Polo is a team sport in which riders on horses use long wooden mallets to drive a ball between goalposts. Each team has four players, and a game is split into chukkas, periods of about seven minutes, with riders switching to fresh horses between them. Players reach speeds of up to 35 miles per hour while swinging, so the sport demands both horsemanship and precise striking. Its ancestor was the Persian game chovgan, played from the 6th century BCE to the 1st century CE in Persia and Central Asia. The modern form developed in India, and British officers and tea planters carried it to Britain in the 19th century. Polo was an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1936.

Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka handed his resignation to parliament after questions were raised about his eligibility for office and his academic credentials. Gibran is the son of former president Joko Widodo, and his resignation came as Widodo publicly backed the president, Prabowo Subianto. Gibran had been elected vice president in 2024 as Prabowo's running mate. His candidacy was made possible by a 2023 Constitutional Court ruling on the minimum age for candidates, which was itself controversial. Parliament will now consider the resignation.

Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.