SUVs was accompanied by a minivan converted into a makeshift communications centre.

The van’s rudimentary equipment did not allow Bin Laden to watch the 19 men he had started sending to the US more than a year before fly planes into the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon near Washington DC, killing about 3,000 people. But he listened as shocked radio announcers broke the news.

Christina Stambolian dress from 1994 has defined a whole category of fashion and is expected to fetch up to £220,000

The dress that Diana, Princess of Wales wore one September evening in 1994 would have been memorable for its design alone – black, fitted, off-the-shoulder, skintight and short. However, it has another distinction, of defining a whole category of fashion – what has since become known as “revenge dressing”.

Worn by Diana the same night Charles would reveal his infidelity on TV, the dress was quickly labelled “the revenge dress” by the media. It has its own Wikipedia page, with the same title.

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Film premieres at Venice as researchers question who took famous Spanish civil war shot of ‘falling soldier’, credited to the pair’s Robert Capa alias

She was one of the most fearless female photojournalists of the 20th century, and the first known to have been killed while covering a war. But in life and in death, the work of Gerda Taro has often been overshadowed by the collaborator and lover whose alias she invented and sometimes shared: Robert Capa.

That may be about to change with a new biopic that seeks to pull the pioneering photographer from out of Capa’s shadow, which is premiering at the Venice film festival just as researchers claim to have proof that his most famous and controversial picture was actually taken by her.

The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice

Iceland will submit a bill in February 2027 which could permanently ban whaling in its waters, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries to permit commercial whaling.

Whaling in Iceland has been put under intense scrutiny since a government-commissioned report was published in 2023 that found harpooned whales took two hours to die. The report led to a temporary suspension of the hunt that year.

SMD is the moisture the soil must make up until it is at capacity, with very dry conditions over most of England and Wales

When the ground is thoroughly wet, after excess rainwater has run off it is said to be at field capacity. Meteorologists describe drought in terms of soil moisture deficit (SMD) from field capacity. The SMD is a measure of how thirsty the soil is, expressed as how many millimetres of rain it would take to top it up to field capacity.

In southern England, the SMD tends to hover around zero in winter when fields are wet. In summer it may be about 100mm, going up to 150mm or more in a dry year. The extreme of dryness, when soil has no water accessible to plants, is known as the permanent wilting point or PWP.

Researchers find fossils ranging from 7,000 years to 46,000 years old showing evidence that devils may have become reliant on humans for scavenging

Tasmanian devils lived alongside humans in Western Australia’s Pilbara region for tens of thousands of years, according to fossils uncovered at Juukan Gorge.

These squat and sable marsupials, now restricted to Tasmania, were once abundant right across Australia, becoming extinct on the mainland about 3,200 years ago.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Nederlandse goederenexport is in juli opnieuw gestegen na een groei in juni. Volgens het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) hebben bedrijven vooral meer machines en apparaten uitgevoerd. Ook de export van chemische producten en transportmiddelen was hoger. De exportgroei kwam uit op 2,1 procent.

De groei was minder groot dan een maand eerder. In juni groeide de export met 3,4 procent. De export van goederen vormt ongeveer driekwart van de totale export. Over de export van diensten rapporteert het CBS niet maandelijks. Over de totale export wordt per kwartaal en per jaar gerapporteerd.

De goederenimport groeide in juli met 0,4 procent. Volgens het CBS werden er vooral meer machines en elektrotechnische apparaten ingevoerd dan een jaar eerder.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het aantal faillissementen is in augustus op jaarbasis met 9 procent toegenomen, meldt het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS). In totaal gingen vorige maand 304 bedrijven failliet. Dat zijn 24 faillissementen meer dan in dezelfde maand een jaar eerder, en 38 meer dan in juli.

De faillissementsgraad, het aantal faillissementen per 100.000 bedrijven, kwam vorige maand uit op 8,1. Een jaar eerder werden er per 100.000 bedrijven nog 7,6 bedrijven failliet verklaard. De faillissementsgraad geeft volgens het CBS een zuiverder beeld van de ontwikkeling van het aantal faillissementen. Ook bedrijfstakken kunnen hiermee beter met elkaar vergeleken worden. Het aantal bedrijven kan namelijk fluctueren door de tijd heen en sterk verschillen tussen bedrijfstakken.

In de horeca waren relatief gezien de meeste faillissementen. Per 100.000 bedrijven in die sector gingen er 21 failliet, een jaar eerder waren dat er bijna 31. De industriesector volgde met een faillissementsgraad van 20,1.