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Aerial view of the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot), El Salvador's maximum-security prison and the declared model for the Honduran project, in January 2023.

Honduras approves life imprisonment for gang leaders and plans a 1,300-inmate megaprison

The interior of Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler University in Indianapolis, photographed in 2008.

The NBA Cup opens group play, and for the first time the final leaves Las Vegas for a 1928 college gym in Indianapolis

The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, seat of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in September 2024.

A federal judge strikes down the narrower "medically frail" test for the Medicaid work requirements that start on January 1

The $6.3 billion Binance theft is the largest in crypto history, and two tracing firms point to North Korea

Dmitry Muratov, one of the five founders and former editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, on Nemtsov Bridge in Moscow in February 2021.

Russia's Novaya Gazeta shuts down after 33 years and will switch off the newsroom lights on 9 November

A NASA satellite image shows the plume of tailings from the Fundão dam collapse reaching the Atlantic through the mouth of the Rio Doce, in late 2015.

Brazil reopens fishing at the mouth of the Rio Doce, ten years after the Fundão dam collapse

Alexander Zverev before a match at the 2026 Miami Open.

Alexander Zverev will be world No. 1 from 2 November, the first German at the top since Boris Becker in 1991

Colourised scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (in green) budding from an infected cell, in a 2014 image.

Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 9,704 cases and 4,687 deaths, with cases now in Kenya and Nigeria

European Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen during a visit to the United Kingdom in June 2026.

Eleven EU countries will release 20.5 million barrels of diesel from strategic reserves by the end of January

George Russell, now one of the two drivers still mathematically able to catch Antonelli, at the 2021 Mexico City Grand Prix.

Antonelli can clinch the Formula 1 title on Sunday in Mexico City, where Checo Pérez reaches 300 races

The West Virginia State Capitol on Kanawha Boulevard East in Charleston, seat of the state government and of the attorney general's office, photographed in November 2022.

Technology and childhood

West Virginia sues TikTok after a test account registered to a 13-year-old girl repeatedly drew sexually suggestive videos

Jeffery Simmons during the Tennessee Titans' official jersey reveal shoot in March 2026, seven months before the team traded him to Chicago.

The Bears pay two first-round picks for Jeffery Simmons, and the 1-6 Titans turn seller 12 days before the deadline

Coach Carlo Ancelotti at a press conference in 2016, when he was in charge of Bayern Munich.

Brazil national team

Ancelotti names 26 for friendlies against Japan and Singapore, with five debutants and no Flamengo or Palmeiras players

The Herbert C. Hoover Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., home of the Department of Commerce, whose Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes the GDP and PCE figures, photographed in 2024.

US growth accelerates to a 3.4% annual rate in the third quarter, with September inflation stuck at 3.6%

The headquarters of the IBGE's documentation and information centre in Rio de Janeiro, in a 2007 photograph.

Brazil's jobless rate falls to 5.2% in the third quarter, the lowest for the period since 2012, as employment hits a record 103.6 million

Pablo Catatumbo Torres Victoria in a file photograph from his time as a senator for the party formed out of the FARC.

Colombia's peace tribunal charges Pablo Catatumbo and eight other former FARC commanders over 468 incidents

Dartmouth Hall, on the Dartmouth College campus in Hanover, New Hampshire, photographed in 2007.

Academic integrity

Dartmouth's provost resigns after a faculty review finds he used AI to "meaningfully alter" his writing without disclosing it

An NFL game between the Washington Football Team and the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in October 2021.

Nearly three in four NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 had CTE, a bias-adjusted study estimates

The port city of Wonsan, on North Korea's east coast, photographed in 2008.

Korean Peninsula

North Korea fires about ten ballistic missiles from Wonsan, a day after Trump floated a meeting with Kim Jong-un

Heads of delegation pose for photographs at the first Russia-Africa Summit, held in Sochi, Russia, in October 2019.

Russia-Africa Summit

Russia-Africa summit brings 48 countries to Moscow as Putin pitches lifting trade from $27 billion to more than $50 billion