Zinedine Zidane, one of the world's greatest ever football players, got a new wax statue unveiled in his honour at the Musee Grevin in Paris - the French capital's equivalent of London's Madame Tussauds.
Zidane, wearing a smart suit and accompanied by his wife, smiled as he stood alongside his waxwork double.
Zidane, now aged 50, led France to their first World Cup in 1998, scoring two goals in the final against Brazil, and then won the 2000 European Championship with France.
He also inspired an ageing French team to the 2006 World Cup final, but left the match in disgrace after being sent off for butting an Italian opponent. France ended up losing to Italy.
Zidane also won the Champions League in 2002 with Real Madrid and then returned to the Spanish club as their manager, leading Real Madrid to three Champions League titles. Zidane left Real Madrid at the end of the 2020-2021 season.
Former England football captain David Beckham and actor Gary Oldman were knighted in King Charles' annual birthday honours list, while sculptor Antony Gormley was made a Companion of Honour.
China has cleared 51 tonnes of trash from a scenic southern region famed for a craggy peak featured in Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar", after videos went viral on social media showing ancient caves used as a rubbish dump.
Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.
K-pop supergroup BTS members RM and V were discharged from the South Korean military on Tuesday after mandatory service, as fans were counting down to the band's comeback with more members finishing their national duty later this month.
UAE airlines continue to face disruptions to passenger services to Iran, Israel, Iraq and Syria "due to airspace closures and ongoing regional situation".
In a major anti-drug operation codenamed 'Bottom of Darkness', Sharjah Police have seized over 3.5 million Captagon pills, worth more than AED 19 million.
UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held separate calls with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides over intensifying efforts to de-escalate tensions between Iran and Israel.