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

Championship leader Antonelli wins Italian Grand Prix

Gianni Infantino was first elected FIFA president in 2016

FIFA presidency

'Nothing has changed': FIFA confirms Infantino to run for re-election

The devastating August 26 floods in Nepal wiped out villages and killed more than 1,300 people

Tragic aftermath

UN's Nepal chief makes emotional plea for flood-ravaged country

Gianni Infantino was first elected FIFA president in 2016

Following controversies

FIFA confirms Infantino will run in presidential election

The Palestinian Football Association resumed activity after a nearly three-year pause due to the Gaza war

Bittersweet moment

With joy and grief, Palestinian football marks return

Indonesian firefighters on Borneo island are struggling to keep up with the blazes that have spread haze across the region

Shrouding communities in cloying haze

'Truly scared': Blazes outpace firefighters in Indonesian Borneo

The young maple replaced a tree damaged in the July attack on the Pride march

Planted in August

Vandals uproot Berlin tree commemorating Pride attack victims

German director Wim Wenders sparked controversy with his response to a question about the Gaza war at the Berlin film festival

Speaking in Venice

German director Wenders clarifies views on film and politics

China's Qinwen Zheng is the first qualifier to reach the US Open women's singles fourth round since Emma Raducanu -- who went on to win the title in 2021

Zheng stuns Keys as US Open upsets dim American hopes

US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is seen docked at Laem Chabang Port, near the city of Pattaya on September 3, 2026

Thousands of US sailors aboard

US aircraft carrier departs Thailand after port call

Acrid smoke hung heavily over Serian, seeping into homes and cloaking roadside stalls, as residents navigated an air-quality emergency fuelled by haze from Indonesia's fires

Haze emergency grips Malaysian Borneo town

The Great Helmsman, who died September 9 1976, is still very much a fixture in central Henan province's Nanjie -- often dubbed "China's last Maoist village"

China's memories of Mao fade to nostalgia 50 years after his death

Syria's new Islamist leaders have not officially prohibited importing alcohol but have imposed hefty new taxes and stricter rules on its consumption

Sobering reality: Curbs on alcohol in northeast Syria cause discontent

In the historic Japanese city of Kanazawa, craftsmen painstakingly shape and slice blocks of ice destined to chill negronis in some of the world's trendiest bars

Kanazawa craftsmanship

'Like a jewel': Japan's luxury ice revered by bars worldwide

Indian filmmaker Shaunak Sen's new documentary began as a "coping" mechanism after a shock cancer diagnosis

Indian Oscar-nominated filmmaker turns camera on his cancer

Rajendra Dawadi was inside his school near Nepal's Trishuli River with around 900 students last week when a colleague delivered an urgent warning

Principal's quick action

'The flood is coming': How a Nepal principal saved 900 students

The strikes marked the first exchange of fire between the United States and Iran in a month.

Latest exchange

US military strikes oil tankers as Iran vows tougher reprisals

Argentine President Javier Milei has seized on Washington's readiness to review its stance on the disputed Falkland Islands

Diplomatic tensions rise

Argentina threatens to sanction oil projects around Falklands

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his aides met the US envoys in Moscow

Witkoff and Kushner

US envoys put forward 'number of ideas' on Ukraine to Putin: Kremlin

British monarchs do not attend funerals of other heads of state per protocol, usually sending another member of the royal family to represent them

Prince William to represent King Charles III at Norway late King Harald's funeral

coverage of the The award was for Tato's work covering the 2025 Generation Z protests in Madagascar

Perpignan festival

AFP photographer wins top prize for Madagascar protest coverage

Czech sculptor Irena Sedlecka's statue of Freddie Mercury was adorned with flowers and balloons to mark his 80th birthday

Don't stop them now: fans party for Freddie Mercury's 80th birthday

Liam (left) and Noel's reconciliation was helped by the budding relationships between their children

Volatile relationship

New Oasis film captures band's frosty reunion

Miss Ethiopia Ruth Weldesilasie sees taking the stage in Vietnam as a way to serve the larger sisterhood of women, even if her own sibling is lost

Turning pain to purpose

Ethiopian Miss World contestant spotlights pain of sister's murder

Mourners wore shirts with the image of Ratko Mladic at a military commemoration for the late Serbian war criminal

Genocide architect hailed as hero

Commemoration held for late Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic

Robert Pattinson, one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, has now also turned to producing

Box office magnet Robert Pattinson appears in paedophile thriller

The waste was illegally buried or dumped in the central Lika region

Illegally dumped in pristine area

Tens of thousands of Croatians protest over hazardous waste

Charged by French prosecutors

Twenty-six former foster children accuse Moselle couple of sexual abuse

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