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The biggest job in world football is up for election - and there’s just one candidate: Gianni Infantino, who is on course to be re-elected as Fifa president by a landslide in March. The Guardian understands more than 200 of Fifa's 211 member associations have already sent formal letters of support for a fourth Infantino term, with only a handful - Germany the most high-profile among them - yet to declare. The endorsements have flooded in despite a summer of controversy. Watch this video to learn more about why Infantino's power is so untouchable. Fifa has been approached for comment. Fifa boss unlikely to face IOC sanctions over Balogun red card scandal Infantino tells football fans to ‘chill’ in response to Fifa’s critics Continue reading...

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At least six people were killed and 21 injured after two earthquakes struck a mountainous region of Peru, the country’s civil defence chief said ‌on Sunday. The earthquakes, measuring magnitudes 5.1 and 3.7, hit on Saturday night in Chupaca province in the Junin region, about 300km (186 miles) east of Lima, according to Peru’s National Seismological Centre post on social media. The... The ⁠first earthquake struck at a depth of 24km (15 ‌miles) and the second at 18km, the centre said.

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Footage shows firefighters looking for a missing person amongst the rubble of a collapsed building in Pumpunya, Peru.

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More than 25 firefighting planes have been deployed to battle the blaze in central Spain, which has been raging for three days.

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The US Food and Drug Administration says iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms and sold at Taco Bell and Walmart locations was the source of cyclosporiasis infections.

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MetLife stadium in New Jersey, where the World Cup final will be held, was shrouded in haze caused by hundreds of wildfires in Canada.

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A 5.1‑magnitude earthquake centred in Chupaca, Junín, left five people dead and around ten injured on Saturday night, and damaged hospitals and religious monuments in the Andean area.

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Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.

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Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent, and this summer has already brought record-breaking temperatures, devastating wildfires, hailstorms and tornadoes. While climate change is not responsible for every extreme weather event, scientists say it is making such events more frequent and more intense. As the impacts continue to grow, the outlook for the future is increasingly concerning. Julitte Brown reports.

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The final stages of the World Cup, with Les Bleus’ elimination and England finishing third; extreme heat and wildfires around the world; and the Tour de France brought to a standstill by the heatwave in France. FRANCE 24 looks back at some of the week's most striking images.

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Spain is facing yet another raging wildfire as local authorities said on Sunday that a blaze north of Madrid had burned more than 12,000 hectares and forced hundreds of people to evacuate. Earlier this month one of the country's deadliest ever wildfires broke out in the south and firefighters are yet to contain another blaze that started in the northeast on Wednesday.

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The American fast-food chain Taco Bell is removing lettuce from its menu at many locations following reports of explosive diarrhoea linked to a multistate outbreak. The outbreak is the largest US outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection spread through contaminated food or water. While no deaths have been reported, 94 people have been hospitalised.

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Emergency services on alert in Iran's earthquake-hit Khuzestan Iranian authorities have put emergency services on alert in Khuzestan province, which was hit by a magnitude 5 earthquake this morning. Khuzestan governor, Seyed Mohammad Reza Mowlaizadeh, said he has issued the “necessary instructions for the full mobilisation of rescue and operational forces”, Al Jazeera reported. Mowlaizadeh said no casualties or significant financial damage had yet been reported in the region, and official teams were assessing the situation.

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The twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24 have so far led to over 5,000 deaths, and more than 800 buildings have been seriously damaged. Over 21,000 people are now living in temporary camps.

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The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Friday commended China for its solidarity with Africa in response to the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak.

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The official death toll from the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela last month rose to 5,119, according to National Assembly head Jorge Rodríguez.

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Hundreds of Argentina fans packed New York City’s Times Square hours before Sunday's World Cup final.

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According to a daily government report, 16,740 people were injured and 17,907 were left homeless

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Drone video shows the scale of a major wildfire in northern Spain where more than 150 square kilometres have burned

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A thunderstorm rolled through the region causing disruption, and a haze raised air quality concerns in New York City.

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Venezuela has been able to unlock €302 million of funding from the International Monetary Fund to support recovery and reconstruction following the devastating earthquakes that hit the northern coastal region last month.

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More than 800 wildfires are burning across Canada, including around 190 in northern Ontario, with the surge in fires largely attributed to climate change. Thick smoke has created hazardous air quality across parts of Canada and several US states, including Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan and New York. Donald Trump has blamed Canada for its forest management and threatened additional tariffs. For more, we're joined by Akaash Maharaj, Director of Policy at Nature Canada.

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When devastating floods swept through Assam in northeastern India in 2018, the disaster quickly triggered a troubling question within New Delhi’s security corridors: could control over the weather become a new tool of geopolitical pressure or warfare? As technology advances, could control over the weather become a tool of geopolitical pressure, or even a weapon? Much of the concern centred on neighbouring China. Assam’s then finance minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, publicly warned about Beijing’s...

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This year’s World Cup has faced sweltering heat and humidity. Now it may need to deal with wildfire smoke.

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France has been battling a series of devastating wildfires following record-breaking heatwaves, with the government saying the country has not experienced so many fire outbreaks since World War II. One of the largest blazes has scorched thousands of hectares in the historic Fontainebleau forest, south of Paris. In response, the Fondation du Patrimoine has launched a fundraising campaign to help restore the damaged woodland by replanting the forest. Elitsa Gadeva reports.

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More than 800 wildfires are burning across Canada, including around 190 in northern Ontario, with the surge in fires widely linked to climate change. Thick smoke has created hazardous air quality not only across parts of Canada but also in several US states, including Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan and New York. The pollution has raised concerns ahead of Sunday's World Cup final at the open-air stadium in New Jersey. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has blamed Canada for its forest management and threatened additional tariffs.

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More than 5,000 people were killed in the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela last month, officials said, adding that the country would tap $346 million from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for reconstruction. The coastal state of La Guaira, located north of Caracas, was decimated in the quakes that struck within a minute of each other on June 24.

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Millions in China have been moved by a man who swam for three hours through floods to check on his parents’ status. The floods in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, caused by torrential rains and a number of dam collapses, have reportedly left 39 people dead and affected nearly 400,000 residents. From July 3 to 6, cumulative rainfall in Guangxi’s southern region reached 400 mm to 600 mm, with Qinzhou city receiving over 800 mm of precipitation. On July 6, a 30-year-old man...

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The Avengers star teams up with real-life scholars for a look at the eruption of Vesuvius. At points it’s elegiac and moving, at others it’s majestic and brutal It’s always funny when documentaries strategically pair a possibly boring topic with a famous face, just to sex them up. A History of NCP Car Parks By Tinie Tempah, say, or World’s Deadliest Sleep Disorders With Anna Maxwell Martin. So when I saw that Tom Hiddleston was hosting a National Geographic investigation into the destruction of Pompeii in AD79 (Disney+, from Thursday), there was no way I wasn’t watching. The actor has famously sauntered through life’s most vaunted way stations: Eton, Cambridge, Rada, Kong: Skull Island. Privilege and perceived smugness have long been sticks to beat him with. It’s harder to argue he’s not qualified for this job, having earned a double first in classics. Here, he slips into the role of undergraduate detective. A real-life scholar is forced to cosplay as his don during their interview, addressing Hiddleston by surname, issuing prim little reprimands. Hiddleston even translates Latin headstones in the first episode. I don’t know what the ancient Roman for “screw it, I’m leaning in” is, but I think that’s what it means. Continue reading...