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Brazil challenger Lula says Neymar supports Bolsonaro over debt woes
Brazil challenger Lula says Neymar supports Bolsonaro over debt woes

Brazilian presidential candidate Lula da Silva criticised football star Neymar's support of far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, accusing the player of being motivated by a debt "pardon". I think he is afraid that if I win the election I will find out what Bolsonaro pardoned from his income tax debt," Lula said in a YouTube interview on Tuesday.

UK inflation returns above 10 percent
UK inflation returns above 10 percent

British inflation jumped back above 10 percent in September on soaring food prices, official data showed Wednesday, with the country gripped by a cost-of-living crisis bedevilling the government. "Without price stability, the cost-of-living crisis will continue to weigh on the economy by squeezing household budgets and dampening business margins."

Iranian greeted as hero after competing without hijab
Iranian greeted as hero after competing without hijab

An Iranian climber who caused a sensation by competing at an event abroad without a hijab was on Wednesday given a hero's welcome on her return to Tehran by supporters who raucously applauded her action. "A hero's welcome -- including by women without the forced-hijab -- outside Tehran airport for-pro climber Elnaz Rekabi.