3️⃣ *An 18-year-old Nepali mountaineer has broken the record* for the *youngest person to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-metre peaks,* his team said. ⛰️ 🧗 *Nima Rinji Sherpa reached the summit of Tibet's 8,027-metre-high (26,335 feet) Shisha Pangma* on Wednesday morning, completing his mission to stand on the world's highest peaks. *Summiting all 14 _"eight-thousanders"_ is considered the peak of mountaineering aspirations.* Climbers cross _"death zones"_ where there is not enough oxygen in the air to sustain human life for long periods. *Sherpa is no stranger to the mountains, hailing from a family of record-holding mountaineers,* who also now run Nepal's largest mountaineering expedition company.

3️⃣ *Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted over 70% in the last half-century,* according to the latest edition of a landmark assessment by environmental group WWF. 🐆 🦜 🐊 *Featuring data from 35,000 populations of more than 5,000 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish,* the WWF Living Planet Index shows accelerating declines across the globe. In biodiversity-rich regions such as *Latin America and the Caribbean, the figure for animal population loss is as high as 95%.* *The report tracks trends in the abundance of a large number of species,* not individual animal numbers.

🎾 Rafael Nadal has announced he will retire after the Davis Cup finals in November, ending a career which brought 22 Grand Slam titles, global respect and inspired epic, iconic rivalries with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. 🇪🇸 "I am retiring from professional tennis. The reality is that it has been some difficult years, these last two especially," Nadal said in a video on social media. "It is obviously a difficult decision, one that has taken me some time to make. But in this life everything has a beginning and an end." The 38-year-old Spaniard is set to end his two decades as a professional with 92 titles and prize money alone of $135 million. #AFP

🎖️ The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang, whose work confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. 🇰🇷 She was honoured "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," the Swedish Academy said. #AFP

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