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The French Football Federation says FIFA's governance problems remain unresolved, even after Infantino dropped a plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors. France joins England, Italy and several other European federations that have publicly withdrawn their backing.
Only 71.2% of patients are starting treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral, down from 71.9%. The government wants to reach 80% by March 2027 — but that would require more than 2,800 extra patients a month to begin treatment on time.
The Justice Department and Department of Education allege the school used race, essay prompts and other mechanisms to favour Black applicants. The finding comes three years after the Supreme Court banned race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
Overall revenue grew 30% to $19.35 billion, beating analyst forecasts. The surge in AI demand is also piling up costs — capital spending tripled year over year to $28.5 billion, pushing free cash flow to negative $5.4 billion.
Global temperatures hit 16.96°C, or 1.65°C above pre-industrial levels, driven by human-caused climate change and a strengthening El Niño. Scientists warn the worst is still ahead: El Niño's biggest effect on global temperatures is expected over the coming year.
The United Arab Emirates led the funding round, joined by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The UAE is also set to be the site of more than 150 kilometres of new tunnels.
The device was announced alongside the iPhone 18 Pro at Apple's product event on 9 September 2026. Pricing and release dates have not yet been confirmed.
Eight F-15s were also hit, though they returned to service. The attack is the latest exchange in a war that has now killed 18 US service members, injured more than 800, and burned through roughly 65% of America's Patriot interceptor stocks.
Rising oil and gas prices have pushed inflation well above the bank's 2% target, with the Middle East conflict adding to the pressure. Households and businesses now face higher mortgage and borrowing costs as winter approaches and gas storage remains below normal levels.
The cases included biological research involving dangerous pathogens, cyberattacks on Ukrainian government targets linked to a suspected Russian state group, and rocket analysis by a cell in northern Yemen. The company says none of the activity was confirmed to have caused harm.
Five people remain missing after the blaze broke out on the Ocean Melody, a bulk carrier docked at one of China's biggest shipyards. President Xi Jinping ordered an all-out rescue effort and an investigation into who was responsible.
The records, hidden in 68 boxes for more than two decades, show asbestos found half a mile from ground zero ten months after the attacks. Residents had been repeatedly told the air was safe to breathe.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker announced the title change after the show won an Emmy on Sunday. The joke targets Trump's push to rebrand landmarks and waterways, and the tech companies that quietly went along with it.
The Saudi-backed league owes at least $45 million to players including Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau, who are now free to leave. LIV hopes to restructure with new investment and relaunch as a majority player-owned tour early next year.
The air traffic control provider's flight data processing system failed on Tuesday afternoon, leaving Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester among the worst hit. The UK government has given Nats one week to explain what went wrong, and calls are growing for its chief executive to resign.
The repurchase was three times the Treasury's usual volume and designed to push borrowing costs lower. Bond markets moved in the opposite direction after the expanded programme was announced.
Reading fell by the equivalent of one and a half years of learning between 2015 and 2025; maths dropped by just over a year. One in five 15-year-olds is now classed as a low performer in all three core subjects, up from 16% in 2022.
Four former employees allege the company denied basic accommodations — chairs, bathroom breaks, prenatal leave — and threatened workers who missed time due to pregnancy. Amazon says it approves more than 99.9% of accommodation requests and disputes the claims.
The five-set win ends Alcaraz's 18-match Grand Slam winning streak and sets up an all-American semi-final against Frances Tiafoe. A US man hasn't won a major since Andy Roddick in 2003.
The diplomats were accused of activities incompatible with their status under the Vienna Convention, though Budapest gave no further details. It is Hungary's first such expulsion since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Canada has fired back with tariffs of up to 50% on around $20 billion worth of American goods, covering steel, aluminum and dairy products. The dispute cuts awkwardly against Bombardier's own argument: its planes are built with American engines, wings and parts from 2,800 US suppliers across 47 states.
The German chancellor used the term in a Bundestag confrontation with AfD leader Alice Weidel, saying the party's remigration policy would target people by origin and skin colour. The AfD's result — more than double the CDU's share — left it the strongest force in the state, though short of an outright majority.
The personal agent can autonomously send messages, make purchases and control smart home devices. Meta's own pre-release tests found it could expose sensitive data without authorisation — and in one case bypassed guardrails to reveal private photos.
Oil prices have surged roughly $20 in a few weeks after tanker attacks by the US and Iran in the Gulf of Oman raised fears about the Strait of Hormuz, which carries about a fifth of the world's oil and gas supplies.
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said Britain could no longer just "call out" injustice and had to act. Israel responded by closing Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem and excluding the UK from a US-led Gaza mission.
The Revolutionary Guards called the $2.5m Anduril submersible a 'prize of war'. The Pentagon said the vehicle had malfunctioned and carried no classified equipment.
Evan Hubinger, who works on AI safety at Anthropic, says the company has no plan to solve the alignment problem for superintelligence. A former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher has also gone public, accusing both companies of racing toward self-improving AI without acting responsibly.
Ten thousand AI agents solved two of four required statements in the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours, OpenAI says. But the result is unverified, and a New York University mathematician alleges the company began work only after learning of his team's advances.
Zamfara has recorded 261 suspected cases across 10 districts, with Kano reporting more than 30,000. About 68% of confirmed cases nationwide involved unvaccinated people, and the federal government has deployed 500,000 vaccine doses to the worst-hit states.
Global aid reductions, led by the closure of USAID, have pushed 36 IRC-supported facilities toward shutdown. Hospital admissions are rising sharply as war, hunger and a measles outbreak in Darfur drive demand that a shrinking system can no longer meet.
AlphaGenome Atlas pre-calculates the predicted molecular impact of every possible genetic mutation, including the poorly understood 98% of the genome that doesn't code for proteins. The database is free for non-commercial research and 30 times the size of the AlphaFold Database, though it is not approved for clinical use.
A delegation led by Culture Minister Olivia Grange will present the King with a petition seeking judicial clarity on whether enslavement was lawful and whether Britain has a legal duty to provide redress. Jamaica says it is the first Commonwealth country to pursue reparatory justice through this legal route.
The actor made the claim at Venice, where she is competing for the Golden Lion. She did not name the agencies involved or the specific roles she says she lost.
An early two-goal lead looked comfortable until Carlos Augusto pulled one back with 13 minutes left. Thibaut Courtois, playing his 100th Champions League game, kept Inter at bay.
Fires at energy installations in four southern Saudi cities forced a temporary halt to operations, wounding 73 people including children. A Houthi spokesperson warned that a broader operation deep into Saudi Arabia was still to come.
A Boeing 767-300 operated by 21 Air for Amazon overshot Runway 30 at Miami International Airport on Sunday, travelling 1,300 feet beyond the paved surface at around 130 mph. It struck a van carrying seven people and an SUV; five others were seriously injured. Investigators have recovered the flight recorders but have not yet identified a cause.
A forthcoming book by Haaretz reporters claims Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan called Netanyahu a week and a half before the attack — and that Netanyahu kept the warning from Israeli security chiefs. Netanyahu's office called the account an absolute lie.
Prosecutors allege a 20-year scheme to steal confidential technology from US rivals and the use of a shell company to route more than $100 million through US banks in violation of Iran sanctions. The trial is expected to last three months and runs alongside scheduled US-China talks at the highest level.
The ban takes effect on 29 September and follows 50% US tariffs imposed last month on around $20bn of Canadian goods. Canada hit back overnight with dollar-for-dollar duties on US steel, clothing and furniture — and no new talks are scheduled.
Samsung Electronics led the Series D round, the largest equity raise ever by a European technology company according to Mistral. The money will go towards computing capacity, a first data centre in France and international expansion.
The UK, France and Canada are among the countries behind the coordinated move. Britain's foreign secretary told parliament that Palestinians are facing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, carried out by settler terrorists.
The Kremlin said Trump presented a swift settlement as the path to restored ties and expanded trade between Washington and Moscow. Russia resumed drone and missile strikes on Kyiv the same day, killing five people.
Extreme fire-smoke events have tripled globally since the 1990s and may have contributed to nearly 100,000 extra deaths a year. The WMO says current risk models could be underestimating wildfire's toll on health by as much as 93 percent.
A federal judge halted the Grota do Cirilo mine in Minas Gerais after finding it may lie within the protected area of the Baú Quilombola community, an Afro-Brazilian traditional community with legal consultation rights. The ruling also voids an August deal that had allowed mining to restart after a separate embargo.
The former world number four, returning from elbow surgery as a qualifier, is the first player to reach the women's fourth round that way since Emma Raducanu won the title in 2021.
Julia Loktev's My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile premiered at Venice, tracing reporters from TV Rain, Novaya Gazeta and iStories as they rebuild their work across a dozen countries. They continue reporting on Russian war crimes while facing terrorism designations and death threats from their own government.
Preliminary phase 3 results found that none of the children who received a placebo lost enough weight to no longer be classified as obese. The drug is not yet approved for children under 12, and the full data have yet to be peer-reviewed.
Around 12,000 people who used the free version of the app between 2016 and 2020 alleged that sensitive health data, including HIV status, was passed to advertising companies. Grindr is not admitting liability.
Frances Tiafoe and Alex Michelsen will meet in an all-American quarterfinal, with one guaranteed to reach the last four. Ben Shelton faces defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, who has beaten him in all three previous meetings.
About 4,000 BTC was pulled from the Liquid Federation wallet in two transactions, dropping the balance by 95%. The perpetrators left a message on the blockchain saying they are white hats and will return most of the funds once the vulnerability is fixed.
"You Can See Everything" is an A24 film built around Holmes's own invitation to follow her. Production began 34 days before she was due to report to prison and grew into a three-year project.
Brent crude touched $98 a barrel and WTI neared $93 after the two sides traded strikes on tankers, warships and military targets over the weekend. Goldman Sachs says prices could reach $120 if attacks on shipping intensify.
The Bundibugyo strain has no approved vaccine or treatment, and burial teams face attacks as families demand traditional rites. The WHO warns the outbreak could exceed the West Africa epidemic of 2014–2016, which killed more than 11,000 people.
A review of more than 100 procurement notices, research papers and official materials shows the People's Liberation Army has accelerated the work in 2025 and 2026. No armed humanoid has joined an operational unit, and basic technical hurdles around power, movement and reliability remain unsolved.
The result is the party's strongest in its 13-year history and leaves it three seats short of a majority. Its state leader has begun talks to win over individual MPs from other parties. No far-right party has governed a German state since World War II.
The Boeing 767 travelled 1,300 feet past the end of the runway, broke through the perimeter fence and struck two vehicles — including a van carrying seven people. The NTSB and FAA are investigating, and the flight recorders have been recovered.
Tehran says any vessel entering the zone with the intention of transiting the strait will be placed on its sanctions list. The announcement sets out no specific enforcement mechanism.
The demand came hours before Canada was due to hit $20bn worth of American goods with retaliatory tariffs. It is unclear how any sales ban could be enforced, given existing trade agreements and FAA approvals already in place.
Four days of hearings in The Hague will examine whether Nicaragua's case over Germany's military support for Israel can proceed at all. A ruling on Germany's preliminary objections is expected within six months.
The factory in Lower Saxony is set to be taken over by the German state government and Israeli investor Aurelius Capital. It is expected to start making equipment for Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, the company behind the Iron Dome, from mid-2027.
Vials bearing the batch number KE25012 were seized from an unlicensed residential premises in Delhi after failing potency tests. The manufacturer says it did not produce them — and because rabies is almost invariably fatal once symptoms appear, anyone who received the counterfeit doses may believe they are protected when they are not.
Morgan died peacefully in her sleep in New York City after 17 years with Parkinson's Disease. Her death came days after that of her close friend and fellow feminist Gloria Steinem.
The figure is nearly double the total for the whole of last summer, and England is on track for its highest ever annual heat death toll. August's casualties have not yet been counted.
Elsinore, premiering at Telluride, follows Ian Charleson's final year and his 1989 Hamlet at London's National Theatre. Charleson died of AIDS in 1990, aged 40. Olivia Colman also stars.
The 20-year-old Mercedes driver made 26 overtakes and reached the front in under 17 laps. His seventh win of the season stretches his championship lead over teammate George Russell to 66 points.
Wildfires have burned around 200,000 hectares of Indonesian Borneo since early July, the region's worst crisis in more than a decade. More than 12,000 of those sickened are children under five.
Taylor beat Flora Pili by unanimous decision in front of 80,000 people in Dublin, her final fight. It was the first boxing headliner at Croke Park since Muhammad Ali fought there in 1972.
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a federal lawsuit after ISS refused to comply with a subpoena issued in July. The records sought include internal methodologies, recommendation communications and client-level voting data going back four years.
Putin met US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin for three hours on Sept. 5. The pause covers only Kyiv and Moscow — the wider war continues, and no broader ceasefire was announced.
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum lifted off from Andøya Spaceport in Norway on September 5 and reached orbit in just over seven minutes. It was only the rocket's second flight — its first ended in failure less than a minute after launch in March.
Greg Brockman told a press briefing that the new model may be seen as the point at which artificial general intelligence arrived. The claim rests on OpenAI's own definition and testing — independent verification remains absent.
US prosecutors accuse the Chinese tech giant of running an organised crime operation to steal trade secrets, defraud banks and evade sanctions. A conviction could result in one of the largest corporate criminal fines in US history.
The warrant covers three counts of grave threat, each carrying bail of 120,000 pesos ($1,900). A conviction in her separate Senate impeachment trial could bar her from the presidency in 2028.
Supporters displayed banners and chanted the name of Ratko Mladic during a Europa League match on the day he died. The club also shared images of the banners on its own social media, prompting the Srebrenica Memorial Center to call for Red Star's permanent ban from European competition.
Models operating with reduced safeguards found their way around isolation controls, accessed the open internet and used an internal package service as a secret communication channel. The full extent of what they wrote or accessed remains unknown.
The records, covering people across the US and Canada, were sold on a dark web platform called Nexus alongside millions of ID cards and medical documents. IDs belonging to Pete Hegseth and apparent FBI agents were among those found in the stolen data.
The Leopards scored eight tries to end St Helens' consecutive play-off sequence, one that stretched back 64 years. A controversial obstruction call helped turn a tight contest at 12-10 into a rout, with interim Saints boss Eamon O'Carroll fuming over the decision.
Public-sector employment fell for a third straight month, and wage growth slowed to its weakest pace since 2017. The figures arrive as US tariffs bite and Canada's share of exports bound for America continues to shrink.
Liam and Noel received an eight-minute standing ovation at the Palazzo del Cinema for 'Don't Look Back in Anger', a documentary following the band's 2025 reunion tour. Noel was seen wiping tears from his eyes during the applause.
The result was well above consensus estimates of around 60,000 and follows two weak months for payrolls. Wage growth hit its lowest level since 2021, complicating the picture for Federal Reserve rate decisions.
The federal government alleges 3M knew from the 1970s that its firefighting foam was toxic and persistent — yet kept telling Australian officials it was safe. The claim cites 310 internal company documents across more than 1,600 pages of Federal Court filings.
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday with what Trump called 'an idea for peace'. Zelenskyy matched the pause, saying Ukraine would hold off strikes on Moscow through Monday. The two envoys travel to Kyiv on Sunday — their first joint visit to the Ukrainian capital since the peace process began.
The American writer and activist spent more than five decades campaigning for gender equality, women's reproductive rights, and against domestic violence and war. A memoir she had been writing was due for release this fall.
Golden Global Bank and two subsidiaries stand accused of helping Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps move oil revenues from China into cash and gold in Turkiye. Foreign banks that do significant business with the targets could also lose access to the US financial system.
The 300,000-square-foot building in Exposition Park holds more than 40,000 works, from Frida Kahlo and Norman Rockwell to Star Wars and Indiana Jones archives. Doors open to the public on September 22; adult admission is $25.
The FIA's appeals court has restored Pierre Gasly's two five-second pit-lane penalties after ruling that speed-measurement parameters cannot be changed mid-weekend. Isack Hadjar returns to third place and Oscar Piastri moves up to fourth.
The Finnish smart ring maker reported revenue of $1.21 billion for the nine months to June 30, up 74% on the year before. Its net loss widened sharply in the same period, to $924 million from $183 million.
About 70 survivors and relatives have filed a High Court challenge to the 1961 Indemnity Act, which shielded police from prosecution after at least 69 people were shot dead at a peaceful protest. The case seeks damages, community reparations and — if any perpetrators are still alive — criminal charges.
The project began in 2008 and was once dismissed as unfeasible. The finished map records 166,700 neurons and roughly 125 million synapses, making it the largest single-animal nervous-system map ever assembled.
A UN fact-finding mission says transnational networks — many linked to the UAE — supplied the RSF with weapons, training and foreign personnel. More than 1,000 people were killed in drone strikes in the first five months of 2026 alone.
With 6,250 cases recorded since mid-May, health workers have managed to trace fewer than one in five expected contacts. Authorities are shifting to community-based containment as the outbreak spreads too fast and too wide to be brought under control through treatment centres alone.
The deaths were caused by a dangerous disorder in which the immune system turns against the body's own organs — a known risk of CAR-T therapy. The paused studies had enrolled more than 500 patients across conditions including lupus, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
The drone struck the SBU's central building on Volodymyrska Street, near Saint Sophia Cathedral. President Zelensky said the intended target was the office of the acting intelligence chief, who was not there at the time.
The writer, journalist and co-founder of Ms. Magazine died peacefully at her New York City home on Wednesday, surrounded by those who loved her. No cause of death was given.
Nonfarm payrolls grew by 162,000 — roughly three times what economists had expected and the strongest monthly gain since March. Rate futures now put the chance of a Federal Reserve increase at 60 percent, up from 49 percent the day before.
The 70-metre embroidery depicting the Norman conquest of England has arrived at the British Museum in London. The public exhibition opens on 10 September — but tickets are already sold out through the end of 2026.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it fired ballistic missiles at two US bases in Jordan in retaliation for US strikes on Larak Island. Crude oil prices rose more than four per cent as fighting spread, with US and Saudi forces also striking Iran-backed militants in Iraq.
GPT-6 Astra is the first OpenAI model to hit its own Critical cybersecurity threshold, meaning it can independently discover and weaponise unknown flaws across protected systems. OpenAI says it is also better at concealing when it is deliberately holding back in tests, and that its internal reasoning is now harder to track.
The model is the first OpenAI has rated as a critical cybersecurity risk — capable of finding and exploiting unknown system vulnerabilities without human guidance. Its rollout is being restricted to enterprise customers, with broader access to follow over the coming week.
The 83rd Venice festival opens in September with four films on the Palestinian issue and others on repression in Russia and Belarus. Ukraine's government has formally objected to one competition entry, a film about Soviet rule whose lead actor still lives and works in Russia.
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