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The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, Brazil's Superior Electoral Court, in Brasília, opened in December 2011.

Brazil's 2026 election

Lula's campaign asks Brazil's electoral court to strike Flávio Bolsonaro's ticket off the ballot

The Federal Legislative Palace, seat of Venezuela's National Assembly, facing Plaza Bolívar in Caracas, in 2011.

Venezuela's opposition negotiator hopes for a presidential election "at least by the end of next year"

Tesla's Gigafactory Texas, near Austin, photographed in June 2022. Musk named the Terafab chip project in Austin as one of the areas where the two companies' work overlaps.

Tesla and SpaceX form special committees to study a merger, and Musk says treating it as certain "would be overstating it"

White House staff, among them special envoy Steve Witkoff, pose for photos in the Rose Garden in May 2025. Witkoff was meeting Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg when Stephen Hubbard was released.

United States and Russia

Russia frees Stephen Hubbard, the last American it held as wrongfully detained, and Trump says no swap was needed

European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen speaks during a visit to Germany in August 2026.

EU opens investigation into Booking.com over fake listings, phishing scams and unlabelled ads

UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen, left, greets European Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera in Brussels in March 2026.

UN says the world will overshoot 1.5°C, and holding the peak at 1.8°C means cutting emissions 18% by 2030

Land cleared for crops or cattle near Porto Velho, in the state of Rondônia, in August 2020. Land-use change still accounts for 39% of Brazil's gross emissions.

Brazil's net greenhouse gas emissions fell 9% in 2025, landing 85 million tonnes above its climate target

Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, at a dinner he hosted for the UN secretary-general in 2012.

Jio opens India's largest-ever share sale, and the issue is covered in 100 minutes

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

Artistic gymnastics

Brazil reaches five finals at the Gymnastics World Championships, with the team final on Wednesday in Rotterdam

The Palácio do Itamaraty, seat of Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Brasília, in 2020.

Brazil election 2026

Brazil accuses Milei of trying to interfere in its election, four days before the runoff

A view of the town of Abyei, seat of the region disputed between Sudan and South Sudan, in 2009.

Drone attack on Amiet market in Abyei kills at least 153, and the UN counts more than 250 dead in a matter of days

The sign at the main entrance of the FDA campus in Silver Spring, Maryland, in front of Building 21, home of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in 2010.

FDA approves the first immunotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer, and 71% of trial patients needed no surgery, chemo or radiation

American Family Field in Milwaukee, home of the Brewers and site of World Series Game 1, before a game in September 2025.

Rays beat the Guardians 7-3 to take the pennant and set up a World Series that will crown a first-time champion

Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, where the Rays beat the Guardians in Game 4, photographed in 2008.

The Rays beat the Guardians 7-3 to level the ALCS at 2-2, after rain pushed the series back a day

Demonstrators march in the rain during the first No Kings protest, in Manhattan, New York, in June 2025.

Midterm elections

No Kings turns its protest machine into an early-voting drive before the November 3 midterms

The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Federal Reserve, photographed in 2011.

US inflation accelerates to 3.7% in September, with gasoline up 34.2% over the year

The ice tongue of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, in a radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite on 2 October 2025.

Study doubles the sea-level rise expected from Thwaites Glacier and sees a 60% chance it unpins from its bed by 2100

The Palestinian village of Taybeh, in the West Bank, northeast of Jerusalem, in a 2005 photograph.

Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West Bank, and Belgium says it will push for new EU sanctions

Romanian Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly in formation with a US F-16 over the city of Constanța, Romania, in March 2022.

Romanian fighter jets shoot down two attack drones over the Black Sea in six minutes

The headquarters of the International Monetary Fund, on 19th Street NW in the Foggy Bottom neighbourhood of Washington, in March 2026.

IMF projects Brazil as the world's 8th largest economy in 2027, ahead of Italy and Russia