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A picture of Pope Leo XIV and candles are laid outside the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, where he is recovering after surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from his right lung

Recovery expected to take a week

Pope has 'good night' in hospital: Vatican

Left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders urged voters at a rally in Los Angeles to support the measure

Wealth tax previously rejected

California puts first US billionaire tax to the vote

Fernandez campaigned on a promise to crack down on the wave of crime sweeping what was once Central America's safest country

Once Central America's safest country

Costa Rica opens jail inspired by El Salvador mega-prison

A headscarf ban for girls under 14 in schools in Austria has sparked protests on the streets and in the classroom

Dozens of pupils refusing to comply

School headscarf ban meets resistance in Austria

Indonesia's women's football league restarts this weekend

'High hopes' as Indonesian women get a football league, again

Lawyers Ivan Novotny and Metod Spacek say many of their queer friends have already moved abroad

'Don't want to feel like second‑class citizens'

Same-sex couple takes fight for equality to Slovakian court

Ivory Coast's National Center for Agronomic Research wants to create a bean that can survive the unpredictable weather events unleashed by climate change

Future lies 'in research'

World's top cocoa producer aims for a climate-tough bean

Shell's Brazil subsidiary was sued by independent federal prosecutors and an NGO over its alleged responsbility for devastating 2024 floods in Brazil

A look at the details

Why is Shell facing lawsuits over climate disasters in Brazil and the Philippines?

A dentist checks a child's teeth at a mobile dental clinic inside a traditional Mongolian ger in Ulaanbaatar

Around 9 in 10 have tooth decay

Mobile clinics battle Mongolia's childhood dental 'disaster'

UNDP head Alexander De Croo warned that developing countries were being hit by economic shock after shock, with little room to address structural drivers of poverty

Repeated crises

'No time to recover': UNDP chief sounds alarm on growing poverty after Iran war shock

Australia's Federal Minister for Sport, Anika Wells said she formally introduced the "Digital Duty of Care" bill to parliament on Thursday

New legislation

Australia says won't let big tech have 'unfettered' access to kids

Gaga, who shot to stardom with her 2008 single "Just Dance", is very popular in Belarus and Russia

From protest to prison

Freed from Belarus, founder of Lady Gaga's biggest fan site tells his story

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

Online 'witch hunt' sweeps up Asians misidentified as US rape accused

The Bolsonaro surname awakens painful memories for Brazil’s Amazonian Indigenous communities

Watching with bated breath

Prospect of Bolsonaro win looms large over Brazil's Indigenous

Separatist groups have mobilized across Alberta to rally support behind independence for Canada's oil-rich province

Personal challenge for Carney

Oil-rich Alberta tests Canada's unity with secession vote

AI's carbon footpring will be in the spotlight at next month's COP31 climate summit in Turkey

'Comes down to how it is deployed'

Behind AI's carbon footprint, a potential climate tool

Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) and Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) officials examine an orangutan after it was rescued from a forest fire in Central Kalimantan province of Borneo on October 14, 2026

Critically endangered

Indonesia rescues starved orangutan from fires: officials

A new lab study by scientists at Stanford University finds that simply placing healthy, colorful coral in contact with their bleached counterparts is enough to bring the dying ones back from the brink

'Helping hands'

Healthy corals help bleached neighbors regain color: study

Newly appointed White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia gave a rocky first performance at the podium

Rocky first performance

Trump's new press secretary faces scrutiny over credentials

It was the second consecutive day of protests

Second night of violence

Government buildings torched in violent Albanian protests

Ousmane Dembele (L) celebrates with Achraf Hakimi after scoring Paris Saint-Germain's second goal in their 4-2 win away to Manchester City

PSG beat Man City in Champions League thriller, Barcola hits Liverpool hat-trick

Overnight attacks saw Kyiv face a barrage of powerful ballistic missiles and attack drones

Due to energy ceasefire

Ukraine accuses US of helping Russia as missiles hit Kyiv

The World Bank and IMF are holding their annual meetings in Bangkok this week, although Bessent has skipped the gathering and sent his deputy instead

Comment appears directed at China

US Treasury chief urges stronger IMF role against 'distortionary policies'

Pope Leo entered hospital smiling and waving

Lung cancer diagnosis

In Chicago, pope's hometown, Catholics express shock and support

Investors are awaiting the release of key US consumer price data, which is due later in the day

Previous day losses

US stocks fall after hot inflation report as leading AI shares tumble

The northern Peruvian city of Chiclayo, where Pope Leo XIV served eight years as archbishop, is praying for the pontiff's speedy recovery and hoping he will be able to visit as planned next month

Tour to be confirmed

Chiclayo prays for recovery and return of the 'Peruvian pope'

Yemen is one of the world's poorest countries

'No casualties or fatalities'

Houthis say targeted Saudi oil giant Aramco, vow more attacks

It is Leo XIV's first hospitalization since becoming pope last year

Pope out of bed, progress 'normal' after cancer operation

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