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Terminal E of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, in 2017. It is Thailand's largest airport.

Floods in Thailand kill 23 and throw Bangkok's biggest airport into disarray after 320 mm of rain in three days

The seat of Morocco's parliament in Rabat, in 2019. The Chamber of Representatives, elected on 23 September, has 395 seats.

Morocco names its first woman head of government as the king asks El Mansouri to form a cabinet

The Petrobras headquarters in downtown Rio de Janeiro, pictured in 2012.

Petrobras signs 22-year deal to buy 800,000 tonnes of US LNG a year

The pitch at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, where Australia hosted Brazil, pictured in 2022.

Brazil national team

Brazil beat Australia 4-2 in Brisbane and close their Oceania trip with a win

The headquarters of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, in 2018. The IDB co-authored the report with the OECD and the World Bank.

Latin America spends $1,518 per person on health, a quarter of what the OECD spends

Tennessee at Ohio State in the first round of the College Football Playoff, in Columbus, in December 2024.

The Senate passes the Protect College Sports Act 77-22, and the House is away until after the midterms

The square in front of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), in northern England, seen from the museum's roof in 2009.

Turner Prize 2026 exhibition opens in Middlesbrough with four shortlisted artists and a December winner

A shopper inspects a package of meat at an American grocery store, in a Department of Agriculture photograph from 2012.

US consumer confidence falls to 81.9, its lowest reading since 2014

The fifth-generation THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle, built by Estonia's Milrem Robotics.

Estonia blames Russia for the arson attack on the military robotics firm that supplies Ukraine

The headquarters of the IBGE's documentation and information centre in Rio de Janeiro, in 2007. The institute runs the Pnad Contínua survey.

Brazil's jobless rate falls to 5.3% and employment reaches a record 103.5 million

The West Wing of the White House, in Washington, in 2007.

Government services

Trump orders federal services onto a single site, and America.gov's AI answer box goes live

A Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber, the same model that crashed, on display at the MAKS air show in Russia.

Nuclear-capable Tu-95 bomber crashes in Russia's Far East, killing six of seven crew

Abelardo de la Espriella, now Colombia's president, in an image released during the 2026 presidential campaign.

Colombia opens talks with the IMF as its president says the state's balance is "in the red"

The Chicago White Sox's ballpark on the city's South Side during a game against the New York Mets in 2019, when it was known as Guaranteed Rate Field.

Major League Baseball

The White Sox close out a historic comeback as the 2026 MLB playoff field fills on the final day

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

Midterm elections

Supreme Court blocks Missouri's new congressional map for the third time in three weeks

The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, seat of the First Circuit Court of Appeals, in September 2024.

Appeals court ban on third-country deportations takes effect, and the administration runs to the Supreme Court

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung during a visit to the White House, in August 2025.

South Korea and Ukraine

Seoul demands an apology from Kyiv after Zelenskyy revealed the transfer of two North Korean POWs

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar in Attard, Malta, in December 2024.

Israel and the Netherlands

Israel revokes the diplomatic status of Dutch representatives in Ramallah

Aleksandar Vučić at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, in July 2024.

Vučić resigns as Serbia's president and will run for prime minister on 25 October

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) speaks to reporters at the Senate in April 2026.

Brazil Elections 2026

Flávio Bolsonaro says yes to the TV Globo debate, Lula has not, and Brazil's first round may end without them facing each other