The UN's World Meteorological Organization warned that 2023 had shattered a whole host of climate records, with extreme weather leaving 'a trail of devastation and despair'.

Henry Kissinger, whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape the post-World War II world, died on Wednesday aged 100.

Amid stuttering global economic growth, analysts expect OPEC+ - the 13 OPEC members headed by Saudi Arabia and 10 partners led by Russia - to extend or deepen production cuts into next year to prop up prices.

The announcement came hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Wednesday night, and with growing pressure for an extension of the pause.

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It said that Kissinger's family would hold a private funeral, with a memorial service to take place later in New York, where Kissinger grew up after his Jewish family fled Nazi Germany.

In a comment on X, Musk on 15 November called a post 'the actual truth' that said Jewish communities advocated a 'dialectical hatred against whites', which was criticised as echoing longtime conspiracy theory among white supremacists.

Three-time European champions United needed a win in Turkey, against opponents who beat them at Old Trafford last month, in order to keep qualification for the knockout rounds in their hands.

The six-day halt to fighting ends on Thursday morning local time, with a last group of hostages freed from Gaza overnight in exchange for dozens of Palestinian prisoners.

Russia launched a renewed bid to capture the war-battered town last month and analysts suggest Moscow's forces have made incremental gains, though at an enormous human cost.

A current cessation of hostilities was scheduled to end early Thursday after a six-day pause in a conflict sparked by deadly Hamas attacks that prompted a devastating Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Wednesday, English Premiership club Saracens said the 32-year-old would continue to captain and play for them.

Portugal international Jota, 26, was forced off in the 54th minute at the Etihad Stadium while Brazil's Alisson, 31, appeared to sustain a hamstring problem late in Saturday's match but managed to complete the game.

The men were welcomed as heroes after being hauled through 57 metres (187 feet) of steel pipe on stretchers specially fitted with wheels late Tuesday, the culmination of a marathon engineering operation.

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It was 'unanimously agreed to further the tenure' of the 50-year-old former skipper, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a statement.

The Premier League side were leading 1-0 at the Parc des Princes thanks to Alexander Isak's 25th-minute goal, until Polish referee Szymon Marciniak awarded PSG a penalty deep in injury time following a VAR check for a handball by Tino Livramento.

There are fears that a lack of adequate support from the West -- at a time that it is distracted by the Israel-Hamas war -- could end up forcing Kyiv to seek a compromise with Russian President Vladimir Putin from a position of weakness.