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A suspected arsonist is now in custody after evading police by jumping from roof to roof in Los Angeles.

Having correctly foreseen the winners of multiple Euro 2020 games, Susie the psychic pig predicted England will win the Euro 2020 final against Italy and take home the bacon, as seen in Newcastle Upon Tyne, on Thursday.

South Africa is experiencing a crippling third wave of Covid-19 cases driven by the Delta variant and a lack of vaccines in the country. CNN's David McKenzie reports.

Karate teachers Takumi Kato and Chikashi Hayashida from Tokyo's "Kaishi" dojo explain how karate will work at the Tokyo Games. Karate will make its Olympic debut alongside four other new disciplines: surfing, skateboarding, baseball and sport climbing.

Tokyo residents share their mixed feelings over the government's decision to impose a new virus state of emergency that will run throughout the Olympics.

Teresópolis (Brazil) (AFP) – Neymar says he and Lionel Messi are "rivals" now, as Brazil and Argentina prepare for Saturday's Copa America final. Like Brazil's Pele and Diego Maradona of Argentina before them, neither Messi nor Neymar has ever won the Copa.

China's popular social media and messaging app WeChat is accused of wiping almost all public LGBTQ accounts run by Chinese university students. The sweeping move has sparked worries that there's a wider crackdown on online gay content underway. CNN's David Culver examines why there might be a broader effort at play to target LGBTQ freedoms in China and how some are pushing back.

With their heads in the clouds and their hands in the soil, a group of office workers are busy harvesting the fruits of their labour on the roof of a Hong Kong skyscraper.

Amid major Taliban gains on the ground, U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday delivered his justification for military withdrawal from Afghanistan. The U.S. is on track to pull out troops completely by the end of August, ending military operations after two decades of war.

CNN's Miguel Marquez meets with recovering Covid-19 patients Louie Michael and Pattie Bunch, who talk about not getting vaccinated and their experience in fighting coronavirus.

There have been growing protests against the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, sparked by the death of Abbas critic Nizar Banat while in Palestinian police custody. The demonstrators are also angry that the 85-year-old Abbas recently cancelled long-overdue Palestinian elections.

A man believed to be a US citizen is among six people arrested in Haiti in connection with the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a top government official said. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.