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The ashes of late pop superstar Anita Mui, once dubbed the "Madonna of Asia", have gone missing from a monastery in Hong Kong, police said Tuesday.

Hungarian lawmakers will vote Tuesday on removing anti-LGBTQ provisions of a 2021 "child protection" law adopted under nationalist ex-leader Viktor Orban.

The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that while low-income developing countries were dealing with the disproportionate impacts of the Iran war-fuelled energy shock, many had "no choice" but to cut spending or potentially face debt restructuring.

Quarterback Josh Allen put on a rushing masterclass to power the Buffalo Bills to a thrilling 37-34 overtime victory against Los Angeles after the Rams had a game-winning field goal blocked Monday.

For South Korea's gold medal-winning footballers, victory at the Asian Games came with a reward beyond sporting glory: exemption from mandatory military service.

From Batman masks to offline maps, young Indian protesters have responded to one of New Delhi's toughest security crackdowns with improvised tactics designed to evade surveillance and keep demonstrations alive.

Rains and flooding along Mexico's Pacific Coast from Hurricane Simon and Tropical Storm Rachel have left five people dead, authorities said Monday.

Malaysian low-cost carrier Firefly extended cancellations of flights between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore until Wednesday, the airline said, as haze from fires in neighbouring Indonesia chokes air quality in the region.

Seoul, Tokyo and Taipei led losses across Asian stock markets on Tuesday as technology firms plunged on fresh worries about the outlook for the AI investment boom, with traders preparing for a crucial earnings season and release of key US data.

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday forecast that global growth in 2026 would slow less than previously expected due to advanced economies' "resilience" in the face of war-fuelled energy prices, but warned that low-income countries remained vulnerable to the supply shock.

For weeks on end, parts of Indonesian Borneo have resembled an Armageddon landscape with masked residents immersed in a putrid, red-brown haze as wildfires devour peatlands near homes and farms.

Gianni Infantino could survive weeks of criticism and secure re-election as FIFA president in the absence of a heavy hitter to challenge him, observers have told AFP.

Powerhouse 12-time champions Australia kick off their Rugby League World Cup defence in Sydney against New Zealand on Thursday, wary of a new wave of Pacific talent posing a threat to their dominance.

France readied on Tuesday for fresh nationwide demonstrations supporting students who have been protesting poor classroom conditions for weeks, with authorities and participants wary of further violence.

Pope Leo XIV was due to be admitted to hospital in Rome on Tuesday for surgery to remove a nodule on his lung, an operation experts say is generally low-risk.

Noam Cohen was driving to a bar on a Saturday two years ago with his wife and friends in his hometown of Arad, in southern Israel, when a group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys began shouting at passing cars.

Experienced Samoa forward Theo McFarland said on Monday the addition of former New Zealand players in Shaun Stevenson, Akira Ioane and Josh Ioane will have a "massive" impact on the Pacific Islanders as they prepare for next year's World Cup.

Food security concerns, wildfires and power warnings are among the impacts around the world this week from an exceptionally strong El Nino weather cycle.

William Contreras homered and drove in three runs as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-4 to take a 2-0 lead in the National League Championship Series on Monday.

Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have reshaped football with the financial backing of Gulf state owners, but there is a stark contrast in the health of those projects ahead of their latest Champions League meeting on Wednesday.

A 14-year-old boy opened fire with a hunting gun at a middle school in France on Monday, wounding the headmaster and a teacher before being disarmed by a member of staff, local authorities said.

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Built on Akkodis' AI-Core application, the solution delivers multilingual translation of real-time driver and team radios with race commentary for international guests in the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team Viewing Gallery.

A Melbourne imam whose Islamic community centre has been linked by prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates to the co-pilot who allegedly attacked the captain of a flydubai jet has said he "never met" the man and insisted he has "consistently preached peace".

RJ Mitte, the young actor best known for playing Walter White Jr in the award-winning TV series "Breaking Bad," has died, his representatives told AFP on Monday. He was 34.

Coventry earned a slice of Premier League history as they climbed out of the relegation zone with a stylish 4-1 win against Newcastle on Monday.

Former DR Congo president Joseph Kabila on Monday joined forces with the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group to head a new outfit, taking a more direct role in the insurgency ravaging the country's volatile east.

Emergency repairs and cleanup were underway Monday in California's wave-battered city of Long Beach, where several homes appeared on the brink of collapse and remained too dangerous to enter.

The Tom Cruise eco-satire "Digger," a movie that was supposed to herald the action hero's return to serious acting, has bombed at the box office, with industry insiders predicting it could lose a quarter of a billion dollars.

Oil prices rose Monday as Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement launched additional strikes on Saudi Arabia, adding to worries about tight global supplies heading into the northern hemisphere winter.

Meta on Monday unveiled two new "frontier" artificial intelligence models called Wonder and Wonder Full, which the company claims perform at a level comparable to that of OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude.

US actress Selma Blair was arrested after an alleged altercation on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City that left two cabin crew members injured, authorities said Monday.