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Mahathir Mohamad looks at the casket of his wife, Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, during her funeral ceremony on September 28

Malaysia's ex-PM Mahathir in hospital for observation

The "Fat Dogs of Delhi" contest, in the style of Alaska's annual Fat Bear Week, has turned Instagram into a virtual polling booth, attracting nearly 100,000 followers

India's fat dog vote goes viral

This handout photo from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) shows Oaka, undergoing training to become Australia’s next koala detection dog

Saved over 100 koalas

Paw-fect candidate: Australia finds new koala rescue dog

Kenya's Sabastian Sawe defended his London Marathon title in a new world-record time of 1hr 59min 30sec

Under two hours

'No limits': Marathon world record holder Sawe chasing history

South Africa have been drawn in a pretty easy pool as they bid for a third successive Rugby World Cup title in 2027

12 months to go

Countdown begins to biggest-ever Rugby World Cup

Long known as a tourist hotspot, South Pacific nation Fiji has in recent years emerged as a major cog in the international drug trade.

Ongoing investigation

Thieves swipe drugs under nose of Fiji police, swap with flour

Dhaka University students walking across campus in the Bangladesh capital. Women are securing a shrinking share of public sector jobs in the Muslim-majority nation of 170 million people.

'Can't continue'

Bangladesh women lose ground after quota reform

A North Korean guard post on the North side of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas, is seen from the border city of Paju

Following recent incident

South Korea demands North apologise for DMZ mine blasts

The Red River flows against the backdrop of a residential area in Hanoi

'If they want to do it, they will do it'

Vietnam admits 'differing opinions' on Hanoi development

Principal Madhav Lamichhane instructs students during a class at Neelakantha Secondary School following the August 26 flash flood. Each morning teachers are served a painful reminder of the disaster as they call out names of children who never came back

Over 5,000 still missing

In Nepal's flood zone, teachers mourn students who never returned

Des policiers montent la garde près d'un avion transportant des migrants expulsés des États-Unis, à l'aéroport international Roberts de Harbel, près de Monrovia, le 20 août 2026 au Liberia

US Supreme Court lifts limits on third-country deportations

In free-trade deal

New Zealand denies breaching climate commitments to EU

Lonely path: Minas, one of only two primary school pupils left on the Greek island of Thymaina

Island of Thymaina

Pirate island's plunging population shows Greece's demographic decline

This year's ozone pollution was fuelled in part by record-breaking heatwaves and wildfires

Ozone pollution

One third of world population exposed to harmful air pollution: monitor

Election candidates canvassed at a harvest festival in eastern Latvia

'This is a separate culture'

With elections ahead, Latvia's Russian-speakers reject Moscow's help

Flamengo, the reigning Libertadores and Brasileirao champion, has the biggest sponsorship deal in South American football history with Betano, worth $46 million

Brazil football clubs face massive sponsorship blow from betting ban

A Palestinian man sits on the rooftop of his house as he looks at a newly established Israeli settler outpost in Burqah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

'Hilltop Youth'

West Bank's violent settlers part of a new generation fuelled by ideology

US President Donald Trump says tech bosses have signed a non-legally binding agreement to regulate themselves on AI

Calls for stronger industry oversight

Trump touts AI boss pledge to self-regulate

Wildfires in Indonesia are blamed in large part on slash-and-burn land-clearing practices that result in the destruction of fire-resistant forest cover and the draining of peatlands

'Protect our forest'

Women fight fires and sexism in Indonesian Borneo

Floodwaters inundated Puerto San Carlos and other towns along Mexico's Pacific coast on Baja California peninsula with the arrival of Hurricane Polo

'It barely brought any rain'

Hurricane Polo sweeps over Mexico's Pacific coast, heads inland

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin (L) and FIFA president Gianni Infantino (R) are in open conflict

'We are custodians, we are not owners'

FIFA boss Infantino blasted as would-be 'emperor' by UEFA's Ceferin

Graffiti reading "no future" in Arabic is depicted on a concrete block at the closed vehicle barrier of the Ein Sinya checkpoint at the northern entrance of Ramallah

'No justification'

Settler attack on West Bank village injures Israeli forces, drawing rare rebuke

Lamine Yamal has three goals in two Nations League outings

Spain brush aside Croatia in Nations League, England down Czechs

Rebeca Grynspan, Costa Rican economist and Secretary-General of UNCTAD, appeared to be taking the lead in the race for the United Nations secretary-general position

10 favorable votes

Grynspan pulls ahead in race to lead UN: diplomat

Manchester City have said they will appeal the Premier League's decision

Breach of financial rules

Premier League confirms Man City guilty of serious financial breaches

Haiti has been wracked by deadly gang violence with swaths of the Caribbean country controlled by heavily armed criminal syndicates

Deadly gang violence

UN Security Council extends Haiti anti-gang force by 6 months

Manchester City's then-manager Pep Guardiola (R) with the club's Emirati chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak at the presentation of the Premier League trophy in 2023

Facing sanctions

Who are the Emiratis behind crisis-hit Manchester City?

Five-time Grammy Award winner and newly cemented Hollywood Walk of Fame honouree Angelique Kidjo was in Johannesburg for a jazz festival

'We have to be focused'

Singer Angelique Kidjo urges Africans to 'create together'

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