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American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, host of Games 1 and 2 of the World Series, pictured before a Brewers home game in September 2025.

Brewers and Rays open a World Series that will crown a first-time champion

FIFA's headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2016.

Asian football makes a U-turn and backs Infantino's re-election, two months after accusing him of a "fundamental breach of trust"

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (left) meeting Iran's Foreign Minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, at the Iranian foreign ministry in November 2025.

Seven foreign ministers launch the R4+E3 format in Istanbul, with the Strait of Hormuz at the top of the agenda

King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, in 2012.

Houthi attacks kill four in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province and push Brent above $110

The UE2020 electronic voting machine, presented by Brazil's Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in 2021; the runoff is on Sunday.

Brazil elections 2026

Brazil's final presidential debate is set for Friday, two days before a runoff PoderData puts at 51% to 49%

Palmeiras' stadium in São Paulo, in a 2015 photograph, when it was called Allianz Parque: this is where the club knocked Fluminense out on penalties on Wednesday.

Estudiantes knock Flamengo out on penalties at the Maracanã and will meet Palmeiras in the Libertadores final

The entrance to the ECLAC building, the commission's headquarters in the Vitacura district of Santiago, Chile, in 2020.

Regional economy

UN commission cuts Latin America's 2026 growth forecast to 2%, leaving Chile and Bolivia at 0.2%

The entrance to Meta Platforms' headquarters in Menlo Park, California, in 2022.

New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion, and the money is earmarked for the state's schools

PHP source code displayed on a screen, in a 2015 photograph.

AI tools uncover two 14-year-old PHP flaws that expose the servers behind 70% of the web

The Receita Federal office in Sousa, in the state of Paraíba, in 2011.

Brazil's federal tax take reaches R$239.38 billion in September, a record for the month

The city of Taiz, in south-western Yemen, in 2013. It is now the centre of the fighting and hosts about half of the displaced.

UN counts nearly 260,000 displaced in Yemen since August, and 12 hospitals in Taiz are four days from running out of fuel

The headquarters of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, in May 2026.

International Criminal Court wins the 2026 Sakharov Prize, 13 days after the US sanctioned the court

Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. The IAPA assembly marks 30 years since his speech to the organisation.

IAPA opens its 82nd General Assembly in Bogotá with more than 70 participants and a tribute to García Márquez's 1996 speech

A production Cybertruck in the parking lot of Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, in 2023.

Tesla's operating income falls 56% to $718 million as research spending jumps 69%

The entrance sign at Meta's headquarters complex in Menlo Park, California, in 2022.

Meta's revenue rises 26% to $64.6 billion, and a $9.89 billion legal charge halves its operating margin

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the agency's headquarters in Washington, in March 2026.

Midterm elections

Justice Department asks a judge to set aside 20,000 California ballots, and Los Angeles County says the list is unreliable

The Euclid space telescope in a cleanroom, being secured to the adaptor of the rocket that carried it into space, in June 2023.

Europe's Euclid telescope discovers its first comet, 1.3 billion km from Earth

The Parc des Princes, Paris Saint-Germain's stadium, during a French league match in 2018.

Champions League

PSG beat Barcelona 4-2 and Como thrash Manchester United 4-1 on Champions League matchday three

Colourised electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (in blue) budding from an infected cell, made at a NIAID laboratory in the United States in 2014.

Nigeria confirms its first Ebola case in 12 years, and tests point to the same strain as the Congo outbreak

Rebeca Andrade prepares to mount the uneven bars at the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships.

Artistic gymnastics

China ends US dominance at the Gymnastics World Championships, and Brazil climbs from 8th to 5th in the team final