Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for 21 September 2026. These are the top five stories making headlines in sports.
Baku hosts its 10th Formula 1 race on 26 September, with the Baku City Circuit once again transforming the capital's streets into one of the calendar's most demanding tracks. The biggest challenge remains Turn 8, which runs alongside the Old City walls and is just 7.6 metres wide, the narrowest point on the entire F1 calendar. Building the temporary circuit is a major logistical undertaking: more than 1,400 local engineers, technicians and logistics workers install and dismantle the infrastructure, with grandstands now going up in 12 weeks and the track itself in around five, according to Subhan Manafzade, Manager of the Venue Delivery Department at Baku City Circuit.
Uzbekistan's national team enters camp on 21 September under Head Coach Fabio Cannavaro. The side faces Iran on 24 September, Syria on 1 October, and South Korea on 6 October. The fixtures offer a gauge of where Uzbekistan stands against Asian heavyweights as the team builds toward its next major qualifying cycle.
The 20th Asian Games opened in Aichi-Nagoya, central Japan, on 19 September and runs until 4 October. The event brings together roughly 11,000 athletes from across the continent. The build-up was overshadowed by organisational complaints, including accommodation shortages given the size of the delegations. Japan is hosting for the third time, following Tokyo in 1958 and Hiroshima in 1994. Padel makes its medal sport debut at these Games.
Uzbekistan's men’s first team has won all five of its matches so far at the international Chess Olympiad, which is being hosted on home soil in Samarkand. The perfect record puts the host nation in first place, just ahead of traditional powerhouses India and Germany. Uzbekistan’s women’s team drew 2–2 with the U.S. and is in sixth place.
Azerbaijan's senior team plays a friendly against Tajikistan on 23 September at home in Baku, a warm-up before a busy UEFA Nations League stretch: away to Lithuania on 27 September, then home to Liechtenstein and Lithuania again in October.
Overnight Russian strikes on the city of Sumy, northeast Ukraine, have killed one woman and injured a man, the country's State Emergency Servic...
Iran's military has threatened to launch sustained attacks on U.S. bases and interests across the Middle East if Washington resumes milita...
Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for 21 September 2026. These are the top five stories making headlines in sports. ...
Houthi attacks target Riyadh amid concerns over Saudi oil supplies, as Iran says it will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until its conditions are met and U.S. commitments are implemented, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday.
Saudi civil defence sent an all-clear on Saturday after issuing alerts for a second time for potential danger in Riyadh and the city of Al-Kharj east of the capital, amid an uptick in attacks by Iran-aligned Houthis on the Gulf country.
The U.S. State Department approved a $2.7 billion military sale to Ukraine for air-defence development upgrades, along with related equipment and services, the department said. Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities reported at least 10 people had died in Russian attacks over the last 24 hours.
The death toll from an overnight Russian attack on the Kyiv region rose to four, including three children, Kyiv regional authorities said on Sunday. A mother and her two 3-year-old children were killed when a Russian drone strike hit a private home, the emergency service said.
Iran's military has threatened to launch sustained attacks on U.S. bases and interests across the Middle East if Washington resumes military action against Tehran.
Overnight Russian strikes on the city of Sumy, northeast Ukraine, have killed one woman and injured a man, the country's State Emergency Service has said.
Russian parliamentary elections are set to deliver a comfortable win to the ruling United Russia party, which is closely aligned to President Vladimir Putin. With more than 70 per cent of ballots counted, United Russia had taken 57.5 per cent of the vote.
Baku is preparing to host its 10th Formula 1 race, with the city’s streets once again set to transform into one of the most demanding circuits on the F1 calendar.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) took first place in state elections in northeastern Germany on Sunday, voting projections showed, delivering the worst result for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's mainstream conservative party since 1949.
The Left Party won Sunday's Berlin state election with 25.5 per cent of the vote in the preliminary result, ahead of the Christian Democrats (CDU) on 19.1 per cent. This marks a major shift in the city's political landscape and a setback for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's ruling coalition.
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