Ocean

Oceans are different, sir. They cover really a lot of countries. Please don't ask us to do that.

— Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, responding to Trump's request to rename the Atlantic Ocean (as recounted by Trump).

We need an ocean. So I was thinking, if either the Atlantic or the Pacific, we call it Trump Ocean or Ocean of the Americas, something like that.

— Said by Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee

Thursday is the day to prepare and get ready and be in your safe place by tomorrow as conditions will rapidly deteriorate along the northern Gulf Coast as Isaias approaches.

— Michael Brennan, director of the National Hurricane Centre in Miami, during a briefing on Isaias' approach to landfall

"The Danish government and the Greenland government will maintain sovereignty over Greenland’s territory, but the US will have essentially veto power over what other countries are able to come to the island," said Al Jazeera correspondent Rosiland Jordan reporting from UN Headquarters in New York.— Rosiland Jordan, Al Jazeera correspondent, reporting from UN Headquarters in New York

At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America, Trump wrote.

— Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post about the Greenland deal

Both these guys need to be awarded with the Padma awards.

— Chinmayi Sripaada on X (Twitter), reacting to Bittu Tabahi's river-cleaning story and the Padma awards discussion.

Europe is delivering. We are expanding our cooperation to new areas, from better, faster connectivity and clean energy to critical raw materials.

— Ursula von der Leyen said during her two-day visit to Nuuk, Greenland, to reaffirm the EU's support for the Arctic and expand cooperation into new areas, including connectivity, clean energy and critical raw materials.