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Charged by French prosecutors

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

Hundreds of hydropower workers went missing since a tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept through the China-Nepal border

Two Nepal rescues revive hopes 10 days after flood

Industrial fire

Fifty firefighters tackle blaze at Trier harbour

"Portrait of a Lady" by Italian baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi (1655–1743) had been missing for eight decades when a Dutch newspaper spotted it in a real estate ad

'Portrait of a Lady'

Argentina ordered to return Nazi-looted painting to Jewish collector's heir

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is greeted by members of the local municipality as he arrives to visit the home of a Palestinian-American in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Turmus Ayya

In the Occupied territories

US envoy on West Bank visit says Israel has responsibility for Palestinians

De Professer Marcel Lewandowsky fuerscht un der Martin-Luther Universitéit Halle Wittenberg iwwer Populismus an autoritär Regimmer.

Interview with political scientist Marcel Lewandowsky

AfD poised for power in Germany, as CDU faces dilemma in Saxony-Anhalt election

A photo taken from a commercial plane shows haze from Indonesian forest fires blanketing a residential district in Kuching, the capital city of Sarawak state on the island of Borneo on September 5

As schools close

How haze from Indonesian fires impacts Southeast Asia

An Oasis fan sits in the sun waiting for the film's premiere on Saturday night

Ahead of premiere

Oasis fans gather in Venice for band reunion film

Hallgrimsson, who died in Denmark in 1845, was one of the founders of Icelandic romantic nationalism

Jonas Hallgrimsson

In Iceland, the mystery of the poet, the tomb and the Danish grocer

A handout photo from the Yayasan Inisiasi Alam Rehabilitasi Indonesia organisation and Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry shows a mother orangutan and baby being evacuated

West Kalimantan

Indonesia rescues second orangutan mother and baby from wildfire

Police secure the area around an army barracks after a powerful explosion that killed at least two people

'pyrotechnic material'

Bolivian army base blasts kill two, wound dozens

Trump said the US envoys had a 'proposal to end the war' in Ukraine

Witkoff and Kushner

Trump sends envoys to Moscow, Kyiv with new plan to 'end war'

Criticism has mounted over the management of an Argentina-run university residence in Paris

'Fear, control, surveillance'

'Mini-dictatorship': Students slam Argentina-run residence in Paris

Children receive treatment for measles, at Bangladesh Shishu Hospital & Institute in Dhaka on September 3, 2026

Deadly outbreak

Bangladesh measles toll nears grim 1,000-child mark

The disgraced banker stirring the pot in Brazil's Supreme Court

The Panama Canal is reducing the number of daily transits through the waterway due to a drought caused by El Nino

As drought worsens

Panama Canal begins reducing crossings due to El Nino

The arcade-style games and promotional content used by the Trump administration contain images that resemble games created by Tetris and other major game developers including Sega, Microsoft-owned Xbox and the Flappy Bird Foundation

‘Build the Wall’

Tetris distances itself from controversial White House 'arcade' games

Official estimates place the number of Mexican wolves in the United States at just 317

On the brink of extinction

Trump again seeks to remove protections for wolves

New look -- the Equal Earth global map

'More accurate representation'

Africa bigger, US smaller - UN adopts new map

A memorial cemetery on the outskirts of Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serb forces killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995

Srebrenica: Massacre that outraged the world

US President Donald Trump confirmed that he was sending Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Moscow and Kyiv

Kushner and Witkoff

Trump says envoys taking plan to 'end the war' to Moscow, Kyiv

Republicans in Congress have opened an investigation into nonprofit environmental groups over their lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump's agenda

'Radical lawfare campaigns'

US Republicans announce probe into environment groups

Lindsay Clancy, pictured here with her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, is on trial for the murder of her three young children

Spotlight on maternal mental health

Mistrial declared in case of US woman who killed her three children

A White House spokesman hailed the latest jobs report as "showing how Americans are benefitting from the Trump administration's pro-growth policies"

Led by few sectors

Job growth but record-high diesel prices -- Trump's midterms mixed bag

Giorgia Meloni, Italy's first woman prime minister, celebrated her government's record-breaking stint in power with a rally in the port of Bari

'Longest-serving in the history'

Meloni marks record in power with eye on 2027 elections

Edgar Davids in action for Spurs in 2006

Edgar Davids art thief misses sentencing after being 'knocked out by luggage'

Jessica Pegula of the United States edged Canada's Leylah Fernandez to reach the fourth round of the US Open

World number three

Pegula rallies to reach US Open fourth round

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage dismissed the latest revelations over funding as 'entrapment'

UK hard-right party rallies behind leader after new donation scandal

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