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Lionel Messi will make his final appearance for Argentina on Tuesday in a farewell friendly against Benin at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires, closing out an international career that spanned more than two decades and included a World Cup title and two Copa America crowns.
The US Senate has approved bills designed to encourage pilots and air traffic controllers struggling with mental health conditions to seek treatment, aiming to break down the stigma that has long deterred aviation professionals from coming forward.
For the roughly 2,000 residents still living in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in Ukraine's Kherson region, survival has become a daily struggle against starvation, drone attacks and landmines, with no electricity, running water, natural gas or healthcare for more than two years, according to accounts gathered by Al Jazeera.
France has suspended the use of stun grenades by police at high school demonstrations, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced Wednesday, after a 15-year-old protester lost his hand in the northern town of Lens, prompting outrage and multiple internal police investigations into alleged brutality.
· 3 sourcesA 15-year-old boy's hand was blown off during a confrontation between police and student demonstrators near a high school in the northern French city of Lens on Monday, according to local authorities. The teenager's life is not in danger, but the incident has prompted an investigation by the national police watchdog. The injury occurred as student protests over poor school conditions intensify across the country, with around 500 schools partially or fully closed on Monday.
Brazil's far-right candidate Flavio Bolsonaro has won the first round of the presidential election, defeating incumbent left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with 47 percent of the vote against Lula's 45.1 percent, triggering a runoff on 25 October. The result defied pre-election polls and has shifted expectations sharply in Bolsonaro's favour, with prediction markets now giving him more than an 80 percent chance of victory.
· 9 sourcesRussia's new Shturm uncrewed assault tank failed during its debut at the Tsentr-2026 military exercise, losing its command link and getting stuck in the mud during a demonstration before President Vladimir Putin, according to Defense Blog.
Neighbours of a Maylands property in Perth claim more than a dozen cats owned by 82-year-old Louise Jones are causing persistent odours and roaming onto their properties, making daily life unbearable.
· 3 sourcesFormula One's governing body, the FIA, has launched a full investigation into a software bug that caused chaos and forced the start of the Bahrain Grand Prix at Malaysia's Sepang circuit to be aborted on Sunday, with leading drivers including Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen experiencing a sudden loss of power on the formation lap after a lengthy rain delay.
Voters in Quebec are going to the polls on Monday in a provincial election that polls suggest will hand power to the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ) for the first time in more than a decade, with the party promising a referendum on independence from Canada within two years.
Two men died and two women were injured late on Sunday night while attempting to cross the English Channel from the coast of Berck in northern France, local authorities confirmed. The deaths, in which men aged in their 30s and 40s suffered cardiac arrest, occurred just days after a child was among three people killed in another crossing attempt, emphasizing the persistent and deadly toll on the route.
· 2 sourcesYemeni pro-government forces backed by Saudi Arabia say they have secured the Bab al-Mandab Strait and launched a major offensive aimed at retaking all territory held by the Iran-backed Houthi movement, including the capital Sanaa. The announcement marks a significant escalation in a civil war that had been largely frozen until recent weeks.
· 5 sourcesPower has been restored across large parts of central London after a major outage this morning, but businesses are warning of a 'domino effect' of disruption that could extend far beyond the hours without electricity. UK Power Networks confirmed full service was restored by 12:09pm, following a fault on an underground cable that began around 10:30am.
· 2 sourcesOkinawa Governor Genta Koja told Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday that past disciplinary measures by the US military “have not worked at all”, as the island reels from the alleged murder of a local woman by a US Marine. Hours earlier, the US military in Okinawa announced a 48-hour stand-down of all operations and a 30-day period of curfew and alcohol restrictions for troops.
· 5 sourcesNovak Djokovic claimed the China Open title on Tuesday after Alex de Minaur retired injured from the final in Beijing, extending the Serb's unbeaten record at the tournament and delivering the 102nd title of his career.
· 12 sourcesInvestigators believe the flydubai co-pilot who attacked his captain and attempted to crash a plane last week originally planned the attack in July but postponed it, possibly due to a friend being on board, according to regional and Israeli officials. Meanwhile, Melbourne's RMIT University confirmed the Omani national studied there from 2015 to 2017 but did not complete his degree.
· 3 sourcesTeachers in Libya have turned protests over salaries and working conditions into an open-ended strike that has shut down public schools across the country, with several other unions threatening to join the action unless the government enters negotiations to address a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
Next month's ballot measures in California, Rhode Island and other states will test whether voters want to raise taxes on high earners or reduce them, reflecting a growing divergence in state income tax policy that is reshaping where wealthy Americans choose to live.
The Republican Party's longstanding alliance with Israel, rooted in the rise of conservative evangelical Christianity over the past half century, is facing internal strains as President Donald Trump's America First agenda introduces competing priorities into Republican foreign policy, according to analysis.
President Donald Trump is traveling to Grand Island, Nebraska, on Monday in an effort to bolster Republican support ahead of the midterm elections, as a plan to allow more foreign beef imports proves unpopular in the agriculture-rich state.
Multiple hospitals in the Siberian city of Irkutsk have been placed under quarantine following the death of a female employee at an anti-plague research institute, with Russian authorities offering contradictory explanations over whether she succumbed to plague or pneumonia.
· 4 sourcesSaudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said Monday it could take up to two years to rebuild global oil inventories, warning that supply disruption from the ongoing U.S.-Iran war will intensify until the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz fully reopens and market confidence returns.
One Nation's Victorian state election launch descended into controversy when party figure Mark Nicholson declared former premiers Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan should be in prison by Christmas. The call drew immediate condemnation from federal Liberals, who said threatening to jail political opponents is unacceptable in a liberal democracy.
· 3 sourcesSeveral popular Perth beaches remain closed after a whale carcass that washed ashore at City Beach last week led to unexpectedly high levels of E. coli bacteria in the water, the Town of Cambridge has confirmed. The whale was removed to Red Hill tip on Thursday, but precautionary water sampling taken last weekend returned unusual results, prompting an extended closure.
· 3 sourcesIn an opinion piece published across multiple news outlets on October 5, 2026, writer Bunny Banyai describes the macabre kinship among women who grew up in Melbourne in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the nightly news was dominated by the kidnappings of girls by a man dubbed Mr Cruel. She writes that even though her own daughters do not know his name, they quietly carry her fears.
· 3 sourcesMelbourne student Ella Stiebel thought her brain would explode as she prepared to fly home from Bali after a family hike left her confined to a hotel room with severe dengue fever. Her ordeal comes as the Qdenga vaccine becomes commercially available in Australia following updated advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), recommending the shot for some travellers particularly those who have already contracted the disease. Cases of the mosquito-borne virus are spiking in popular tourist destinations and have triggered a state of emergency in parts of Florida.
· 3 sourcesAs New South Wales HSC students begin their final year of school, the age spread in year 12 classrooms can span more than two years, raising perennial questions for parents about when to start their children in kindergarten.
· 3 sourcesBuckingham Palace has told Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor that the private allowance he receives from King Charles must not be used to fund his High Court challenge against Thames Valley Police over the search warrants that led to his arrest in February, a royal source has said.
· 10 sourcesAnti-migrant protesters scuffled with police in Gosport, Hampshire, on Sunday evening as nearly 150 people rescued from the English Channel were brought ashore, in the second such protest in the town in recent weeks.
The West Australian government has conceded a desalination plant at Esperance will be needed, a significant backflip from its dismissal of the proposal during last year's state election, as work ramps up on a $543 million upgrade to the historic Goldfields water pipeline.
· 2 sourcesPolice in northwest Pakistan's Hangu district have installed fishing nets over security outposts as a low-tech defence against drone attacks, after a seven-hour assault in April killed one officer and injured another. The nets, costing about 400,000 Pakistani rupees ($1,435) per checkpost, are intended to catch or deflect explosive-laden quadcopters launched by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The United States National Weather Service has issued extreme heat warnings for parts of southern California, including Los Angeles, until Thursday, with temperatures expected to reach the high 30s Celsius. The heat is one leg of a broader pattern of extreme weather linked to El Niño, which is also driving an intense wildfire season in Indonesia and an unusually active typhoon season in the Pacific.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor will release a fully costed policy on Tuesday aimed at halting One Nation's electoral momentum, pledging to cut net migration to around 100,000 per year, roughly a third of the current intake. The larger-than-expected reduction is a bid to neutralise an issue that has driven voters to Pauline Hanson and become a central political battle in Canberra.
· 4 sourcesA celebrity fitness guru is expected to appear in court today, according to reports from multiple Australian news outlets. The specific identity of the figure and details of the charges remain unclear at this stage.
· 4 sourcesRussia has ramped up attacks on critical infrastructure in Kyiv, damaging a second major bridge over the Dnipro River and forcing traffic suspensions, as the U.S. makes a renewed push for peace talks. The escalation comes alongside a pledge of 1 billion euros in German military aid and a Ukrainian threat to strike Russian oil refineries.
Russian drones have reportedly struck major bridges in Ukraine, according to multiple Australian news outlets, though no further details have been provided in the available source excerpts.
· 4 sourcesSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for 29 November, days after parliament rejected his emergency housing measures. Hours after his televised announcement, a rally in Barcelona over the cost of renting turned violent, with masked demonstrators setting fire to cars and rubbish bins and confronting police.
· 17 sourcesHawthorn have secured Essendon star Zach Merrett on the opening day of the trade period, acquiring the seven-time Crichton Medal winner in exchange for picks 15 and 25 in this year's draft and a future second-round draft pick. The 31-year-old has signed a four-year deal worth $1 million per season, and the club is now confident it can also land Gold Coast restricted free agent Ben King without using additional draft capital beyond a first-round compensation pick.
· 3 sourcesThe AFL has claimed this season's most-watched sporting grand final, with its decider out-rating Sunday's NRL grand final by about 230,000 viewers, new television figures show.
· 3 sourcesA murder investigation has been launched after a body was discovered in a van that was on fire on a lane in Prestatyn, Flintshire, North Wales Police said.
· 2 sourcesResidents across south-east Queensland are bracing for a dynamic weather shift as severe thunderstorms are predicted across the region on Tuesday, following an extremely dry September statewide, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
· 3 sourcesAfter 17 years of renting across Sydney's inner west, Marie Healy has finally found a place to call home in Hurlstone Park, a suburb she describes as a pocket of Federation charm and gardens tucked away at 'the Paris end of Canterbury Bankstown'.
· 3 sourcesKyle MacLachlan, best known for playing FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks and Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet, has released a new memoir, Fictional Selves, co-written with Jon Sternfeld. The book explores how the actor ended up in a peculiar niche: playing characters with an earnest quality that audiences trust, even as things get strange.
· 3 sourcesOnly two leaders from nations outside the Pacific are attending the pre-COP climate summit in Fiji this week, as the Albanese government faces pressure to justify the estimated $20 million cost of hosting the talks and its broader climate diplomacy in the region.
· 5 sourcesSamoa's Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has apologised after a video emerged of him leading a Nazi salute and saying 'Heil Hitler' at a family gathering in 2007. In a statement on Monday, Schmidt rejected Nazism, antisemitism and racism, calling his words and gesture 'inappropriate and capable of causing offence and hurt.'
· 3 sourcesCrude oil exports from the Middle East have risen above pre-war levels on four of seven days in the last week of September, according to provisional data from ship-tracking firm Kpler, even as a senior Iranian commander downplayed the volumes moving through the region and Tehran insisted the Strait of Hormuz remains closed until its conditions are met.
Credit rating agency Moody's has warned that aging Western populations will soon begin shrinking, putting severe pressure on public finances, healthcare systems and economic growth. Europe's population is projected to peak as early as 2029, after which a sustained decline will begin, according to the European Commission.
Australia has experienced its second hottest September on record, with the Bureau of Meteorology reporting average temperatures 2.71C above the long-term average. The extreme heat, driven by a combination of global heating and a strengthening El Niño, also produced the hottest minimum night-time temperatures for any September on records dating back to 1910, and pushed snow depth in the Kosciuszko National Park to zero for the first time since monitoring began in 1954.
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