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British sensation Emma Raducanu, 18, will face Leylah Fernandez in an all-teenage US Open final at Flushing Meadows. Ms Raducanu is the first British woman to reach a major final since Virginia Wade won Wimbledon in 1977.

US President Joe Biden emotionally laid into the roughly 80 million eligible Americans who are not yet vaccinated, despite months of availability and incentives.

A bulk carrier vessel became wedged Thursday in Egypt’s Suez Canal, briefly blocking traffic in one lane of crucial global waterway, Egyptian authorities said. The Panama-flagged Coral Crystal ran aground in a double-lane stretch of the canal, forcing the officials to redirect other vessels in the convoy to the other lane.

Taqi Daryabi and Neamat Naghdi had been covering protests in Kabul on September 8.

Amateur scuba divers Lisa Huggins and Chris Jackson tied the knot in a giant tropical oceanarium. The pair got married at the Bear Grylls Adventure centre surrounded by tropical fish, including Blacktip reef sharks.

The World Health Organisation has said it is closely monitoring a new Covid-19 variant of interest. This variant is known as Mu, or B.1.621. This is what we know about it.

Top posts were given to Taliban personalities who were prominent in the 20-year war against the US-led coalition. Interim Prime Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund headed the Taliban government in Kabul during the last years of its rule and Abdul Ghani Baradar led talks with the US and signed the deal that led to America’s final withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Giant Galapagos tortoises Dolly, Polly and Priscilla embark on the 200-metre journey, which took each of them more than an hour, before the opening of the zoo’s new Giants of the Galapagos exhibit on October 9.

Taliban gunmen fired into the air to disperse anti-Pakistan protesters in Afghanistan's capital.

At least six people were killed and seven others injured when a freight train collided with an employee shuttle bus in Turkey’s northwestern Tekirdag province.

Lt Col David Middleton, a ground commander for Operation Pitting, which extracted more than 15,000 people, said there had been 'a nervous, pragmatic co-operation' with the militants

He told residents the authorities were doing all they can to restore power after Hurricane Ida left more than a million people without electricity

Jacinda Ardern said she would not share the name of the perpetrator as "no terrorist whether alive or deceased deserves their name to be shared for the infamy they were seeking". She also said seven people had been injured in the attack at an Auckland supermarket, with three in a critical condition.

Afghan women protested outside the governor's office in the western province of Herat, calling on the country's new leaders to include women in their cabinet. While Taliban fighters prevented the demonstrators from seeing the governor as they demanded, they did not break up the rally.

New Zealand authorities said they shot and killed a violent extremist after he entered a supermarket in Auckland and stabbed six shoppers, seriously injuring three. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incident as a terror attack.