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Matt Damon (L) and Anne Hathaway (R) star in 'The Odyssey' directed by Christopher Nolan

Legions of new fans

Nolan's 'Odyssey' boosts sales of mythology tales in UK

Morning Roundup

Schueberfouer preparations underway, Earth marks Overshoot Day, and strong wind warning from midday

Ukraine has heavily targeted the Black Sea territory

'Nothing scares us anymore'

Drones and blackouts inflict a tense summer on Russia-annexed Crimea

The boom results were posted despite South Korean stocks suffering a sharp sell-off on Wednesday as nervous traders unwound AI-driven bets

Frenzied demand

Samsung quarterly operating profit up 1,800% on AI boom

French teenager Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien arrives at the State Courts in Singapore on July 30, 2026

Public nuisance charge

French teen fined in Singapore 'straw licking' case

The Milky Way had a turbulent birth

Galactic archeology

Meet the astronomer digging into the Milky Way's 'fossils'

The head of the National Center for Digital Sexual Crime Response Kim Mi-Soon browses through their internal website in Seoul

'Digital sex crimes'

South Korea's women web sleuths fight AI deepfake porn

In this handout provided by Chautauqua County Jail, Hadi Matar poses for a mugshot after he was arrested for the assault of author Salman Rushdie

On-stage knife attack

Rushdie assailant convicted of terrorism charges

Populist NZ First leader Winston Peters told a lawmaker of Chinese descent to "go back to your own country"

'Go back to your own country'

New Zealand foreign minister in racism row with Chinese ambassador

Under Australia's online safety law, Telegram faces a maximum penalty of up to AU$54.6 million ($38 million)

'Complicity in terrorism'

Australian regulator says Telegram breached online safety law

It is not the first time US actor and singer Jared Leto has been accused of sexual assault

'Categorically false'

US actor Jared Leto denies latest accusations of sexual assault

There has been a furious reaction to FIFA's plans to sell a stake in the business operations of the World Cup

An attack on football

Principal reaction to FIFA's private investor plan

Kate O'Connor won Northern Ireland's first gold of the Commonwealth Games

Enjoying the pressure

O'Connor wins Commonwealth heptathlon as Australia set new record for swimming golds

Uganda's Aziz Abdul, grandson of Idi Amin, was disqualified from his Commonwealth Games boxing bout

Idi Amin's grandson disqualified from Commonwealth boxing bout

With a median age of 49.9 years, Japan has the second-oldest population in the world after Monaco, according to the World Bank

Low birth rate, ageing society

Japanese population below 120 million for first time in decades

A woman walks past a pharmacy in Havana, where Cuba's communist authorities have announced an opening of sectors of its economy such as petrol stations, medicine sales and electricity generation to the private sector

Shortages caused by US blockade

Crisis-hit Cuba opens pharmacies, gas stations to private firms

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to launch a cloud computing business that would rent out the company's vast computing power to outside customers

Cloud computing business planned

Meta misses profit expectations, sticks to massive AI spending

Hundreds of personnel are involved in the rescue operation at the quake-hit mall in Japan's Kashima, authorities say

7.1-magnitude tremor

Search for survivors after powerful Japan quake kills 13

Chair of the Federal Reserve Kevin Warsh told reporters that there was 'no magic wand' to lower inflation quickly

Oil prices surge while US stocks fall as Fed keeps rates unchanged

Chair of the Federal Reserve Kevin Warsh told reporters that there was 'no magic wand' to lower inflation quickly

'Patience running thin'

US Fed holds interest rates steady as 'family fight' sees hawks call for hike

An AI-generated video of former president Jair Bolsonaro is screened during the launch of his son Flavio's presidential campaign

Barred from making public statements

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro denies authorizing deepfake for election message

As OpenAI chief Sam Altman and tech tycoon Elon Musk battle in court, artificial intelligence rivals continue racing ahead with the technology

What could go wrong?

OpenAI says rogue AI agent attack hit other companies

Authorities Wednesday dismantled the crude, make-shift meth lab in Nigeria

International trafficking

Nigeria dismantles meth lab, but fears of Mexican cartel links linger

Campari's flagship plant at Novi Ligure in Italy runs at full capacity, producing several tens of thousands of bottles per hour.

Instantly recognisable, easy to export

Campari - king of the spritz - hopes to conquer American heartland

Tourists from the river cruises have gone, and only the occasional fishing boat negotiates the shallows

Squeezing fuel imports

Danube drops to 'historic lows' as fresh heatwave hits

Volunteers arrived on their own initiative to help fight the blaze

'Our land, our nature' burns

'I started crying': Battle to tame fresh blaze near French seaside

Dr. Anthony Fauci is sworn in during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2026

Former top US Covid expert Fauci declines to answer hostile Senate questioning

Portugal is selling up to 49.9 percent in TAP Air Portugal

Soon-to-be reprivatised

Air France-KLM and Lufthansa bid for Portugal's TAP airline

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