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A fresh claim of a missile strike on Saudi Arabia’s main airport in Riyadh has intensified scrutiny of an escalating cross-border campaign tied to Yemen’s widening war. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said today that it had attacked King…
Anne Carson, the Canadian poet and writer celebrated for bending literary rules and reviving ancient texts for modern readers, has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy said today it is honouring Carson “for…
Israel has declared that the UK’s diplomatic outpost in East Jerusalem has effectively stopped operating as a consulate, escalating a dispute triggered by Britain’s ban on trade linked to illegal West Bank settlements. The UK, however,…
Holborn and St Pancras heads to the ballot box today with a high-stakes by-election that will decide who succeeds Keir Starmer as the north London constituency’s MP. Labour has dominated the seat since it was created in 1983, first…
A deadly Russian bomb strike ripped through the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, killing at least 33 people in what authorities said was a deliberate attack on civilians in a strategic stronghold coveted by Moscow. Officials said…
An eviction that jolted Spain into mass street protests has ended in tragedy: Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old Madrid resident whose removal from her home became a flashpoint in the country’s housing crisis, has died, the Madrid…
Nepal is winding down the massive hunt for the thousands still unaccounted for after August’s devastating floods, shifting its focus to rebuilding shattered communities and restoring critical infrastructure. The office of Prime Minister…
Thousands of TikTok users who tried to switch on a key safety tool were instead enrolled in an experiment that gave them a version that did nothing, according to allegations laid out in newly unsealed court filings in New York. New York’s…
As wars grind on from Ukraine to the Middle East, US President Donald Trump is again making the case that he belongs on the world’s most celebrated peace stage — even as he concedes the Nobel judges may not be inclined to agree. “I don’t…
A wave of Russian strikes tore through Ukraine overnight and into the day, killing at least 28 people nationwide — among them five children who died when a missile hit an apartment building in the northern town of Pryluky. The blast in…
Alarm rippled far beyond Siberia this week after reports surfaced of a suspected second case of plague linked to a research institute in Russia’s Irkutsk region — prompting calls for openness from Washington, Brussels and the World Health…
A high-stakes Westminster contest in the heart of London is about to give UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham an early verdict on his leadership — and on whether he can stop left-leaning voters drifting from Labour to the Greens. Voters go to…
Lionel Messi brought the curtain down on his Argentina career in fitting style in Buenos Aires, scoring in a 3-0 win over Benin and calling national-team duty “the most wonderful thing that can happen to you.” The 39-year-old departs as…
A century-old chemical riddle that has puzzled researchers — why nature overwhelmingly selects just one “handed” form of certain molecules — has now been cracked, earning France’s Henri Kagan and Japan’s Kenso Soai the Nobel Prize in…
France’s student protest movement escalated again this week — and the government has now put a controversial crowd-control weapon on hold — after a 15-year-old boy lost his hand during a confrontation with riot police, intensifying…
Eva Marie Saint, the poised screen star whose performances helped define Hollywood’s golden era in films such as On the Waterfront and North by Northwest, has died at the age of 102, her publicist said Tuesday. Across a career that…
Three years after Hamas’s 7 October assault, Israel returned to the places that still carry its scars — mourning in silence even as fresh Israeli strikes hit Gaza and a fierce election campaign sharpened the country’s argument over…
Explosions echoed across Riyadh as Yemen’s Houthi movement said it had struck the Saudi capital’s main airport, even as it rejected government claims that it is being driven back on the ground amid rapidly escalating fighting. Yemen’s…
After surviving what her attorneys describe as a failed execution attempt in Tennessee last week, Christa Pike is now awake, speaking and being treated in hospital, according to her legal team. “Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious,…
“I don’t drive, I take the bus to get anywhere because I can’t afford to have a vehicle.” In Dundalk, Maryland, everyday costs — and who voters hold responsible for them — are shaping the run-up to November’s midterm election as surely as…
The European Commission is moving to toughen the terms of EU enlargement, arguing that future entrants must be more firmly locked into the bloc’s values and policies before and after joining to prevent the kind of rule-of-law disputes that…
A reported death of a laboratory technician in Siberia that sparked fears of plague has prompted the World Health Organization to issue a measured assessment, saying the overall public health risk in Russia appears low. Concern flared…
A reported death linked to an anti-plague laboratory in Siberia has escalated into a diplomatic and public-health flashpoint, with US President Donald Trump saying he plans to speak “very soon” with Russian President Vladimir Putin as…
Rumors of a deadly outbreak raced far beyond Russia’s borders after reports surfaced of a plague laboratory worker dying in Siberia — yet on the streets of the city where she worked, residents largely shrugged off the alarm. The death was…
A long-running Fort Hood case that has haunted the US military for more than a decade is moving toward its final chapter after President Donald Trump ordered execution by firing squad for the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing…
Moscow faced a night of sustained drone strikes that Russian officials say left two people dead on the capital’s outskirts, injured nine others and disrupted air travel across the city. Overnight, “650 drones were launched toward the…
With the third anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel approaching, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres issued a blunt appeal: turn the fighting in Gaza into a permanent ceasefire and open the way for…
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A flash of light has transformed neuroscience — and on Monday it propelled three researchers to the top of science’s most celebrated stage.American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize…
Worries of a deadly plague case in Siberia rippled as far as Washington this week, prompting US President Donald Trump to say the United States was tracking developments closely and was ready to assist — even as Russian authorities moved…