Florida Keys residents say they feel a strong sense of community and see a fast recovery as restaurants reopen and cleanup crews remove debris caused by the powerful storm that struck the state on September 10.

Several Italian Winter Olympians express their "emotion" after meeting Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. "The Olympics are ending, I think in the best possible way today... it was really emotional," says speed skater Arianna Fontana, who was part of a delegation of Italian athletes who competed at the recent Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics, visiting the pontiff.

A worker trapped for two weeks after a mine collapsed in northwestern Mexico is rescued by military divers. Rescuers continue to search for another miner who was trapped when the gold and silver mine in the state of Sinaloa caved in on March 25, trapping four men, killing two of them. Accidents are not uncommon in mines in Mexico, where some operate clandestinely or with substandard equipment and safety.

Environmental activists protested outside the Argentine Congress as lawmakers debated and later approved an amendment to the so-called Glacier Law, which authorizes mining in ecologically sensitive glacier and permafrost areas. Promoted by President Javier Milei, the bill opens the way for mining metals such as copper, lithium, and silver in frozen parts of the Andes Mountains.

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace pays tribute to the fashion of Queen Elizabeth II, in what is the largest display of her clothes ever mounted. The London exhibition runs until October 18 and marks 100 years since the late monarch's birth.

Cambodia unveils a statue of the landmine-hunting rat, Magawa, the only rat ever awarded the PDSA Gold Medal for animal bravery. The giant African pouched rat, originally from Tanzania, helped detect over 100 mines and other unexploded ordinance covering an area equivalent to 20 football pitches. Cambodia remains littered with mines, discarded ammunition and other arms from decades of war starting in the 1960s.