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Paris (AFP) – Spanish defender Sergio Ramos says he is not coming to Paris SG to “show off” his Champions League titles or his “prize list”, but rather “to win it again”.

Havana (AFP) – “We don’t know where my brother is.” Cubans are looking for their detained relatives in a police station near the town of La Guinera, in Havana, where unprecedented protests erupted the day before.

Soweto (South Africa) (AFP) – Walking among the remains of her shop, which was looted during unrest in South Africa, Thandi Johnson says that she has “nothing left”, despite troops being deployed in an attempt to prevent the destruction caused by thousands on the streets. The unrest erupted on the 9th of July after ex-president Jacob Zuma started serving a 15-month term for snubbing a probe into the corruption that stained his nine years in power.

Brasília (AFP) – In a livestream from 8 July, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro apologises for hiccups that he says he’s had for a week. Bolsonaro has now been hospitalised to investigate the causes of the hiccups, which he said started after dental surgery on the 3 July.

Rome (AFP) – Michelangelo dreamed it, Olivier Grossetête did it: the artist from Marseille has created a cardboard bridge over the Tiber River in Rome to link the gardens of the Villa Farnesina to the Farnese Palace, a splendid Renaissance building that houses the French embassy. The 18-metre structure is suspended by three helium-filled balloons measuring six metres in diameter.

Sukkur (Pakistan) (AFP) – Freshwater dolphins are flourishing in a stretch of Pakistan’s main river after a helping hand from fishermen mobilised to defend a rare species driven to near-extinction.

Yangon (AFP) – Residents across Myanmar’s biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new coronavirus wave crashes over the coup-wracked country.