Taylor Swift is back in action. Did you miss her?

On Wednesday, less than one day after announcing a new song, "Patient Zero" — her first since her starry wedding this summer — Swift has revealed "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore," an extended version of her 2025 album with four new tracks: The aforementioned single "Patient Zero" as well as "Cleveland!," "Pink Clouding" and "Babylon."

This year's powerful El Nino and the record global heat it's driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, according to a research report released Wednesday.

The grim warning by the University of Chicago-based Climate Impact Lab says that as many as 451,000 more heat-related deaths between June and the end of February could be attributed to El Nino, compared with heat deaths expected in a typical year.

Cristiano Ronaldo weighed ending his Portugal career after the World Cup and acknowledged Wednesday some critics at home want him out of the team.

The 41-year-old Ronaldo was confirmed by coach Jorge Jesus as a starter for this 234th Portugal game — on Thursday against Wales in the Nations League.

President Donald Trump said early Thursday that China and the United States were united in their opposition to AI guardrails, suggesting ahead of his summit with counterpart Xi Jinping that the U.S. legal system would keep the technology in check.

"Super Intelligence (SI) will be a big topic of discussion, but I want to leave it exactly where it is," Trump said, using his new moniker for artificial intelligence.

Ibrahima Konaté has pulled out of France's squad after hurting his knee in training and returned to Real Madrid.

The center back felt pain in his right knee during a practice session on Wednesday and a scan showed a minor sprain, the national team said.

England would be making a mistake by trying to replicate Spain's successful style of play in a bid to win major tournaments, winger Anthony Gordon said ahead of Saturday's match between the European giants.

Gordon is well-placed to discuss the qualities of Spain's World Cup-winning players, given he now trains daily with many of them — like Rodri, Lamine Yamal, Pedri and more — following his offseason move to La Liga champion Barcelona.

FIFA's embattled president Gianni Infantino said Thursday he is committed to a fresh culture of openness at the soccer body that is "not about generating positive headlines."

Two months into a deep rift for global soccer because of Infantino's now-dropped $4.2 billion World Cup sell-off plan, he offered to his critics this week an independent review of how FIFA is run and makes decisions.

American football will make its debut in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday at a futebol cathedral.

The 78,000-seat Maracana Stadium is a revered soccer venue that has hosted two World Cup championship games, Olympic gold medal matches for men and women, and numerous clashes between South America's biggest teams. Now the Baltimore Ravens and the Dallas Cowboys will play the NFL's first game in Rio there, one of a record nine international contests on the league schedule this season.

Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia on Thursday effectively shattered a peace pact that ended a devastating two-year war in 2022, with rebel forces mobilizing for an armed struggle they hope will lead to the removal of the federal prime minister.

The main combatants are Ethiopian federal troops and fighters loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front, or TPLF, an armed political group in Tigray, Ethiopia's northernmost regional state.

Turkey has agreed to gradually withdraw forces from a strategic military base in northern Iraq and hand over its control to the Iraqi government, following a meeting between the two countries' leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Iraq, meanwhile, pledged to remove armed groups that Turkey considers security threats from the region of Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq, according to a joint statement issued after the meeting late Wednesday between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.