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A report from a children's ward in Kabul showed the devastating effects of malnutrition compounded by a shortage of medicines and poverty. Children featured included three-month-old Zubir, four-year-old Yalda whose malnutrition was exacerbating her celiac disease, and Aneesa, suspected of having cancer, whose family could not afford treatment. Since the Taliban took control, foreign humanitarian aid has fallen by 70 percent, billions of dollars are frozen in foreign accounts, and over a million children are at risk of death from wasting, with an average of six babies dying each day in overcrowded wards. The reporter noted that all four children featured in the report survived, but five other children on the ward did not. Separately, police in Suffolk recovered a child's body from a pond in Brampton while searching for three-year-old Noah Woods, who was non-verbal and struggled to hear and had vanished from a playground near his home; formal identification had yet to take place but his family had been informed.

Earl Spencer's new book about Princess Diana claims that Prince Charles, now the King, told him on the phone before Diana's funeral that "we will forget her soon enough." The palace responded that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgement and colour memory, and a palace source described the situation as "war." On the economy, the Prime Minister acknowledged the next month's budget will be challenging, as inflation rose to 3.1 percent in August, above the Bank of England's 2 percent target, driven by steep rises in fuel costs and oil prices topping $100 a barrel. The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point, and UK mortgage rates are approaching 6 percent.

Ed Sheeran faced growing pressure after support act Macklemore was dropped from his tour following remarks about Palestine; Sheeran blamed tour promoters, but several other acts pulled out in protest, and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said he was in an impossible position. Writer Bonnie Greer, born in Chicago and based in Britain since 1986, died at the age of 77. Finally, queues formed outside shops for the release of special 30th anniversary Pokémon cards, with some fans camping overnight; the brand began in 1996 as a computer game, and rare cards have fetched record sums such as an Illustrator card sold for 12 million pounds earlier this year.