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Fuel mix-up at Wittlich petrol station causes damage to several vehicles

Update: second body found, likely father

Child's body found nearly two months after disappearance of boy and father in Belgium

Playing with bricks at a World Cup display at the Legoland in Carlsbad, California, last June

World's biggest toy maker

Lego net profit up 32% in first half, 'stronger than expected': CEO to AFP

Economists expect government spending to boost German growth this year

Rose faster than estimated

German GDP growth revised upwards, defying Iran war turmoil

Ren Zhong, the husband of detained pastor Wang Cong, reads a copy of the Bible and prays with his daughter Huanle at their house in Beihai, southern China's Guangxi province on July 29, 2026. Last October, Chinese authorities detained more than 20 of Zion's members, one of a series of similar clamp downs across the country recently. Zion Church is one of China's largest "underground" churches at which some Christians choose to worship instead of government-regulated ones.

Families of detained Chinese Christians cling to faith in legal limbo

Britain's record summer heatwave has burnt the grass at Hampton Court Palace

Following record summer

Trees 'giving up': climate change hammers historic English gardens

Members of the Korean Metal Workers' Union shouts slogans during a joint strike rally in front of the Hyundai Motor headquarters in Seoul on August 21, 2026.

On wages and bonuses

Hyundai reaches tentative deal with workers after strike

Mariam Bagayoko has spent decades bringing age-old Malian music to audiences around the world

Still sweeps across stage

Malian songbird keeps age-old sounds alive at 88

The planned phosphate dredging project would operate 120 kilometres off Namibia's Atlantic coastline

Granted environmental clearance

Namibia paves way for phosphate mining in the Atlantic Ocean

Morning Roundup

Frieden in Kyiv, manslaughter charge following hit-and-run, and Saudi Arabia to invest €6 billion in French theme parks

The collapse of trade talks between the US and Canada has been followed by defiant talk from both governments

'These challenging times'

Canada to announce response to Trump's new tariffs

The Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route for the world's oil, is a major source of contention between the United States and Iran

Largely paralysed

Six months into Iran war, Hormuz traffic way down, sailors stranded

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long cast Iran as an existential threat to his country

Inconclusive hostilities

Netanyahu got his Iran war, but maybe not his desired result

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that Iran wants to make a deal

Impromptu press conference

Trump veers from boredom to denial after six months of Iran war

The sun sets behind the skyline of Kuwait City on August 13, 2026.

Once its saviour, US puts Kuwait in Iran's crosshairs

A phonebooth-sized refrigerator for humans launched this year but has proved popular in Japan

Phonebooth-sized machine

Cool Japan: Human fridge chills workers in extreme heat

Several major music industry organisations have unveiled a labelling system for content created with generative AI that they would like to see widely adopted

Australia's top music charts ban AI songs

A burned home smolders after it was destroyed by the Hawk fire in Reno, Nevada

Under evacuation orders

Tens of thousands flee fire near US city of Reno

Roger Federer is preparing to take a curtain call from New York tennis fans, four years after his retirement from the sport

Federer looks forward to brief return to Arthur Ashe stadium

According to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the dispute with the nation's largest trading partner was not just about tariff demands but what he called unacceptable 'threats' to the French language and 'Quebec culture'

Cultural differences

How the French language contributed to the US-Canada trade war

At a press conference in Bogota, Human Rights Watch discussed its report accusing Facebook and TikTok of failing to stop child recruitment online by Colombian armed groups

Human Rights Watch reported

Facebook, TikTok promoted Colombian armed groups' content to recruit children: HRW

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa led the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham armed group that was once designated a global terrorist organization by Washington, and he has been feted by the United States since HTS overthrew Syria's ruler in 2024

Rescinding decades-old designation

US removes Syria from state sponsor of terrorism list

Morgan Rogers (R) put Chelsea back in front on his debut after becoming the most expensive British player in history

Alonso makes winning start with Chelsea as Rogers scores on debut

US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent threatened to take tough action against countries that engaged in transactions with Iran, but his speech was thin on specifics

Iran responds with defiance

US vows 'economic asphyxiation' of Iran with new sanctions

The water levels on Lake Mead are now just above the threshold at which electricity production would be affected

Originates in Rocky Mountains

Nevada sues US govt over cuts to Colorado River access

This photograph taken on August 24, 2026, shows a damaged structure after a tornado struck Pomas, southwestern France.

In Aude department

Tornado tears through French village, dozens injured

Burnham has arrived in Kyiv for his first trip abroad since taking office

Ukraine's allies pledge to continue support despite Russian threats

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said there was 'a chance we may have a deal today or tomorrow' reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Crushing financial operation

Oil prices fall as Bessent outlines new steps to punish Iran

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