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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

Chicago White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami hits a two-run home run in a 3-0 victory over the Cleveland Guardians in game one of their MLB playoff series

Murakami homer propels White Sox to MLB playoff win over Guardians

A woman inspects debris in a heavily damaged apartment building following an Israeli strike in Gaza City that Israel said targeted the top Hamas leader in the territory

In pre-dawn strike

Israel targets top Hamas leader in deadly Gaza strike on anniversary

'There's been a lot of emotions' says Ireland's Icelandic head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson before the second UEFA Nations League football match against Israel

'A lot of emotions'

Ireland cut short news conference before Israel game

A flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft is pictured on the tarmac after landing at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday

'Radical indoctrination'

UAE investigators say flydubai co-pilot was planning 'terrorist act'

The firings come amid a tense debate about AI safety and whether the technology presents an existential risk to humanity

AI needs safety layers like nuclear plants: ex-OpenAI engineer

Tyson Fury wants Donald Trump by his side when he faces British rival Anthony Joshua

Fury to invite Trump to lead ring walk before Joshua showdown

Austrian fashion designer Andreas Kronthaler acknowledges the audience at the end of the Vivienne Westwood Women's Spring/Summer 2027 collection fashion show

'Things are not so secure'

Fashion industry in 'precarious moment', says Vivienne Westwood supremo

The newly discovered lizard (Liolaemus archipensis) was found in the high Andean puna

Liolaemus archipensis

New lizard species discovered in Peru

Tigrai TV's headquarters was hit by a drone on Sunday

Worrying situation

Ethiopia's Tigray rebels abandon regional capital as govt advances

Students seen walking through campus at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

'He is trying to expose her identity'

#IAmJaneDoe: online support campaign in US university rape case

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