Full recovery from an IT failure that wreaked havoc worldwide on Friday could take weeks, experts have said, after airports, healthcare services and businesses were hit by the “largest outage in history”.

Flights and hospital appointments were cancelled, payroll systems seized up and TV channels went off air after a botched software upgrade hit Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

It came from the US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, and left workers facing a “blue screen of death” as their computers failed to start. Experts said every affected PC may have to be fixed manually.

In the UK, Whitehall crisis officials were coordinating the response through the Cobra committee. Ministers were in touch with their sectors to tackle the fallout from the IT failure, and the transport secretary, Louise Haigh, said she was working “at pace with industry” after trains and flights were affected.

A Microsoft spokesperson said on Friday: “We’re aware of an issue affecting Windows devices due to an update from a third-party software platform. We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming.”

Texas-based CrowdStrike confirmed the outage was due to a software update from one of its products and was not caused by a cyber-attack.

Its founder and chief executive, George Kurtz, said he was “deeply sorry for the impact that we’ve caused to customers”, adding there had been a “negative interaction” between the update and Microsoft’s operating system.

CrowdStrike’s stock price fell dramatically over the course of the day, dropping by as much as 13% at some points in trading.

Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, said the outage caused “a seizure to the automotive supply chain” while banks in Kenya and Ukraine reported issues with their digital services, and supermarkets in Australia had problems with payments.

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) – the parent company of Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express and Great Northern – warned passengers to expect delays.

According to the service status monitoring website Downdetector, users in the UK were reporting issues with the services of Visa, BT, big supermarket chains, banks, online gaming platforms and media outlets.

The Sky News and CBBC channels were also temporarily off-air in the UK before resuming broadcasting, while Australia’s ABC was also affected.

In financial services, Metro Bank reported problems with its phone lines in the UK and Santander said card payments “may be affected”. Monzo said some customers were reporting issues, while some bankers at JP Morgan were unable to log on to their systems and the London Stock Exchange said there were problems with its news service.

Troy Hunt, a leading cybersecurity consultant, said the scale of the IT failure was unprecedented.

“I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history,” he tweeted.

“This is basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except it’s actually happened this time,” he added, referring to the millennium bug that worried IT experts in the run-up to 2000 – but ultimately did not cause serious damage.

The UK’s chartered institute for IT, the BCS, said it could take days and weeks for systems to recover, although some fixes will be easier to implement.

“In some cases, the fix may be applied very quickly,” said Adam Leon Smith, a BCS fellow. “But if computers have reacted in a way that means they’re getting into blue screens and endless loops it may be difficult to restore and that could take days and weeks.”

Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at the University of Surrey, said the fix required a manual reboot of affected machines and “most standard users would not know how to follow the instructions”. Organisations with thousands of PCs distributed in different locations face a tougher task, he added.

“It’s just sheer numbers. For some organisations it could certainly take weeks,” he said.

From Amsterdam to Zurich, Singapore to Hong Kong, airport operators flagged technical issues that were disrupting their services. While some airports halted all flights, in others airline staff had to check-in passengers manually.

Among the companies affected on Friday was Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, which said on its website: “Potential disruptions across the network due to a global third-party system outage … We advise passengers to arrive at the airport three hours in advance of their flight to avoid any disruptions.”

Heathrow, Europe’s biggest airport, said it was “working hard” to get passengers “on their way”.

A spokesperson for Heathrow said: “We continue to work with our airport colleagues to minimise the impact of the global IT outage on passenger journeys. Flights continue to be operational and passengers are advised to check with their airlines for the latest flight information.”

In the US, flights were grounded owing to communications problems that appear to be linked to the outage. American Airlines, Delta and United Airlines were among the carriers affected.

Berlin airport temporarily halted all flights on Friday. The aviation analytics company Cirium said 5,078 flights – 4.6% of those scheduled – were cancelled globally on Friday, including 167 UK departures and 171 arrivals.

GP practices in the UK said they were unable to access patient records or book appointments. Surgeries reported on social media that they could not access the EMIS Web system.

It is understood that 999 services were unaffected by the outage, but the Royal Surrey NHS Trust, in the south of England, declared a critical incident and cancelled radiotherapy appointments scheduled for Friday morning. The National Pharmacy Association confirmed that UK services could be affected.

A spokesperson for Keir Starmer said they were unaware of the problem having any impact on government services, but added they recognised the impact it was having more broadly. Reports from the Netherlands also suggested there may be problems within the health service.

The Israeli health ministry said “the global malfunction” had affected 16 hospitals, while in Germany the Schleswig-Holstein university hospital in the north of the country said it had cancelled all planned operations in Kiel and Lübeck.

Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, issued an emergency declaration stating that certain essential city services including emergency communications were affected by the outage.

The University of Surrey’s Alan Woodward said the outage was caused by an IT product called CrowdStrike Falcon which monitors the security of large networks of PCs and downloads a piece of monitoring software to every machine.

“The product is used by large organisations that have significant numbers of PCs to ensure everything is monitored. Sadly, if they lose all the PCs they can’t operate, or only at a much reduced service level,” said Woodward.

Steven Murdoch, a professor of security engineering at University College London, said many organisations could struggle to carry out the fix swiftly.

“The problem is occurring before the computer is connected to the internet so there is no way to fix the problem remotely, so that requires someone to come out … and fix the problem,” said Murdoch, adding that companies and organisations that have cut back on IT staff or outsourced their IT work would find their ability to address the problem hampered.

However, Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, said that unlike adversarial cyber-attacks, this problem had already been identified and a solution had been flagged.

“The recovery is not about getting on top of the situation but getting back up. I think it’s unlikely to be very newsworthy in terms of ongoing disruption this time next week,” he said.

The problems for businesses in the US were also compounded by problems with Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing business that occurred on Thursday.

A global technology outage on Friday grounded flights, disrupted health services, crashed payment systems and blocked access to Microsoft services in what experts believe is one of the largest IT failures in history.

The cause of the disruptions originated from a cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike, which provides software to a wide range of industries. An update to one of CrowdStrike’s pieces of software, Falcon Sensor, malfunctioned, throwing a wrench into computers running Windows, leading to major tech failures around the world, the company said.

Here’s what we know about the outage so far.

The CrowdStrike outage caused havoc across a swathe of industries spanning the global economy.

Airlines, railways, hospitals, television stations, sports clubs and financial systems were among the sectors hit by the technology glitches, prompting national governments to convene emergency meetings and stock markets to fall.

Travel

The US’s Federal Aviation Administration shut down operations due to the outage. There were about 110,000 commercial flights scheduled worldwide on Friday. By 6am ET, nearly 1,400 of them had been cancelled, according to reports.

US airlines including Delta, United and American grounded flights because of communication problems, while airports descended into chaos and some tourists were hit with large charges for purchasing tickets for new flights after original plans were cancelled.

Some rail transportation was also hit, with the metro system in the US capital, Washington DC, experiencing delays. And New York City’s subway system agency, the MTA, said that “some MTA customer information systems are temporarily offline due to a worldwide technical outage”. It added that train and bus services were unaffected.

In the UK, Gatwick and Luton airports were among the hubs where airline check-in systems were hit, while the biggest commuter rail network, GTR, said its Thameslink and Southern trains were disrupted due to communications systems failing. South Western Railway said all of its ticket vending machines had stopped working, and West Midlands Trains, Avanti West Coast, Great Western Railway and TransPennine Express were also affected.

Health

Patients had important hospital appointments cancelled at the last minute in countries including the UK, Germany and Israel – with the Royal Surrey NHS trust, in the south of England, declaring a critical incident and cancelling radiotherapy appointments scheduled for Friday morning.

Doctors’ surgeries in the UK said they were unable to access patient records or book appointments, as they reported via social media that they were unable to access online systems. It is understood that NHS hospitals and 999 services are unaffected by the outage.

Some hospitals in Germany and the Netherlands cancelled operations, while others in Israel and the US said they were also having problems, often related to access to electronic medical records.

In the US, the emergency 911 lines went down in parts of Alaska, with officials posting alternative phone numbers on social media. There were similar problems reported in other states, including New Hampshire and Ohio.

Financial systems

The systems failure threatened to leave people without their weekly wages and monthly salaries as payroll systems seized up.

Melanie Pizzey, the chief executive of the Global Payroll Association, says: “We’ve been contacted by numerous clients already today who have been unable to access their payroll software due to the Microsoft outage and others who have been urged to log out with immediate effect.

“Depending on the length of this outage, it could have very serious implications for businesses, particularly those who process payroll on a weekly basis. Furthermore, we could see a backlog with regard to processing payrolls for the coming month end which may delay employees from receiving their monthly wage.”

In financial services, Metro Bank reported problems with its phone lines in the UK and Santander said card payments “may be affected”. Employees at the US bank JP Morgan were unable to log on to their systems and the London Stock Exchange said there were problems with its news service.

Bloomberg TV reported that it knew of hedge funds that were unable to process certain trades and that “some people had to go home”.

Retail

Retailing payment systems also appeared to have been hit by the systems failure, with some UK shopkeepers erecting “cash only” signs.

A spokesperson for the UK supermarket Morrisons said there were some “isolated incidents” with payment systems during the morning, which were later resolved with systems returning to working normally.

Its rival Waitrose said it was taking contactless payments largely as normal, as well as still processing payments by chip and pin and cash. A spokesperson for the supermarket said it had been able to take card payments throughout the day, but had been “briefly limited on contactless payments”.

Payment systems in some branches of the home improvements store B&Q were also affected, according to reports from customers.

Sport

In France, where the Olympic Games are due to start next week, there were reports of issues.

The organisers of the Games said: “Paris 2024’s technical teams are fully mobilised to limit the impact and we have activated our contingency plans to ensure the continuation of our operations.”

A few football clubs also warned that their ticketing systems are under pressure, with reigning Scottish champions Celtic announcing they were postponing ticket sales. In England Manchester United did the same.

Media

Several French television channels were reported to be experiencing technical problems, including difficulties displaying their graphics and weather maps.

In the UK, Sky News and CBBC were also temporarily off air, before resuming broadcasting.

Supermarkets, banks, airlines and industries across Australia are slowly recovering on Saturday morning from the massive global Windows outage caused by a CrowdStrike software update gone wrong, with experts warning it could take weeks to resolve.

On Friday morning, the CEO of the Texas-based cybersecurity company, George Kurtz, apologised for the outage, and said it was not a cyber-attack, but a software update issue on its cloud-based cybersecurity platform Falcon for Microsoft Windows. It had since been fixed.

However, because the error effectively disabled systems across the globe, landing them on the blue screen of death, it requires manual intervention to fix each system, rather than simply broadcasting out a new update to resolve the error.

This means IT support staff in businesses across the globe will need to implement the fix one computer at a time, in person and not remotely, experts have said.

As of Saturday morning, both Coles and Woolworths indicated they were open, but some checkouts may still be closed. Guardian Australia observed at one Woolworths about one-third of the self-checkouts were displaying the blue screen errors.

“All our stores are open today and trading with both cash and card. Saturdays are a busy shopping day and we have plenty of stock on hand,” a Woolworths spokesperson said. “Some checkouts continue to be affected by the global outage so we thank customers in advance for their patience and treating our team with respect.

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“Following some disruption to a small number of orders last night, our online system is operating as normal with our team expected to pick and deliver thousands of orders over the weekend.”

A Coles spokesperson said supermarkets were open, but indicated some liquor stores may delay being opened as they recover.

“Some registers may be temporarily unavailable while we fully recover. We are putting on additional team members to assist customers with their shopping, and we thank everyone for their patience,” the spokesperson said.

“Many Liquorland, Vintage Cellars and First Choice Liquor stores will also be trading. All our remaining liquor stores will re-open as soon as systems are restored.”

Sydney and Melbourne airports reported being up and running on Saturday morning, but indicated some airlines may have delays.

“The global technology issue affected check-in procedures for some airlines at Melbourne Airport last night, however most passengers were able to depart,” Melbourne airport posted on X.

“This morning, all airlines are online and can check in passengers. There may be an increase in passenger congestion today in our terminals as airlines process some delayed passengers from last night.”

Sydney airport warned of knock-on impacts from the previous night’s delays.

Qantas is understood to be back to business as usual, and no cancellations were reported on Saturday morning as a result of the outage. Jetstar said its IT systems are back up and running and the vast majority of flights are planned to operate today as scheduled, but there may be some impacts to flights as a result of cancellations on Friday.

Bendigo Bank said on Saturday morning it was restoring its systems after the outage and ebanking was now available but there may be delays in some transactions. ATMs were unaffected. The Commonwealth Bank said all of its services were available on Saturday morning.

The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, is expected to front media on Saturday morning following a meeting of the national coordination mechanism.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre warned on Saturday that a number malicious websites and “unofficial code” were being released claiming to help businesses recover from the outage, and the centre said it “strongly encourages all consumers to source their technical information and updates from official CrowdStrike sources only”.

In a new update on Saturday, Kurtz said he sincerely apologised for the outage, and CrowdStrike “understands the gravity and impact of the situation”. The company has pledged to provide support for those affected, and continuous updates.

“Nothing is more important to me than the trust and confidence that our customers and partners have put into CrowdStrike,” he said. “As we resolve this incident, you have my commitment to provide full transparency on how this occurred and steps we’re taking to prevent anything like this from happening again.”

A beleaguered Joe Biden entered potentially the most decisive weekend of his 50-year political career on Friday as the growing list of Democratic members of Congress calling on him to step aside surpassed 30, with the latest being the Ohio senator Sherrod Brown.

Biden is recovering from Covid-19 in self-isolation at his home in Delaware and reportedly feeling “angry and betrayed” by allies and speculation mounted that he might be preparing to announce his withdrawal from the race.

Advisers were reported to be discussing the details, timing and setting of a possible withdrawal announcement, and a mood of resignation before Biden’s departure was said to be rampant among his campaign staff.

With six in 10 Democratic voters telling an AP-Norc Centre for Public Affairs Research poll released on Friday that Kamala Harris would make a good president, allies of the vice-president were making discreet preparations for her to assume the top of the presidential ticket, courting donors and crafting a new message to be used in the event she becomes the candidate.

A rare glimmer of light for Biden came in a letter on Thursday signed by more than 1,400 Black female supporters, who argued that he should remain the candidate, and that any attempt to change the ticket would “circumvent the will of millions of voters who participated in a democratic process” in the primaries. Another public statement of support on Thursday came from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman, who during an Instagram live stream on Thursday urged Democrats to reconsider their efforts to push Biden out.

On Friday, Bernie Sanders also urged support for Biden.

The Congressional Hispanic caucus’s campaign arm also announced on Friday that it was endorsing Biden, which is no surprise given the group’s opposition to Trump but noteworthy at a moment when the president is fighting for his political life. “Another Trump presidency would be disastrous to the Latino community across the country,” the group’s chairwoman, Linda Sánchez, said.

But with more than 30 Democrats in Congress, including the leading California representative Adam Schiff, having now called on Biden to step down, the president was said to be angry at senior figures in the party for encouraging the discontent. Chief among them is Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker who has tried to persuade Biden of his declining poll numbers, as well as Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton, who Biden reportedly feels have undermined him through their conspicuous silence.

Late on Friday evening, Senator Brown released a statement: “At this critical time, our full attention must return to these important issues. I think the president should end his campaign.”

After weeks of defiantly stating that he will remain the Democratic nominee, despite concerns about his age and mental acuity in the wake of last month’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump, some media outlets were reporting that Biden was reconsidering his position. “Reality is setting in,” a source close to Biden told the New York Times, adding that it would not be surprising if Biden announced his withdrawal soon to allow Harris to take the nomination.

“I don’t see how [Biden] can outmanoeuvre the sustained attacks,” Politico quoted a Democratic figure close to the White House as saying. “It feels like the ending is near.”

Biden’s resolve had reportedly been shaken by a combination of the intensive machinations of Pelosi, fresh poll data from swing states showing his path to an electoral college victory narrowing, and a boycott by key donors, the latest of whom reportedly was the Silicon Valley billionaire Michael Moritz.

Pelosi, long one of his most important allies, is said to have used her knowledge of polling data and the political map to persuade him that his position is weak.

Biden has repeatedly insisted that he has polling evidence showing he could win, relying on data from his aide Mike Donilon. But when he made the argument to Pelosi in a recent phone call, she told him to “put Donilon on the phone” so she could counter it with her own polling and implying that the president was not being kept informed, the New York Times reported.

Public pressure intensified further on Thursday when the Senate Democrats Jon Tester of Montana and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico publicly urged Biden to step aside. Many more than the 30-plus congressional Democrats who have publicly called for his withdrawal have done so in private.

Four House members – Jared Huffman of California, Marc Veasey of Texas, Chuy Garcia of Illinois, and Mark Pocan of Wisconsin – issued a plea jointly Friday.

“They wrote to Biden: “Mr President, you have always put our country and our values first. We call on you to do it once again, so that we can come together and save the country we love.”

Three further separate calls were made by Zoe Lofgren of California, a close Pelosi ally, Sean Casten of Illinois, and Greg Landsman of Ohio, whose seat is one of the Republicans’ top targets in November’s election.

Allies of Pelosi depicted her as exercising sensitivity towards Biden – by recognising his achievements as president, long record of political service and the fact that he has Covid – while subtly using gentle persuasion.

“She’s like a magician,” one source told the Hill. “She’s extraordinarily intentional. She’s trying hard to keep the balance and helping him reach a decision by gently pulling, never pushing.”

That cut little ice with Biden’s allies, one of whom compared his fate to Julius Caesar.

“People who have known this man for 30, 40 years are stabbing this man in the front and the back,” a senior campaign and administration aide told Politico. “They are JULIUS CAESAR-ing this man.”

Biden himself was reported to share such sentiments, telling aides that he feels “hurt and betrayed” at how the party’s leading figures – who he has previously derided as “elites” – have tried to push him out.

One Biden ally told NBC News that the party leaders now trying to force him from the ticket were to blame for Trump’s victory in the 2016 election.

“Can we all just remember for a minute that these same people who are trying to push Joe Biden out are the same people who literally gave us all Donald Trump? In 2015, Obama, Pelosi, [Chuck] Schumer [the Democratic Senate majority leader] pushed Biden aside in favour of Hillary; they were wrong then, and they are wrong now,” the source said.

“Perhaps we should learn a few lessons from 2016; one of them is polls are BS. And two, maybe, just maybe, Joe Biden is more in touch with actual Americans than Obama-Pelosi-Schumer?”

Biden’s campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, continued to stress that Biden had “work to do” but said the campaign did not have its “head in the sand”.

Emphasizing that Biden’s campaign trail appearances have been reassuring to the campaign, she said: “The more and more people that see Joe Biden out there post-debate they are reassured.”

Such defiance seemed increasingly rare inside the Biden campaign, however, with CNN reporting that some staff had undergone a “quiet quit” process. “I don’t think you can find a person who is off the record saying he should stay in,” one said. “There’s a growing sense that it’s game over.”

Lauren Gambino contributed reporting

The Bangladeshi government has declared a national curfew and announced plans to deploy the army to tackle the country’s worst unrest in a decade, after student protesters stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates.

“The government has decided to impose a curfew and deploy the military in aid of the civilian authorities,” a government spokesperson said late on Friday.

AFP reported that at least 105 people have died in the unrest, which poses an unprecedented challenge to the government of Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, after her 15 years in office.

Earlier on Friday, a communications blackout was imposed across the country, with mobile internet access and social media blocked by the government.

TV news channels were off air after the state broadcaster’s headquarters in Dhaka was stormed and set alight by protesters, and several news websites were down.

A group of protesters stormed a jail in Narsingdi, a district just north of the capital, and freed its inmates before setting the facility on fire. According to Agence France-Presse, hundreds of inmates were released.

Key government websites, including that of the central bank, the police and the prime minister’s office, also appeared to have been hacked by a group calling itself “THE R3SISTANC3”. A message posted across the prime minister’s office website on Friday called for an end to the killing of students, saying: “It’s not a protest any more. It’s a war now.”

Another message posted on the website read: “The government has shut down the internet to silence us and hide their actions. We need to stay informed about what is happening on the ground.”

The protests began this month on university campuses as students demanded an end to a quota system that reserves 30% of government jobs for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971.

Those protesting have argued that the policy is unfair and discriminatory as young people struggle for jobs during an economic downturn and instead benefits members of the ruling Awami League party, which is led by the Hasina.

Pro-government student groups have been accused of attacking the protesters, and police have routinely fired teargas and rubber bullets into the crowds, leaving thousands injured and dozens killed.

Despite the ban on public rallies and gatherings, student groups still took to the streets on Friday. The sounds of gunfire and stun grenades could be heard coming from areas close to universities in Dhaka. According to reports, police were seen firing live ammunition to break up demonstrations and protesters accused police of being responsible for a large proportion of the fatalities.

Witnesses said the protests had begun to take on a much broader anti-government tone against Hasina and her party, with slogans calling her an “authoritarian dictator” and demanding her resignation.

Hasina has ruled since 2009 and overseen a vast and severe crackdown on political opponents and critics while corruption has flourished. Critical figures are routinely picked up in “enforced disappearances” by paramilitary forces and tens of thousands of political opponents have been jailed. She won a fifth term in January in an election widely documented as being heavily rigged.

Clashes between heavily armed riot police and protesters, many wielding batons and bricks, have spread across the country, with vehicles set ablaze in the streets and thousands left injured. On Thursday protesters stormed the headquarters of the state broadcaster, Bangladesh Television, and set it on fire. Authorities said the building was safely evacuated.

The Dhaka Times said one of its reporters, Mehedi Hasan, was killed while covering clashes in the capital.

Access to social media was restricted after the telecommunications minister, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, said it had been “weaponised as a tool to spread rumours, lies and disinformation”.

Hasina, 76, ordered that all universities and colleges be shut indefinitely after the clashes. In a speech on Wednesday night, she had condemned the “murder” of students killed in the protests and promised justice, telling students to wait for an supreme court order on the quota system, but it did little to quell the unrest.

The prime minister was earlier accused of inflaming tensions after she defended the quotas and appeared to refer to protesters as “razakars”, a derogatory slur meaning those who betrayed the country by collaborating with the enemy, Pakistan, during the war of independence.

The quotas that sparked the protests were abolished in 2018 but brought back last month after a court ruling, prompting outrage among students. About 40% of young people in Bangladesh are unemployed as the economy has foundered post-Covid, and government jobs are seen as one of the few means of secure employment. Young people say the quotas make it very difficult to get the jobs on merit.

Hasina’s party, which was set up by her father, who led the independence fight for Bangladesh, is accused of disproportionately benefiting from the system.

Pierre Prakash, the Asia director of the International Crisis Group, said the protests were a reflection of growing frustration on the streets at the erosion of democracy and the country’s economic distress, which has led to high inflation and rising unemployment.

“The protests reflect deep political and economic tensions in Bangladesh. For several years Bangladesh’s economy has been struggling and youth unemployment is a serious problem,” he said. “With no real alternative at the ballot box, discontented Bangladeshis have few options besides street protests to make their voices heard.”

Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the UN secretary general, said they were following developments in Bangladesh and urged restraint on all sides.

Adidas has pulled images of the model Bella Hadid from adverts promoting a sports shoe first launched to coincide with the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

The German-based sportswear company said it was “revising” its campaign after criticism from Israel over Hadid’s involvement.

The SL72 trainers, described by Adidas as a timeless classic, were promoted by Hadid, an American whose family has its roots in Palestine.

The model, who previously drew the ire of the Israeli government for allegedly chanting the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, has been accused of antisemitism.

Israel’s official account on X said it objected to Hadid as “the face of [the Adidas] campaign” in a post that noted that “eleven Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the Munich Olympics”.

Hadid has repeatedly criticised the Israeli government and supported Palestinians over the years and on 23 October made a statement on Instagram lamenting the loss of innocent lives while calling on followers to pressure their leaders to protect civilians in Gaza.

Adidas said in a statement that the campaign for the SL72 shoe “unites a broad range of partners”. It said: “We are conscious that connections have been made to tragic historical events – though these are completely unintentional – and we apologise for any upset or distress caused.

“As a result, we are revising the remainder of the campaign.”

It did not set out what changes would be made. Other advertising images showing Adidas brand ambassadors including the French footballer Jules Koundé, the US rapper A$AP Nast and the Chinese model Sabrina Lan remain online.

Members of the Palestinian group Black September broke into the Olympic village on 5 September 1972. Eleven members of the Israeli team were taken hostage and killed.

It is not the first time that the sportswear company has cut ties with celebrity ambassadors after accusations of antisemitism.

Adidas ended its partnership with the rapper Kanye West in October 2022, saying it “does not tolerate antisemitism” after the rapper was suspended from Instagram and Twitter over offensive posts.

It said the comments and actions from West had been “unacceptable, hateful and dangerous and violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness”.

A disused factory in Dublin earmarked to house asylum seekers has been set on fire following a protest at the site.

More than 1,000 people were protesting at the former Crown Paints building in Coolock on Friday night, in the north of the Irish capital, and gardaí were on the scene.

A number of speeches were given outside the derelict factory, with protesters seen holding signs that read “Irish Lives Matter” and “The Irish People”.

A police spokesperson said: “Gardaí are currently responding to a public order incident occurring at a premises on the Malahide Road, Coolock.

“A small fire which broke out at the same location a short time ago is being attended to by Dublin fire brigade. No injuries have been reported.”

The protest had moved on to the gardaí station in Coolock before returning to the disused building as disorder broke out among the crowd, PA reported.

The protest was organised by a group called Coolock Says No protesting against government plans to use the former factory to house asylum seekers.

Organisers said in advance that it would be a peaceful event after violent scenes in the area earlier in the week. But after a number of the protesters dispersed, a fire broke out at the factory.

Taoiseach Simon Harris warned that anyone who engages in “thuggery” while taking part in protests at Coolock would “face the full rigour of the law”.

Speaking in Donegal, he said: “In relation to protest, anybody in Ireland is legitimately entitled to protest, it is a key tenet of our democracy and it is something I would always support the right that people have to protest.

“But I have to say what we have seen in recent days has not been that. What we have seen in recent days has been an attempt by a relatively small number of people to engage in lawlessness, to engage in thuggery and to engage in criminal activity.

“That is why there have been several arrests, it is why more than 19 people appeared before the courts in recent days. It is why a number of people have now been charged with criminal offences.”

Violence escalated at the site earlier this week when agitators, some masked, set machinery on fire and hurled rocks, bottles and fireworks at police. A security guard was taken away on a stretcher and several police vehicles were damaged.

It comes amid increased tension in Ireland in relation to asylum seekers. Earlier this week, people armed with knives and pipes reportedly attacked 15 asylum seekers sheltering in tents in central Dublin, forcing them to flee.

The attack reportedly occurred after asylum seekers from Somalia and Palestine erected a makeshift camp on City Quay and some tents were slashed and thrown in the Liffey River after the refugees fled to a police station.

Since 2022 there has been a sharp increase in arson on properties across the country linked to accommodating asylum seekers, with a riot erupting in Dublin last November.

A disused factory in Dublin earmarked to house asylum seekers has been set on fire following a protest at the site.

More than 1,000 people were protesting at the former Crown Paints building in Coolock on Friday night, in the north of the Irish capital, and gardaí were on the scene.

A number of speeches were given outside the derelict factory, with protesters seen holding signs that read “Irish Lives Matter” and “The Irish People”.

A police spokesperson said: “Gardaí are currently responding to a public order incident occurring at a premises on the Malahide Road, Coolock.

“A small fire which broke out at the same location a short time ago is being attended to by Dublin fire brigade. No injuries have been reported.”

The protest had moved on to the gardaí station in Coolock before returning to the disused building as disorder broke out among the crowd, PA reported.

The protest was organised by a group called Coolock Says No protesting against government plans to use the former factory to house asylum seekers.

Organisers said in advance that it would be a peaceful event after violent scenes in the area earlier in the week. But after a number of the protesters dispersed, a fire broke out at the factory.

Taoiseach Simon Harris warned that anyone who engages in “thuggery” while taking part in protests at Coolock would “face the full rigour of the law”.

Speaking in Donegal, he said: “In relation to protest, anybody in Ireland is legitimately entitled to protest, it is a key tenet of our democracy and it is something I would always support the right that people have to protest.

“But I have to say what we have seen in recent days has not been that. What we have seen in recent days has been an attempt by a relatively small number of people to engage in lawlessness, to engage in thuggery and to engage in criminal activity.

“That is why there have been several arrests, it is why more than 19 people appeared before the courts in recent days. It is why a number of people have now been charged with criminal offences.”

Violence escalated at the site earlier this week when agitators, some masked, set machinery on fire and hurled rocks, bottles and fireworks at police. A security guard was taken away on a stretcher and several police vehicles were damaged.

It comes amid increased tension in Ireland in relation to asylum seekers. Earlier this week, people armed with knives and pipes reportedly attacked 15 asylum seekers sheltering in tents in central Dublin, forcing them to flee.

The attack reportedly occurred after asylum seekers from Somalia and Palestine erected a makeshift camp on City Quay and some tents were slashed and thrown in the Liffey River after the refugees fled to a police station.

Since 2022 there has been a sharp increase in arson on properties across the country linked to accommodating asylum seekers, with a riot erupting in Dublin last November.

A nationalist former member of Ukraine’s parliament known for her vociferous campaigns to defend the Ukrainian language has died after being shot in Lviv.

Police launched a wide search for the gunman alleged to have shot Iryna Farion, 60, on a street in the western city.

The regional governor, Maksym Kozytskyi, said on Telegram that Farion had died after being taken to hospital. The interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, had earlier said that the shooting was being treated as an attempted assassination.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was receiving regular reports on efforts to capture the gunman. He said any act of violence was to be condemned.

Farion, a linguist, became a member of the nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party in 2005 and was elected to parliament in 2012, but failed in subsequent attempts to win a seat. She had also served on Lviv regional council.

She gained notoriety for frequent campaigns to promote the Ukrainian language and discredit public officials who spoke Russian.

In 2018, when Ukraine was fighting Russian-financed separatists who had seized territory in the east, she called for a drive to “punch every Russian-speaking person in the jaw”.

In the early months of the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Farion denounced Russian-speaking fighters of the Azov regiment who defended the port city of Mariupol for three months.

Although Ukrainian is the sole state language of Ukraine, many of its people speak Russian as a first language, a legacy of Soviet rule, when Ukrainian was under official pressure.

Promoting the language has long been an important issue, with parliament passing legislation to entrench its use in public life and in the services industry.

At least 40 people have been killed at sea after a boat carrying Haitian migrants caught fire, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Port-au-Prince said on Friday.

The boat, which was carrying more than 80 people, departed from Fort Saint-Michel in Haiti’s north and was headed for the Turks and Caicos Islands, the IOM said in a statement, citing the Caribbean nation’s migration authority.

Forty-one people survived the fire and were rescued by the Haitian coast guard. They are currently receiving care and support provided by the IOM, and 11 of them were taken to the nearest hospital, the statement said.

Passengers on the boat had used matches to light candles in a ritual to ask for safe passage, leading gasoline-filled drums to catch fire and explode, Jean-Henri Petit, who heads the civil protection office in northern Haiti, told the Miami Herald.

“This devastating event highlights the risks faced by children, women and men migrating through irregular routes,” IOM’s chief of mission in Haiti, Gregoire Goodstein, said in a statement.

Goodstein also stressed that the extreme gang-fueled violence in Haiti over the past many months had pushed Haitians “to resort to desperate measures” to flee the country.

Several hundred Kenyan police have arrived in Haiti over the course of July as part of the long-delayed mission mandated to help Haitian police fight armed gangs that have taken over most of capital, Port-au-Prince. The violence has fueled a humanitarian crisis that has driven nearly 600,000 people from their homes and 5 million people into severe food insecurity.

The alleged killer of a British former Rolls-Royce designer who was stabbed to death at his home in Bavaria last week has been arrested outside Paris after a Europe-wide search, German police said. A motive was not immediately established.

Ian Cameron, 74, was attacked with a knife on 12 July and fatally wounded. A Serbian citizen, 22, was identified as the prime suspect based on tips from the public, the Fürstenfeldbruck police department said.

“After the manhunt was launched, investigators were quickly able to establish the identity of the suspect, verify it with the authorities and transfer it to the investigators of the Bavarian state criminal investigation office,” police said on Friday.

The suspect is believed to have fled the region via Munich, then Innsbruck and Zurich to France, where he was found in a flat in Aubervilliers, north-east of Paris, and taken into custody on Thursday morning by a special unit of the French police in coordination with German federal police. Authorities in Serbia, Austria and Switzerland contributed to the operation.

“The suspect was alone at this time and did not resist arrest,” police said. He was to appear before a French investigating judge on Friday.

Europol, the EU’s police body, said it was an operation “showcasing the power of international police cooperation” which it coordinated. It said the suspect would be extradited to Germany to face charges.

The German daily Bild said the knife believed to have been used in the murder had been found in a forest near Cameron’s mansion in the town of Herrsching on Lake Ammer and was being examined for DNA evidence.

It said nothing had been stolen from the home, leaving the motive a mystery. The suspect, who is believed to have rung the bell at the residence to gain entry, was found with €200 (£168) on him when captured.

Cameron’s wife, who reportedly works for a car manufacturer, was at the house during the attack and managed to escape by running to a neighbour’s home and alerting the police.

The assailant is believed to have fled on foot.

“We are working on the assumption that the perpetrator and the victim did not know each other,” the Fürstenfeldbruck police chief, Manfred Frei, told German media, adding that a contract killing could not be ruled out.

Investigators had released CCTV images of a bearded man at a local supermarket, where he bought gloves, as well as pictures of the suspect wearing a blue hoodie and a red backpack. Police said they had received more than 80 tips from the public.

The daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the decisive information had come from a witness in Munich who recognised the suspect in the photos and knew his name.

Cameron retired from Rolls-Royce in 2013 after serving as its chief designer, working on several of the luxury carmaker’s models.

The Boss is now a billionaire – at least according to Forbes.

Bruce Springsteen, the New Jersey-bred musician who became rock ’n’ roll’s voice of the working class, now has an estimated net worth of $1.1bn, according to a “conservative” estimate by the magazine.

Much of that fortune has accumulated in the last few years. In 2021, Springsteen sold his entire music catalogue – one of the most admired bodies of work in pop and rock, with over 300 songs spanning 20 studio albums and extra releases – to Sony for a reported $500-550m. The deal was the largest ever for a musical catalog, dwarfing the previous record of $300m paid by Universal for Bob Dylan’s catalogue in December 2020.

At 74, the musician is still putting on large, lucrative tours; Pollstar reported that in 2023, Springsteen sold more than 1.6m concert tickets, generating $380m in revenue.

Born and raised working class on the Jersey shore, Springsteen is one of his generation’s most revered songwriters and performers, narrativizing the trials of the everyday man and playing marathon concerts. From his 1973 debut album Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ onwards, he became among the bestselling musical artists of all time, with more than 71m albums sold in the US and 140m worldwide. His commercial hits include Born To Run, Thunder Road, I’m on Fire, and Dancing in the Dark.

Springsteen has won 20 Grammy awards, an Oscar (for best original song in 1994, for Streets of Philadelphia from the film Philadelphia), and a special Tony Award for Springsteen on Broadway, his stripped-back one-man show. In March of this year, he became the first foreigner to be inducted as a fellow of the UK’s Ivors Academy, for his “impact on the UK’s cultural landscape”.

Highlights from his discography include his 1975 breakthrough Born to Run; the literary songwriting of his first US No 1, The River in 1980; and the chart-aiming pop – and ironic patriotism – of 1984’s Born in the USA, which went 15 times platinum in the US. His songs have also provided hits for other artists, such as Patti Smith’s Because the Night, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s Blinded By the Light, and the Pointer Sisters’ Fire.

Along with his E Street Band, Springsteen is still touring to critical acclaim – the Guardian’s Kitty Empire, writing of his first UK tour in seven years in June 2023, called Springsteen’s show “tremendously Boss-like”.

“Springsteen doesn’t so much seize this rare scorcher of a day in Scotland as grab it by the lapels and shout in its face, wipe its tears, then give it a kiss,” she added.

Police in Florida are urging people to stop taking selfies with a “depressed” black bear spotted loitering morosely on a roadside.

The unhappy animal took up residence on the north side of Highway 98 in Santa Rosa Beach earlier this week and, according to a Facebook post by the Walton county sheriff’s office, quickly attracted unwanted attention from passing motorists.

“Onlookers were trying to take selfies with the bear and he’s clearly not in the mood for pictures. The bear has shown signs of severe stress,” the post said.

It described the large male bear as “stressed, depressed, lemon zest” and urged the public not to approach a black bear at any time, “especially those that are showing aggression like this big fella”.

Rangers from the Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission (FWC) were dispatched to investigate after a call from the sheriff’s office reported “crowds of onlookers stopping to take photos of the bear”, which was sitting beside a telegraph pole.

An FWC spokesperson said in a statement that by the time its officers and biologists arrived, “the bear had dispersed and walked off into the adjacent woods”.

It said that, based on images shared with staff: “The bear did not appear to be injured. It may have just been overheated and was resting before moving on.”

Black bears are a common sight in many areas of Florida, especially in the spring and summer when juveniles begin to leave their mothers’ home ranges and seek out new habitats.

“Typically, bears will move along on their own. If you see a bear, give it space, don’t try to approach it, and never feed it,” the spokesperson said, pointing to the advice website bearwise.org.

“Crowding around any bear is never recommended, as bears can become defensive when threatened. Always give bears as much space as possible.”

In February, a homeowner in Santa Rosa Beach recorded a video of a black bear walking through her yard and knocking on the front door. Other recent encounters elsewhere in Florida have included a bear touring the campus of the University of Florida in June; and the capture and relocation of a black bear in May after it was spotted roaming Fort Myers downtown. Authorities said in every case the bear involved was looking for food.

There are an estimated 4,050 black bears living in the wild in Florida, according to FWC figures.

Last month Ron DeSantis, the state’s rightwing Republican governor, signed into law a controversial bill that allows the public to shoot and kill bears for a perceived threat to “a person, pet or dwelling”.

The legislation was drawn up by the Republican state congressman Jason Shoaf, a keen hunter according to his biography, who claimed in February that “bears high on crack” were breaking into people’s houses and “tearing them apart”.

At the time the Guardian was unable to find a single documented incident of any bear in Florida ingesting crack, and Shoaf did not return a request for clarification.