From Shakira's Waka Waka to Dai Dai... LET'S GO!

THE GLOBAL VILLAGE: Pictures of the week. From conscientious Japanese fans in a football stadium at Dallas, to Stanford students' protests against the Google CEO, to the tragedies in Lebanon and Gaza, and effervescent, electrifying Shakira rocking with African slum kids. A picture is worth a thousand words.

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The FIFA World Cup anthem this year, 2026, to be played in Mexico, Canada and the US.

Shakira has announced that proceeds from her every performance during the World Cup, of this globally popular and peppy dance-song spreading optimism, with intense, deep meaning and emotions, will go for the education of poor kids across the world.

No wonder she picked up the genious kid-dancers, boys and girls, from a Nigerian ghetto, to dance along with her. The kids were, of course, overwhelmed, bursting with joy, with 'I love you' messages for their favourite superstar: Shakira.

Here are the lyrics of the top chart-buster and video across the world.

Oh-eh-oh-eh (Oh-eh), eh-oh-eh (Oh-eh)

Oh-eh-oh-eh (Oh-eh), eh-oh-eh

[Refrain: Shakira, Shakira & Burna Boy]

You knew from the day you were born

That here in this place you belong

You been this brave all along

What broke you once made you strong

Dai, dai, ikou, dale, allez, let's go

Dai, dai, ikou, dale, allez, let's go

[Verse 1: Burna Boy & Shakira]

Come follow your desire

Where there's a will, there's a way

You are the owner of that fire

No onе can take it away

Sweat and blood to write your story

That is how you pavеd the way

You're about to reach the glory

[Pre-Chorus: Burna Boy & Shakira, Both]

All the highs and lows

All the tears and the pain

You been there through it all, been through it all

Just do it again

Now you got to believe, I believe

'Cause you know what it takes

To be living my dream

At the top of your game

Bad day for Stanford alumni Sundar Pachai. So why was he not taking questions from a persistent BBC reporter as shown on social media? Free Palestine, said the students, implying Google's links with the IDF. Photo courtesy middleeasteye / Instagram

Photo courtesy trtworld / Instagram

FIFA World Cup begins. Fans from Japan repeat what they did in the last Football World Cup in Qatar drawing admiration from across the world. Photo courtesy unfoldingbharat / Instagram

Another huge protest against the fascists and Right-wing in Italy. Photo courtesy fight.for.a.future / Instagram

Once more, another Waka Waka, in a different form, with different words, now the top dance-song across the world, especially for kids and youngsters: Shakira practising with African ghetto kids, all ace dancers, for her inaugural show at the Footbali World Cup / Photo courtesy Instagram

Photo courtesy colombecs /Instagram

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