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US Ambassador to Luxembourg Stacey Feinberg in conversation with RTL, 8 September 2026.

Approaching one year in office

'Stay tuned': Ambassador Feinberg says more to come after securing US–Luxembourg flight

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court overturned a presidential pardon granted to Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara and ordered him to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for intimidating the wife of a missing cartoonist

Sri Lanka court revokes monk's pardon, orders return to prison

The Asian Games began with a Group B men's basketball game between Qatar and Iran in Nagoya

Weather challenges events

Asian Games begin with Qatar basketball win, nine days before opening ceremony

A woman deported from the US to Cameroon in an immigration crackdown shields her face with a mask as she poses for a photograph in Yaounde on September 9, 2026

'I was a bit afraid to go out'

'Hopeless, stuck, afraid': US deportees in limbo in Cameroon

Climate change is intensifying and lengthening spells of extreme heat and drought across Europe

'It's just a matter of habit'

Portugal harvests grapes at night to beat the heat

Mirabai Chanu trains at a gym in New Delhi ahead of the Asian Games in Nagoya-Aichi

India trailblazer won't 'let go' of chance for Asian weightlifting glory

Vehicles buried by mud and debris after a landslide swept into the parking lot at Fifth Station of Mount Fuji's Fujinomiya Trail

Mount Fuji ends hiking season with landslide, two rescues

Morning Roundup

Frieden at space summit, drone threat to Zelensky's plane, and interest rates set to rise

The ship's manifest had listed 134 passengers and crew

Philippine ferry fire kills 5, dozens missing

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed retaliation for Iranian strikes on US naval ships

Oil prices flare as Iran tightens grip on Hormuz

Emmanuel Fernandez, owner of an Argentine shoe factory, says the plant is operating at minimum capacity since President Javier Milei opened up the country to global competition

'The domestic market is dead'

Argentine industry reels from Milei's free-market revolution

Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina, already assured of rising to number one in the world after reaching the US Open semi-finals, faces Coco Gauff for a place in the title match

Ending Zheng Qinwen's run

Rybakina books US Open semi against Gauff, secures No.1 ranking

South Korean haenyeo Jin So-hee dives into the sea in the South Korean coastal town of Geoje

Seafood harvest

Women quit South Korea's grind for diving tradition

A six month-old leaf monkey that was intercepted by the Wildlife Crime Intelligence Unit at Suvarnabhumi airport

Exotic souvenirs

Online and undercover: saving trafficked wildlife in Thailand

A mining area believed to be the Man Maw mine, located in autonomous Wa State in eastern Myanmar, near the Chinese border

Suspended since 2023

Myanmar tin mega-mine restarts operations: think tank

In 1987, Sweden adopted a new strategy to distribute refugees more evenly across the country, and asked Sjobo, then a town of around 15,400, to take in around 15 people

Sjobo, cradle of Sweden's now-mainstream anti-migrant sentiment

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) and his wife, Jeanette Rubio, prepare to depart Quito, Ecuador and head to Peru for the third and final stop on his tour of Latin America

Shoring up conservative allies

Rubio defends anti-drug boat strikes, warns of cartel 'cancer'

Venice Film Festival organisers have selected several films about the Gaza conflict as part of this year's programme

Israeli-made film about Gaza civilian deaths to debut in Venice

Some coral species with fast-growing branches are planted onto "coral trees" that look like old television antennas and are suspended in the water column, with floats to keep them upright

As oceans warm, Florida scientists hunt for heat-resistant coral

Roy Thomson Hall is one of the main venues for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)

Stars ready for busy Toronto International Film Festival

The close economic relationship between Canada and the United States has fractured since Trump returned to office

David against Goliath

How hot can the US-Canada trade war get?

Pounding surf has created a sinkhole on one side of a multi-million dollar house in swanky Malibu that reports said belongs to Nicholas Cage

Celebrity real estate

Evacuations in Malibu after waves open sinkhole at Nicolas Cage's house

Ben Shelton and Carlos Alcaraz embrace as their record-breaking US Open quarter-final ends at 3:34am -- the latest finish in tournament history

As late as 3:34 am

'Not normal' US Open scheduling under-fire after late-night finishes

Ferran Torres scored a hat-trick as PSG thrashed Slovan Bratislava

PSG thrash Slovan in Champions League opener, Liverpool down Atletico

Ralph Lauren's Spring 2028 collection heavily features his signature navy blue and white color palette

Ralph Lauren opens fur-free New York Fashion Week

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled a long-term bond-buying program three times last month's level, but bond yields still rose

Three-year high

Bond yields jump despite $6 bn US government intervention

Thousands of Cubans took part in week-long celebrations of the island’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity

US-blockaded Cubans appeal to 'Cachita' for divine intervention

Oil prices exended losses after Donald Trump said Venezuela would ship millions of barrels to the United States

Brent oil passes $100 on Mideast flare-up, stoking inflation fears

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