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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor won the first round of his legal case against the police over warrants used to search his homes in Windsor and Sandringham. A judge ruled the warrants unlawful, and Thames Valley Police accepted they were not legally correct because confidential business material may have been gathered. He was arrested in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office in an investigation connected to his links to Jeffrey Epstein, has always denied wrongdoing, and a further hearing is expected next year over whether police can retain seized material. Polls closed in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election left vacant by Sir Keir Starmer, with Labour and the Greens contending and the result expected overnight. The contest came after a Green Party row over a conference motion declaring Zionism a form of racism and calling for a single democratic Palestinian state in all historic Palestine; Jewish groups, European Green parties and the Prime Minister criticised it, and Green leader Zack Polanski did not attend the vote and declined interviews. In Ukraine, an apparently targeted Russian strike on two passenger buses in Kramatorsk, Donetsk, killed 30 people and wounded at least 18. The British Foreign Secretary visited Ukraine, President Zelensky said the attacks would not go unanswered and sent a delegation to Washington for peace discussions, and Andy Burnham held talks in Berlin with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on security, sabotage and cyber-attacks, including a new partnership on hybrid attacks and openness to Germany joining a fighter jet programme.

Counterterrorism police arrested two Latvian men, aged 36 and 32, under the National Security Act after a fence was breached at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, used by visiting US forces. A Royal Navy sailor, 24-year-old Teddy Young, appeared in court charged with spying offences, accused of preparing to disclose information intended for a foreign power understood to be Russia, and is the first member of the armed forces charged under the National Security Act. A coroner ruled that three sisters who died in the sea off Brighton in May took their own lives; Jane Edetoro and Christina and Rebecca Walters, all in their 30s, could not swim, and the inquest heard they had visited Birmingham the day before, where their mother drowned in a lake in 2010. A BBC Sport investigation traced official football shirts for clubs including Arsenal, Celtic and Liverpool to two factories in Cambodia, where some workers were paid a basic wage of less than £1 an hour and described pressure, heat above 35 degrees and concerns about electrical safety; Adidas said it took measures to ensure fair and safe conditions and reviewed supplier conduct. A special report on Gaza, three years after the October 7 attacks, said a ceasefire had lasted almost a year but most of Gaza was destroyed amid a deadlocked peace deal, strikes continued, more than 1,400 people had been killed since the ceasefire began according to the Hamas-run health ministry, and hospitals faced shortages.

The online fashion retailer ASOS said a hack was more serious than first reported, with detailed customer information including addresses and phone numbers compromised, though it insisted bank details and passwords were not taken. Atlantic bluefin tuna have returned to waters off Cornwall after nearly disappearing because of overfishing; the WWF said their recovery, along with improvements for tigers, green turtles and some elephant populations, showed conservation can work but warned successes were fragile, with the 36,000 animal populations it tracks declining by three quarters since 1970. The Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, with judges praising her bold and inventive work.