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Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of UNCTAD, in 2024.

Grynspan widens her lead in the Security Council's fourth straw poll and moves closer to leading the UN

John C. Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in an official portrait taken in 2018.

Monetary policy

The Fed's Williams sees one more hike this year, but "no need for urgency" after September's increase

The North Portico of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2023. The accord on frontier-model safety was signed at a meeting there on September 29, 2026.

Trump renames AI "Super Intelligence" by executive order, and six firms sign a safety accord with no legal force

The building in Meguro, Tokyo, that houses the Intellectual Property High Court and the Nakameguro branch of the Tokyo District Court, in 2023.

Artificial intelligence

Tokyo court rules a performer's voice is protected by publicity rights in TikTok AI cloning case

Norwegian and US coalition troops during medical evacuation training at Al Asad air base in western Iraq in December 2024.

US-led coalition leaves Erbil air base, ending 23 years of foreign military presence in Iraq

Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira at the Palácio Itamaraty in Brasília, in April 2023.

Brazil and the US set up a tariff working group, with Washington due to send a proposal within weeks

The headquarters of El Salvador's Tribunal Supremo Electoral, in September 2026.

El Salvador formally calls the general elections of 28 February 2027

Panama's President José Raúl Mulino during an audience with the Colombian delegation in Panama City in March 2025.

Panama receives the final report on the Cobre Panamá mine, audited at 87.73 out of 100

The San Diego Padres playing at Petco Park in San Diego, in 2019. The ballpark hosted Game 1 against the Cubs on September 29, 2026.

Two shutouts and one upset: the MLB Wild Card Series opens with three home favorites winning

Kehinde Wiley at the State Department in Washington on January 21, 2015, the day he received the department's Medal of Arts.

Art in Embassies

Kehinde Wiley asks Trump to sell him back the painting pulled from the US embassy in Santo Domingo

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, whose department finalized the new fuel economy rule, in his official portrait taken in 2025.

NHTSA cuts the 2031 fuel economy target to 34.9 mpg, down from 50.4

An Indian Navy ship on anti-piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia, in November 2018.

Somali pirates killed five of a tanker's 17 crew before losing the ship to Puntland forces

Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, leading a union march in Paris in March 2024.

French public workers strike over a pay freeze as 440 are detained in school blockades

Spain's Housing and Urban Agenda Minister, Isabel Rodríguez, on the steps of the Council of Ministers building in Madrid in November 2023.

Spain extends its eviction shield to 2030 and bars property purchases by vulture funds

Denise Pires de Carvalho in an official portrait from 2023, when she was Brazil's secretary for higher education.

A Brazilian will head UNESCO's science sector for the first time

The facade of the Palácio da Justiça, seat of Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security, in Brasília, in 2020.

Brazil asks regulator to block 5,209 illegal betting sites; 2,387 are already down

Hurricane Polo moving north off Mexico's Pacific coast on 28 September 2026, a day before it made landfall in Sonora, in this GOES satellite image.

Hurricane Polo makes landfall at Guaymas as a Category 1 and floods the Sonoran port's downtown

The United Nations Security Council chamber at the organisation's New York headquarters, in a 2006 photograph.

UN extends Haiti's anti-gang force for six months, with fewer than a third of its authorised troops on the ground

A house for sale on Kevington Road in Eugene, Oregon, in 2017.

New-home sales climbed 6.4% in August to an annual rate of 684,000, and prices kept falling

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

Supreme Court lets third-country deportations resume and will hear the case in December