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Europe has been gripped by repeated heatwaves, drought and wildfires this summer

The summer climate change became scorching reality for Europe

Sri Lanka's Pasindu Sooriyabandara (L) reacts after beating a close run-out

Sri Lanka trail India by 238 runs in second Test

One million Afghan children are at risk from 'life threatening' malnutrition -- the UN has warned

One million Afghan children suffer 'life-threatening' malnutrition: UN

The winter sport of curling is finding new fans in Rome at a park in front of the Colosseum.

Curling attracts curious Romans under Colosseum's shadow

Sri Lanka's Pasindu Sooriyabandara (L) reacts after beating a close run-out

Sri Lanka trail India by 238 runs in second Test

UN and Red Cross leaders Antonio Guterres and Mirjana Spoljaric have issued a joint demand for a ban on 'killer robots'

Call for international regulation

World must rein in autonomous weapons: UN, Red Cross

'We have to further curb climate change,' said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the start of a cabinet retreat

Germany drawing 'long-term lessons'

Germany's Merz addresses critics with climate action pledge

More than 1.2 million Rohingya refugees live in about 30 overcrowded camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar

Nine years since military crackdown

Rohingya refugees protest dire conditions in Bangladesh camps

The tornado hit hardest the village of Pomas

Two people in critical condition

'Traumatic' tornado shatters French village

Pan Am Flight 103, bound for New York, was blown up 38 minutes after it took off from London, killing 270 people

1988 Pan Am flight

US delays Lockerbie bombing trial over new evidence

More than 1.2 million Rohingya refugees live in about 30 overcrowded camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar

'Ongoing humanitarian crisis'

Rohingya refugees protest dire conditions in Bangladesh camps

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Fuel mix-up at Wittlich petrol station causes damage to several vehicles

Update: second body found, likely father

Child's body found nearly two months after disappearance of boy and father in Belgium

Playing with bricks at a World Cup display at the Legoland in Carlsbad, California, last June

World's biggest toy maker

Lego net profit up 32% in first half, 'stronger than expected': CEO to AFP

Economists expect government spending to boost German growth this year

Rose faster than estimated

German GDP growth revised upwards, defying Iran war turmoil

Ren Zhong, the husband of detained pastor Wang Cong, reads a copy of the Bible and prays with his daughter Huanle at their house in Beihai, southern China's Guangxi province on July 29, 2026. Last October, Chinese authorities detained more than 20 of Zion's members, one of a series of similar clamp downs across the country recently. Zion Church is one of China's largest "underground" churches at which some Christians choose to worship instead of government-regulated ones.

Families of detained Chinese Christians cling to faith in legal limbo

Britain's record summer heatwave has burnt the grass at Hampton Court Palace

Following record summer

Trees 'giving up': climate change hammers historic English gardens

Members of the Korean Metal Workers' Union shouts slogans during a joint strike rally in front of the Hyundai Motor headquarters in Seoul on August 21, 2026.

On wages and bonuses

Hyundai reaches tentative deal with workers after strike

Mariam Bagayoko has spent decades bringing age-old Malian music to audiences around the world

Still sweeps across stage

Malian songbird keeps age-old sounds alive at 88

The planned phosphate dredging project would operate 120 kilometres off Namibia's Atlantic coastline

Granted environmental clearance

Namibia paves way for phosphate mining in the Atlantic Ocean

Morning Roundup

Frieden in Kyiv, manslaughter charge following hit-and-run, and Saudi Arabia to invest €6 billion in French theme parks

The collapse of trade talks between the US and Canada has been followed by defiant talk from both governments

'These challenging times'

Canada to announce response to Trump's new tariffs

The Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route for the world's oil, is a major source of contention between the United States and Iran

Largely paralysed

Six months into Iran war, Hormuz traffic way down, sailors stranded

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long cast Iran as an existential threat to his country

Inconclusive hostilities

Netanyahu got his Iran war, but maybe not his desired result

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that Iran wants to make a deal

Impromptu press conference

Trump veers from boredom to denial after six months of Iran war

The sun sets behind the skyline of Kuwait City on August 13, 2026.

Once its saviour, US puts Kuwait in Iran's crosshairs

A phonebooth-sized refrigerator for humans launched this year but has proved popular in Japan

Phonebooth-sized machine

Cool Japan: Human fridge chills workers in extreme heat

Several major music industry organisations have unveiled a labelling system for content created with generative AI that they would like to see widely adopted

Australia's top music charts ban AI songs

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