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British director Mike Leigh at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024.

Mike Leigh wins the Golden Shell in San Sebastián with what he says is his final film

George Russell driving for Mercedes in qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix in March 2026.

Russell holds off Verstappen by a tenth in Baku as Antonelli keeps the title lead

Official portrait of Eduardo Bolsonaro as a federal congressman for São Paulo, taken at the Chamber of Deputies in 2023.

Brazil's Supreme Court convicts Eduardo Bolsonaro of defamation and sentences him to a year

Fenway Park, the Red Sox's home in Boston, in June 2025.

Red Sox lock up the No. 5 seed and get the Yankees again in the Wild Card Series

The E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse in Washington, D.C., home of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in 2024.

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Appeals court upholds the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic over Claude's safeguards

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

Supreme Court lets states check voter rolls against the rebuilt SAVE database before November

Carlo Petrini, then president of Slow Food, in Brazil in July 2015, at the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Brazilian government and the international association.

Turin hosts the first Terra Madre without Carlo Petrini, in the year Slow Food turns 40

An Audi Q3 of the F3 generation photographed in Stuttgart, Germany, in February 2019; the Q3 is the only Audi model included in the recall.

Volkswagen recalls 2.86 million cars worldwide over a steering bolt that can corrode

A map of sea surface temperature anomalies on 21 August 2023: the warm band across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific is the signature of a developing El Niño.

Study projects 451,000 extra heat deaths by February as El Niño strengthens

The façade of the Palácio do Planalto in Brasília, seat of Brazil's presidency, in 2020.

Brazil bans online betting by decree, and sites go dark on 6 October

Abelardo de la Espriella, then Colombia's president-elect, at a bilateral meeting with Ecuador's presidency in Cali on 7 August 2026, shortly before his inauguration.

Colombia breaks off diplomatic relations with Iran but keeps consular ties open

The facade of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC) at Avenida Julio A. Roca 609 in the City of Buenos Aires, in September 2018.

Poverty in Argentina climbs 4.1 points in six months to 32.3% of the urban population

The east front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., photographed in 2013.

The Senate defeats an Iran war powers resolution by a single vote, 49-50

Donald Trump greets Xi Jinping before their bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, in October 2025 — the summit that produced the truce now extended.

The US and China push their tariff truce to January 10, and Xi leaves Washington without a broader deal

Pope Leo XIV crosses St Peter's Square in the popemobile during the Mass inaugurating his pontificate, at the Vatican, in May 2025.

Pope Leo XIV lands in France and will hear seven abuse survivors in Lourdes

The El Sharara oil field in south-western Libya, operated in partnership with Spain's Repsol.

Armed group shuts valve at Libya's largest oil field, and the state producer threatens force majeure

Queensland Country Bank Stadium in Townsville, Australia, on a non-game day, in 2020.

Brazil national team

Rayan equalises with the last touch as Brazil draw 1-1 with Australia in first match since the World Cup

Delcy Rodríguez, then Venezuela's foreign minister, at the 49th Mercosur Summit in Asunción, Paraguay, in December 2015.

Delcy Rodríguez promises elections in Venezuela at the UN, but sets no date

Official portrait of Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno, released by the Cancillería in 2025. Quirno signed the Andes-Atlantic Corridor memorandum in New York.

Argentina and the US launch the Andes-Atlantic Corridor, with up to $7 billion for energy and mining

The White Sox ballpark on Chicago's South Side, then named Guaranteed Rate Field, during a game against the New York Mets in August 2019.

Both Chicago teams clinch on the same afternoon, and the White Sox do something no club has done before