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Brazil’s First Lady Rosangela “Janja” da Silva attends the opening ceremony of the G20 Social Summit at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 14, 2024. — AFP pic

Who’s afraid of Elon Musk? Not Brazil’s first lady Janja da Silva who uses the ‘F’ word on him ahead of G20 summit

In this picture taken on March 22, 2023, fishermen cast a net in a shallow water body in the East Calcutta Wetlands area in Kolkata. The world’s warming tropical wetlands are releasing more methane than ever before, research shows — an alarming sign that the world’s climate goals are slipping further out of reach. — AFP pic

Tropical wetlands are unleashing a methane bomb, challenging global climate pledges; SE Asia among biggest contributors

Gisele Pelicot, 71, has had to face her former husband Dominique Pelicot accused of drugging her for nearly 10 years, and dozens of strangers he recruited to rape her at their home in Mazan, in south France, since September 2, 2024. — AFP pic

Sweets and sympathy: French aid group goes beyond moral support for stressed mass rape survivor as trial enters third month

US President-elect Donald Trump, singer Kid Rock and US entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswa stand up after UFC Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones' TKO victory against challenger Stipe Miocic in the UFC 309 heavyweight title bout at Madison Square Garden in New York, on November 16, 2024. — AFP pic

US: Trump to have more power than founding fathers intended

US President-elect Donald Trump (left) and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk watch a fight during UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden in New York, on November 16, 2024. — AFP pic

Trump and allies return to New York for UFC fights

Last year was the deadliest on record in the current crisis, with 1,705 deaths and more than 321,000 infections reported. ― AFP pic

Bangladesh deaths from dengue cross 400 as outbreak worsens

Xi warned the United States not to get involved in bilateral disputes over islands and reefs in the South China Sea. — Reuters pic

Taiwan, democracy, development are China’s ‘red lines’, Xi tells Biden

Joe Rogan and President-elect Donald Trump pose for a photo during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 2024 in New York City. — Getty Images via AFP

Trump plans to attend UFC fight at Madison Square Garden, sources say

The weasel likely stole the shoes to line its nest in the winter. — Pexels pic

Mysterious thief stealing slippers from a Japanese school is actually adorable

Mount Fuji, which straddles Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan, whose numbers have surged in recent years. — Reuters pic

Japan’s Mount Fuji eyes China-made tram to transport hikers, source says

Washington has been pushing Beijing for months to break a longstanding resistance to nuclear arms talks. — Reuters pool pic

Biden, Xi agree that humans, not AI, should control nuclear arms, White House says

Police said the suspect was a 21-year-old former student at the school, who was meant to graduate this year, but had failed his exams. — Picture from pexels.com

After failing to graduate, China man attacks his former vocational school killing eight, wounding 17

A worker holds a nozzle to pump fuel into a two-wheeler vehicle at a Bharat Petroleum oil and fuel station in Kolkata August 7, 2024. — Reuters pic

A trillion-dollar conundrum explained: Why fossil fuel subsidies remain a global challenge

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (right) speaks on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania October 5, 2024. — AFP pic

Big Bang ahead? Trump and Musk’s vision to reshape Nasa and US space strategy

Demand for Bangladeshi flags have skyrocketed amid an increasing number of protests since the revolution that forced Sheikh Hasina’s resignation on August 5, as seen in this demonstration by patients in front of a rehabilitation hospital in Dhaka on November 13, 2024. — AFPpic

Sheikh Hasina’s out, but in Bangladesh, protests (and flags) are very much in

Footage from the scene showed charred beds and walls inside the ward as a crowd of anguished families waited outside. — Social media picture

‘My child has gone forever’: 10 newborns killed, 16 critical in India hospital fire