AP News, by David Brandt: Cam Ferguson gets to his spot on the street adjacent to Chase Field — home of Major League Baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks — about four hours before first pitch to set up his usual display of…

Fox News, by Paul Tilsley: The killing, persecution and displacement of Christians in Nigeria is “unrelenting” and “a time bomb”, according to a major new report.  Christians “are deliberately targeted”, as well as “Christian communities, their livelihood(s), faith leaders and…

DailyMail, by Matthew Phelan: The Chinese lab that the FBI believes likely leaked Covid-19 may have also released a ‘highly evolved’ strain of polio in 2014. A bombshell new study suggests that this polio strain, which infected a four-year-old boy amid a…

AP News, by Illia Novikov and Lori Hinnant: Two ballistic missiles blasted a military academy and nearby hospital Tuesday in Ukraine, killing more than 50 people and wounding more than 200 others, Ukrainian officials said, in one of the deadliest…

Daily Star, Benjamin Lynch: Thousands of cases of monkeypox have been recorded in one city in South America. Local reports say 1,266 people have had the disease in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro since 2022, according to the…

Forbes, by Alex Ledsom: Europe plans to introduce a new biometric passport system in November 2024, followed six months later by a new travel authorization for many of its visitors—here’s what travelers need to know. Europe’s New Entry And Exit…

The US Sun, by Brandon Cruz: An American has died from eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and deadly disease spread by mosquitoes. The disease has been ripping through parts of the Northeast, placing 10 counties in Massachusetts on high alert before…

ABC News, by Kiara Alfonseca: When Florida parent Rose Taylor discovered that her son’s new teacher would not use his preferred pronouns, it shattered Taylor’s perception of safety in her local North Florida school. Taylor, who asked to be named…

USA Today, by Eduardo Cuevas and Dinah Voyles Pulver: As the planet warms, heat-related deaths are increasing in the U.S., according to a new study that looked at federally reported data since 1999. More Americans died from heat in 2023…

Reuters, by Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly: Ukraine attacked Moscow on Wednesday with at least 11 drones that were shot down by air defences in what Russian officials called one of the biggest drone strikes on the capital since the…

CNN, by Abel Alvarado: A volcano has erupted following a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck off Russia’s east coast, spurting a column of ash miles into the air, according to state-run media. The Shiveluch volcano is around 280 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,…

Independent, by Maroosha Muzaffar: Thailand has confirmed Asia’s first known case of a new, more dangerous strain of mpox in a European traveller. The patient, a 66-year-old man who arrived from an unnamed African country on 14 August, has tested…