The 39-year-old Argentine captain, Lionel Messi, officially announced his retirement from international football on August 31, 2026. The decision comes just two days after Argentina’s defeat to Spain in the final of the 2026 World Cup, a match that marked his final appearance for the Albiceleste. Messi steps away from the national team as Argentina’s all-time leading scorer and appearance holder. Over the course of his illustrious international career, he recorded 125 goals across 207 matches for his country—a tally that stands as the highest in Argentine football history. The announcement was made days after the passing of Messi’s father,…
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Zoom Video Communications announced on September 2, 2026, the immediate appointment of Jeff Epstein—former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Oracle—to its Board of Directors. The appointment took effect on August 31, 2026, with Epstein joining as a Class I director whose term will run through the company’s 2029 annual meeting of stockholders. The move was announced from Zoom’s headquarters in San Jose, California, and comes as the company continues to evolve beyond its videoconferencing roots into a broader enterprise workplace platform. The timing of Epstein’s arrival is directly tied to the upcoming retirement of longtime board member…
The world has entered a “danger zone of extreme weather” as the impacts of El Niño start to be felt globally, UN head António Guterres has warned. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released the latest data on the natural weather phenomenon showing it could be the strongest for more than 70 years and last until at least February 2027. El Niño changes weather patterns around the world, pushing some regions into drought whilst others experience stronger typhoons and flooding. Forecasters also say El Niño will boost temperatures in some places, coming on top of rising heat globally from human-induced…
German media reported Wednesday that police have identified two Russian suspects linked to an attempted “hybrid attack” involving an explosive-laden drone at a strategic airport last month. The German government on Tuesday blamed Russia for the Leipzig airport incident, saying it employed “low-level agents”, and announced measures including the shuttering of the Russian consulate in Bonn and a Russian cultural centre in Berlin. According to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) daily and the regional public broadcasters NDR and WDR, the first suspect is a Belarussian national who also holds a Russian passport and is believed to have entered the Schengen area…
When a wall of icy debris from a glacial collapse on the China-Nepal border tore through his village last week, Pemba Chhring Tamang watched the landscape he had known all his life disappear. “The flood was one like I had never seen before,” said the 57-year-old, rescued from his Himalayan village in Nepal’s devastated Rasuwa district. “It destroyed everything, our homes, our village.” The August 26 disaster, one of Nepal’s worst climate-linked catastrophes, brought grief but also anger. “What has Nepal done to deserve this?” asked Tashi Lhazom, a Nepali climate activist and politician. “It is among the most climate-vulnerable…
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Wednesday dismissed claims that Washington was “stealing Venezuelan oil” after the South American nation granted its northern neighbor access to a huge chunk of its natural resources. Wright, who traveled to Venezuela to oversee the signing of a series of energy deals worth billions of dollars, sought to dispel criticism in comments made to AFP and other outlets at Caracas airport. The United States is due to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels — almost 20 percent — of oil in Venezuela, which holds the largest proven reserves in the world.…
Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Middle Eastern countries on Wednesday to oppose “external interference” and said Beijing was ready to work with regional states to safeguard maritime shipping, jeopardised by the US-Iran war. Xi’s remarks to his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on his first visit to Cairo in a decade, come as Beijing seeks a greater foothold in the region, expanding investment while managing fallout from the six-month conflict. “We must uphold the principle that the people of the Middle East are the masters of their own affairs, oppose external interference (and) support regional countries in strengthening dialogue on…
A US federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new executive order limiting who qualifies for birthright citizenship. The move thwarts President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to restrict the constitutional right, which comes after the US Supreme Court rejected his previous effort. US District Judge Deborah Boardman of Maryland issued a preliminary injunction following an appeal by rights groups who challenged Trump’s executive order from August 6 targeting what he termed “birth tourism.” “The Supreme Court has spoken: Children in the certified class are ‘citizens at birth’,” Boardman wrote in her 35-page ruling, adding the president’s…
It was a regular Tuesday evening in Kampala. A friend visiting Uganda opened the Uber app, requested a ride, and waited. The car pulled up, he hopped in—and there, in the front passenger seat, was the driver’s wife or girlfriend, casually breastfeeding a baby. You can imagine the poor fellow’s shock. That story, shared on X (formerly Twitter) on September 2, 2026, captures something uniquely African about the ride-hailing experience. But it also landed on the very day Uber officially shut down its operations in Nigeria after 12 years and in Uganda after 10 years. The company had already pulled…
Major online casinos generally offer a wide range of payment methods to their players. This is, without a doubt, quite beneficial. However, with so many options available, knowing which one to choose can make all the difference, as each method comes with its own characteristics. While some, for example, offer faster payments, others provide higher limits for both deposits and withdrawals. Once you understand which payment method best fits your profile, you can have a look here and decide on your own which one to choose to get started. To help you with this mission, today we’ll compare cryptocurrencies and…
It was a scene few expected to see in wartime Ukraine: a gunfight between two state security agencies on the streets of the capital. On the morning of September 2, 2026, a confrontation between Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and military intelligence (HUR) erupted into gunfire in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district, leaving three military intelligence personnel wounded and several individuals detained. The incident took place on Yuriya Shums’koho Street in the Bereznyaky neighborhood, a residential area of Kyiv. What started as a standoff quickly escalated into a shooting that shocked the nation and drew a sharp rebuke from President Volodymyr Zelensky. At…
An 18-year-old inmate serving time outside Paris has been formally charged after investigators discovered a chilling list inside his prison cell. One of the names on that list? Kylian Mbappé. The discovery has sent shockwaves through France, revealing a sprawling criminal operation coordinated from behind bars. The suspect, identified as Clément L., is an 18-year-old Franco-Swiss national who was already locked up at Villepinte prison in Seine-Saint-Denis. He was serving time for a string of serious offenses that included armed robbery, pimping, rape, and drug-related crimes. But while he was supposed to be serving his sentence, investigators say he was…
It sounds like the plot of an outback thriller, but for a property owner outside Blackall in rural Queensland, it is a very real and costly nightmare. Between February and May 2026, thieves made off with approximately 5,500 Dorper sheep from a farm on the Blackall-Isisford Road, leaving police and the local farming community stunned by the sheer scale of the heist. The stolen flock consisted of both ewes and rams, a distinctive breed known for their white bodies and black heads. Despite having a built-in tracking feature—the sheep are fitted with white National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) tags designed…
If you are in Lagos, Abuja, or any other Nigerian city where Uber was a household name, you might have opened the app this morning and found something missing. As of today, September 2, 2026, Uber has officially shut down its ride-hailing operations in Nigeria. The company also pulled out of Uganda on the same day, marking a significant retreat from two African markets where it had been a dominant player for years. This was not a sudden move. Uber announced its intention to wind down operations in both countries ahead of today’s date, citing a strategic review of its…
After more than nine months without stepping foot on solid ground, the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln finally got what they have been waiting for. The aircraft carrier pulled into Laem Chabang port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, marking the first real rest and recreation stop for roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines since they left California back in November 2025. Here is the headline number that puts this deployment into perspective: 286 days at sea. That is the total time the carrier has been away from port. Even more striking is the 208 consecutive days the…