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Hong Kong residents piled sandbags and taped up windows on Thursday (September 5) in preparation for the approaching Super Typhoon Yagi.

The Ecuadorian capital of Quito was blanketed in thick smoke and ash on Wednesday (September 4) as volunteers struggled to douse wildfires raging on in the city.

Firefighters in the Spanish northwestern region of Galicia battled a wildfire on Thursday (September 5) which had burnt at least 300 hectares (741,316 acres) by 1500GMT, authorities said.

‘’I can say we are still in shock, and we are in pain," runner Milcah Chemos-Cheywa told Reuters on Thursday, after the death of Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, four days after she was attacked by her boyfriend in Kenya.

Gaza's schools lie in ruins or have been turned into shelters for families displaced by a war that has killed tens of thousands. Yet teacher Israa Abu Mustafa refuses to let death and destruction deprive traumatized children of an education.

Pope Francis drew more than 80,000 fans to a Catholic Mass at Indonesia's national stadium, filling the seats in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.

Chinese-founded e-commerce retailer Shein has divided opinion with its first physical pop-up store in South Africa that has lured bargain-hunters and spurred a tax change after rivals said the competition was unfair. Fiona Jones reports.

German police shot said they dead a man in an exchange of fire near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in Munich on Thursday. Zachary Goelman produced this report.

The death of Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei has been described as a stark reminder that more needs to be done to tackle gender-based violence, after the 33-year-old was doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend. David Doyle has more.

Crowds of Palestinians gathered at medical centers in the south of the embattled Gaza Strip on Thursday (September 5) to have their children vaccinated against polio in the second stage of the campaign. The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said the campaign, which has so far seen 187,000 youngsters inoculated, was facilitated by Hamas and Israel agreeing on limited pauses in their fighting.

Officers shot dead a man in an exchange of fire near the Israeli consulate and a Nazi history museum in Munich on Thursday, the state Interior Minister said. Munich police spokesperson Andreas Franken said there were no indications of other suspects or incidents in the Bavarian state capital.

A 14-year-old boy killed two fellow students and two teachers and wounded nine others in a shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday, jolting the United States with the first mass campus shooting since the start of the school year. Gabe Singer reports.

China's southern provinces of Hainan and Guangdong began to prepare on Thursday (September 5) for the arrival of super typhoon Yagi. Fishing boats returned to the harbor and shelters were prepared ahead of its expected landfall along Hainan's tropical coast, in what could be the most powerful storm to hit in nearly a decade.

Firefighters succeeded on Wednesday in reducing the extent of a massive wildfire that blazed for two days and destroyed 20% of a forest in the Brazilian capital, cloaking the city in clouds of gray-white smoke, according to officials, who suspect that it may have been started by arsonists. Laila Shahrokhshahi reports.

A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday (September 5), taking on the role at a time when New Zealand is facing some of the biggest challenges to race relations in two decades.

A 14-year-old boy killed two fellow students and two teachers and wounded nine others in a shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday, jolting the United States with the first mass campus shooting since the start of the school year.

People came together to hold a vigil after a 14-year-old student killed two fellow students and two teachers, while wounding nine others, in a shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday (August 4).

The scale of a massive wildfire that has been raging for two consecutive days and destroyed 20% of a forest outside the Brazilian capital, was captured by drone footage on Wednesday (September 4).

Khaled, a young migrant from Eritrea, recounts his near-death experience when he and his two older sisters joined some 80 migrants in northern France on Tuesday (September 3) in an attempt to cross the English Channel in a small boat. Kristy Kilburn has more.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suffered an unexpected blow on Wednesday (September 4) after the small political party helping keep his minority Liberal government in power withdrew its automatic support. Olivia Zollino reports.

A freight train derailed on Tuesday night (September 3) in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, injuring at least 10 migrants and leaving one child missing, local authorities said on Wednesday (September 4).

In a marathon session, Mexico's lower house of Congress on Wednesday (September 4) morning approved a controversial judicial reform, a crucial step toward cementing a key ambition of outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and setting the tone for the next administration. Olivia Zollino reports.

Internet personality Andrew Tate was in attendance ahead of an appeals court ruling on Wednesday (September 4) on whether he should return to police custody for 30 days pending an investigation into alleged human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Seven people were rescued and 21 people are missing at sea after a migrant shipwreck off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, Italian news reports and U.N. officials said on Wednesday (September 4).

A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people blamed the disaster on failings by the government, construction industry and, most of all, the firms involved in fitting the exterior with flammable cladding. Sean Hogan has more.