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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

Diego Maradona in May 2012, when he coached Al Wasl, in Doha. He died on 25 November 2020 at a house in Tigre, in Buenos Aires province.

Maradona death trial

Lawyer for Maradona's youngest son asks 16 years for Luque and Forlini, four more than prosecutors

Eduardo Bolsonaro at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida in 2022. He has lived in the United States since early 2025.

Brazil and Washington

Brazil ordered Eduardo Bolsonaro's arrest. He lives in Texas on a green card, and any extradition would be Washington's call

Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, pictured in 2024. The Rays hosted Game 1 of the 2026 American League Championship Series there on October 12.

Scoreless for five innings, the Guardians scored in the last four and took ALCS Game 1 from the Rays, 7-3

The Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission, in Brussels in October 2022.

EU bought €197bn of Russian energy since 2022, European Commission says

European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, in an official portrait from December 2024.

EU opens two more accession clusters for Ukraine as Hungary lifts its veto

A Brazilian UE2020 electronic voting machine, in an image released by the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in 2021.

Brazil's 2026 election

Twelve days from Brazil's run-off, two polls give Flávio Bolsonaro very different leads: 4 points and 10

A view of Chitré, capital of Panama's Herrera province, where the epicentre of the 9 October quake was located, in an archive photograph.

Panama earthquake

Panama reopens schools in phases after the earthquake: 35 destroyed and 656 damaged

American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, home of the Brewers, before a regular-season game in September 2025.

Four Brewers relievers retired the last 15 Dodgers in order, and Milwaukee leads the NLCS 2-0

The Philadelphia Police Administration Building at 700 Race Street, the brutalist structure known as the Roundhouse, photographed in 2013.

Artificial intelligence

An Anthropic model filed a false murder tip with Philadelphia police, and it sat unnoticed for two months

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse at 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan, seat of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, photographed in 2012.

A judge froze the $20 million government ad campaign starring Trump — the spending had already passed $21 million

The International Monetary Fund's headquarters in Washington; the 2026 annual meetings are being held in Bangkok.

IMF raises its 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1%, with oil at $96 and public debt climbing

EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič speaks at the EU Export Day in September 2026.

EU and China agree to cap hybrid car imports into the bloc at 350,000 a year

Kaja Kallas, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in an official portrait from November 2024.

EU blacklists 1,569 companies and executives in Russia's military industry, its largest listing since 2022

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in Brasília, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, in December 2025.

Brazil's 2026 election

Brazil's electoral court found none of the disputed posts on the pro-Lula WhatsApp channel — but it only reviewed October

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in Brasília, the court that runs Brazil's elections and publishes the count, photographed in 2012.

Brazil and Washington

Brazil's October 25 runoff will pick the government that negotiates America's 25% tariff and its access to Brazilian rare earths

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., headquarters of the department whose Antitrust Division opened the inquiry, photographed in March 2026.

The Justice Department is investigating the five networks that stopped covering the White House, and calls it a boycott

Official portrait of Kaja Kallas, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, taken in November 2024.

EU sets up a support mission in Lebanon with a three-year mandate, 80 days before UNIFIL ends

The interior of Terminal 3 at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, in a 2008 photograph. The complex housing terminals 3 and 4 was hit in the attacks of 10 and 11 October 2026.

Riyadh airport stays shut for a third day as 46% of Saudi flights are cancelled