Based on the following headlines
- Nigerian security forces free more than 300 hostages abducted by militants
- ‘Morocco feels emboldened’: Trump’s influence in spotlight after Ceuta disaster
- US to shut five consulates as critics fear China could fill diplomatic vacuum
- El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
- Wednesday briefing: How misinformation and a hardened immigration policy turned Ceuta into Europe’s latest flashpoint
- Toronto zoo announces birth of pygmy hippo calf, third for mother Kindia
- Mexican influencer shot dead while streaming live on social media
- Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’
- Mexico’s top university orders 58,000 students to resit entrance exam after suspected cheating
- US revokes Brazil ambassador’s visa in escalation of diplomatic feud
- ‘Mamma mia!’: Trump tariffs refund ignites 53% profit spike at Nintendo
- Starbucks Korea raided by police after ‘Tank Day’ campaign sparks public outrage
- New Zealand capital delights in rare snowfall as southern city residents ski down world’s steepest street
- ‘Our new champion’: Philippines swept up in tennis fever after Alex Eala’s historic win
- Three lions die of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo zoo as Japan swelters
- Two Iranian female footballers granted Australian citizenship after protest
- Texts suggest Angus Taylor ‘paid money to the Reformers … or was refusing to’, Icac inquiry hears
- ‘Performative reductions’: Labor MPs and business groups urge Burke against sweeping immigration changes
- Icac witness asked about ‘filthy schools money’ messages – as it happened
- Labor faces fierce backlash from gambling giants as Coalition and Greens push for new controls on inducements
- Ceuta residents ‘sad, helpless, anxious’ as up to 5,000 migrants remain in the city, president says – Europe live
- Nearly 50 asylum seekers deported under ‘one in one out’ scheme have returned to the UK
- Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating
- Nato to ‘urgently’ get air defences for Ukraine, as Zelenskyy warns of surge in Russian missile production
- Drone carrying explosives at German airport marks ‘new level of danger’, says interior minister
- Iran says a deal with Oman to reopen the strait of Hormuz is close to being finalised – Middle East crisis live
- Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace issues first building contract – for a military base
- Top Democrats accuse Trump officials over Israeli settlers’ ‘unbridled violence’
- Israeli strike that killed journalist in Lebanon was war crime, say rights groups
- Iran and Oman agree on coordinates of route through strait of Hormuz, says Iranian foreign ministry – as it happened
- High-profile Indian journalist jailed for 10 years for raping colleague
- Exiled PM vows to return to Bangladesh despite execution threat
- Pakistani authorities ban international media from reporting in most of country
- Pakistan precinct suspends all 78 officers and staff over alleged rape at police station
- ‘I just want to find them’: deadly cloudbursts devastate Kashmir’s mountain communities
- Reform will jail directors of companies employing illegal workers for up to five years, says Yusuf – UK politics live
- Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ for memoir from publisher
- Raleigh bike brand faces chop after owner begins insolvency proceedings
- Woman, 47, charged after four men stabbed in Covent Garden
- Extreme rightwing referrals to Prevent rise 20% amid record anti-terror reporting
- Senate committee holds Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress – live
- Miss North Carolina USA stripped of title after alleged racist posts resurface
- Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress over Covid hearing
- Ohio voters reconsider Republican Max Miller amid domestic abuse allegations
- Florida Democrat switches districts after DeSantis redistricting shake-up
