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| - Duty Editor: Denholm Barnetson Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Trump leaves hospital and removes mask + Kyrgyzstan cancels election results after clashes + Fighting rages over Karabakh, both sides claim gains + Nobel Physics Prize awards in Stockholm + Premier League clubs spend big in depressed market Health-virus-US-vote-Trump,WRAP WASHINGTON President Donald Trump checks out of hospital after four days of emergency treatment for Covid-19, pulling off his mask the moment he reached the White House and vowing to quickly get back on the campaign trail. 750 words moved by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video. Graphic Also moved: US-vote-politics-health-hospital,SCENE Kyrgyzstan-vote-demonstration,WRAP BISHKEK Kyrgyzstan's chief electoral body says it is cancelling the results of a parliamentary vote that plunged the Central Asian country into violence and political chaos. 700 words 1000 GMT by Tolkun Namatbayeva. Picture. Video Armenia-Azerbaijan-conflict-Karabakh,WRAP STEPANAKERT Heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces rages with both sides claiming important military gains and vowing to continue the fight despite increasing international pressure for a ceasefire. 550 words 1000 GMT by Herve Bar. Picture. Video. Graphic Nobel-physics,WRAP STOCKHOLM The winners of the 2020 Nobel Physics Prize are announced, amid speculation it could go to astrophysicists for work that led to the first photo of a black hole, or research into quantum computers or quantum entanglement. 500 words 1015 GMT by Johannes Ledel. Video. Picture. Graphic. Fbl-ENG-Pr-transfers,FOCUS LONDON Premier League clubs splash out £1.2 billion ($1.5 billion) on players in the transfer window despite the economic downturn caused by coronavirus as spending collapses in Europe's other top leagues 600 words 1100 GMT by Kieran Canning. File picture -- PANDEMIC AND MISINFORMATION -- Health-virus-misinformation-internet-QAnon,FOCUS HONG KONG Powered by fear, anger and big tech's algorithms, the QAnon conspiracy movement has exploded from the US political fringe into the global mainstream during the pandemic. 800 words moved by Qasim Nauman. File Picture. Graphic Also moving: Health-virus-internet-disinformation-QAnon,Q&A Please see our special advisory for more details -- EUROPE -- EU-court-Hungary-education-Soros-politics,WRAP BRUSSELS The European Union's top court overturns the law which Hungary used to close a renowned college founded by George Soros, in the latest round of wrangling between Brussels and its increasingly authoritarian member state. 550 words by 1000 GMT Germany-farright-police-politics,WRAP BERLIN Germany publishes a much-anticipated report on right-wing extremism in the security forces after a string of scandals over far-right networks in the police and military. 600 words 1200 GMT by Femke Colborne. Picture. Video. Live video Nobel-literature,ADVANCER STOCKHOLM This year's Nobel Literature Prize field is wide open ahead of Thursday's announcement, with literary circles abuzz about whether the nod will go to yet another controversial pick or a crowd-pleaser. 750 words moved by Pia Ohlin. File picture Greece-trial-GoldenDawn-farright,ADVANCER ATHENS An Athens criminal court is set to hand down verdicts Wednesday on the top leaders and dozens of members of Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group after one of the country's biggest trials in decades. 700 words moved Helene Colliopoulou. File picture -- AFRICA -- Mozambique-unrest-conflict-Islam-gas, FOCUS MAPUTO When gunfire rang out at dawn from the direction of a police station early October in 2017, an imam in the small town of Mocimboa da Praia made little of it and three years later Mozambique's northern region is engulfed by a violent extremist insurgency. 700 words 1230 GMT by Joaquim Nhamirre. File Picture -- AMERICAS -- US-vote-Florida-racism,FOCUS MIAMI Davion and Maria have paid their debt to society by serving prison sentences in the US state of Florida, but they're still paying back monetary debts from their cases -- and until they do, they won't be allowed to vote. 750 words moved by Leila Macor. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-society,FOCUS NEW YORK Beach umbrellas are back in garages as temperatures cool, but wealthy New Yorkers are staying in the Hamptons beyond summer, fearful of the pandemic and rising crime in the city. 700 words moved by Thomas Urbain. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- US-Japan-China-India-Australia-diplomacy-health-virus,WRAP TOKYO US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warns of Beijing's 'malign activity in the region' as he meets key Asia-Pacific allies in Tokyo, presenting a united front on an increasingly assertive China. 600 words 1000 GMT by Hiroshi Hiyama. Picture. Video -- BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY -- France-EU-internet-media-Google,ADVANCER PARIS A Paris appeals court rules Thursday on whether France's competition authority overstepped its jurisdiction in ordering Google to negotiate with media groups in a dispute over digital copyright. 450 words 0930 GMT US-IT-copyright-court-Google-Oracle,ADVANCER WASHINGTON A decade-old legal battle between Silicon Valley giants Oracle and Google over software rights moves to the Supreme Court, in a case with enormous implications for copyright in the digital era. 650 words moved -- SPORTS -- Tennis-FRA-Open-men-quarterfinals,PREVIEW Rafael Nadal comes face-to-face with the future in the shape of 19-year-old Italian Jannik Sinner for a place in the Roland Garros semi-finals which could set-up another meeting with US Open champion Dominic Thiem. 600 words 1200 GMT by Dave James. Picture Tenns-FRA-Open-women-quarterfinals,PREVIEW Third seed Elina Svitolina must beware the trend of tumbling seeds at this year's French Open when she takes on Argentine qualifier Nadia Podoroska for a place in the semi-finals. 550 words 1200 GMT by Dave James. Picture -- ENTERTAINMENT -- Entertainment-US-Britain-music-copyright-LedZeppelin LOS ANGELES The US Supreme Court refuses to take up a copyright claim over Led Zeppelin's classic "Stairway to Heaven," capping a long-running legal dispute over the song. 250 words moved afp
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