Chaos mars Fenerbahce’s Champions League qualifying win over Lyon
Al Jazeeraby Al Jazeera Staff·27 Aug 2026
France’s Guendouzi attacked by Lyon fans at Champions League match Goals from Vedat Muriqi and English defender Archie Brown helped Fenerbahce stun Lyon in the Champions League playoffs and qualify...
‘Swept away’: Nepal families search for relatives after devastating floods
Al Jazeeraby Samik Kharel·27 Aug 2026
Kathmandu, Nepal — It was a normal school day on Wednesday at Trishuli Secondary School in Nepal’s Nuwakot district when Gyan Deep Sapkota, a grade 11 student, suddenly heard his teachers yelling.
Yayoi Kusama, Japan’s ‘queen of polka dots’, dies at 97
Al Jazeeraby Al Jazeera Staff·27 Aug 2026
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist known for her polka-dot paintings, pumpkin sculptures and immersive “Infinity Mirror Rooms”, has died at the age of 97.
Ben Shapiro’s anti-Muslim film is nothing new
Al Jazeeraby Enjy El-Kadi·27 Aug 2026
Ben Shapiro, prominent pro-Israel blogger and co-founder of the far-right news site The Daily Wire, claims Hollywood has spent the last three decades refusing to tell the story of “the threat of...
Israel is not heading for civil war
Al Jazeeraby Ori Goldberg·27 Aug 2026
On August 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood outside the Etzel Museum on Tel Aviv’s seafront after the wreck of the Altalena was discovered.
More than 1,300 missing in Nepal and China after deadly Himalayan flood
Al Jazeeraby AFP; Reuters·27 Aug 2026
More than 1,300 people, including more than 700 foreign nationals, are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet region after a huge collapse of mud and rock into a Himalayan river triggered...
NFL champions Seattle Seahawks sold to Khosla Group for record $9.6 billion
Al Jazeeraby Reuters; The Associated Press·27 Aug 2026
The owners of the National Football League (NFL) in the United States have unanimously approved the sale of the Seattle Seahawks for a league-record price of $9.6bn to a group led by the Khosla...
OpenAI says it detected malign activity months before Hugging Face attack
Al Jazeeraby John Power·27 Aug 2026
OpenAI detected its artificial intelligence models communicating with each other and gaining internet access without authorisation months before they hacked the start-up Hugging Face, the creator...
Palestinian children return to school under threat of Israel demolition
Al Jazeeraby Ola Mohammad·27 Aug 2026
Farah, Mohammed and Jawad are getting ready for the new school year in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank.
Sunken ship sparks fight on Israel’s right over militia’s violent legacy
Al Jazeeraby Simon Speakman Cordall·27 Aug 2026
A race has emerged in right-wing Israeli politics over who can more closely associate themselves with Irgun, a militia implicated in the killing and torture of dozens of Palestinians during the...
Czech pair Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik win US Open mixed doubles
Al Jazeeraby Reuters·27 Aug 2026
Czech pair Karolina Muchova and Jakub Mensik beat Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic and Italian Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 1-6, 10-6 to win the US Open mixed doubles title, securing their first Grand Slam...
Nepal floods: What happened, what caused them and who is missing?
Al Jazeeraby Elizabeth Melimopoulos·27 Aug 2026
Nepal & Tibet flash floods: Trishuli River surges, destroying homes On Wednesday, part of a glacier collapsed high in the Himalayas, triggering catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border.
Israel continues attacks on Syria, Lebanon despite US push for diplomacy
Al Jazeeraby Al Jazeera Staff·27 Aug 2026
Israeli forces have carried out artillery attacks and ground raids in southern Syria, while conducting air strikes and demolitions across southern Lebanon, despite diplomatic efforts to end the...
Qatar’s prime minister to visit Tehran, seeking to revive US-Iran talks
Al Jazeeraby Al Jazeera Staff·27 Aug 2026
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani is due to visit Tehran on Thursday for talks on de-escalating tensions and reviving dialogue between Iran and the United...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook denounces Trump’s mortgage fraud claims
Al Jazeeraby Al Jazeera Staff·27 Aug 2026
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has warned the administration of United States President Donald Trump that it has no legal basis to fire her from her leadership position at the central bank.
Brazil sues chat platform Discord over failure to protect child users
Al Jazeeraby Al Jazeera Staff·27 Aug 2026
The Brazilian government has filed a lawsuit against the chat platform Discord, seeking millions of dollars in damages over alleged failures to protect children and teenage social media users.
Northern Nigeria’s female basketball players chase bigger dreams
Al Jazeeraby Yahuza Bawage·27 Aug 2026
Abuja, Nigeria – Khamila Sani Ibrahim remembers growing up in Kano State in northern Nigeria, where opportunities for girls to play organised sport were limited and seeing girls on the basketball...
At least 12 dead, 54 injured as wildfires ravage northeastern Algeria
Al Jazeeraby Al Jazeera Staff·27 Aug 2026
At least 12 people have been killed and 54 others injured as wildfires ravaged parts of northeastern Algeria, an official said, as authorities evacuated dozens of families from the hardest-hit...
Pro-Israel Democrats picked for top roles on key US House committee
Al Jazeeraby Evan Semones·27 Aug 2026
Three pro-Israel Democratic lawmakers have been selected for top roles on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the United States House of Representatives, also known as HFAC.
Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dies at age 80
Al Jazeeraby Adam Hancock·27 Aug 2026
Tim Curry, the British actor best known for his star turn as Dr Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died at age 80.
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