Singapore's Grand Prix week is opening under a haze. Smoke from Indonesia's most intense forest fires in more than a decade has pushed the city-state's air quality toward the unhealthy band, and the national environment agency has not yet given a forecast for Sunday's night race at Marina Bay.

The race is only the centre of a much bigger week. Reuters counts some 40 sideline events around the weekend, including the Forbes CEO Conference, the Milken Asia Summit and TOKEN2049, which expects about 25,000 attendees. The Straits Times has reported that around 90,000 senior executives will be in town, alongside hundreds of thousands of F1 fans.

Hotels have priced that demand in. The Fullerton Bay Hotel beside the circuit is charging S$5,030 a night for a room that usually costs about US$1,460. Official estimates put the race's annual incremental tourism receipts at around S$145 million, and Maybank economist Chua Hak Bin expects about S$160 million this year, plus whatever deals get done at the side events.

Singapore's tourism board says the race and its surrounding events still have "strong momentum" despite economic and geopolitical uncertainty. Whether the air clears by Sunday is the one thing nobody has priced in yet.

Munich's 191st Oktoberfest closed on Sunday with the biggest crowd in its history. The city put attendance at 7.4 million over the 16 days on the Theresienwiese, past the previous high of 7.2 million set in 2023, which ran two days longer.

Festival director Christian Scharpf called it "the most-visited Wiesn in its long history". The pace was set early: by the halfway point the count already stood at about 3.8 million. Last year's edition, by contrast, had to shut its gates twice for overcrowding.

Consumption rose with the crowds. The city reported 6.7 million litres of beer served, 2.7 per cent up on 2025, and the tent landlords put food sales up two to three per cent.

The record came with a run of accidents. A 52-year-old security worker died on the third day after being trapped under the gondola of a free-fall tower, and investigators are still working out why he was in a restricted area. On the final day a 47-year-old ride worker was badly hurt at a swing-boat ride and had to be resuscitated. A woman over 90 died in hospital after her wheelchair caught in a carriage horse's harness, and two people were killed when a coach carrying a group to the festival overturned on the A96 motorway in the Allgäu.

The 20th Asian Games ended on Sunday with a closing ceremony of music and colour in Aichi-Nagoya, where Japan passed hosting duties to Doha for the 2030 edition. The ceremony closed a fortnight that hosted more than 17,000 athletes and officials across Nagoya and Aichi prefecture.

China finished top of the medal table with 169 golds. Hosts Japan were a distant second on 83.

Young athletes set the standard on the field of play. Thirteen-year-old Chinese swimmer Yu Zidi won three golds in Games-record times, including the 200m and 400m individual medley double, and was named a Games MVP. Japan's Shin Ohashi, 17, broke the men's 200m breaststroke world record, and Thai sprinter Puripol Boonson, 20, completed the 100m and 200m double to take the men's MVP award despite rain-hit athletics sessions. Eleven-year-old Yuki Kurihara became the youngest champion in Games history by winning an esports gold.

The Games also debuted padel, MMA and virtual taekwondo, all three with Olympic ambitions. The Olympic Council of Asia pointed to 50 world records set since the 19 September opening. "Numbers are facts," its director general said.

The organisers leave with a mixed report, however. The edition had no athletes' village, transport and venue mix-ups delayed events, and crowds were thin at many venues. Japan's Olympic committee president acknowledged there had been many problems, but said the country still wants to host international events in future.

The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games close on Sunday with Japan's organisers facing hard questions. After two weeks of operational failures, a sports psychology professor warned that trust in Japan as a host may have fallen, should it bid for the Olympics again.

The trouble started with accommodation. To keep costs down there was no athletes' village. Teams were split across hotels, temporary wooden huts and a cruise ship, and there were not enough beds for the more than 17,000 athletes and officials after numbers grew by around 2,000. Some delegations said they were left waiting up to six hours at the airport when they arrived. Athletes were also bused to the wrong venues, and North Korea's anthem was played for South Korea's hockey team.

Crowds were thin at some events, beginning with thousands of empty seats at the opening ceremony. South Korea's Olympic committee president Ryu Seung-min was blunt: "If I were to give them a grade, it would be an F."

Japanese Olympic Committee president Seiko Hashimoto acknowledged the criticism, and Nagoya's mayor apologised to athletes for the mishandling. The Olympic Council of Asia pointed instead to more than 50 world records and argued that the Games leave no white elephants behind. The verdict lands only a few years after the cost overruns and corruption scandal of Tokyo 2021.

South Korea took the men's football gold at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday, beating the hosts Japan 1-0 in the final at Toyota Stadium. About 30,000 people watched. It is Korea's fourth men's title in a row.

Japan had the better of the chances, but Swansea City forward Eom Ji-sung scored the only goal on the hour with a left-footed strike against the run of play. Japan hit the post late on and still could not find an equaliser. They were chasing their first men's gold since 2010 under Go Oiwa, who becomes senior national coach after next year's Asian Cup.

"We had to do a lot of defending tonight, but we always knew there would be one chance for us," Eom said.

The gold also earns the Korean squad exemption from military service. Almost every able-bodied South Korean man must serve at least 18 months, but Asian Games gold and Olympic medals of any colour are exempt. The win also eases a difficult year for Korean football after the senior side went out of the World Cup group stage following a defeat by South Africa.

Pranavi Urs has become the first Indian woman to win individual golf gold at the Asian Games. The 23-year-old from Mysuru finished on 15 under par (265) at Kasugai Country Club, holding off China's Yin Ruoning, a former world No 1 and major winner, and Singapore's Shannon Tan.

It nearly went wrong early in the final round. Pranavi started with a three-shot lead, then needed three swings to get out of a bunker on the par-4 third and made triple bogey, which dropped her behind Yin. She recovered with three more birdies. One came on the par-5 13th, which she birdied in all four rounds, and it put her back in front with five holes left.

The finish came down to the 18th. Yin's birdie putt hung on the lip and stayed out, so Pranavi needed a par from about a metre to win gold. She holed it. She said she did not know she had won until Tan congratulated her.

With Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar she also took team silver, India's first women's team golf medal at the Games. Three years ago in Hangzhou, Ashok lost a seven-shot final-day lead and settled for silver, and India finished fourth in the team event. Pranavi has not won in three seasons on the Ladies European Tour.

"I like being the first to do things. People will come along to do more but the first will always be the first," she told PTI.

India are Asian Games men's cricket champions again. Defending the title they won on ranking in Hangzhou, they beat Pakistan by 19 runs in Saturday's T20 final at Korogi Park Athletic Stadium in Nagoya, the first time the two sides had met for Asian Games gold.

Choosing to bat, India made 211-6. Abhishek Sharma reached fifty in 20 balls on his way to 61, helped by two dropped catches and a missed run-out, and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hit back-to-back sixes in a 24-run second over before falling for 15. Pakistan pulled India back to 133-5 in the 15th over, but Tilak Varma (51 not out) and Shivam Dube (27) added 62 in five overs to carry the total past 200.

The chase would have been Pakistan's highest successful T20 international pursuit, and Hasan Nawaz kept it alive almost to the end with 96 off 51 balls, including seven sixes. Jasprit Bumrah conceded only 11 in the penultimate over, leaving 33 needed off the last, and Nawaz was out to the final ball four short of a hundred as Pakistan finished on 192-6.

Sri Lanka took bronze, beating Bangladesh by 63 runs. The Games close on Sunday.

Kumkum Mohod, 17, has become the first Indian woman to win an individual recurve archery medal at the Asian Games, and she made it gold. The women's final in Aichi-Nagoya on Saturday went to a single-arrow shoot-off, where South Korea's Oh Yejin shot an 8 and Mohod answered with a 10.

On the way, she beat China's Zhu Jingyi and South Korea's Kang Chaeyoung, the two finalists from the World Championship gold-medal match. The individual title also earns India an individual quota place for LA28.

It is her second gold of the Games. Mohod shot last for India in the women's team final, which they won, then took silver in the mixed team event before Saturday's individual title. She finished only 10th in qualification and made her India debut barely a year ago.

The result is a rare break in Korean control of the event. In 12 editions of Asian Games recurve archery, South Korea had missed the gold only three times before.

India came into the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with nine boxing golds from 16 editions going back to 1958. On Friday it added three in roughly six hours, winning every final it contested and turning in its best boxing showing at the Games.

Lovlina Borgohain, the Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist and a former world champion, beat China's Bao Ziyi 5-0 in her final. She became only the second Indian woman to win Asian Games boxing gold after MC Mary Kom, ending a 12-year wait. Her route went through reigning world champion Natalya Bogdanova on a split decision in the semi-finals, and she has said she considered retiring after the Paris Olympics.

Parveen Hooda followed with a 3-2 split decision over Chinese Taipei's Chen Nien-chin, a former world champion and Paris bronze medallist, in one of the tightest finals of the tournament. It completes a comeback for Hooda, who lost her Hangzhou 2022 bronze to a 22-month suspension for whereabouts failures and came home without a medal from this year's Commonwealth Games.

Commonwealth champion Ankush Panghal then took the men's 80kg title, beating world champion Fazliddin Erkinboev of Uzbekistan 4-1 in the semi-final and South Korea's Kim Min-seong 4-0 in the final. He is the first Indian man to win Asian Games boxing gold since Amit Panghal in 2018.

"I don't know how to celebrate my gold. It has just ended." — Lovlina Borgohain

The results stand out because Indian boxers have usually done well at the Commonwealth Games and then struggled at the Asian Games, where the Uzbek and Kazakh fighters make the draws much harder. India won one silver and three bronze in Hangzhou.

India's women are Asian Games hockey champions for the first time since 1982. They beat defending champions China 1-0 in Friday's final in Aichi-Nagoya, ending a 44-year wait and booking a place at the LA28 Olympics, a year after missing Paris altogether.

The only goal came in the 10th minute. Captain Salima Tete won the ball, Sakshi Rana found Lalremsiami in space in the circle, and she drove a reverse hit into the roof of the net. After that it was a defensive shift. Goalkeeper Savita Punia, 36, dived low to her left to keep out a penalty stroke from Ying Zhang, and Tete played on after a blow to her finger kept her off for about ten minutes.

Beating China was the target from the start. Before the World Cup, Tete told ESPN simply: "we have to beat China." China were Olympic silver medallists in Paris, and India had dropped out of the FIH Pro League a year earlier.

Head coach Sjoerd Marijne, who took India to fourth at the Tokyo Olympics, came back this year and rebuilt the side around fitness and high pressing. India won the FIH Nations Cup to return to the Pro League and finished fifth at the World Cup, above China.