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South Korea captain Son Heung-min talks to reporters at the Guadalajara Stadium in Zapopan, Mexico, on the eve of his side's World Cup opening match against the Czech Republic

Ahead of opening fixture

Son keeping 'fired-up' South Koreans calm as World Cup kicks off

Haiti have been forced to change their World Cup kit after it featured war imagery

Days before kick-off

Haiti forced to change World Cup kit over war imagery

Fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutans remain in the wild, scientists say

Climate change-fuelled storm decimated world's rarest great ape: study

The next edition of the Cape Town Marathon will take place in May 2027

Cape Town becomes first African World Marathon Major

Lyhanna's body was found last week after she went missing in southwestern France

Macron says trust in France institutions 'at stake' after girl's killing

US President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for the "Secure America Act" in the Oval Office of the White House

Caused by Iran war

"I love the inflation": Trump comment on latest price jump sparks backlash

Fireworks were set off around Barcelona's Sagrada Familia after Pope Leo XIV blessed its new tower

Wednesday's visit

Pope blesses new tower at Barcelona's Sagrada Familia

Canada's culture minister Marc Miller argued the new legislation would protect children from online harms

Digital Safety Act

Canada moves to ban under-16s from social media, regulate AI

Police use water cannon as protesters gather near a hotel previously believed to house migrants, in the town of Mallusk, north of Belfast, on a second night of disorder

Captured on video

Northern Irish police use water cannon on second night of protests

Pop icon Patrick Bruel has said he 'never forced a woman'

Two dozen women came forward

French pop icon Bruel charged with rape, sexual assault

Tech giants have been targeted by the EU for a number of allegedly unfair practices

Involving 17,000 organisations

Record lobby cash shapes EU pro-business agenda, campaigners say

This year's summer monsoon could be drier overall but still bring hazardous rainfall

Worsened by El Niño

South Asia monsoon risks both floods and drought: experts

Guantanamo Bay, on the southeastern coast of Cuba, is the site of a notorious US facility for prisoners detained after the September 11, 2001 attacks

Ramping up pressure

Pentagon chief visits Guantanamo, warns Cuba against threatening US

The first-ever World Cup match in Canada will feature the home side against Bosnia-Herzegovina in Toronto, a city home to a small but passionate Bosnian community

Small community

Toronto's Bosnians relish improbable World Cup showdown

Scientists said discovering a necropolis of this scale was completely unexpected

Bottom of Indian Ocean

World's largest whale graveyard discovered by Chinese sub

Trump appeared to be losing patience with the peace talks with Iran, after weeks of repeatedly saying the two sides were close to a deal

Schrödinger’s deal

Trump vows 'hard' new Iran strikes for 'playing us for suckers'

Hugo Boss may get a new boss if a buyout offer by Britain's Frasers Group is successful

Frasers makes 2-bn-euro offer for Hugo Boss

Upon arrival, Gates said he hopes his 'testimony is helpful to the work -- important work -- of the committee to find justice for the victims'

'I never met any women'

Bill Gates tells Epstein hearing he 'never victimized anyone'

Christophe Gleizes, 37, was arrested in May 2024 while travelling to northeastern Algeria's Kabylia region

Christophe Gleizes

FIFA accredits French journalist detained in Algeria: RSF

US President Donald Trump attends the 2026 World Cup draw and suggests the renaming of American football

FIFA Peace Prize winner

Trump says will attend World Cup

(L/R) NASA astronaut commander Randy Bresnik, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut pilot Luca Parmitano, NASA astronaut mission specialist Frank Rubio, and NASA astronaut mission specialist Andre Douglas, the Artemis 3 crew

Denies political influence

NASA head defends Artemis 3 crew of all men

SpaceX's Starship 39 rocket launches from Starbase during the 12th test flight as seen from South Padre Island, Texas, on May 22, 2026

SpaceX's historic IPO by the numbers

SpaceX is expected to begin trading later this week after an initial public offering that could shatter records

Between hype and concern

Norm-breaking SpaceX IPO a source of elation, angst on Wall Street

The pope said he preferred tennis to football

Ahead of World Cup kickoff, pope says life is 'played as a team'

England Test captain Ben Stokes

Huge controversy

England captain Stokes dropped from second Test after nightclub incident

Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard in Berlin on June 10, 2026

Enabled by Europe

Amnesty accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' of West Bank Bedouins

Pope Leo XIV is set to meet with victims of sexual abuse by clergy, as part of his visit to Spain

6-7, Bad Bunny, AI: Pope targets the young

A mock-up of the FCAS fighter-jet, a project that was scrapped this week by Berlin and Paris

Scrapped this week

German consortium hopes to build new fighter jet after FCAS collapse

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