Under low, stormy skies, workers pick bunches of grey-pink grapes at a small vineyard in Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture, the birthplace of viticulture in the country and its most iconic wine, koshu. With its abundant rains and formidable summer humidity, Japan does not seem to be an ideal land for wine. But local winegrowers have worked to adapt and perfect the craft, picking up awards on the way.
Sierra Leone’s first professional women’s football league kicks off with a match in the northern city of Makeni between the Mena Queens and Kahunla Queens, beginning a six-month season in which 12 clubs will battle it out for the top spot.
On a makeshift bridge that was set up for a limited time in the middle of the Rio Grande on the US-Mexico border, hundreds of families separated by the drama of irregular migration reunite albeit briefly to express their love for one another.
Paris (AFP) – Gladys Foggea is a dancer with paraplegia who doesn’t let her wheelchair hinder her when it comes to pursuing her passion. She is part of an organisation called ‘La Possible Échappée’, which works with dancers who have disabilities.
Tunis (AFP) – Protesters clash with security forces at Cité El Intilaka, in Tunis’ outskirts, after the death of a young man from injuries sustained during a police chase a month ago. Thousands also took to the streets this weekend to demonstrate in the capital, denouncing a power grab by President Kais Saied and demanding accountability for the country’s long-running economic crisis.
Paris (AFP) – Zephyr, an iguanodon from the Upper Jurassic, will be auctioned on 20 October in Paris. Discovered in 2019 in the United States, in Colorado, it is estimated at 400,000 euros.
London (AFP) – Forty years after being decommissioned and forty-five since it featured on the cover of the Pink Floyd album ‘Animals’, the iconic 1930s coal-fired Battersea Power Station opens to the public, transformed into a commercial hub featuring over 250 shops and restaurants, in the latest major redevelopment of former industrial sites.
Amasra (Turkey) (AFP) – Residents of a Turkish village mourn at the funeral of three young miners, who were killed in the coal mine explosion in the town of Amasra on Friday.
Beijing (AFP) – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday opened the 20th Chinese Communist Party congress, at which thousands of hand-picked delegates are set to rubber stamp his bid to rule for a historic third term.
Beijing (AFP) – Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the Great Hall of the People as a major party gathering opens on Sunday. Xi hailed the Communist Party’s rule and defended its Covid policies as he opened a five-yearly Congress at which thousands of hand-picked delegates are set to rubber stamp his bid to rule for a historic third term.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that Russia has now lost 65,000 troops during the war in Ukraine. “many citizens of Russia have given their lives for the opportunity of a few people in the Kremlin to ignore reality,” Zelensky says.
Umunankwo (Nigeria) (AFP) – Residents wade through flooded streets and displaced people dry their clothes on a grassy bank as heavy rains ravage the southeastern state of Anambra in Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade.
