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  • People stand in the street near an area cordoned off by police.

    At least 27 dead after two mass shootings in South Africa, police say

    Seventeen people killed near Johannesburg in suspected ‘illegal goldmining turf war’, as 10 killed in separate incident at barbecue venue near Cape Town
  • Two baboons raid food out of bags next to a car on a house driveway on which more baboons are sitting.

    ‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys

  • Tigrayan rebels walk along a main road in Mekelle

    Rebel offensive against Ethiopian army stokes fears of return to civil war

  • A woman walks past a closed kiosk of Airtel in N'Djamena, Chad, Africa

    Indian billionaire’s payments firm plots biggest London flotation in years

  • A large crowd of people gather in front of a university building

    Top South African police officer charged with raping woman, 18, and grooming 16-year-old girl

  • Mighty Sparrow - calypso singer

    Mighty Sparrow, the Trinidad and Tobago singer known as the ‘calypso king of the world’, dies aged 91

    Slinger Francisco, who performed as the Mighty Sparrow, died on Sunday surrounded by family in New York
  • US Hawaii Extreme Weather NoloFire Captain Lui Sales of the Hawaii Fire Department looks for residents to help as rainwater from nearby Hurricane Nolo flood a section of Mamalahoa highway Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, near Naalehu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

    Hurricane Nolo still threatens Hawaii as Mexico's Baja braces for major Hurricane Polo

  • Marines and sailors board a fishing vessel from a small boat during a maritime interdiction at sea

    US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking into microphone on Friday

    Lula bans fixed-odds sports betting a week before Brazilian elections

  • President Trump signs an executive order beside a map labelled "Lake America"

    Michigan CEO loses job after posting AI-made image of her family in ‘Lake America’ sweaters

  • people shopping in a flooded market are reflected in the flood water

    Thai downpours shift north-westwards after Bangkok declared a disaster zone

    Capital city submerged in waist-high flood water, while elsewhere Hurricane Nolo threatens Hawaii’s Big Island
  • Taiwanese soldiers use a variant of the US-made Abrams tanks during drills in July 2025.

    Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says

  • fedex plane with panda eating bamboo sits on runway with cage marked 'zoo atlanta'

    Two giant pandas arrive in Atlanta from China after Xi-Trump summit

  • Donald Trump and Xi Jinping walk together down a red carpet at the White House

    Pomp over progress in Xi’s US summit with Trump is a win for China

  • two men and two women stand outside

    At Trump meeting, Xi Jinping lays out terms to avoid US-China military conflict

  • Anthropic co-founder and CEO, Dario Amodei, will not appear at the Greens-led Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres, but representatives are expected at a joint standing committee hearing.

    Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack

    Company behind Claude chatbot expected to attend separate Australian government hearing on AI next week
  • One Nation senator for Western Australia, Tyron Whitten

    One Nation senator pays back more than $3,300 in taxi expenses; Cleary tells fans ‘I’ll be back’ – as it happened

  • John Makai

    Victoria police apologise over death of injured man taken to cells instead of hospital

  • A court sketch depicts Beau Lamarre-Condon seated in the NSW supreme court

    Beau Lamarre-Condon told friend if he killed anyone he’d dump belongings in bin and take bodies to bushland, court hears

  • Endangered bogong moths swarm home in NSW

    ‘Thrilled’: huge swarms of bogong moths surprise NSW residents and may point to species’ recovery

  • A drawing of two figures embracing, framed by two trees.

    ‘The same struggles as 100 years ago’: exhibition highlights lives of Sami people in Sweden

    Show at Kin Museum in Kiruna marks handover of long-awaited report on abuses committed by the state against the Indigenous people
  • National Rally presidential candidate Marine Le Pen smiles while campaigning in northern France this month

    France’s far-right National Rally surges in Senate elections

  • Vučić makes a clenched first gesture

    Serbia’s populist president Aleksandar Vučić resigns to run for prime minister

  • Pope Leo XIV waves to worshippers as he arrives on the popemobile in Lourdes, France.

    Pope Leo urges healing of ‘deep wounds’ before meeting child sexual abuse survivors in France

  • Poster of John Lennon with the words Give Peace A Chance on a fence in Switzerland.

    Swiss voters reject stricter neutrality rules that would have curbed Nato cooperation

  • Displaced women and children walk across sandy ground near tents at a camp in Yemen

    Children forced to give up school for work as fighting upends daily life in Yemen

    Renewed fighting between Iran-aligned Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni forces has shattered four years of relative calm
  • Israeli settlers fly flags over a stone building in an arid landscape

    ‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza

  • BESTPIX - Security Council Meets On Russia Ukraine War During United Nations General Assembly*** BESTPIX *** Mike Waltz, United States ambassador to the United Nations (UN), speaks during a United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting on "Maintenance of Peace and Security of Ukraine" during the 81st session of the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters on September 23, 2026 in New York City. Members held the meeting on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to address the United Nations today

    UN ambassador Waltz says Iran was not negotiating ‘in good faith’ to end war

  • People walk past a billboard about the strait of Hormuz in Tehran, Iran

    Trump rejects Iran’s seven-day peace deal to reopen strait of Hormuz

  • An Israeli flag waving with the illegal settlement of Maale Adumim on a hill in the background.

    UN adds 61 firms to settlements blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Palestinians

  • An aerial shot of shipping containers stacked across a road, with traffic held up in the foreground

    Pakistan locks down Islamabad as Imran Khan’s party vows to march on capital

    Tens of thousands of police deployed and roads barricaded as PTI demands release of jailed former PM
  • Anant Ambani, in wedding outfit, presses his hands together

    Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University

  • Catholic nuns carry portraits of the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attack through Colombo, Sri Lanka, in April 2025. Fifteen people have been sentenced over the series of terror attacks.

    Sri Lanka Easter bombings: 15 sentenced to hundreds of years in prison each over deadly terror attacks

  • Students at Chanakya School of Craft embroider a large colorful textile stretched across a frame

    ‘What we have is unique’: the Indian craftsmanship behind global luxury fashion

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  • Khan’s sisters Aleema, Uzma Khanum and Noreen among supporters of the former Pakistan PM in Rawalpindi last December.

    Pakistan jails sisters of Imran Khan before protest seeking his release

  • Andy Burnham at the Labour party conference on Monday

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    Warning Burnham’s social care plan could cost far more than he says, and take ‘decades’ to implement – UK politics live

    Statistician Andrew Dilnot says that putting social care on the same footing as health care would cost ‘well in excess of £18bn’
  • A police vehicle on a road outside the perimeter of the RAF Fairford airbase on Monday as investigations continued

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    RAF Fairford live updates: Streeting thanks farmer who alerted police but says she has ‘a partial picture’

  • Rod Stewart performing at Glastonbury festival, June 2025.

    Rod Stewart announces final tour for 2027: ‘Most definitely my last’

  • Avanti has among the highest proportion of train cancellations in Britain, at 7.1% from April to June this year.

    Avanti West Coast to be renationalised in March

  • Shirtless men sitting on the ground with their faces blurred as armed police stand over them

    Counter-terror police investigate Iran link over suspected bomb plot at RAF base used by US

  • black and white screengrab of trump in a suit with the caption 'Paid for by the US government'

    Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads

    John Kennedy pushes back against such spending as pro-Trump ‘public service announcements’ air before midterms
  • cars drive through flooded suburban road on cloudy day

    Nor’easter storm batters US east coast with heavy winds and power outages

  • FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche holds a press conference at the White HouseFILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche holds a press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 15, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

    Blanche defends Trump’s White House media ban: ‘It is a privilege, not a right’

  • Thom TillisSen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., leaves a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans on how to fix the stalemate on funding the Homeland Security Department, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Republican says Trump’s support of Ken Paxton in Texas primary was ‘colossal mistake’

  • a person wears a shirt with the words 'project Jupiter' crossed out

    Datacenter developers accused of skirting key US pollution rules

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