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An inquest rules that 96 soccer fans who died in Britain's worst-ever sporting disaster, the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium crush, were unlawfully killed, with police failures to blame and The Crown Prosecution Service now considering criminal charges. Ashraf Fahim reports.
Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES
Images of the Mbankolo district, on the north-western outskirts of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, following the collapse of a section of a hillside covered in precariously built houses. The landslide was caused by torrential rain on the evening of 8 October. At least 27 people have been killed in the collapse. IMAGES
Lionel Messi and his family arrive at DRV PNK Stadium ahead of his official unveiling as an Inter Miami player. IMAGES
In front of the city's town hall, Olympique de Marseille football fans celebrate the 30-year-anniversary since the club won the European Cup, in the presence of some of the team's players. IMAGES
Police brigades transfer the bodies of the 27 workers who died in the devastating fire at a gold mine in southern Peru to the Arequipa morgue. A short circuit caused an explosion that started a blaze inside one of the mine shafts in the town of Yanaquihua. The fire broke out on May 6 but rescue efforts were hampered by a buildup of toxic gases inside the La Esperanza 1 mine. IMAGES