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Witold Banka, President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), said his organization would not be naive about Russian athlete doping concerns

WADA pledges vigilance on Russian athletes ahead of 2028 Olympics

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope was launched in 2004, and was originally designed for a two-year mission

$30 million assignment

NASA satellite rescue mission fails

Ecuador's intelligence chief Michele Sensi-Contugi and his wife were among those killed in the Kenya crash

Ecuador intel chief, five Americans killed in Kenya helicopter crash

Khuliso Mudau reacts after South Africa lost to Canada in a 2026 World Cup second-round match

Mudau injury mars Mamelodi Sundowns victory

An election campaign billboard in Tel Aviv by the Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicts Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem, with Hebrew text reading "They want Netanyahu to lose."

Bombs base in Syria

As election looms, Netanyahu puts Turkey in Israel's crosshairs

View of dry soil at La Concepcion reservoir, near Honduras's capital Tegucigalpa, which has been placed under red alert for El Nino fueled drought

Livestock dying

Honduras places 80% of country on El Nino drought alert

The companies said they would present their data at an upcoming international conference and begin filings with regulators for approval

Possible breakthrough

'Breakthrough' mRNA cancer drug curbs melanoma in large trial

Bejar is the first witness to take the stand and has argued that the company prioritized profits over safety by encouraging people to spend more and more time on Facebook and Instagram

Former employee

Some of Meta's safety tools were 'designed to fail': witness

New Zealand rugby legend Sean Fitzpatrick poses before the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony in Paris

No margin for error

All Blacks must get 'everything right' to beat Springboks, says legend Fitzpatrick

(FILES) North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump cross south of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, after Trump briefly stepped over to the northern side, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019.

Trump says will meet North Korea's Kim later this year

The crisis has turned Fedorov into a symbol of the protesters

Calling for wartime elections

Kyiv's ex-defence chief makes risky bet by venturing into electoral grounds

Tijjani Reijnders made 50 appearances for Manchester City under Pep Guardiola

After just one season

Reijnders leaves Man City for Saudi's Al Qadsiah

Donald Trump defended planning to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un at the same time as the US president wages a war with Iran

First encounter in second term

Trump says will meet North Korea's Kim later this year

Pharmaceutical firm Amgen acquired the drug Tavneos in 2022

Treats rare autoimmune diseases

France recalls rare disease drug Tavneos after deaths

Close-up images of different human brain organoids that Harvard researchers grew in a lab for a record seven years

Peppercorn-sized clumps

Oldest human brain cells grown in lab 'recorded passage of time'

Amid training permit row

Cargolux subsidiary Aquarius AFF to move firefighting planes from Belgium to Austria

Japanese judge Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, was one of two top ICC officials targeted in the latest US sanctions against the Hague-based court

EU officials support Court

ICC says US sanctions 'flagrant attack' on court independence

Paris residents sweltered during a heatwave in June

Three heatwaves in quick succession

7,300 excess deaths and counting in France's historically hot summer

Firefighters worked through the night to close the gap and fully surround the fire, coming in from the east and north under very difficult conditions

Evacuation orders lifted in Belgian wildfire zone

President Volodymyr Zelensky named Yevgeniy Khmara, a widely respected career intelligence official

Popular predecessor

Ukraine MPs approve new defence minister after divisive reshuffle

Jason Arday, who was found dead in his London home on Friday, had resigned amid accusations of plagiarism and resume-padding

'Sustained campaign of abuse'

UK media skewered for 'hounding' black academic

Emergency services said they received more than 500 calls reporting cracks, falling debris and other earthquake-related incidents

Magnitude–4.8

Spain's Granada closes iconic Alhambra as new quake hits

Prisoner exchanges and repatriations of soldiers' remains have been among the few areas of cooperation between Russia and Ukraine

Russia, Ukraine exchange 103 captured soldiers each

Oil prices rose after a report said Iran would look to prevent US and Israeli vessels from using the Strait of Hormuz in any deal with Oman

Conflict widening

Iran warns Gulf countries against helping US after UAE cuts trade ties

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a selfie with a supporter as he arrives to cast his ballot during his Likud party's primary elections on August 17, 2026

Internal tension

As election nears, Israelis fear polarisation could spark violence

The Chinese government has embraced robotics as a strategic industry

Transformed by AI

Robots sort packages and serve fast food at Beijing showcase

Australia's Nick Kyrgios pictured in December 2024

Provisional suspension

Kyrgios admits 'huge mistake' after failing test for cocaine

The number of rough sleepers in England reached a record 4,793 in 2025, according to government figures, amid warnings this figure could increase by 25 percent by 2030

'It needs all of us'

UK PM launches bid to get rough sleepers off streets by Christmas

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