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Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the Nobel prize for literature in recognition of 'her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature'

'Extraordinary achievement'

Anne Carson's Nobel literature prize 'a proud moment for Canada': PM

(L-R) Sam Richardson, Arturo Castro, Jessica Biel, Teyonah Parris y John Cena at Comic-Con in California

Toy car nostalgia

John Cena and Jessica Biel hit the gas in 'Matchbox: The Movie'

Cybersecurity firm Asymmetric Security said it could not determine whether OpenAI's AI agents deliberately covered up their activity after gaining unauthorized access to government website

$20 billion less than expected

OpenAI revenue gap report rattles AI stocks

'Generation anger': students are angry about absent teachers and the poor condition of many schools

France pledges more teachers after school students vow no let-up

A security person wearing a face mask looks out from the door of an infectious diseases hospital in the town of Shelekhov, where an employee of the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute had died on October 7, 2026

Doomsday preppers

Unproven 'cures' pushed online amid plague concerns

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and UK foreign minister Ed Miliband visited the site of a Russian strike in Prluky

Targeting civilians

Russian strike on buses kills 30 in frontline Ukrainian city

Increased fuel prices in Nigeria have driven up the cost of fares for commuters, as well as food and goods throughout the wider eocnomy

Raft of measures

Nigeria looks to ease fuel prices as election looms

Several cars were torched in Durban after clashes erupted between protesters and foreign nationals

Protests, clashes as S. African anti-migrant tensions reignite

US President Donald Trump presents the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk

Modern-day Edison?

Trump gives 'national treasure' Musk top US medal after rift

The Houthis control Yemen's capital Sanaa and most of its major population centres

Echoes of explosions

Saudi kindergarten hit by debris as Houthis say Riyadh airport targeted

Nicolas Maduro and wife Cilia Flores were captured in a US military raid in Venezuela

Mounting criminal case

Venezuela's Maduro, wife hit with new US torture charges

US Vice President JD Vance speaks alongside (L-R) White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, US Attorney General Todd Blanche and US Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling

'Got to hire American workers'

US suspending Microsoft from visa program: Vance

This picture provided by NASA shows Crew-12 landing in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles on October 8, 2026

Enter the Dragon

Crew splashes down after 8-month mission on International Space Station

Britain's former prince Andrew, pictured in London in September 2025, was stripped of his titles over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Linked to Epstein

Ex-prince Andrew raid warrants ruled 'unlawful' but UK police maintain probe

A US Air Force B-1 Lancer bomber is seen on the tarmac at RAF Fairford base in southwwest England as UK counter-terrorism police investigate an incident in a nearby village after arresting five men

Second incident in two weeks

Two Latvians arrested inside UK military base: police

Yandex is Russia's largest technology company

Unverified images

Russian data centre hit by drone in first for Ukraine war

The Benin team's flight to Argentina took not hours but days

Chaos behind the scenes

Argentina friendlies no fairy tale for African footballers

Martin and Debra Robinson, parents of Jake and Callum Robinson, travelled to Mexico for the trial of their alleged murderers

High-profile case

Verdict due in Mexico trial over murders of Australia, US surfers

Anne Carson was deeply influenced by Hellenic literature, which she was introduced to in high school

Nobel Prize winner

Anne Carson: modern takes on Greek classics

Russian strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed at least two people and caused fires in the city

Infrastructure strikes

Russia forcing Kyiv into 'survival' mode before winter, mayor tells AFP

Senegalese football federation president Abdoulaye Sow said he hoped that 'sports law' would be upheld

CAS opens hearing into Senegal AFCON title appeal

A fan displays a flag bearing the image of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona outside the court on October 8, 2026

'Abandoned to his fate'

Closing arguments begin in Maradona death trial

'Murdered by the rent-seekers and their paid-for politicians on the payroll'

'The country's grandmother'

'Stunned' Madrid mourns pensioner who sparked housing protests

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has confirmed he will stand for reelection in 2027

Reversing previous decision

UEFA president Ceferin to stand for re-election in 2027

More than 1,400 people were killed and 5,000 remain missing after catastrophic floods hit Nepal in August -- and a new study Thursday warned nearly 300,000 people face similar risks

Following August catastrophe

Nearly 300,000 Nepalis at flood risk: study

The main offices of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, one of the the oldest banks in the world, in Siena, Tuscany

World's oldest bank

Bid by Italy's Intesa bank to take over MPS gets boost

European nations have increasingly turned to liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipped by sea, unloaded at ports, regasified and fed into the distribution network

Energy constraints

EU okay for winter despite 'historically low' gas stocks: operators

Convicted US murderer Christa Pike, whose execution has been stayed

Surviving two lethal doses

Woman in botched US execution walking, mentally 'foggy': lawyer

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