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Share:Oct 13, 2026, 8:14 PM EDTby David Gerhart, USA WrestlingEverest Leydecker competing at the 2026 U20 World Championships in Bratislava, SlovakiaLAS VEGAS, Nevada – Draws for the women’s freestyle portion of the 2026 Galaxy U23 World Championships have been released. The women’s freestyle competition runs Wednesday-Friday at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two-time reigning U23 World champion and two-time Senior World medalist Kylie Welker opens her bid for a third straight U23 World Title against Patrycja Cuber of Poland in the round of 16 at 76 kg. Team USA’s women’s freestyle squad fields four 2026 Senior World Team members: Morgan Turner, Cristelle Rodriguez-Dobler, Everest Leydecker, and Adaugo Nwachukwu. Two-time U20 World champion Leydecker’s first match at U23 Worlds comes against 2025 Senior World Team member Mihaela Samoil of Moldova. Two-time Senior World Team member Nwachukwu begins her tournament at 62 kg against Puerto Rico's Elizabeth Watts. Two-time age-group World champion Turner faces Natalia Perdomo Culma of Colombia in the first round at 50 kg.

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Sandra Guzmán is director at the Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (GFLAC), and Raju Pandit Chhetri is lead climate finance negotiator for the least-developed countries at the UNFCCC. Recent catastrophic floods in Nepal starkly remind us that the climate crisis demands urgent action. The initial estimate that the country will need to spend $5 billion on recovery will likely remain a major concern. However, that is only one part of the story. No financial metric can capture the value of lives lost in crises like this. And this is not a standalone event; from the mountains of Nepal to the coastlines of Latin America and the Caribbean, developing countries are increasingly facing severe climate impacts. The average annual loss from climate disasters in the Latin American and Caribbean region is estimated at $58 billion. Human suffering remains immeasurable in all these instances.

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Open this photo in gallery:Canada’s women’s rugby team is practising in Burlington, Ont., this week ahead of facing England in a World Cup rematch on Friday in Toronto. Nick Iwanyshyn/The Canadian PressIt’s been more than 12 months since Canada and England met in the final of the Women’s Rugby World Cup in London. Canada had set the tournament alight, obliterating both Australia and defending champion New Zealand before taking a fifth-minute lead in the final, with Asia Hogan-Rochester touching down on the hallowed turf of Twickenham in front of a world-record crowd. But as the host team and the beneficiary of much of the 82,000 fans in the stadium – to say nothing of 32 consecutive victories – England proved too strong, powering back for a 33-13 win and its third world title. It’s a memory that, despite the intervening 381 days since Canada reached the final for just the second time in its history, still lingers for Canada’s Sophie de Goede. “There’s something very raw there that’s still bubbling away,” she said.

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To help developing countries secure a fraction of the $23 trillion in climate investments required by 2030, the World Bank Group Treasury delivers targeted technical advisory services to scale up local green bond markets. Despite rapid global expansion, developing nations frequently encounter deep structural constraints, including regulatory gaps, a lack of bankable green projects, and underdeveloped capital market ecosystems. By sharing its institutional expertise as the creator of the first labeled green bond in 2008, the World Bank Group helps sovereign clients establish robust national green bond frameworks, implement tracking and impact reporting, and diversify their investor base to fund transition infrastructures like renewable energy, sustainable water management, and electric rail transit.

To protect developing nations from the severe fiscal burdens caused by natural disasters, the World Bank Group deploys its Disaster Risk Insurance Platform to implement advanced risk-transfer mechanisms. By structuring catastrophe bonds (cat bonds) and regional sovereign insurance programs, the platform acts as a critical complement to national contingency funds. Backed by a Triple-A credit rating, this institutional framework enables public entities to transfer climate and catastrophe exposure directly to international capital markets. This approach guarantees rapid liquidity for emergency relief and infrastructure recovery without expanding a nation's sovereign debt. {"facets":[],"orderby":"contentDate desc","select":"*","searchFields":"*","search":"*","filter":"contentType eq 'Video'","top":20,"skip":0}

As natural disasters grow increasingly extreme, developing countries must establish advanced risk-transfer strategies to safeguard their physical and fiscal infrastructure. The World Bank Group Treasury leverages its deep institutional expertise and Triple-A credit ratings to issue innovative catastrophe bonds (cat bonds) on behalf of member states. These capital market instruments transfer severe climate and geological exposure to specialized bond investors. Because they utilize parametric triggers tied to physical parameters rather than lengthy damage assessments, these transactions ensure rapid liquidity without increasing a nation's sovereign debt burden. {"facets":[],"orderby":"contentDate desc","select":"*","searchFields":"*","search":"*","filter":"contentType eq 'Video'","top":20,"skip":0}

Africa boasts up to 25% of Earth’s animal and plant species. This diversity is driven by diverse habitats: harsh deserts, vast grasslands, dense forests, towering mountains, lush coastlines and teeming seas. It is also due to deep evolutionary roots, as many animal and plant groups originated here in the distant past. Paleontologists have been excavating this material for nearly two centuries. Africa is most famous for spectacular hominid fossils that reveal our own ancestry. However, the continent boasts many fabulous fossil finds, including those of the most familiar extinct animals – dinosaurs.

Visually impared SVG sailor Lorna Bacchus at the helm, crewed by Sacrlett Hadely - World Sailing Inclusion Championships at Portimão, Portugal © Gonçalo Melo Reis Saint Vincent and the Grenadines proudly marked a historic milestone as visually impaired sailor Lorna Bacchus, crewed by Scarlett Hadley, represented the nation for the first time at the World Sailing Inclusion Championships in Portomeo, Portugal.

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NewsFree trams, cable cars and a Circle Line that’s finally a circle – here are the cities where locals love their commuteSharePhotograph: Shutterstock / Time Out | Taipei, TaiwanAsk anyone stuck on a rammed platform at rush hour and they’ll tell you good public transport is worth its weight in gold. When it works, you barely notice it, but when it doesn’t, it can make or break your day (and your mood). So, which cities are getting it right? Every year we quiz tens of thousands of people about life where they live, and this time more than 24,000 locals rated their public transport on a scale of one to five, from ‘awful’ to ‘amazing’. Below are the 20 cities where the highest percentage of residents called their buses, trains and trams ‘good’ or ‘amazing’. To keep things truly global, each country gets just one spot on the list, so only its top-scoring city makes the cut.

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​​​​Read the UNESCO factsheet ​​​​58% of this demand is driven by teachers leaving the profession. Global annual attrition rates currently stand at 7.2% in pre-primary, 4.7% in primary, 5.4% in secondary education. In 27 of the 68 countries analyzed (list available the factsheet), teacher salaries remain below those of similarly qualified professionals across all education levels. The global pupil–teacher ratio in primary education is approximately 28 pupils per teacher. UNESCO's action to support teachers around the worldUNESCO works with governments and education stakeholders to strengthen the recognition, support and conditions that enable teachers to thrive. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforms education and the teaching profession, UNESCO is supporting countries in strengthening teachers’ digital and AI competencies, including through the adoption and implementation of UNESCO’s AI Competency Framework for Teachers. The joint Ministerial Statement on Education in the Age of AI, adopted at UNESCO on 8 September 2026, emphasizes that AI must support rather than replace teachers' professional contribution and judgement.