Top 10 world news: Biden-Netanyahu speak on phone; Florida braces for Hurricane Milton impact, and more

As Israel prepares for a retaliatory response against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a telephone conversation with his US counterpart, President Joe Biden on Wednesday (Oct 9). This is the first time the two leaders have talked since August. In other news, the state of Florida in the US was bracing for impact as Hurricane Milton was scheduled to make landfall on Wednesday night. Reports state that the powerful storm could permanently change Florida’s coastline. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a highly-anticipated telephonic conversation with US President Joe Biden on Wednesday (Oct 9) as Vice President Kamala Harris also joined the call, the premier’s office announced.

As 15 million residents of the US state of Florida brace for the impact of Hurricane Milton, scheduled to make landfall on Wednesday (Oct 9) night, experts have warned that it could forever change the Sunshine State’s coastline. 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 has been awarded to three scientists with one half going to David Baker for computational protein design while the other half jointly going to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for protein structure prediction.

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar ordered his fighters to revive suicide attacks in Israel, shortly after replacing assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, a report in the Wall Street Journal has claimed.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris blasted her Republican rival Donald Trump and called him a “sore loser” on The Howard Stern Show, a radio show that is famous amongst a large white male population in the United States.

At least 45 people were killed in Israeli military strikes on Gaza in the past 24 hours, Palestinian medics said on Wednesday, as Israeli forces pressed on with a raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in the enclave’s north.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Wednesday (Oct 9) listed 11 pieces of evidence in its charge sheet against accused Sanjay Roy. The agency mentioned in the document that Roy raped and murdered the woman doctor while she was resting in the college’s seminar hall.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi went straight for the jugular against Congress, a day after his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Assembly election in the northern Indian state of Haryana.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has refuted the reports claiming a change in the venue of the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2025 final in case India qualifies for the title match.

Will it be possible for robots to eventually think like humans one day? The idea may sound impossible to achieve but the researchers from King’s College London claimed to have found a way through which this can be made possible.