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Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:48:15 GMT
Ligue 1: PSG Back on top of Ligue 1 after stunning Strasbourg comeback
After trailing Strasbourg for more than 60 minutes, the Parisians called upon their substitutes to turn the game around. Following their spectacular Champions League victory over Manchester City and ahead of their clash with FC Barcelona, PSG are br...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:06:22 GMT
🔴 A demonstrator died from 'cardiorespiratory arrest' during Paris protests, police say

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:27:23 GMT
China's Yin wins in Shanghai for back-to-back LPGA titles
China's Yin carded a final-round four-under-par 68 at an energised Sheshan Golf Club to emerge victorious from a showdown with overnight leader Choi Hye-jin. The 24-year-old Yin, winner at the FM Championship in Boston in August on her previous sta...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:19:23 GMT
Court to rule on first climate lawsuit against Italian state
The case, known as "Giudizio Universale" (Last Judgment), was launched in June 2021 by environmental group A Sud and more than 200 other associations and individuals. They accuse the state of violating fundamental rights by failing to take sufficie...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:17:24 GMT
After a year in turmoil, the Louvre faces uncertain future
The beloved Parisian museum, the most visited in the world, has spent a year as the subject of police investigations, government reports and parliamentary inquiries following the theft of eight crown jewels in broad daylight a year ago. The heist e...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:15:23 GMT
Vietnam signs free trade deal with four European nations
The deal, between Southeast Asia's fastest-growing economy and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which includes Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, eliminates or reduces customs duties, including on imports of industrial, fish ...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:37:24 GMT
Dozens of orangutans saved from Indonesia blazes
The fires have triggered a months-long pollution spell that has closed schools, fuelled a surge in respiratory conditions both among humans and animals, and restricted outdoor activities in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and East Timor. Pollution l...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:49:23 GMT
One million migrating raptors dodge illegal hunters above Georgia's Black Sea coast
Hoekstra co-chairs Batumi Raptor Count (BRC), an international volunteer organisation that counts the million-plus birds of prey that fly the route every autumn, where the Black Sea and Caucasus mountains form a migration bottleneck. "It's the thir...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:45:24 GMT
Ordinary day, extraordinary times: Kyiv under Russian attack
Anastasiia, 44, is a busy mother with three children, a job at a hospital and little time for herself. Since the end of summer, Russia has "added a few extra tasks", she says with a mischievous glint that barely conceals her fatigue. Air alerts and...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:37:23 GMT
'It's family': Lebanese villagers dread looming UN peacekeeper pullout
"UNIFIL isn't just business, to us it's family," said Diab, 59, whose sister is among residents of Ibl al-Saqi who have married peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon over the years. She now lives in Spain. "We're basically open because ...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:25:23 GMT
Rays defeat Guardians to level MLB playoff series
Tampa Bay -- one of only five Major League Baseball teams never to win a World Series title -- squared their best-of-seven American League Championship series at 2-2 with a gutsy victory in Cleveland. The Rays' former Cleveland slugger Yandy Diaz b...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:23:22 GMT
What is holding up the US-India trade deal?
Rubio will meet senior Indian officials, but will bypass the Indian capital during the trip in the coming week. Instead he will focus on investment and energy during visits to financial hub Mumbai and India's oil hub of Jamnagar, which is home to b...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:15:25 GMT
Western brands under pressure as 'pre-owned' luxury booms in China
Chinese were once massive buyers of luxury Western brands, accounting for around a third of worldwide spending and earning firms such as LVMH and Hermes billions of dollars. But consumers' belt-tightening has forced them to rethink their strategies...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:45:28 GMT
Oxygen tanks, purifier sales spike as haze crisis hits Southeast Asia
The months-long haze has blanketed parts of Southeast Asia, forcing school closures and fuelling a rise in respiratory complaints. Families are now rushing to buy devices to keep indoor air clean. At AA Alive, a medical equipment company based just...

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:39:23 GMT
'Never seen anything like it': mass looting grips Paris
Crowds of masked men wearing black hoodies yanked at metal store shutters until they gave way, clearing shelves of cigarettes, sunglasses, clothes, jewellery and food. The violence erupted as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered across t...

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