Argentina and Paris St-Germain forward Lionel Messi has been named men’s player of the year at the 2022 Best Fifa Awards. The 35 year old beat French forwards Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema to the prize. Messi captained Argentina to World Cup glory in Qatar, and scored 27 goals in 49 games for club and country in 2021 and 2022. Messi, who won the award for a second time, said that it’s been a tremendous year and an honour for him to win the award.
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Rwanda genocide sites added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list
The resting place of the more than 800,000 people killed in the 1994 Rwanda genocide was among sites in three continents added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list as the United Nations cultural body ends a moratorium on considering memorial sites for human suffering.
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Astana Kazakhstan to Host 1st Central Asian Oncology Week
Astana, Kazakhstan will play host to the first-ever international scientific conference Central Asian Oncology Week on September 6-8.
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Mass fight breaks out at Russian gas field
Nine people are in hospital after a fight between about 300 migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at Gazprom’s Kovykta gas field in East Siberia. Several videos of the incident were posted on the Russian social network VK, which suggested the brawl began about noon local time on 23 June in a queue near a canteen.
