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Bryan Mbeumo (L) celebrates scoring for Manchester United at Everton

Headline-makers

African players in Europe: Mbeumo fires solo goal as United draw

Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz is through to the quarter-finals of the US Open after a victory over American Tommy Paul

'Super-human' Alcaraz books US Open quarter-final clash with Shelton

Thick haze from Indonesian forest fires obscuring an industrial site in Kuching last week. The Malaysian government on Monday lifted the haze emergency after air pollution levels dropped

Unhealthy levels of air pollution

Malaysia cancels haze emergency, but warns problems remain

This handout photograph released by the Nepal Army shows military personnel conducting a search and rescue operation at a hydropower tunnel site in Rasuwa, Nepal

13th day of rescue efforts

Nepal tunnel rescues face 'unprecedented' challenge

Solomon Islands' Prime Minister Matthew Wale meets with Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during the Japan-Solomon Islands Summit at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on July 23, 2026.

Parliament indefinitely adjourned

Solomons PM survives attempt to oust government

The tail section of a cargo plane is seen at Miami International Airport after it overshot the runway

Crashed and caught fire

Five dead, five injured after Amazon cargo plane overshoots Miami runway

Shohei Ohtani has not pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers for much of the latter half of the 2026 season

Two-way superstar

Ohtani 'unlikely' to pitch again this season, says Dodgers manager

Kim Jong Un has vowed my North Korea's navy a nuclear force

North Korea vows nuclear-armed navy as US ally drills open

Paris Saint-Germain captain Marquinhos with the Champions League trophy after the French club beat Arsenal on penalties in last season's final

Beginning of the league phase

PSG go for three in a row as Champions League returns

A growing body of global research suggests dogs can be trained to detect cancer and other human illnesses

Turning reaction to scent into data

Can dogs sniff cancer? AI joins the hunt in India

The European Central Bank is mulling its next move as inflation eases

ECB set to hike interest rates as Iran war flares anew

Computers inside data centers get hot and keeping them cool takes water

AI data centers are less thirsty now, tech giants say

Days-long clashes have erupted in Yemen over control of a gateway to the Red Sea in the deadliest fighting in the Arabian Peninsula country since a 2022 ceasefire between the two sides collapsed in July

Since ceasefire collapse

Toll from Yemen clashes passes 300 as civilians flee homes

Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Reddit are forbidden from creating or keeping accounts belonging to users in Australia under 16

Cracking down on big tech

Australians could opt out of social media algorithms under new law

Both Russia and Ukraine need to make 'compromises' for war to end, Witkoff told Zelensky

US envoys have 'more effective proposals': Ukraine official

'We have made history today,' said a jubilant Ulrich Siegmund

Far-right AfD claims crushing victory in east German state vote

Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, middle, threatened to up the intensity of Iranian strikes

Iran threatens greater force if US launches more attacks

Jubilant scenes erupted at a post-election party in Magdeburg, capital of the state of Saxony-Anhalt

German AfD supporters jubilant at far right's thumping win

Indonesia halted operations at its main international airport outside Jakarta after ash spewed from the Anak Krakatoa

Outside Jakarta

Indonesia's main airport suspends operations after volcanic eruption

Arsenal's Martin Odegaard scores the winner against Chelsea

Emphatic response

Arsenal deliver statement fightback to end Chelsea's flying start

Alina Marazzi was among the directors using journalism as her subject

Focus on journalism

Venice festival turns gaze on war reporters, media industry

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's top candidate for the regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, waves during a moped ride in Jessnitz, eastern Germany on June 28, 2026

'We have made history today'

Smiling face of Germany's far-right AfD: Ulrich Siegmund

Israel attacked a site in the southern village of Arab Salim it said was a Hezbollah facility

Lebanon president calls for US help as Israeli strikes kill 7

Kimi Antonelli is the first Italian winner at Monza since Ludovico Scarfiotti in 1966

First time in six decades

Sensational Antonelli wins Italian GP from back of grid

Sarandon said some agenices were telling people not to hire her

Over criticism of Israel's war

Susan Sarandon says still losing roles over Gaza stance

De Spëtzekandidat vun der AfD Ulrich Siegmund, hei zesumme mat senger Fra, huet zu Tangermünde seng Stëmm ofginn

Historic turnout

AfD at 41% in Saxony-Anhalt election with sights on first far-right state government post-WWII

Flash flood survivors rest inside a relief shelter at Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district on September 6, 2026. Sheltering with relatives or in temporary camps, survivors of devastating floods in Nepal say they can no longer rebuild their homes after the landscape was violently transformed, leaving them focused simply on survival.

5,500 people missing

Nepali rescuers buoyed by miracle finds but tough conditions persist

Kimi Antonelli bedcame the first Italian to win the Italian GP since Ludovico Scarfiotti in 1966

Championship leader Antonelli wins Italian Grand Prix

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