September 25, 2026 — 8:00pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA It’s a time-honoured tradition for state premiers keen to bask in some of the glory of major sporting events to offer light-hearted wagers to counterparts when their corresponding state teams
The leaders of eight German states have backed the nation’s chancellor amid growing speculation about his political future. The premiers – all of whom are part of Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – wrote that restoring trust in their party lay in “listening and taking political action, not in debates over personnel”. Merz, who
Flags at government sites are flying at half-mast and security vehicles are parked in the heart of Beijing, as China mourns former Premier Zhu Rongji. Zhu died of an illness last week at 97 and was cremated at a funeral in Beijing on Tuesday. The ceremony, attended by senior leaders including President Xi Jinping, was
