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Jay Clayton, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on his nomination to be Director of National Intelligence, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, in July

Wall Street lawyer

Trump confirms national intelligence chief as new AI czar

Bobby Vylan crowd surfs while performing at Glastonbury in June 2025, which 210,000 revellers attended

Despite high prices

UK's Glastonbury festival tickets sell out in 45 minutes

Performers take part in the closing ceremony of the 2026 Asian Games

Controversial edition

Asian Games close in Japan after records, rancour and rain

Latvia's Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs reacts as he waits for the first exit poll results of the general election during his Apvienotais Saraksts (United List) party’s election night in Riga on October 3, 2026.

Not expected to change country's course

Pro-Europe Latvian PM wins poll dominated by Russia, social worries

Nutthanit Duangmusit, 24, spent several months in pre-trial detention before being convicted under Thailand's strict royal defamation law

'We were angry'

Fifty years after massacre, Thai youth still fight for right to dissent

Le Pen (L) has shown Bardella (R) her full support until now

Jordan Bardella

Future of French far-right star in balance after antisemitism claims

South Korea's Lee Gi-hyuk at the World Cup

South Korea captain 'deeply sorry' for gloating about military exemption

'Ukraine needs all our support,' said Friedrich Merz

'Ukraine needs all our support'

Germany's Merz in Kyiv for talks with Zelensky

The word 'HELP' has appeared on the dry lake bed

Lac des Brenets

Cry for help as French-Swiss lake dries up

Returnees were transported out of a Myanmar Navy base in Thanlyin on Yangon city buses, some wearing T-shirts reading 'We love Myanmar'

'I do not hope for anything'

Myanmar migrants returned to war-torn nation from Malaysia

Activist Kaoru Morimoto checks the temperature in Nakano district of Tokyo, part of her campaign to boost the Japanese capital's tree cover to help with extreme heat

Following extreme heat

'Act before it's too late': Tokyo residents fight for more trees

Japan and South Korea battled for Games gold

'We worked so hard to get here'

'Disappointing' as South Korea flag mishap sees Games end on sour note

Convicted US murderer Christa Pike, whose execution has been stayed

US prison chief who oversaw botched execution resigns

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is made up of a string of low-lying atolls, scattered halfway between Australia and Hawaii.

'It's all dead'

Pre-COP host Tuvalu at frontline of climate change

China's Jiang Zhichao walks under an umbrella

Raising questions

'Chaotic' Asian Games threaten Japan hopes of hosting Olympics again

Nikoletta Pajsan Nagy sells paprika products at the annual town fair in Kalocsa

Following dry summer

Hungary's dwindling paprika producers battle to save signature spice

The planned data centres are part of an announced 13-billion-euro ($15-billion) investment in Finland

Finnish town braces for change from Google data centres

The Chi Pi fraternity house on the campus at Cornell University, where seven members are alleged to have committed gang rape against a female student in 2024

Cornell president vows review in wake of alleged student gang rape

The protests started in and around Paris but have spread to other cities, such as Brest, northwest France (pictured)

Students take to streets

What is fuelling French school protests?

Border Patrol agents process migrants who illegally crossed the US-Mexico near Eagle Pass, Texas

Trump administration

Without lawyers, migrant children face deportation from the US

The school for Gazan children was opened by a fellow displaced Palestinian

'Difficult and tragic'

In Egypt's Sinai, Gazan builds school for children displaced by war

Toyota has announced a $3.6 billion expansion of a San Antonio plant as it moves Tacoma pickup production from Mexico to San Antonio

'A partial win'

Trump tariffs a mixed bag for US auto industry

A facility belonging to Saudi oil giant Aramco south of Riyadh was ablaze on Saturday, with Yemen's Houthis claiming a strike

Yemen government forces say struck Houthi targets

"Behemoth!" tells the story of a cellist who moves to Los Angeles to care for his dying mother and escape an overbearing ex

Alex Serian's story

Music links past, present for Pedro Pascal's cellist in 'Behemoth!'

Brazil and India had never played before Saturday's friendly in Kolkota

Football friendly

Brazil shine on Selecao's first visit to India

Nigeria Fashion Week, held in Lagos since 2002, decamped to Abuja in 2026

Carnival-inspired

Boisterous fashion week barnstorms 'sleepy' Nigerian capital

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva toured the megacity of Sao Paulo on the back of a campaign truck, cheered on by a sea of red and vowing to 'defeat the far right'

'Sovereignty at stake'

Lula, Bolsonaro wrap up campaigns ahead of Brazil's knife-edge vote

'Right to a roof': there is growing anger over the cost of housing in Spain

Political setback

Protests over housing flare in Spain after relief measures rejected

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