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(FILES) Hong Kong canto-pop star Anita Mui takes part in a press conference at a hotel in Hong Kong on September 5, 2003.

'Madonna of Asia'

Late superstar Anita Mui's ashes missing in Hong Kong

The IMF has warned that low-income, oil-importing countries with no exposure to the AI boom are the most vulnerable to the current energy price shock

Disproportionate impacts

'No choice': IMF says developing countries must cut spending despite war shock

Morning Roundup

Ukraine ready for energy ceasefire and elections, EU budget talks loom, and fake pension text warning

This picture taken on October 3, 2026 shows South Korea's players singing the national anthem at the Asian Games

Gold medal winners

Boasting South Korea footballers spark rethink of military service exemptions

Indian security personnel detain demonstrators in New Delhi

Tough security crackdowns

India youth shift tactics as police clamp down on election protest

A member of Mexico's National Guard stands on the Puerto Vallarta boardwalk as waves crash against the shoreline

Fueled by El Nino

Five dead as Hurricane Simon, Rachel pummel Mexico's Pacific coast

A volunteer firefighter looks at smouldering peatland in Benipis, Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan

Armageddon landscape

Damaged and drained, Indonesia's peatlands go up in smoke

Wildfires in Indonesia have belched out suffocating haze that has crept over into neighbouring countries and caused tens of thousands of respiratory illness cases

Low-cost carrier

Malaysia's Firefly extends flight cancellations due to haze

Can Gianni Infantino secure re-election as FIFA president despite facing months of criticism for his now-aborted plan to allow private investment into the World Cup?

Retains Africa and South America support

Infantino could pull off 'Houdini' act as critics struggle for candidate

Pope Leo XIV says the lump in his lungs was caught early

Pope to be admitted to hospital for lung operation

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray in a synagogue in Arad on October 1, 2026. As Israelis prepare to vote in parliamentary elections on October 27, tensions in Arad have become a microcosm of a broader national debate.

Ahead of Israel vote, desert town becomes frontline against ultra-Orthodox expansion

Theo McFarland in action for Samoa at the 2023 Rugby world Cup

Samoa's McFarland welcomes 'massive' arrival of ex-All Blacks for World Cup run-in

A forest fire Brzail's Amazonas state, which recorded nearly four times more fire hotspots this September than the year before

Record breaking weather event

El Nino Watch: the impacts around the world this week

Manchester City return to the Champions League for the first time since a guilty verdict on Premier League charges

Both in fine form

Man City, PSG clash at contrasting time for state-backed projects

The shooting took place at Joseph-Lakanal middle school in the southern town of Aubagne

Teenager shoots headmaster, teacher at French school

A flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft is pictured on the tarmac after landing at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday

'Consistently preached peace'

Melbourne imam denies links to suspected flydubai hijacker

Storm waves created due to Tropical Storm Rachel crash into the boardwalk and homes in Long Beach, California, on October 11, 2026

'Devastating' waves leave California beach homes on brink of collapse

Tom Cruise has promoted 'Digger' heavily all over the world

Inarritu comedy

Tom Cruise's 'Digger' tanks, leaving studio with $250 mn hole

Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico pushed back against an online conspiracy theory that he had secretly checked into an Ohio mental health facility

US Senate candidate

Talarico rejects mental health conspiracy theory after return from flu

Jair Bolsonaro remains the leader of his political movement and selected Flavio Bolsonaro to run for president in his place

Serving time for coup

Brazil presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro to visit jailed father

Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham called for 'positivity' and hope

British airbase plot 'almost certainly directed' by Iran Guards: UK PM

Brazilian Catholics revere the country's patron saint, Our Lady of Aparecida

Brazil's patron saint reappears in polarized election campaign

Announcing the 2026 Nobel economics prize winners Robert Hall and Michael Woodford at the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Monday

Monetary and fiscal policy

Americans Hall and Woodford win economics Nobel for stabilisation models

Pope Leo XIV says the lump in his lungs was caught early

Recovery to last a week

Pope to enter hospital on Tuesday for lung operation

In this video grab taken from footage broadcast by the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) via the Parliament TV website on October 12, 2026, Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham makes a statement in the House of Commons

Improving relations

'Status quo' with EU 'not good enough', UK PM says as summit date set

Intermarche was one of the groups affected

Over 300 shops affected

French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack

Riot police stand behind burning trash as protesters and high-school students gather outside a high school in Toulouse, France

130 high schools remain closed

France braces for fresh student demonstrations as Macron calls for 'respect'

Rikers jail in New York has long had issues of violence, overcrowding and unsanitary conditions

Missed deadline

New York's notorious Rikers jail awaits elusive closure

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