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Japan's Kei Nishikori will retire at the end of the 2026 season

Japanese tennis trailblazer Nishikori to retire at end of season

The US Supreme Court's decision makes it far harder to challenge electoral maps that dilute minority voting power

Electoral map scramble

'Uncharted': US court ruling shakes up battle for Congress

James Hitchcock was among the inmates who spent the longest time on death row in the United States

Lethal injection

Florida executes man who spent nearly 50 years on death row

US President Donald Trump is a self-confessed fast food fan

After assassination attempts

Wear a bulletproof vest? I don't want to look fat, says Trump

Spears shot to fame in the late 1990s but has largely stepped back from the music scene

Early March arrest

Britney Spears formally charged with DUI in California

News that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund will end its backing has raised doubts about the future of LIV Golf

PGA Tour golfers take wait-and-see approach amid LIV turmoil

Mattias Grafstrom, FIFA Deputy Secretary General, said high ticket prices for the 2026 World Cup reflect the reality of the market in North America

Anger over skyrocketing prices

FIFA to review ticket strategy for 2030 World Cup

Smoke from Israeli shelling on the village of Yohmor, seen from the southern Lebanese area of Marjeyoun

'Continuing Israeli violations'

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Former president Jair Bolsonaro, 71, was sentenced last year to 27 years behind bars for coup plotting over his attempt to cling onto power after losing 2022 elections to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Blow for Lula as Brazil MPs slash Bolsonaro prison term

FIFA President Gianni Infantino invited President of the Palestine Football Association Jibril Rajoub and Vice-President of Israel Football Association Basim Sheikh Suliman to stand alongside him, but Rajoub declined

Palestinian football chief slams Israeli official at FIFA meeting

Diana was one of the most famous people of the 20th century

Three-part series

New Princess Diana documentary promises her own words

Oil prices are at their highest levels since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022

Economic repercussions

Oil slumps after hitting peak, US indices reach new records

US President Donald Trump said the whisky tariff gesture was to 'honor' Britain's King Charles III

'Without hardly even asking'

Trump says lifting Scottish whisky tariffs to 'honor' King Charles

Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez announced a 26 percent wage increase to the so-called 'integral minimum income,' raising it from 190 dollars to 240 dollars per month

Difficult living conditions

Venezuela leader hikes minimum wage package by 26%

Biman Bangladesh Airlines CEO Kaizer Sohel Ahmed (L) and Boeing Vice President Paul Righi (R) exchange signed documents after signing the deal

Billion-dollar deal

Bangladesh signs biggest-ever plane deal for 14 Boeings

The pilot of an American Airlines flight operated by American Eagle celebrates landing in Caracas as the first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela in seven years Airport in La Guaira, La Guaira state, Venezuela on April 30, 2026. The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela in seven years arrived in Caracas on April 30, marking a new sign of a thaw after Washington deposed leftist leader Nicolas Maduro and resumed diplomatic relations following years of tension.

Thawing relations

First direct US-Venezuela flight in years arrives in Caracas

Elon Musk leaves the courtroom at the federal courthouse in Oakland

California trial

Musk grilled on AI profits at OpenAI trial

The reinstatement of the Miami-Caracas flight is a sign of change in US-Venezuela relations

After seven years of standstill

Venezuela opens arms to world with Miami-Caracas flight

US President Donald Trump has criticized European allies for failing to help with the war on Iran

Due to opposition to war

Trump mulls US troop cuts in Italy, Spain over Iran row

The flotilla set sail in recent weeks from Marseille in France, Barcelona in Spain and Syracuse in Italy

Interception operation

Israel says detained Gaza flotilla activists to be taken to Greece

Iranian film director Mahnaz Mohammadi poses next to the poster of her film "Roya" on April 29, 2026 at a cinema in Berlin, before the preview screening of the movie, during an interview with AFP. Already shown at the Berlinale film festival 2026 in the Panorama section in February, the film will be released in German cinemas on May 7, 2026. The film crew of "Roya," that is about the traumas endured by a political prisoner in Evin Prison in Tehran, called on audiences at the film’s German premiere to “not forget” the Iranian people. “The existence of the Iranian people today is like that of Roya,” the film’s heroine, “it’s not livable,” director Mahnaz Mohammadi, 51, summed up in an interview with AFP.

Political prisoners

At Iranian film's Berlin premiere, calls not to forget Iranian people

A sepia dun mayfly (Leptophlebia marginata) in Conde-sur-Risle, France

Dramatic decline

Drivers help study road-trip mystery: what became of bug splats?

Former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila greets traditional leaders after a meeting at one of his residences in Goma on May 30, 2025

Peace deal violations

US sanctions DR Congo ex-leader Kabila over rebel ties

The Venice Biennale is the world's leading art show and is held in the Italian city every other year

International art exhibition

Jury of Italy's Venice Biennale resigns over Russia row

Iranians gather at an eatery in northwestern Tehran. Despite an outward appearance of normality, many are under severe financial strain

Familiar rhythm

Routine returns but Iranians struggle to afford daily life

This undated handout photo from the Myanmar Military Information Team released on April 30, 2026 shows Aung San Suu Kyi (C) talking in an undisclosed location

'Designated residence'

Myanmar moves Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest

The street in Golders Green where a stabbing took place

Extra £25 million

UK PM urges country to unite against antisemitism after latest attack

Aung San Suu Kyi -- then Myanmar's opposition leader -- greets supporters during her father's 100th birthday celebration in February 2015

Myanmar's Suu Kyi back in the spotlight but still out of sight

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