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The Asian Football Confederation’s proposed Nations League, set to launch in 2030, could award Asia’s top six teams direct World Cup berths and combine Asian Cup qualifying into one format. The Korean national football team sing the anthem before a group A match at the FIFA World Cup 2026 in Monterrey, Mexico, on June 24.

Apple Original Films celebrates the world premiere of “Matchbox The Movie” with stars John Cena, Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, Arturo Castro and more “Matchbox The Movie” premieres globally on Apple TV on Friday, October 9, 2026

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The world’s cheapest smartphones are disappearing because AI infrastructure is absorbing the components. Prices of existing smartphone models have risen by about 15% globally this year, while newly launched models are roughly 25% more expensive than last year. A global memory chip shortage, driven by demand from AI data centers, is pushing up the cost of making smartphones.

The world’s oldest man João Marinho Neto (Brazil) is celebrating his 114th birthday today! And in a beautiful display of friendship from across the world, he and the world’s second oldest man, Australia’s Ken Weeks, have sent birthday wishes to each other, each posing with homemade signs for their birthday twin.

Kona is the stage again. After several years of split races, the IRONMAN World Championship brings the pro men and pro women back to the Big Island on the same day, Saturday, October 10, for the first time in seven years. It is also the final event of the 2026 IRONMAN Pro Series, worth up to 6,000 points. Race Day EssentialsDate: Saturday, October 10, 2026Location: Kailua-Kona, HawaiiStart times: Pro men 6:20 a.m. local (12:20 p.m. ET); pro women 6:30 a.m. local (12:30 p.m. ET), from Kailua PierCourse: 2.4-mile swim in Kailua Bay, 112-mile bike to Hawi and back, 26.2-mile run finishing on Ali'i DriveField: 2,548 registered athletes from 85 countries, including 110 professionalsPrize money: US$375,000 in each pro race, with US$125,000 to each winnerCourse RecordsPatrick Lange holds the men's Kona record of 7:35:53, set in 2024. Lucy Charles-Barclay owns the women's mark of 8:24:31 from 2023. Men's Race: Stornes Out, Norway Still LoadedCasper Stornes won the 2025 world title in Nice in 7:51:39, leading a Norwegian sweep ahead of Gustav Iden (7:54:13) and Kristian Blummenfelt (7:56:36). He will not defend it.

The world premiere will run March 9 – 28, 2027. JACKPOT TWINS is a sharp-witted, irreverent new comedy written and directed by The Company Theatre's Philip Riccio. Two of Canada's theatrical treasures, Seana McKenna and Nora McLellan, star as twins who win the lottery not once, not twice, but thrice. JACKPOT TWINS is about the heavy price of getting everything you ever wanted, and about sisterhood, motherhood, family and so much more. It will make its world premiere March 9 – 28, 2027 at Toronto's CAA Theatre as part of the 2026/27 Off-Mirvish season. Tickets will be available at 10AM on Friday October 9 online or by calling 1.800.461.3333

Asa Vermette had many firsts during the 2026 DH World Cup race season. First season at the elite level. First elite World Cup podiums and first elite World Cup wins. Oh, and don’t forget to mention the first American overall World Cup Champion in nearly a decade. Vermette’s 8th place finish at Lake Placid yesterday was enough to bring the overall title back to the United States.

Ross White and Tom Berkeley, the filmmaking duo behind the Oscar and BAFTA winning short film “An Irish Goodbye,” have teamed up with Studiocanal, Working Title, Parkville Pictures and Film4 for their feature debut and landed two hugely in-demand stars as their leads. “The End of the World as We Know It” will see BAFTA winner Jack O’Connell (“Ink”) and BAFTA nominee Odessa A’zion (“Marty Supreme”) play a pair of star-crossed loners who meet on an epic pilgrimage to prove the earth is flat.

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World models are capturing the tech industry’s attention and investment dollars, amid growing expectations that AI will soon move beyond our screens and into the physical world of cars, robots, and other objects. A slew of new startups are developing world models, which are typically based on video data rather than the text-based large language models like OpenAI’s GPT and Anthropic’s Claude. In just the past week, AMD announced plans to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion in stock, and video AI startup Runway unveiled the first open-weight version of its world model.

Sixty-nine years ago this day, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first satellite to orbit Earth, opening the Space Age and setting off a race with the United States. Ten years later, on October 10, 1967, the Outer Space Treaty came into force. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3President Donald Trump signs order creating US Space Academylist 2 of 3What are ‘space weapons’, which US says it has deployed into orbit?list 3 of 3SpaceX’s showpiece Starship rocket reaches orbit for first timeend of listIn 1999, the United Nations started observing World Space Week – from October 4 to 10 – to celebrate the contribution of space technology for the benefit of humanity. Schools, space agencies, museums and astronomy clubs around the world hold stargazing nights, science classes, exhibitions and talks by astronauts and scientists. Today, more than 80 countries have put satellites into orbit, and people from over 50 of those have travelled to space. In this visual explainer, Al Jazeera looks at which countries have done so, how many space travellers have been women, and what comes next for human spaceflight.

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