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The west facade of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk in 2011.

Supreme Court lets party committees keep the candidate discount on TV ads through the midterms

Chinese Army armoured vehicles during an exercise at the Korla military base in Xinjiang, in August 2019. The same city is now hosting Karakoram 2026.

China and Pakistan open the first joint exercise between their armies, with all-Chinese equipment

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in May 2026. Demonstrators are demanding his resignation.

Albania's Education Ministry catches fire during student protest, and Tirana counts 39 arrests in two days

An aerial view of Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, in 2019. The city is among the areas under curfew.

Mauritius extends curfew to ten regions and reaches 94 arrests after a week of unrest

An area of forest felled and burned in the rural zone of Apuí, in Amazonas state, in August 2020.

Farming covers 30.5% of the land ringing the Amazon's protected areas, and has grown 561% there in 41 years

The floor of the Senado Federal in Brasília, in a file photograph from September 2014.

Brazil's Senate votes 75-1 in both rounds to abolish the 6x1 work schedule

Delegations from the Venezuelan government and the opposition at the opening of the negotiating table in Caracas on August 6, 2026.

Venezuela's government and part of the opposition open a third round of talks in Caracas, focused on electoral guarantees

The office building at 1515 Third Street, in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, which housed OpenAI's headquarters when this photo was taken in June 2025.

National security

An OpenAI engineer is charged with hiding an encrypted audio recorder in the company's executive conference room

A gas station price board in Eugene, Oregon, photographed on September 26, 2026.

Gasoline rose 9.1% in September and pushed U.S. inflation to 3.7%, reviving bets on an October rate hike

Kekova island and the village of Kaleköy, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, seen from the Simena fortress in 2019. The wreck was located in the waters of this area.

Shipwreck up to 4,700 years old found 30 metres deep off Turkey may be the oldest ever discovered

A State Emergency Service of Ukraine crew removes the remains of an unexploded Russian ballistic missile in Kyiv after the attack on the city on the night of 7 October 2026.

Russia fires 39 ballistic missiles at Ukraine's power grid, hitting all three of Kyiv's heat and power plants

Costa Rican President Laura Fernández Delgado at the presidential handover ceremony, on 8 May 2026.

Costa Rica opens its largest prison on Wednesday: 5,100 places, with Bukele's Cecot as the model

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella during the handover-of-power ceremonies in Cali, on 7 August 2026.

Colombia opens its embassy in Jerusalem, reversing Petro's 2024 break with Israel

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York building in the Financial District of Manhattan, photographed in December 2025.

Each extra point of U.S. tariffs adds about 0.25% to consumer goods prices within a year, New York Fed researchers find

A low-cost LED smart television of the kind the report describes as a potential host, photographed in Pakistan in 2025.

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic ran an AI model across 15 TV boxes that cost $55 each, and says self-replicating models are months away

The west facade of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., photographed at dusk in 2011.

The Supreme Court will decide whether DOGE has to answer public records requests

The Home of FIFA, the organisation's headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, in a 2016 photo.

FIFA to propose $6.35bn fund and $25m per federation, five months before Infantino's election

Saudi Aramco's core area in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, with the Al Mujamma mosque in the foreground and the administration buildings behind, in a file photo.

Houthi attack hits Saudi Aramco's headquarters in Dhahran, and Brent climbs to $106.24

Pope Leo XIV during an audience with members of the media at the Vatican in May 2025.

Vatican confirms lung adenocarcinoma in Pope Leo XIV after part of his right lung is removed

An area of felled and burned forest in the municipality of Apuí, in Amazonas state, in a photograph from August 2020.

Amazonas records 1,380 fire hotspots in ten days as Brazil recognises emergency in 36 municipalities