🤿 Hong Kong hosts gruelling underwater hockey tournament Hong Kong's annual underwater hockey tournament, ominously advertised as "physical hell", drew a roster of hardcore enthusiasts from countries across Asia to the Chinese city over the weekend.

🇪🇺 Facing US sanctions, the International Criminal Court was on Thursday awarded the European Union's top rights prize, in a show of support that risks upsetting President Donald Trump. ➡️ tinyurl.com/y6eku6d7

🇫🇮 Finnish town braces for change from massive Google data centre With its cool climate and relatively stable and cheap electricity, Finland has seen a spike in data centre investments. But as dozens of the energy guzzling centres are now under construction and many more planned by companies including Google, Microsoft and TikTok, uncertainty around energy prices, grid capacity and environmental effects have sparked a public debate in Finland.

🇺🇸 🗳️ Republicans face Latino backlash ahead of midterms For nearly two years, Donald Trump's deportation drive has sowed fear in immigrant communities. Now, with midterm elections looming, many Latino voters who helped propel Trump to power in 2024 say they are fed up.

🇦🇱 Still smiling at 117, Albanian may be world's oldest woman At 117, Qamile Marra is not particularly concerned with proving she may be the world's oldest woman, but official documents suggest she is two days older than Ethel Caterham, recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living woman.

🇲🇲 The son of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday he was allowed to speak to the detained former democratic leader for the first time in more than five years. ➡️ tinyurl.com/2wvb4wwf

🎭 Tehran billboard depicts Trump-masked actor in prison cell In Tehran's Tajrish Square, an actor wearing a mask depicting US President Donald Trump stands inside a mock prison cell, in the Iranian capital's latest billboard against the American leader.

⚠️ Artificial intelligence has found critical security flaws in a major programming language called PHP, with many websites taken offline as organisations worldwide scramble to fend off would-be hackers. ➡️ tinyurl.com/25k83yxk

⚠️ Governments and companies around the world shut down websites as they raced to protect themselves from hacks after artificial intelligence uncovered critical flaws in a widely used programming language called PHP. ➡️ tinyurl.com/52n9dvct

🇳🇬 Nigerians 'alarmed' at first Ebola case in Africa's latest outbreak Nigerians respond to the news that the country has identified its first Ebola case in Africa's latest outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of the virus.

🐢 Green turtles offer glimmer of hope as other species decline Green turtles have made the rare jump from endangered to "least concern" in global conservation rankings, thanks to decades of efforts including egg relocation, marine protection and trade bans.

In the Mexican town that makes emblematic Day of the Dead garlands. The multicolored paper perforated with intricate folk art designs is known as "papel picado" (pecked paper). It is a central element in the lavish altars erected to the deceased on November 1-2 and is also used to festoon homes and streets tinyurl.com/5ct8wdd9

After months of fires in Indonesia that have caused thick regional haze, attention is turning to whether companies can be held accountable for the blazes and resulting air pollution tinyurl.com/mr3yvydu

Websites go dark as AI exposes critical security flaws. Government agencies and companies around the world shut down websites as they raced Thursday to protect themselves from hacks after artificial intelligence uncovered critical flaws in a widely used programming language called PHP tinyurl.com/4uu8j9nm

Community Notes by Elon Musk's X failed to flag a vast majority of false claims related to the US midterm elections -- including those promoted by the billionaire -- a study shows tinyurl.com/5fuzrb8a

Thailand advises its citizens to postpone non-essential travel to parts of Europe rocked by protests, while Malaysia has also warned its nationals about visiting France tinyurl.com/56d5e5sr

Websites down: what is PHP and how has it raised AI hacking fears? AI has found critical security flaws in a major programming language called PHP, with many websites taken offline Thursday as organisations worldwide scramble to fend off would-be hackers tinyurl.com/4ux9tmnf

'I voted for him, and I regret it': Republicans face Latino backlash ahead of midterms. For nearly two years, Trump's heavy-handed deportation drive has sowed fear in immigrant communities. Now, with midterm elections looming, many Latino voters who helped propel Trump and his Republican Party to power in 2024 say they are fed up

A shark that became a viral sensation after getting stuck in a South Korean canal returns hours after being coaxed out, prompting another attempt to guide it back to the sea tinyurl.com/4zfv9zet

Police banned protests in parts of Paris on Thursday, as France braces for more demonstrations just days after student and other rallies degenerated into some of the worst street unrest in years tinyurl.com/52fn5jpj