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King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in 2025. Residents reported smoke over the terminal's fuel tank area at dawn on Saturday.

Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted Houthi missile fired at Riyadh

An image used by Brazil's federal government in July 2026, when 37 fintechs were formally notified for handling money from illegal betting operators, in Brasília.

Lula to sign betting decree on Wednesday: online casinos banned, sports betting spared

Pituffik Space Base, the only US military installation in Greenland, seen from a nearby mountain in 2019.

US, Denmark and Greenland agree a security deal that leaves Danish sovereignty intact

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on September 4, 2026. He signed the H-1B order and proclamation two weeks later, on September 18.

Trump renews the $100,000 H-1B fee for another year — a fee the courts have already voided

Andrey Zvyagintsev with the Cannes Grand Prix for “Minotaur” in May 2026.

Russia labels Andrey Zvyagintsev a "foreign agent" after he urged Putin to end the war at Cannes

The Vienna International Centre, home of the IAEA, seen from the Danube in 2014.

North Korea rejects IAEA resolution passed 103 to 6, calls its nuclear status irreversible

Eduardo Bolsonaro, then a federal deputy, speaking to reporters in Brasília in November 2024.

Supremo Tribunal Federal

Brazil's supreme court upholds Eduardo Bolsonaro's four-year sentence in unanimous vote

Kelsey Mitchell playing for the Indiana Fever in 2019.

Kelsey Mitchell breaks the WNBA single-season scoring record with 1,034 points

The north entrance of the Walt Disney Company headquarters in Burbank, California.

Disney asks a federal judge to stop the FCC's early review of ABC's broadcast licenses

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on September 9, 2026, nine days before announcing the Medicaid drug-pricing expansion from the same room.

Video: Every state Medicaid program signs on to Trump's "most favored nation" drug prices

A Toyota Mirai in the 2026 Asian Games livery, used for the torch relay, in September.

Asian Games open in Nagoya with 469 events, six new sports and athletes sleeping on a cruise ship

The Italian Navy frigate ITS Alpino (F 594) steams in the Adriatic Sea in June 2023.

Italy to send warships to Bab al-Mandeb without waiting for the European Union

The Bank of Japan head office in Tokyo, designed by Kingo Tatsuno and opened in 1896.

Monetary policy

Bank of Japan lifts rates to 1.25%, a 31-year high, over two dissenting votes

Brazilian real banknotes and coins.

Public finances

Senate watchdog projects a R$ 86.1 billion deficit for Brazil in 2027

The old and the new Highmark Stadium side by side in Orchard Park, New York, in November 2025, while the new building was still under construction.

Josh Allen scores five touchdowns as the Bills open their new stadium with a 41-31 win over the Lions

The sign on the front of the Kennedy Center in Washington, still largely covered on June 26, 2026, twelve days after Donald Trump's name was removed from it.

Judge orders 30 days' notice before any demolition at the Kennedy Center, a day after it shut its doors

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez with security force representatives at the Tarajal border crossing in Ceuta on 31 July 2026, the day after the mass entry of migrants from Morocco.

Spain clears 1,700 migrants off Ceuta's beaches in an operation marked by warning shots

A Tomahawk missile launches from the destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur during a naval exercise in the Pacific in 2019. The UN report examines strikes by missiles of this type on targets in Iran in February 2026.

UN mission finds grounds to believe the US committed a war crime in Iran school strike

Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, where the Dodgers clinched the division, seen during a Reds home game in September 2023.

Major League Baseball

Dodgers clinch a fifth straight NL West title with an 8-2 win in Cincinnati

The Frances Perkins Building in Washington, headquarters of the US Department of Labor, which publishes the weekly jobless claims report, in 2017.

Jobless claims fall to 196,000, the lowest since July, a day after the Fed raised rates