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Sweltering temperatures have long hit Lagos during the dry season but now rising fuel prices make it more expensive to stay cool

'The sun is too hot'

Nigeria sweats in heatwave as Iran war drives up costs to stay cool

Moo Deng (R), a female pygmy hippo who became a viral internet sensation, eats birthday cake with her mother at Thailand's Khao Kheow Open Zoo in 2025

Internet sensation

Man fined $300 for entering hippo Moo Deng's pen: Thai zoo

NASA photograph showing the lunar eclipse witnessed by Artemis astronauts during their flight around the moon on April 6, 2026

Lunar flyby mission

'Pinprick of light': Artemis crew witnesses meteorite impacts on Moon

The border between India and Bangladesh cuts through the world's largest mangrove forest

Discouraging illegal crossings

India mulls reptile river guards on Bangladesh border

A man walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on April 8

Fourth known missile test in 2026

North Korea fires two rounds of ballistic missiles: Seoul military

A petrol pump along the A43 motorway near Muenster, Germany. Rising energy prices are a huge burden for the country's power-hunger manufacturers

Middle East war

German factory orders rise in February but energy shock looms

IATA says it will take months for jet fuel supplies and prices to normalise even with the Strait of Hormuz open

International Air Transport Association

Jet fuel supplies to take 'months' to recover from war disruption: IATA

KMT leader Cheng Li-wun said she hopes her China visit will 'plant the seeds of peace'

'For all humankind'

Taiwan opposition leader says China visit to sow 'seeds of peace'

A vendor displays morning newspapers at his roadside stall in Islamabad. Pakistan has emerged as a key intermediary between Iran and the United States to secure a temporary ceasefire and host negotiations to end the war in the Middle East

'Complex, high stakes feat'

How did Pakistan broker a temporary truce between Iran and the US?

Matthew Perry was found dead at his Los Angeles home in 2023 at the age of 54

Up to six decades in prison

'Ketamine Queen' to be sentenced over Matthew Perry death

Vietnam's "era of national rise" includes construction of the Trong Dong stadium in Hanoi

'Cannot accept low economic growth'

Vietnam's To Lam bets big on building blitz

A vendor displays morning newspapers at his roadside stall in Islamabad after Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islmabad would host negotiations between the United States and Iran

Achieving 'sustainable peace'?

Pakistan to host US-Iran ceasefire talks Friday

Morning Roundup

Ceasefire agreed with Iran, officer shot in Trier, and mobile phone fines

Demonstrators protested near the White House before the US and Iran agreed to a two-week truce to their conflict

Ceasefire deal, Israel continues Lebanon attacks

War in the Middle East: latest developments

US President Donald Trump said Iran would face 'complete demolition' of its civilian infrastructure if it did not accept a deal

Two-week ceasefire deal

Trump to AFP: Iran deal 'total and complete victory' for US

The uptake of solar around 2018 helped Pakistan avoid more than $12 billion in oil and gas imports up to February this year

Amid rising prices

Solar push helps Pakistan temper Gulf energy shock

Frankie Muniz returns to star in Hulu's 'Malcolm in the Middle' reboot

'Common coping mechanism'

Wave of nostalgia as 2000s TV makes a comeback

US journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in Baghdad last week

Kataeb Hezbollah

Iraqi armed group releases US journalist

Nottingham Forest's Igor Jesus (R) sits level as the Europa League's top scorer on seven goals

Chasing continental title

Forest's Igor Jesus eyes Europa League 'dream', Villa brace for Bologna in quarters

Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed his affinity for Saint Augustine, who was born and lived in what is now Algeria

Country's first visit by a Catholic pontiff

In Algeria, Saint Augustine's city anticipates Pope Leo's visit

Israel says it has struck the southern Iranian port of Assaluyeh, home to Iran's largest petrochemical facility

Far-reaching impact

Middle East war: global economic fallout

Bill Ackman says Universal Music's stock price has 'languished' despite the group's potential

Undervalued music giant

Pershing Square unveils transaction valuing Universal Music at 55 bn euros

UN Security Council mandates authorizing member states to use force are rare

Prepared by Bahrain

Russia, China veto UN resolution on reopening Strait of Hormuz

Donald Trump told a news conference that Iran 'could be taken out in one night'

Investors assessing Trump's latest deadline

Global stocks mostly fall ahead of Trump's deadline for Iran

This handout picture released on April 7, 2026, by NASA shows Earth drawing closer to passing behind the Moon, about six minutes before "Earthset," as seen from the Orion spacecraft on April 6, 2026

'We have been waiting for this'

Artemis and ISS astronauts share celestial call

US rapper and producer Kanye West is due to perform in Marseille on June 11

UK govt bars Kanye West, forcing cancellation of festival

Workers clean clean where Israeli-US strikes destroyed the Rafi-Nia Synagogue and nearby residential buildings in Tehran, according to local media reports, on April 7 2026

No sign of backing down

Iran says ready for anything after Trump warns 'whole civilization will die'

An Iranian court last year sentenced Jacques Paris and Cecile Kohler to jail on espionage charges their relatives say were fabricated

French couple head home after more than three years in Iranian jail

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