Last month was the warmest September on record globally, with 0.93C above the average temperature for the same month in 1991-2020. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/File Photo |
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- This year is on track to become the hottest on record, with the global mean temperature to date 0.52 degrees Celsius higher than average, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service said. The global temperature for January-September is also 1.4C higher than the preindustrial average.
- At least 14 people were killed and 102 are missing after heavy rains caused a Himalayan glacial lake in India to burst its banks. Rescuers are being hampered by washed out bridges and fast flowing rivers, officials said. It is the latest deadly weather event in South Asia's mountains being blamed on climate change.
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- The race to replace ousted US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy took shape as Steve Scalise, the chamber's No. 2 Republican, and Jim Jordan, a leading antagonist of Joe Biden, said they would seek the post. The two lawmakers could be joined by several other candidates in what could be a lengthy battle.
- Fighting to win a third term in office, Poland's nationalist government has seized on a target close to home: Germany, its NATO ally and biggest trading partner. Leaders of the ruling Law and Justice party have accused Germany of trying to dictate Polish government policy on anything from migration to gas.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived in the Spanish city of Granada to take part in the European Political Community Summit, a forum to foster cooperation among more than 40 countries. European leaders are expected to assure Zelenskiy of long-term support for Kyiv.
- A senior figure from Uganda's main opposition party said its leader Bobi Wine had been arrested at the Entebbe International Airport as he arrived from abroad. In recent years, Wine has emerged as the strongest challenger to President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power in the east African country since 1986.
- As the Nobel prizes, arguably the world's most prestigious awards, are announced this week, hear what it's really like to win one, and why this year's awards are already considered unusual.
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Striking UAW members picket outside the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne. REUTERS/Dieu-Nalio Chery |
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- Negotiators for the United Auto Workers and Ford have narrowed their differences on pay increases after a new offer from the automaker amid "really active" talks, people familiar with the bargaining among the Detroit Three automakers and the union said.
- The success of weight-loss drug Wegovy is providing a bonanza not just for Novo Nordisk, but also for Denmark. Interviews with economists, analysts, and executives at the Novo Nordisk Foundation highlight the benefits to the economy - but also the potential pitfalls of relying on a single, outsized company.
- As Evergrande lurched from one crisis to another over the past two years, Beijing avoided directly intervening to rescue what was not too long ago considered one of the country's "too big to fail" enterprises. But some creditors, investors and analysts are now betting on authorities stepping in to manage the fallout.
- Citigroup managers are reviewing staff rosters to decide who will stay in place, be reassigned or laid off during its biggest reorganization in decades, according to a memo to staff seen by Reuters. The bank is also beginning the consultations required in the UK after earlier warning employees about possible redundancies.
- Birkenstock needs to sell more clogs and boots and boost sales from its own website and boutiques to attract new shoppers amid a cost of living crisis, analysts said before the company lists on the New York Stock Exchange next week. It is the latest high-profile listing to put investor focus on the IPO market.
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Boys play as people watch the sunset over the township of Alice Springs, in Australia. REUTERS/Jaimi Joy |
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In just over a week, Australians will vote on whether to recognize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution and enshrine in it an advisory body called the Voice to Parliament that would give non-binding advice to lawmakers. Polls show it is headed for likely defeat. The Voice had its genesis in the Uluru Statement From the Heart, a 2017 document setting out a roadmap for Indigenous relations with wider Australia. But six years later, more than two dozen people in the Indigenous heartland of Australia's Northern Territory revealed in interviews with Reuters how the Voice is struggling to connect with some of the people it is primarily designed to help. |
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China's Lyu Ping takes a hit during his men's 51-57kg boxing semifinal against Uzbekistan's Abdumalik Khalokov. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez |
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Our photographers bring you some memorable moments from the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. |
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