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AfD leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, in a montage of two photographs.

Germany and Russia

Putin's envoy and Germany's AfD prepare talks on bringing Russian gas back

The entrance to Google's Dublin office in Ireland in 2019.

Data protection

Ireland fines Google €403 million over its handling of location data

Damage from the extratropical cyclone that struck Rio Grande do Sul in July 2023. Archive image.

Cyclone leaves four missing in southern Brazil and 623,000 customers without power

The UN General Assembly hall at the organisation's New York headquarters in February 2024.

UN General Assembly

Trump speaks second at the UN on Tuesday, then hosts Xi at the White House on Thursday

The west end of the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, the stretch between the Lincoln Memorial and the Arlington Memorial Bridge where the arch is planned.

Trump says his 250-foot arch will double as a military complex for snipers and drones

The FAA's Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Herndon, Virginia, the facility whose software backbone the new system is replacing.

The FAA switches on its AI traffic manager over Washington, first stop in an $875 million rollout

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in her official 2024 portrait.

Meloni announces a burqa and niqab ban in schools and wants a legal cap on foreign pupils per class

The Berlaymont building, seat of the European Commission, in Brussels in 2019.

Brussels keeps its moratorium on Arctic oil and gas drilling, despite pressure from Norway

The State Duma building, the lower house of Russia's parliament, in Moscow.

United Russia takes 57.86% in Duma election that closed under the largest drone attack on Moscow since 2022

President Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on September 9, 2026.

Artificial intelligence

Trump says he will build an "AI Force" modeled on the Space Force and name an AI czar

President Donald J. Trump at the Pentagon ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, on September 11, 2026.

Iran sends Washington its terms for ending the war and says it is waiting on Trump

Michelle Bachelet during a meeting at the Palácio do Planalto in Brasília in July 2024.

Bachelet drops out of the UN secretary-general race

Elif Eralp, Die Linke's lead candidate, at the party's closing campaign rally for the Berlin election, outside the Rotes Rathaus, on 18 September 2026.

Die Linke wins Berlin while the AfD comes first in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at a campaign rally in Ceilândia, Brasília, on 16 September 2026.

Brazil's 2026 election

Lula's manifesto proposes a public security ministry and a real rise in the minimum wage every year

A volleyball match at the Maracanãzinho in Rio in 2010; the arena hosted the South American final.

Men's volleyball

Brazil sweep Argentina 3-0 to win the South American title and book their place at Los Angeles 2028

U.S. Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopters fly over Kyle Field, in College Station, Texas, before a Texas A&M home game on September 12, 2026.

College football

Kentucky walks into Kyle Field and beats No. 9 Texas A&M 31-21

Warren Buffett, then chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, meeting President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on July 18, 2011.

Berkshire Hathaway

Warren Buffett gives up the Berkshire Hathaway chairmanship at 96: "Father Time always wins"

The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House during a daily briefing on September 3, 2026.

White House turns away CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters after Trump orders them banned

An Auchan hypermarket at the MEGA Belaya Dacha mall in Moscow in 2007. The French chain now has 241 stores in Russia.

Putin places Nestlé's Russian assets and those of three French companies under state administration

The Palais des Nations in Geneva, the UN's European headquarters and home of the Human Rights Office, in 2014.

UN documents 1,004 cases of sexual violence in the war in Ukraine, 89% attributed to Russian authorities