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  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 17: Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers looks on after hitting a home run in the fourth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers in game four of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium on October 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
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    Museums after dark: London’s historic halls get a new lease on life
  • <strong>Botswana:</strong> The Okavanga Delta (pictured) is one of this African country's most talked-about destinations, but Lonely Planet also highlights Linyanti Reserve in its Best in Travel list for 2026.
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    25 must-visit places and must-do experiences named for 2026
  • TOKYO, JAPAN - OCTOBER 4: Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Sanae Takaichi celebrates after winning the LDP leadership election on October 4, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) held a leadership election on October 4, 2025, to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who resigned after the party lost its parliamentary majority in both houses of the Diet for the first time since 1955. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon - Pool/Getty Images)
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    Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi elected Japan’s first female leader
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  • Bear enters Japanese supermarket, pounces on customer, as nationwide toll reaches new high
  • Japan ruling party picks new leader, likely to become country’s first female prime minister
  • Japan’s ruling party is in crisis as voters swing to right-wing rivals. Can a new leader save it?
  • Japan is arming a warship with US missiles that can hit targets up to 1,000 miles away as Pacific arms race heats up
  • Hackers halt production at Japan’s biggest brewer
  • Magical Carlos Alcaraz breaks personal record in impressive Japan Open run
  • Tokyo takes the top spot in ‘world’s coolest’ neighborhood rankings (with London and Chicago close behind)
  • How the world’s most elderly country is fighting heat in a deadly double crisis
  • Japanese girl band AKB48 releases AI-generated single after fans preferred it to song written by human
  • AI have a dream? A fringe party in Japan wants a chatbot penguin to be its leader

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  • <p>We often hear that phrase - you need to see it, to be it. For Tokyo-born Kansei Matsuzawa, he saw it on YouTube - and is now getting ever closer, to being it - in the NFL. The 26-year-old, nicknamed the “Tokyo Toe,"  taught himself how to kick by watching videos online and is now riding high at college as the placekicker on the University of Hawaii football team. He's not missed a field goal in 19 attempts so far this season, and is on the verge of breaking the school's record for most field goals in a single season. Matsuzawa has been speaking to CNN World Sport’s Patrick Snell.</p>
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  • Set cards of AI avatar models generated by Copy Lab are displayed at the company's office on February 21, 2025, in Stockholm, Sweden. Copy Lab is a creative studio at the intersection of art, innovation, and technology. In fashion, AI already makes it possible to generate visualizations on e-commerce sites or tailor-made advertising campaigns at lower cost. If this technology opens up the field of possibilities and gives rise to new professions, its detractors fear that AI will make many professionals  models, makeup artists, photographers  obsolete and warn against artificial and standardized beauty. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • Asian painters were ‘othered’ in Paris a century ago. Now, the art world is taking note
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  • A private phone number, secret opening times, and no interest in Michelin: Inside one of Tokyo’s invite-only restaurants
  • ‘Utterly foolish’: 12 hours before World War II ended, the US firebombed this Japanese city

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