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The U-17 Men's World Cup is usually followed by football scouts and keen fans all searching for the next Lionel Messi — but the 2025 edition has taken on greater significance. The tournament has become FIFA's testing ground for the 48-team format, the one that will be on show at the World Cup in the United States

In March 1938, paramilitary groups in leather boots and brown uniforms marched through the streets of Vienna. Part of Adolf Hitler's Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary, they were celebrating Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria. As two SA members hung a sign that read "I am a Jewish pig" around an old woman's neck, a man pushed through the

Skip next section Thank you for reading November 10, 2025 Thank you for reading Thank you for reading. On Monday, the trial for a man accused of carrying out an attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg is set to begin Monday.  Be sure to check back for the latest on the topic and

Brazil knows how to put on a show. From the World Cup and the Olympics to a recent free Lady Gaga concert that drew millions of people to Copacabana Beach, few nations stage global spectacles quite like it.  Next up is climate diplomacy's most important annual event, the UN climate summit, known as COP.  Thirty

Armenia has seen a lot of violence over the past five years. The small country in the Caucasus, with a population of about 3 million, was defeated in the 2020 war with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Still, many of the ethnic Armenians who lived in the region stayed. In the years that followed, Armenia

"I can vividly remember the last day," said Emerico Maria Laccetti, former colonel of the military division of Italian Red Cross. During the Kosovo War in 1999, he was stationed in Albania, just a few hundred meters from the border with Kosovo. He was the commander of a field hospital for refugees from the province, which

The world of social media is flashy and fast-paced: those who stand out rise to the top with their ballrooms, space rockets, and chainsaws, dominating the headlines. The researchers for Germany's "Mitte Studie" ("Center Study"), however, turn their attention away from the dazzling personalities and the fringes, to examine those who form the backbone of

Skip next section Thank you for reading November 8, 2025 Thank you for reading Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities, killing at least four people and damaging energy infrastructure (see below). Plus, all eyes are on the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has been described as being really

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday his country received an exemption from US sanctions on imports of Russian oil. Orban was speaking with reporters from Hungarian media outlets following his talks with US President Donald Trump. Trump was hosting Orban at the White House, with much of the visit having centered around Orban's request

Singapore-based online retailer Shein is not to be subject to a ban in France during a probe into the sale of illegal items, France's government announced on Friday. "The government has succeeded in getting Shein to remove all illegal products that were being sold on its platform," Paris said in a statement. The French government said