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Denmark's parliament granted 300,000 kroner, about 46,758 dollars, to each Greenlandic woman affected by non-consensual contraception in a Danish program in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Food and Drug Administration approved daraxonrasib for metastatic pancreatic cancer, the first RAS inhibitor approved for the disease, after a study in which it nearly doubled survival compared with chemotherapy.
Meta agreed to pay up to 16.7 billion dollars to settle claims by 29 United States states over alleged harms to young users, and to add safeguards for teenagers on Facebook and Instagram.
Australia's recording industry association banned wholly AI-generated music from its charts starting in September 2026, while still allowing human tracks that use AI as a tool.
Johor Darul Ta'zim reached 109 unbeaten top-flight league matches, a claimed world record, by defeating Kuching City 3-0.
TikTok agreed to pay 400 million dollars to settle a United States Justice Department lawsuit over collection of personal data from users under 13 without parental consent.
The fantasy film The Odyssey reached 1.35 billion dollars worldwide and became the highest-grossing R-rated film, passing Deadpool and Wolverine.
India's Supreme Court ordered states to protect elephant corridors, clear obstructions, and stop the use of fire to drive wild elephants away.
Parliament elected Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir president of Bangladesh in the first contested presidential election in 35 years.
The United Nations said at least 2,325 people had died in the Congo Ebola outbreak, the deadliest in the country's history, and the country was set to receive 70,000 doses of a Merck vaccine candidate.
Zambia's electoral commission declared President Hakainde Hichilema the winner of a second term after an election in which police arrested senior opposition figures.
Britain's health agency said a salmonella outbreak linked to imported eggs had killed one person and left hundreds ill.
At least 100 people were killed when a gold mine collapsed in Zamboye, Baboua, in the Central African Republic, at the border with Cameroon.
The trial of Duane Davis, also known as Keffe D, began in Las Vegas over his alleged role in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Canada's women defeated the United States to win a third flag football world title, and the men's team qualified for the Summer Olympics.
The death toll from a ferry sinking on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe rose to 72, and a magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Flores in Indonesia killed at least 47 people.
A fire completely destroyed St Nicolas' Church at the Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok, Poland.
The Constitutional Council of France blocked a bill to ban social media for minors under 15, and the prime minister was told to redraft it.
Greece's public health agency reported 110 West Nile virus infections and nine deaths in 2026, including 45 new cases in one week.
Romania began shutting the second reactor at Cernavodă after drought dropped the Danube below the level needed for cooling, leaving both reactors offline.
Astronomers reported the first black hole star, MoM-BH*-1 in Cetus, an object the size of the Solar System whose light outshines its host galaxy.
A total solar eclipse occurred in Greenland, Iceland, and Spain, the first total eclipse visible from mainland Europe since August 1999.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Colombia's Chocó department was first reported to have killed at least 288 people, and a later accounting cited more than 240 dead, 570 injured, and at least 3,000 missing.
A Damascus criminal court sentenced Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher to death in absentia, and sentenced Atef Najib in person, for premeditated murder and crimes against humanity.