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Palm Beach (United States) (AFP) – Supporters of former US President Donald Trump celebrate his presidential campaign announcement as they stand on a bridge near his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (AFP) – Migrants in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, hoping to enter the United States, say they are “super happy” about the decision of a US federal judge to throw out Title 42, which allowed the use of public health rules to block the entry of asylum-seeking migrants. The ruling marked the apparent end of a controversial Donald Trump-era policy that has been criticized as cruel and ineffective.

Tokyo (AFP) – Nodding along to catchy music is not just a human habit, according to Japanese scientists who have discovered that rats also move to the beat of songs by stars like Lady Gaga. Researchers at the University of Tokyo played Mozart, Queen and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” to rats wearing miniature sensors on their heads to detect even their tiniest movements. They found that the rodents have an innate ability to synchronise their bodies to the beat, which was previously believed to be a skill unique to people.

Tokyo (AFP) – Nodding along to catchy music is not just a human habit, according to Japanese scientists who have discovered that rats also move to the beat of songs by stars like Lady Gaga. Researchers at the University of Tokyo played Mozart, Queen and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” to rats wearing miniature sensors on their heads to detect even their tiniest movements. They found that the rodents have an innate ability to synchronise their bodies to the beat, which was previously believed to be a skill unique to people.

Doha (AFP) – Speaking in Qatar ahead of the World Cup, US goalkeeper Matt Ryan says “I think it’s clear that we support human rights everywhere”. The host nation have come under increased scrutiny of its human rights record, as well as its treatment of migrant workers and the LGBTQ community. The US squad are in Doha preparing for their World Cup opener against Wales on November 21.

Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) – NASA launches its most powerful rocket ever, Artemis I, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral in Florida. Onlookers cheered as the 32-storey craft blasted off to the moon on a test run for future flights which NASA hopes will, by the mid-2020s, carry the first woman and person of color to the moon as the company seeks to launch a new era of lunar exploration.

Warsaw (AFP) – Following the deaths of two Polish citizens when a missile landed in a village in the country’s southeast, president Andrzej Duda says that there is no indication that “this (the blast) qualifies as an attack on Poland”. Speaking during a National Security Council meeting, Duda goes on to say “it was most likely, unfortunately, an accident”.

Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) – Timelapse of NASA’s Artemis I mission’s rocket blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Central Florida and making its way towards the Moon.

Przewodów (Poland) (AFP) – “I haven’t slept all night” says Joanna Magus, a resident in the Polish village of Przewodow, where two men were killed in a deadly missile blast on Tuesday afternoon. The missile, as yet of unknown origin, struck a local grain drying facility in the village, which lies just six kilometres from the Ukrainian border.

Cape Canaveral (AFP) – NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, marking the start of the space agency’s new flagship program, Artemis. The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the storied Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:47 am (0647 GMT). IMAGES

Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is “disturbed” by “barbaric activity of Russia in bombarding the Ukrainian people”, speaking to the press alongside Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau on the last day of the G20 summit in Bali. SOUNDBITE

Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they sit down for a work lunch on the last day of the G20 summit. Macron seeks to convince Modi, who has stopped short of condemning the Russian invasion in Ukraine, that the conflict is “not a good thing”.