What happened
Keir Starmer is under renewed scrutiny after the launch of a group within Labour that aims to steer the party's direction. Mainstream, which is backed by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham (pictured above), includes figures from Labour's left and centre, and is expected to play a role in the deputy leadership race triggered by Angela Rayner's resignation.

Who said what
Mainstream's founders said the network would push for bold but practical reforms, including scrapping the two-child benefit cap and financing the move through new levies on banks and gambling firms.

Labour's current problems will "exacerbate all the doubts about the PM and his ability to keep Labour in power", said Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian. The party is now "gasping for air", said Daniel Hannan in The Telegraph. Labour is obviously "losing some support to Reform UK", said The Independent's editorial board, "but it is also seeing its 2024 voters defect to the Liberal Democrats, Greens, SNP and the putative Jeremy Corbyn party".

What next?
As speculation mounts over Rayner's successor, Emily Thornberry – herself seen as a possible candidate – publicly rebuked the prime minister yesterday, cautioning that more errors might mean having to "hand our country to (Nigel) Farage".

What happened
Greece has announced a €1.6 billion (£1.4 billion) relief package to address a looming demographic crisis, with forecasts warning that by 2050 the nation's population could shrink by more than two million people and that more than a third of its citizens will be aged over 65. From next year the plan will introduce a 2% income tax cut across all brackets, full exemptions for low-income families with four children, new housing initiatives and pension increases. Incentives will also target the small rural communities and islands that have been hardest hit by depopulation. Officials say the measures are a response to low birth rates – currently 1.4 children per woman – and the level of emigration, both of which threaten economic growth and health services.

Who said what
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (pictured above) called the initiative "the boldest tax reform enforced in Greece in more than 50 years".

The Greek population is "on course to fall from the current 10.2 million to well under 8 million by 2050", said The Guardian. Greece's "near decade-long crisis has been widely blamed for the alarming drop", which has seen younger people suffering the greatest hardships under austerity measures.

What next?
The measures will take effect in January, with hopes that they will reverse the country's decline, encourage emigrants to return and strengthen long-term stability.

The Caribbean nation of Anguilla is a "small island with a big secret", according to travel site Skift. It holds "one of the most lucrative pieces of digital real estate in the world": the website domain name .ai.

When the internet was first carved into country codes in the 1980s, laying the "groundwork for the digital era", no one could have imagined that "two little letters" could have the power to change the fate of a nation.

But for an island that's home to fewer than 16,000 people, the assignment of its domain name has turned out to be a "hidden Caribbean goldmine" – lying dormant before becoming a valuable commodity.

After years of obscurity, Anguilla's domain has exploded in popularity. The "continuing boom" in artificial intelligence following the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 has led to increasing numbers of companies and entrepreneurs paying the island nation to "register new websites with the .ai tag", said the BBC.

But Anguilla isn't the first country to "cash in on the demand for websites with distinctive address endings", said The Associated Press. Perhaps the most successful case is the "chain of coral atolls and reef islands" that makes up the remote nation of Tuvalu, said The Washington Post in 2019. In 2018, the country profited to the tune of "$19 million (£14 million) in licence fees" from its .tv web domain – otherwise known as "the worldwide metonym for broadcast entertainment". And "thanks to the recent surge in streaming sites", it appears that its income stream won't be slowing down any time soon.