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Parts of Bangkok remain under water two days after authorities declared a city-wide flood disaster

As areas remain underwater

In kayaks or waist-deep in floodwater, shoppers return to Bangkok markets

Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart has enlisted Lady Gaga for a recruitment campaign

'Famima de hataraku?'

Japanese convenience store enlists Lady Gaga to bolster recruitment

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's disclosure last week that his country had sent two North Korean soldiers to the South, adding they were "not easy to capture alive", has sparked a row in Seoul

Seoul summons Ukraine envoy in row over North Korean POWs

Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting at the Paris Olympics

Chasing second gold

Taiwan gender-row boxer Lin Yu-ting guarantees Asian Games medal

Colombian police detain the wife of Adolfo Macias, alias "Fito," one of Ecuador's most powerful drug lords

Shell company investigation

Colombian police capture wife, daughter of Ecuador drug lord

File picture of athletes at the Asian Games

'Embarrassing situation'

More Asian Games woes as bus takes Pakistan team to wrong venue

Sea Isle City, New Jersey, was battered by a powerful autumnal storm at the weekend

As interferences grow

Radio frequencies vital to Earth observation must be protected: UN

South Africa grapples with persistent gun violence

Still no motive

Death toll in South Africa bar shooting rises to 18

Between January and July, more than 202,000 hectares were razed by fire in Indonesia

Over 168,000 hectares affected

The wildfires choking Indonesia, sparking regional haze

The comedian was arrested on July 3, bringing protesters onto the streets with signs saying 'Deniz Goktas is not alone!'

'Deniz Goktas is not alone!'

Comedian on trial for insulting Erdogan in standup show

Opposition figure Claudia Macero was welcomed by relatives after returning to Venezuela from exile

Cheered on by hundreds

Aide to Venezuelan opposition leader returns from exile

Among 1,400 participants

Luxembourger wins medal at WorldSkills competition

Demonstrators shout slogans against India's Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, demanding his resignation during a protest rally in Kolkata on September 25, 2026. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has been under scrutiny in recent months over the nationwide revision that has struck millions of names from voter lists since last year.

Amid controversy

Why India's opposition wants top poll official out

Fast and furious: India's 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

'The rain has ruined everything'

India, Pakistan on Asian Games collision course after cricket washout

The seas around New Zealand are populated with multiple species of seal, which do occasionally wander ashore

Nothing to seal here: NZ police help stranded pup home

Morning Roundup

Pope in Metz, Easyjet suspends Luxembourg-Lisbon, and scooter rider suffers memory loss

India’s P.V. Sindhu in action this year

Intense competition

'Hurting' badminton star Sindhu says Asian Games schedule 'took toll'

No flood-related deaths have been reported in Bangkok, where officials have declared a city-wide disaster

Over 500,000 housesholds impacted

Eight dead in Thailand floods since mid-September

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping after a visit with First Lady Melania Trump and China's First Lady Peng Liyuan after a visit the National Archives in Washington, DC on September 25, 2026

$30 billion in goods

White House releases list of products US, China could tax less

US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift was among the celebrities at this year's MTV Video Music Awards

Taylor Swift sets new record at MTV VMAs

Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd while riding in the Papamobile (popemobile) through the streets of Metz on 28 September 2026 on the last day of his visit to France.

Pope Leo XIV's visit to Metz

'Pink slime' outlets, many secretly backed by partisan groups, now outnumber US newspaper sites

'Pink slime' sites

'Pseudo-journalism': Partisan 'news' sites target US midterms

Voters in Washington DC will vote in November on a proposal to ban the sale of foie gras, the French culinary delicacy made from the enlarged livers of ducks

In Washington's political cauldron, a fight over foie gras

North Korea has cracked down on defections to the South which are now fraction of pre-Covid levels

'Currently impossible': North Korea defections in freefall

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a rare warning about AI

Anthropic CEO Amodei to dine with Trump at White House

Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva grew up in deep poverty, the seventh of eight children born to a family of illiterate farmers in the arid northeastern state of Pernambuco

Dominant figure

Lula, Brazil's political titan, races against time

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, pictured wearing a photo of his father's face, has struggled to break free of the shadow of the former president

'More moderate Bolsonaro'

Flavio Bolsonaro: political heir in his father's shadow

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

UK village on edge over threats to air base in terror alert

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