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Important international developments and what they mean for our readers.
8 October 2026
After Flavio Bolsonaro came out on top in the first round of Brazil's presidential election, thousands of people joined student-led protests against the far-right in Rio de Janeiro.
8 October 2026
Talks will focus on the €1bn daily deficit and rare earth export restrictions.
8 October 2026
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces claim advances in western Taiz's mountain belt overlooking the coast.
8 October 2026
Saudi Arabia has confirmed that Houthi strikes on two of its international airports have killed three people.
8 October 2026
Senior WHO official urges Russia to provide more information on the suspected pneumonic plague cases.
8 October 2026
Oil prices rose on fresh concerns about Middle East supplies, before falling on the possible release of more reserves.
8 October 2026
‘Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively. This was one of the most vile strikes.’
8 October 2026
The United States has designated a prominent Chinese businessman in Fiji for "significant corruption" on behalf of China-based actors.
8 October 2026
Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are being held in a New York prison on drug trafficking charges, with their trial expected to begin in June.
8 October 2026
Death row inmate who survived execution by lethal injection is said to be 'angry and confused' about what happened.
8 October 2026
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said there were no casualties after small arms fire targeted a border post.
7 October 2026
The World Health Organization says it wants more information on what caused the death of an employee at a Russian plague research lab. Russia says the woman died of pneumonia of unknown origin.
7 October 2026
A Nashville judge ordered Tennessee officials to preserve evidence from Christa Pike’s failed execution
7 October 2026
Students and other protesters marched against Flavio Bolsonaro after he advanced to Brazil's presidential run-off.
7 October 2026
The ancient disease of plague is back in the headlines after the death this month of a Russian lab worker. (Image credit: Science Source )
7 October 2026
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is downplaying tensions within his coalition over his unilateral decision to announce the date for the country's first-ever referendum ahead of an upcoming election.
7 October 2026
A once-abundant snail nearly disappeared as weirs and irrigation diverted water from its river home. But it found protection in the very structures that almost wiped it out.
7 October 2026
On the day of 73-year-old Trevero Fleet's funeral, a Bega Valley woman was charged with manslaughter over the alleged road rage hit-and-run incident that led to his death.
7 October 2026
Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old Spanish woman whose eviction sparked nationwide protests, has died. Ms Abascal had been hospitalised after she was evicted from the apartment she had lived in for seven decades.
7 October 2026
Pike's lawyers have said she was very aware of Tennessee's failed execution effort. A judge has ordered state officials to preserve all evidence from the botched execution.
7 October 2026
Inside SpaceX’s new look for AI data centres in orbit
7 October 2026
Gaza child’s autoimmune condition triggered amid Israel’s war
7 October 2026
US President Donald Trump said it would be a ‘great discredit’ to the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
7 October 2026
Pro-Palestine students took to the streets of London on October 7, despite police calls to postpone the march.
7 October 2026
The ASX is set to fall after its US counterparts also slightly dropped overnight, a day after Wall Street reached record highs. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.
7 October 2026
New data from Domain shows that despite severe rental shortages, landlords aren't having much luck increasing rent as tenants hit affordability limits.
7 October 2026
Check out all the broadcast times and details as the Supercars showpiece returns.
7 October 2026
Manchester United and Liverpool eye Adrien Truffert, Tyler Morton is wanted by Newcastle and Martin Odegaard is set to sign a new Arsenal deal.
7 October 2026
Three years after the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on October 7, much of Gaza lies in ruins.
7 October 2026
Former Rangers winger Rabbi Matondo joins Hibernian on a deal until the end of the season, with the option of a further year.
7 October 2026
Fury is growing around the Catholic Church's handling of jailed outback bishop Christopher Saunders, who remains a senior cleric despite being convicted of sexually assaulting young Aboriginal men.
7 October 2026
Speaking for the first time since he survived the attack last month, Mel Ismail recalls the moment he looked the apex predator in the eye.
7 October 2026
Declan Rice is close to agreeing a new long-term Arsenal contract, sources have told BBC Sport.
7 October 2026
Japan's Fair Trade Commission is investigating whether the beer brewers colluded to raise their prices at the same time over several years, blaming factors like rising raw material costs.
7 October 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a strike on a residential building in Pryluky, which killed four children, was one of the 'most vile" from Moscow's army.
7 October 2026
Harry Kane's record-breaking England career can't go on for ever. But do the Three Lions already have a ready-made replacement?
7 October 2026
The clocks are so accurate they could run for 30 million years and only lose a second of time.
7 October 2026
Scientists have found the earliest-known fossil of a mammal-like animal that lived more than 160 million years ago in the mid-Jurassic period and may have hunted fish and salamander.
7 October 2026
Former Tottenham Hotspur defender Ramon Vega says he intends to stand as a candidate in next year's Fifa presidential election.
7 October 2026
Sheffield United CEO Stephen Bettis tells BBC Radio Sheffield the Blades expect to avoid an EFL points deduction but will not reinvest a summer transfer haul in January.
7 October 2026
Scotland's top flight is the best attended in Europe per head of population. But does the rising cost of going to games put that status at risk?
7 October 2026
Tonda Eckert is free to continue as Southampton manager after being given a suspended ban for his role in Spygate.
7 October 2026
Sir Kevin Sinfield is knighted by the Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle.
7 October 2026
The French government is pausing the use of stun grenades in its policing of student protests after a 15-year-old boy's hand was blown off earlier this week.
7 October 2026
NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of years ago.
7 October 2026
Former UFC employee Sal Everett wins a fighter contract with the promotion after knocking out Ozzy Martin in Dana White's Contender Series.
7 October 2026
Coco Gauff says she had a "draining" few days after receiving racist abuse online before her fourth-round China Open exit.
7 October 2026
Since the World Cup, Thomas Tuchel has made deliberate changes in both tactics and personnel. So what has he tweaked as he looks to refine his England blueprint rather than rewrite it from scratch?
7 October 2026
They won for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, solving a chemical mystery more than a century old.
7 October 2026
Wada president Witold Banka says Kenya must strengthen testing, investigations and anti-doping enforcement before hosting the 2029 World Athletics Championships.
7 October 2026
Britain's George Russell will start from the back of the grid in Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix because of a power-unit penalty from last weekend's race.
7 October 2026
South Korea are discussing making changes to military exemptions for athletes after Asian Games controversy.
7 October 2026
Israelis have gathered to commemorate the attack that killed 1,200 people and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has left much of the territory in ruins.
7 October 2026
A Mackay region mother has been freed after receiving a suspended sentence for the manslaughter killing of her young son.
7 October 2026
Donald Trump might be the most influential US president of the past 100 years according to Joe Hockey but that doesn't mean he hasn't "diminished' the standing of the US globally.
7 October 2026
Tom Pidcock wanted to "stop racing" after he says two of his team-mates were hit by a police vehicle travelling the wrong way down the course at the Tre Valli Varesine.
7 October 2026
The attacks came as fighting intensified on several fronts in Yemen after Saudi-backed government forces launched a counteroffensive against the Houthis.
7 October 2026
Indonesia's Constitutional Court has refused to disqualify Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka over questions about his educational history, but experts say he could be impeached anyway.
7 October 2026
Derek Chisora's last fight was billed as his retirement bout, but the 42-year-old says he intends to box in December.
7 October 2026
The former Essendon captain had a touching embrace with a former teammate after his trade went down.
