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Double NBA winner and Europe's most succesful basketball player Pau Gasol announced his retirement aged 41 on Tuesday. Centre Gasol, the older brother of Memphis Grizzlies' Marc Gasol, won the competition in 2009 as well as a year later during his time at the Los Angeles Lakers. He was a six-time NBA All-Star after being named the league's Rookie of the Year in 2002.

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Russia has taken the lead in a space race with a difference, sending a team to the International Space Station to shoot a feature film ahead of an American crew. Yulia Peresild, 37, is set to star in the film, directed by Klim Shipenko. Their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft took off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, and three hours later docked with the International Space Station.

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Israeli archaeologists have found a rare ancient toilet in Jerusalem dating back more than 2,700 years, when private bathrooms were a luxury in the holy city, authorities said Tuesday. The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the smooth, carved limestone toilet was found in a rectangular cabin that was part of a sprawling mansion overlooking what is now the Old City. It was designed for comfortable sitting, with a deep septic tank dug underneath.

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An investigation into sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church has found that an estimated 216,000 children were victims of abuse by clergy since 1950, Jean-March Sauve, head of the commission that compiled the report, said on Tuesday.

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Almost one in five 15- to 24-year-olds around the world say they often feel depressed, according to a new UN report. The children’s agency, Unicef, and Gallup conducted interviews in 21 countries during the first six months of the year. Almost all children across the globe have been affected by lockdowns, school closures and disruption to routines. Coupled with concern for family income and health, many young people feel afraid, angry, and uncertain about the future, said the report released on Tuesday.

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Anti-vaccine residents in a village in rural Guatemala have attacked nurses who were trying to administer Covid-19 jabs, holding them for seven hours, officials say. About 500 people blocked a road and vandalised the team's cars in Maguilá, in the northern Alta Verapaz province. The 11 workers were released after police negotiated with the villagers, who destroyed about 50 vaccine doses.

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The son of the Philippines’ former dictator Ferdinand Marcos has announced he will run for president in the 2022 election. Ferdinand Marcos Jr, known as Bongbong, who has defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial drug war and supported the death penalty for traffickers, declared his candidacy in a video broadcast on Facebook.

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Two prison guards have been taken hostage at a jail in north-western France, and one of the guards has been injured in the right eye, France's justice ministry said in a statement. The ministry said negotiations were underway to try to secure the release of the hostages at the jail in Conde-sur-Sarthe, about 250 km (155 miles) west of Paris. French broadcaster BFMTV reported that the suspected hostage-taker was serving a long sentence for rape and murder.

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Antarctic snowfall two-and-half centuries old forms the basis of a new artwork by Wayne Binitie, titled 1765 - Antarctic Air. It forms the centrepiece to the Polar Zero exhibition in Glasgow throughout the UN climate summit COP26. Binitie says he wants his piece to provide an artistic marker of how much the earth's atmosphere has altered since the crucial date of 1765.

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Malaysia says Chinese ships, including a survey vessel, entered its exclusive economic zone off Borneo.

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Adele has heightened speculation that she is about to release her first new music since 2015, after updating her website and social media pages. The star's Twitter and Instagram images were changed to a blue and turquoise pattern, while her old website was scrubbed and replaced with a link urging fans to sign up for information. It comes after the number 30 was projected onto several buildings around the world over the weekend. Fans are predicting this will be the name of her fourth album - after 19, 21 and 25.

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Billie Eilish is set to once again make history. The singer, who turns 20 in December, has been announced as the headliner for next year's Glastonbury Festival. According to the festival's verified Twitter account, she will be "the youngest ever solo headliner."

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Spanish rescuers found 11 bodies floating in the sea off the Balearic Islands on Monday, pulling another three people to safety, a government spokesman said. "Three people were rescued alive and 11 bodies have been recovered," a government delegation spokesman said, after initially saying that 17 bodies had been spotted floating in the water just west of the island of Cabrera.

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Militants killed at least eight Burkina Faso soldiers and injured five others in an attack in the north of the country, five security sources said on Monday. The attack on the military detachment took place in the center-north Sanmatenga province early on Monday, and the death toll could climb, one of the security source said. The Burkina Faso government was not immediately available to comment. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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A cyclone that made landfall in Oman on Sunday has killed 12 people, and others are missing as the storm moved farther inland and weakened. In Iran, state television said rescuers found the body of one of five fishers who went missing off Pasabandar, a fishing village near the border with Pakistan. Earlier on Sunday, the Iranian deputy parliament speaker, Ali Nikzad, said he feared as many as six fishers had been killed because of the cyclone.

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just weeks after becoming the first country to accept cryptocurrency as legal tender. President Nayib Bukele tweeted Friday that the country had mined about 0.006 bitcoin, or $269, with geothermic power. El Salvador is known as the 'land of volcanos,' with more than 20 potentially active volcanoes. Geothermal sources provide over 20 percent of the country's energy. After passing a bill in June, El Salvador began accepting Bitcoin as legal tender on September 7.

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Naomi Osaka dropped out of the world's top 10 on Monday for the first time since winning the 2018 US Open title as she continues to take a break from tennis. The Japanese star, a former world number one, has not played since exiting the US Open in the third round last month.

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India's top court has approved the government's decision to pay 50,000 rupees ($674; £498) as compensation for every death due to Covid-19. The Supreme Court's order followed a petition by lawyers seeking compensation under India's disaster management laws. India has officially recorded more than 447,000 Covid-19 deaths so far. However, experts believe that up to 10 times more people could have died in the pandemic.

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