Françoise de Souza Oliveira was found guilty of planning the murder with her lover, who confessed. Source link

A volunteer carried the Afghan flag at the Tokyo Paralympics opening ceremony The safe arrival of Afghanistan’s Paralympic athletes in Tokyo sends out “a very strong message of hope”, says International Paralympic Committee spokesman Craig Spence. Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli made it to Japan after leaving Kabul in a […]

Brazil’s right-wing president is trying to rally support ahead of next year’s election. Source link

Agnes Sithole became an unlikely hero after her husband of nearly 50 years tried to sell their home. Source link

A selection of striking images from our readers around the world. Source link

Between 2003 and 2016, the US unloaded a huge amount of military hardware on the Afghan forces it fought alongside: 358,530 rifles of different makes, more than 64,000 machine guns, 25,327 grenade launchers and 22,174 Humvees (all-terrain vehicles), according to the US Government Accountability Report. Source link

Margaret Yeaman and Jennifer McNern were both injured in separate bomb attacks during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Jennifer lost both her legs after an IRA bomb explosion in 1972 and Margaret was blinded in an IRA bomb in Banbridge in 1982. In the years that followed, an unbreakable bond […]

The BBC has been speaking to people in Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest city, with a population estimated to be more than 500,000. It’s a strategically important provincial capital in the west of the country, and is close to the borders with Iran and Turkmenistan. Residents said their lives had totally changed […]

Ida is forecast to be one of the strongest storms to hit Louisiana in 150 years. Source link