A US Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing an Okinawan woman at a hotel in Naha, the prefectural capital.

He has denied the allegations, and the case remains under investigation.

Japan and the United States have begun talks to review rules for troops off base and consider ways to prevent similar incidents.

The discussions will cover the military’s liberty policy, education and joint patrols by US forces and Japanese police.

Federal agents searched the Washington home of Ilhan Omar, a Democratic member of Congress from Minnesota.

The Justice Department said the search was carried out under a court-authorised warrant as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, but did not name Omar or explain the investigation.

News reports linked the search to a fraud inquiry about immigration paperwork filed by Omar’s late father when she was a child; officials have not confirmed that link.

Omar, who came to the United States from Somalia as a child, said the search was an attempt to target political opponents.

Repeated kidnappings and attacks are driving residents from communities outside Kaduna into areas they consider safer within the city.

Some homeowners have left properties they spent years building, while others are trying to sell at prices they consider too low.

Rents have risen as more people seek homes in the city; some three-bedroom apartments along Gwamna Road now cost 3 million to 3.5 million naira, up from 1.2 million to 1.5 million.

These newer communities had offered lower-income residents a way to buy land and build homes gradually.

Rising tensions between Canada and the U.S. have prompted some young Canadians to reconsider their investments south of the border.

One millennial investor has sharply reduced his U.S. holdings.

Financial commentator Rob Carrick and planner Aravind Sithamparapillai discuss the risks and potential benefits of scaling back.

Their discussion focuses on what investors should consider before changing their portfolios.

Researchers found evidence of a possible planet around the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, using old observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble first recorded about 100 chemical signatures it could not identify in this system in 1999.

The team matched many of those signatures to niobium, an element that can form in the unusual conditions inside dying stars.

The amount detected was about 1,000 times the level in our Sun, pointing to a planet made from material shed by the star.

Two Week 6 rankings assess the NFL after five weeks of the 2026 season.

One list keeps the San Francisco 49ers at No.

1, with the Kansas City Chiefs second and the Jacksonville Jaguars third.

The other ranking also puts the 49ers at the top and highlights the strength of the NFC West.

TNA has ended wrestler Max Caster’s run with the company after his debut at Bound for Glory on Sunday.

Before his match against Moose, Caster performed a rap that referred to attacks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The attacks killed and injured people; accounts differ on the death toll, giving figures of 12 and 13.

TNA called the comments insensitive, said making light of violent attacks was wrong, and accepted responsibility for allowing them into the show.

France’s annual vaccination campaign against seasonal flu and COVID-19 starts on October 13 and is due to end in January 2027.

Health authorities are prioritising older people, pregnant women, and people with chronic illnesses or weakened immune systems.

About 15 million flu vaccine doses will be available to doctors, pharmacists, nurses and midwives, around one million more than last season.

COVID-19 vaccination remains reimbursed for everyone, including people outside the priority groups.