ITV News at Ten

ITV News at Ten led with Christa Pike, a Tennessee death row inmate who survived two lethal injections and later regained consciousness. Her lawyers said she had been thought brain dead and expected to have life support withdrawn before she began talking, and that she remained handcuffed to her hospital bed with a blood clot, pneumonia, and an inability to move her arms or swallow. A judge ordered evidence to be preserved as the state investigates what went wrong, while some in Tennessee called for another execution attempt, including by electric chair. Her lawyers sought clemency, and a Texas death row inmate due to be executed by lethal injection within hours had lawyers arguing that the Tennessee case should stop it going ahead.

The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, used her party conference in Birmingham to promise that no family home would be subject to inheritance tax and that wealthy couples could pass on an additional £1 million without inheritance tax. Analysis said the changes would cut estates paying the tax from around 52,000 to 22,000 by 2029 and cost around £6 billion, to be paid for by cuts elsewhere, while her advisers saw the policy as a way to win back higher-income voters. The programme also reported that Green leader Zack Polanski had not been available for interview before the Holborn and St Pancras by-election amid controversy over a party motion that branded Zionism as racist. Russian authorities faced calls from the WHO for more information about the death of a Siberian lab worker from a suspected plague case, with more than 200 contacts in quarantine, reports of a second case in Irkutsk, and President Trump promising to get to the truth in a call to President Putin.

Commemorations marked three years since the October 7 attacks in Israel, including at the Nova music festival and in communities where survivors were rebuilding beside ruins, with demands for an investigation and elections due in three weeks. In Gaza City, a Palestinian father recovered the remains of his children from a tower block where 105 bodies had been found, while Rachel Younger said the Israeli election campaign was focused on security and had little discussion of peace talks or withdrawal from Gaza. The programme also reported that the Weston family was buying Boots from a private equity firm for £6.7 billion, covering 1,800 stores and 54,000 staff, and ended with Lionel Messi's final match for Argentina, a friendly in which he scored a penalty and left the international stage after more than two decades.