June 2026

Women and others who menstruate with persistently irregular periods should be assessed for polycystic ovary syndrome, a common but frequently under-diagnosed hormonal condition, under guidance highlighted by the NHS.

Dish, the satellite-television and wireless business, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to restructure billions of dollars in debt — a court-supervised reorganization, not a shutdown, that the company says will leave its customers' service untouched.

Kylian Mbappé scored twice to carry France into the World Cup's last 16 with a 3-0 win over Sweden — and, in doing so, set a tournament scoring record while closing in on one of Lionel Messi's.

President Donald Trump's annual financial disclosure shows more than half a billion dollars in income tied to a single family-linked cryptocurrency venture — figures that have reignited a debate over conflicts of interest as his administration shapes U.S. crypto policy.

Ronald Koeman has resigned as head coach of the Netherlands, walking away from the national team after its disappointing exit from the 2026 World Cup at the hands of Morocco.

France has fixed the dates for its next presidential election, formally starting the contest to replace Emmanuel Macron — who is barred from running again — in what is shaping up as an unusually crowded and fragmented race.

Worn-out socks from Arsenal's footballers are finding an unlikely second life at an English animal sanctuary, where they are being slipped onto the legs of horses and donkeys to keep the creatures comfortable and healing.

Serena Williams's comeback to singles tennis ended at the first hurdle at Wimbledon, where the 44-year-old lost to the rising Australian Maya Joint — but not before a fightback that showed the old fire still flickers.

Even as it races to deploy artificial intelligence and automation, China is moving to cushion the blow to workers — most strikingly through court rulings that a company cannot simply fire someone because a machine can do the job more cheaply.

Americans who routinely turn to artificial-intelligence chatbots for health information are more likely to believe false claims about vaccines, a new poll has found — though the survey shows only a link, not proof that the technology is to blame.

Oil prices closed out June with their steepest monthly decline in more than five years, as the fears of a Middle East supply shock that had gripped traders earlier in the month drained away and crude gave back its war-driven gains.

To mark the United States' 250th anniversary, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has released a set of cosmic images rendered in red, white and blue — a patriotic flourish wrapped around some genuinely striking science about the universe's most violent places.

As extreme heat grips parts of the United States, health authorities offer a simple playbook for staying safe — and a lesser-known warning that some everyday medications can make people more vulnerable to heat illness.

Erling Haaland scored four minutes from time to give Norway a 2-1 win over Ivory Coast on Tuesday, carrying his country into the World Cup's round of 16 — and setting up a meeting with Brazil.

Realta Fusion says it is the first commercial fusion company to generate electricity directly from a fusion reaction, lighting a handful of bulbs in its Wisconsin lab. It is a genuine technical milestone — and emphatically not the arrival of fusion power.

A heatwave across the central and eastern United States is pushing electricity demand toward records — and arriving just as the soaring power appetite of artificial-intelligence data centers strains a grid that had been stable for decades.

Researchers say an artificial-intelligence system has uncovered a subtle pattern in standard electrocardiograms — invisible to the human eye — that can help identify people at high risk of sudden cardiac death, including many missed by today's tests.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized Philip Morris International to market its Zyn nicotine pouches with a claim that switching from cigarettes lowers the risk of serious disease — a first for nicotine pouches that has divided public-health experts.

Quantum computing attracts billions in investment, breathless headlines and growing government interest. Yet a stubborn truth sits beneath the excitement: today's quantum machines still cannot solve any real-world problem faster than an ordinary computer.

LeBron James, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, has informed the Los Angeles Lakers that he intends to play for another team next season — entering free agency at 41 and bringing an eight-year chapter in Los Angeles to a close.

Wall Street is finishing the first half of 2026 with hefty gains, the major indexes rebounding from an early-year scare to post their best opening six months in years — though much of the advance has been powered by a narrow band of technology giants.

After a four-year effort, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has finished digitizing all 7.4 million specimens in its vast plant and fungi collection — opening one of the world's oldest and largest natural-history archives to any researcher with an internet connection.

Blue Origin says it has yet to determine what caused its New Glenn rocket to explode during a ground test last month, a fireball that destroyed the vehicle, wrecked the company's only launch pad for the rocket and threw its ambitious schedule into doubt.

China has intensified its squeeze on Japan on two fronts at once — near-constant patrols around disputed islands and tightened controls on rare-earth exports — in a confrontation that deepened after Japan's prime minister signaled it might intervene militarily in a crisis over Taiwan.

Ford has brought back hundreds of experienced engineers after artificial intelligence proved unable to replace their hard-won judgment on the factory floor — a turn being read as a cautionary tale about the limits of automation.

Woodburn, Oregon, lies a thousand miles from the Mexican border, but in a town built by Mexican farmworkers and bound together by soccer, Mexico's run at the 2026 World Cup has played out like a family celebration.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states may bar transgender girls and women from female school and college sports teams, a 6-3 decision that resolves a closely watched clash over Title IX, equal protection and the rights of transgender students.

Syria's intelligence chief has appeared at a United Nations counterterrorism conference in New York, a striking moment for a senior security figure from the government that took power after Bashar al-Assad's fall — and one whose roots lie in a movement once branded a terrorist organization.

A fresh round of seizures has pushed the total value of looted antiquities recovered from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art past $95 million, a reckoning for one of the world's great museums with the murky origins of treasures it acquired in a less scrupulous era.

France has become the first major European country to crack down on 'ultra-fast fashion,' with parliament passing a law that slaps rising per-item penalties on the cheap, high-volume clothing sold by online giants such as Shein and Temu and bans them from advertising.

A book signed by Sir Paul McCartney that had sat unnoticed on the shelves of a charity shop in Wales has sold at auction for £950, the latest in a long line of unlikely treasures unearthed among the secondhand stock.

In parts of Mexico, the soccer field — long a refuge of community and weekend joy — is increasingly entangled in the country's organized-crime violence, as gangs extort teams, recruit young players and, on occasion, turn matches into massacres.

Britain has signaled it may step into Paramount Skydance's roughly $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, citing concerns about media plurality — a potential hurdle for a deal that has already cleared regulators across much of the world.

Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is recovering more quickly than analysts expected after last month's confrontation between the United States and Iran, prompting Morgan Stanley to cut its oil-price forecast as crude prices settle and the two sides prepare to talk.

As a heat wave grips much of the United States, climate scientists and players' representatives are warning that some matches at the 2026 World Cup could be played in conditions hot enough to endanger the athletes — and that football's safeguards may not go far enough.

A window for hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants in Spain to win legal status closes today, the deadline for a sweeping regularization that the government casts as an economic necessity and opponents denounce as a reward for illegal entry.

As the 2026 World Cup unfolds, one of football's great names is missing from it — again. Italy, four-time world champions, have failed to reach the finals for a third tournament running, an absence that has plunged the Azzurri into soul-searching about how a giant fell so far.

Nadiem Makarim, the entrepreneur who built the Indonesian 'super-app' Gojek before serving as the country's education minister, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption over a government scheme to buy laptops for schools — a dramatic fall for one of Southeast Asia's best-known tech figures.

In a notable reversal of long-standing policy, Medicare will begin helping older Americans pay for the blockbuster weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1s, starting July 1 — opening access, for a price, to medicines that have been out of reach for many on the program.

Back at the World Cup for the first time in 28 years, Norway's supporters have handed the 2026 tournament one of its most infectious images: thousands of fans seated in unison, heaving on imaginary oars and roaring 'Ro!' — the rowing chant they call the Viking Row.

Researchers say they have identified a molecular 'delivery service' that allows the toxic proteins behind Alzheimer's disease to spread from one brain cell to the next — a finding that, while early, points to a possible new way to slow the disease's relentless march through the brain.

Russia's capital came under one of the larger drone attacks of the war overnight, with the city's mayor reporting that air defenses had shot down dozens of drones heading for Moscow — the latest in Ukraine's intensifying campaign of long-range strikes deep inside Russian territory.

On a remote, storm-battered island near the Antarctic Peninsula, a young scientist has found a surprising variety of microscopic algae living in the snow and on the glaciers — a discovery that suggests the frozen south's tiniest ecosystems may not behave the way the better-studied northern ones do.

YouTube has become the dominant force in Japan's online video, accounting for more than 65% of the country's digital viewing hours — a sign of how a free, ad-supported platform has out-muscled the paid streaming giants for one of the world's biggest audiences' attention.

Carl Erik Rinsch, the filmmaker behind '47 Ronin,' has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for defrauding Netflix of $11 million earmarked for a science-fiction series he never finished — money he instead gambled on cryptocurrency and spent on luxury cars and six-figure mattresses.

Pop Mart, the Chinese company whose toothy 'Labubu' dolls became a global craze, has turned into one of the stock market's fiercest tugs-of-war — a wild ride that punished those betting against it on the way up, and has tested true believers on the way down.

Sexually transmitted infections have climbed to their highest recorded levels across Europe, and health officials are warning of a more serious threat behind the numbers: gonorrhea that is increasingly resistant to the antibiotics used to treat it.

A bomb left at the entrance of a residential building in Monaco wounded three members of a Ukrainian family on Monday evening, in what the principality's government called a deliberate attack — and the first of its kind in its history. A suspect filmed dropping the device fled and is being hunted.

On the rivers of eastern England, conservationists and volunteers are waging an unlikely rescue mission — scouring banks for burrows and floating rafts on the water — to bring back the water vole, Britain's fastest-declining mammal and the model for Ratty in 'The Wind in the Willows.'

A charity has pulled a historic Herefordshire farm off the market after a wave of public concern — a 247-acre property in a valley associated with C.S. Lewis, and a short walk from the ancient stone widely said to have inspired the 'Stone Table' in the Narnia books.

Morocco continued their remarkable World Cup run, beating the Netherlands in a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw to reach the round of 16 — the second traditional power sent home on spot-kicks in this round, and another night of heartbreak for a European heavyweight.

Australia's competition regulator has taken Amazon to the Federal Court, alleging the company buried unfair terms in its Prime contracts and then used them to push advertising onto Prime Video — leaving more than a million subscribers with no way to get their money back.

China's manufacturing activity expanded a little faster than forecast in June, helped by strong demand for technology exports — but the gains were narrow, with weak consumer spending and a still-ailing property sector underlining how uneven the recovery remains.

Foreign nationals at a market in Johannesburg are bracing for trouble as an unofficial June 30 deadline — set by anti-immigration groups demanding that migrants leave South Africa — draws near, even as the government rejects it and police go on alert to head off violence.

WhatsApp is rolling out usernames, letting people be reached by a chosen handle rather than their phone number — a long-requested privacy change that brings the world's biggest messaging app into line with rivals, with reservations opening now ahead of a wider launch later this year.

The Japanese yen has weakened to its lowest level against the US dollar since 1986, slipping to around 162 per dollar — a four-decade low that has put markets on alert for fresh action by Tokyo to halt the slide.

Nearly a week after two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela, the death toll has climbed into the thousands and rescue teams are still searching the rubble for survivors — and the United States has confirmed that three of its citizens are among the dead.

On June 30, 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo won its independence from Belgium amid soaring hopes. Sixty-six years on, the anniversary lands as a painful question: how a country so blessed with the minerals that power the modern world remains, for so many of its people, so poor and so unsafe.

Guo Wengui, the self-exiled Chinese businessman who reinvented himself in the United States as a high-profile critic of the Communist Party, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a fraud that prosecutors say cheated his own online followers out of more than $1 billion.

Japan is about to make a visit considerably more expensive, raising visa fees fivefold and tripling its departure tax from July 1 — the first increase to its visa charges in nearly half a century, and its boldest move yet to manage a record-breaking tourism boom.

As the United States nears its 250th birthday, few figures capture a certain strand of the national imagination quite like Evel Knievel — the caped, white-leathered showman who turned the motorcycle jump into a patriotic spectacle, and his own broken bones into legend.

President Donald Trump says Iran has requested a meeting with US envoys in Qatar to firm up a fragile ceasefire — a claim Iranian officials swiftly rejected, insisting they have no plans for direct negotiations with Washington even as both sides send delegations to Doha.

Paraguay produced one of the World Cup's great upsets, dumping out four-time champions Germany on penalties after a 1-1 draw — a result sealed in a shootout, and shaped by a contentious VAR decision that wiped out what looked like a German winner.

T-Mobile is shutting down some of its oldest mobile plans — including grandfathered deals inherited from Sprint — and automatically moving the affected customers onto newer plans, a change the carrier says will add about $4 a month to the typical line.

Selling a home in Britain has become a tougher proposition, as elevated mortgage rates and a glut of properties on the market tilt the balance toward cautious buyers — and push the average asking price down by its sharpest June margin in 14 years.

Novak Djokovic, the seven-time Wimbledon champion, made a scratchy but ultimately comfortable start to his latest campaign at the All England Club, beating China's Wu Yibing in four sets after dropping the second on Centre Court.

Naomi Osaka walked onto the grass at Wimbledon in a custom white dress inspired by the Japanese kimono — a tribute to her heritage, threaded carefully through the tournament's famously strict all-white dress code — and then backed it up with a win.

A new generation of sky surveys is about to record more exploding stars than ever before — and astronomers have built an artificial-intelligence method to turn that flood of supernovae into one of the sharpest tests yet of dark energy, the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

Keiko Fujimori has won Peru's presidential election by one of the narrowest margins in recent Latin American history, returning a polarizing political dynasty to power in a country worn down by years of instability and rising crime.

Britain's long-delayed deposit return scheme for drinks containers is due to launch in October 2027, asking shoppers to pay a small refundable deposit on every bottle and can. Supporters say it will transform recycling; the drinks industry warns the added costs could push up the price of a drink.

The Memphis Grizzlies have agreed to trade Ja Morant, the electrifying guard who has been the face of the franchise for seven years, to the Portland Trail Blazers, according to reports — completing a remarkable dismantling of the team's young core.

Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's far-right finance minister, has called on the military to complete the conquest of the Gaza Strip and to build a belt of Jewish settlements there — reviving a goal Israel abandoned two decades ago, in remarks that drew Palestinian condemnation and run counter to widely held interpretations of international law.

Daveigh Chase, who as a child actor gave voice to the irrepressible Lilo in Disney's 'Lilo & Stitch' and chilled audiences as the ghostly Samara in 'The Ring,' has died at 35. Officials in Los Angeles said the cause was complications from AIDS.

The streaming service Tidal says it will stop paying royalties on tracks it identifies as fully AI-generated, while still allowing them on the platform — a middle path that aims to protect human musicians' earnings as machine-made music floods streaming services.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 52,000 for the first time on Monday, lifted by a broad technology rally and by the debut of Alphabet, Google's parent, as a new member of the famous 30-stock index.

Artificial intelligence now conjures human faces so convincing that most people cannot tell them from real photographs — and in a strange twist, we sometimes judge the fakes to be more real than the real thing. Researchers say the visual giveaways are real, but fading fast.

Brazil avoided a major upset at the World Cup, beating Japan 2-1 thanks to a goal from Gabriel Martinelli deep into stoppage time, after the five-time champions had been pushed to the brink by a disciplined Japanese side in the round of 32.

Six people, all staff at a welfare centre for mothers and young children in the northern German town of Stade, were shot dead on Monday in what police described as a 'family tragedy' — an attack a man embroiled in a custody dispute is suspected of carrying out, leaving the toll higher than first reported.

Deion Sanders, the Pro Football Hall of Famer turned high-profile college coach, says he considers himself cancer-free, a year after surgery for an aggressive bladder cancer — and is heading into his fourth season at the University of Colorado with, in his words, his 'swagger back.'

Samsung and SK Hynix, the South Korean firms that dominate the world's memory-chip market, are committing more than $550 billion to expand production — a vast response, coordinated with the government, to a shortage and price surge that the industry has nicknamed 'RAMageddon.'

Resident doctors in England have voted to accept the government's offer on pay and working conditions, bringing an end to a bruising dispute that triggered repeated strikes across the National Health Service over more than two years.

As France counts the dead from a punishing heatwave — around 1,000 more deaths than usual in barely a week — the government's handling of the crisis has become a political flashpoint, with opponents accusing it of failing to prepare and ministers insisting the country's defenses held.

Jannik Sinner, the defending champion and world No. 1, came within touching distance of a stunning first-round exit at Wimbledon before recovering to beat Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic in five sets on Centre Court — a bloodied, error-strewn escape to open his title defense.

A group of Democratic lawmakers is renewing an effort to outlaw the buying and selling of Americans' sensitive health and location data — a practice that has flourished in a lightly regulated industry, and that privacy advocates warn is becoming more perilous in the age of artificial intelligence.

A group of moon bears rescued from captivity in South Korea has been cleared for the long flight to a new home at a wildlife park in Suffolk — the culmination of a campaign to give the animals, survivors of a now-banned bear-farming industry, a far better life some 5,500 miles away.

President Vladimir Putin has publicly acknowledged that Russia is facing fuel shortages, a rare admission of the toll taken by a sustained Ukrainian drone campaign against the country's oil refineries — and a sign that the war is straining the energy industry at the heart of Russia's economy.

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the president may remove commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission at will, overturning a 1935 precedent that had shielded the heads of independent agencies from dismissal — a landmark expansion of presidential power over the regulators that police business, markets and the airwaves.

Craig Williams, a former Conservative MP who was an aide to then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, has pleaded guilty to cheating at gambling by betting on the timing of Britain's 2024 general election using inside knowledge — the highest-profile conviction yet in a scandal that dogged the Conservatives during that campaign.

Les Mills, the New Zealand discus and shot-put champion who competed at four Olympic Games and then turned a single Auckland gym into one of the world's best-known fitness brands, has died at the age of 91.

For years, CRISPR was a dazzling laboratory tool in search of a cure. Now the gene-editing technology is treating real patients — starting with a once-untreatable blood disorder — even as its eye-watering cost raises hard questions about who will benefit.

When sworn adversaries in the Middle East need to talk, they often end up in the same place: Muscat. Oman, a small sultanate at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, has turned decades of careful neutrality into an outsized role as the region's most trusted mediator.

The US Supreme Court declined to take up President Trump's appeal of a $5 million civil verdict in the E. Jean Carroll case, leaving intact a jury's finding that he sexually abused and defamed the writer. The justices gave no explanation, and none noted a dissent.

Rocket Lab, the upstart launch company, has agreed to buy the satellite-communications operator Iridium for about $8 billion — a bold bet to transform itself from a rocket maker into a full-service space company, and to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk's SpaceX and its Starlink network.

Chris Johnson, one of the most electrifying running backs of his generation, has revealed that he has been diagnosed with ALS, the incurable neurodegenerative disease. The former Tennessee Titans star shared the news on television, saying the illness has changed his body but not his resolve.

Ford has rehired hundreds of experienced engineers after leaning heavily on artificial intelligence to safeguard vehicle quality — and finding the technology could not do the job alone. The episode has become a cautionary tale about the limits of replacing seasoned human judgment with software.

Erin Brockovich, the campaigner who took on a power company over poisoned groundwater and became the subject of a Hollywood film, has a new target: the wave of vast AI data centers spreading across America, and the strain they put on water and local communities.

Dame Penelope Keith, the British actress who turned snobbery into an art form as Margo in 'The Good Life' and the imperious Audrey in 'To the Manor Born,' has died at 86. Her family said she had been living with cancer and died at her home in Surrey.

At least five people were killed in a shooting in the northern German town of Stade on Monday, police said, and a male suspect was detained. The motive was not immediately clear, and officials described an active, developing investigation.

Giant bags of chips, super-sized sweets and other oversized treats have become a viral sensation in China, fueling a booming snack market. But the fashion for going big is colliding with a rising public-health concern: the country's expanding waistline.

Comcast says it will break itself into two separate publicly traded companies — one built around its cable and broadband business, the other around NBCUniversal's media, studios, streaming and the Sky platform — the latest sign of how the decline of traditional television is reshaping the entertainment industry.

Pakistan says it killed 29 militants in cross-border strikes on Afghanistan. Afghan officials say the same strikes killed at least 36 civilians — many of them women and children — and wounded scores more. The gulf between the two accounts captures a conflict that is escalating fast and growing harder to verify.

The Trump administration has announced $17.5 billion in conditional loans to help build up to 10 large new nuclear reactors — a centerpiece of its drive to expand atomic power to feed surging electricity demand. Supporters call it overdue; critics warn that speed must not come at the cost of safety.

The Strawberry Moon, June's full moon, reaches its peak on the evening of June 29 — and despite the name, it has nothing to do with the moon turning pink. Here is where the name comes from, why this moon hugs the horizon, and how to watch it.

For countless young Mexicans, soccer is both a passion and a hoped-for way out of poverty. But organized crime, which has burrowed into so much of the country's daily life, is increasingly shadowing the grassroots game — exploiting clubs and preying on the vulnerable teenagers who play.

As summer travel peaks, consumer watchdogs are warning of a surge in bogus holiday-accommodation listings on social media — fake villas, apartments and cabins that take your deposit and vanish. Here is how the fraud works, and how to avoid it.

Millions of people take omega-3 fish oil supplements in the hope of keeping their minds sharp. A rigorous new two-year trial found they made no measurable difference to memory or brain aging — even in the people thought most likely to benefit.

A senior South African police officer, Major-General Feroz Khan, was shot and critically wounded in Johannesburg — days before he was due to testify at a high-profile inquiry into criminality and corruption in the country's police, and while himself facing serious criminal allegations.

White storks were absent from Britain as a breeding bird for some 600 years. Now, a few years into an ambitious reintroduction, they are not only nesting again but turning up at new and unexpected sites — the latest sign that a once-lost bird is quietly reclaiming the landscape.

Private equity firms now own companies in almost every corner of the economy, from high-street vets to care homes. Supporters say they bring capital and discipline that make businesses better; critics say their debt-fueled, fast-exit model can hollow them out. Here is how it works — and why the debate is so fierce.

A record-breaking heatwave across Europe is proving deadly, with France reporting around 1,000 excess deaths so far and funeral services in the Paris region saying they cannot cope with the surge — a toll authorities warn is likely to rise.

Rather than hunt for the handful of stocks that will beat the market, a growing number of investors simply buy the whole market through index, or tracker, funds. The logic — captured in a famous phrase from the man who pioneered them — is that finding the needle is so hard you may as well own the haystack.

Canada's men's soccer team reached the knockout last 16 of a World Cup for the first time, beating South Africa 1-0 in Los Angeles with a stoppage-time goal from Stephen Eustaquio — a milestone for the co-hosts of the 2026 tournament.

Several thousand Kurds gathered in southeastern Turkey to call for the release of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned founder of the PKK, pressing their case at a delicate moment — more than a year into a historic process that has seen the group lay down its arms after four decades of conflict.

Bill Maher, the provocative comedian and longtime HBO host, received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on Sunday — an award handed out this year against the backdrop of a turbulent period at the institution and Maher's own hard-to-pin-down place in America's culture wars.

Straddling the celestial equator on summer evenings sits one of the sky's great unsung constellations — Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer. It is a giant of the heavens, steeped in the mythology of healing, and home to one of the Sun's very nearest neighbors.

The data centers powering the artificial-intelligence boom are devouring electricity and water at a breakneck pace. They are also, increasingly, exposed to the heatwaves, droughts and grid strain that a warming climate is making more common — a tension at the heart of the industry's breakneck expansion.

Bitcoin has slid to a level that chart-watchers call a critical battleground, down roughly 30% from its spring peak, and some market strategists warn it could drop sharply again. Such technical calls are closely followed in crypto — but they are forecasts, not facts.

South Korea's Haeran Ryu won the KPMG Women's PGA Championship on Sunday, capturing her first major title with a final-round 70 — and an almost unbelievable backstory: she had trailed by 10 shots after the opening round, a deficit no golfer had ever overcome to win one of the game's majors.

Shares of the Chinese tech giant Baidu rose about 7% after reports that its in-house artificial-intelligence chip business, Kunlunxin, is aiming for a Hong Kong stock listing that could value it at around $50 billion — a sign of investor appetite for China's homegrown answer to Nvidia.

Teyana Taylor was the standout of the 2026 BET Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, named Icon of the Year by Janet Jackson and sweeping several categories, on a night that celebrated Black achievement across music, film and culture — and saw Clipse take album of the year.

Shares of South Korea's memory-chip giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell after reports the companies are preparing to spend a combined sum of around $1.3 trillion over the next decade — a colossal bet on the AI boom that, paradoxically, has investors worried rather than cheering.

Pakistani security forces carried out a ground operation and strikes along the Afghan border, killing 29 militants, the military said — a day after an attack on a paramilitary base in Karachi, and the latest escalation in a deepening confrontation with Afghanistan's Taliban government over cross-border militancy.

Suno, the artificial-intelligence startup that turns text prompts into finished songs, has launched a program to fund independent musicians — even as it fights a major lawsuit from record labels who say it trained on their music without permission. Supporters call it a leg-up for artists; critics call it co-optation.

Thousands of Malawians are abandoning their homes and livelihoods in South Africa and heading back across the border, driven out by a surge of anti-immigrant violence and threats — the latest flare-up in a country with a long, painful history of xenophobic unrest.

After a weekend of tit-for-tat attacks that rattled markets and threatened a wider war, the United States and Iran have agreed to halt their strikes and resume negotiations, a US official said — a step back from the brink, with talks expected to restart in Qatar this week.

Philippe Stern, who led the Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe for more than three decades — defending its family ownership through an industry crisis and elevating it to the summit of fine watchmaking — has died at 88, the latest steward of a brand his family has owned since 1932.

American sprinter Gretchen Walsh swam the women's 50-meter freestyle in 23.55 seconds in Rome on Sunday, breaking a world record that had stood for just nine days — the one set by her own training partner, Kate Douglass.

The British government plans to offer employers £3,000 for every long-term unemployed young person they take on, the centerpiece of a drive to tackle a sharp rise in the number of young people out of work — and a bet that cash incentives can pull a 'lost generation' back into jobs.

Starting July 1, streaming services in California must stop blasting their advertisements louder than the shows around them — extending to the streaming era a fix that has applied to traditional TV for over a decade, and addressing one of viewers' most universal annoyances.

After a year in which anything linked to artificial-intelligence data centers seemed to only go up, investors have turned wary — selling off chipmakers and infrastructure stocks and asking a pointed question of Big Tech: when does the hundreds of billions being poured into AI actually pay off?

Crude prices rose and stock futures wobbled as the United States and Iran exchanged fresh military strikes over the weekend, reviving fears that the confrontation could disrupt the Strait of Hormuz — the chokepoint for roughly a fifth of the world's oil.

Long before Kermit and Miss Piggy, Jim Henson made 'The Cube' — a strange, unsettling 1969 television play about a man trapped in a white room who can no longer tell what is real. Rediscovered now, it looks startlingly like a forerunner of 'Black Mirror'.

Days after twin earthquakes devastated northern Venezuela and killed well over a thousand people, rescuers found an 11-year-old boy alive beneath a collapsed building — a flicker of hope as the window for finding survivors narrows and the scale of the disaster comes into focus.

Ukraine kept up its campaign against Russia's oil industry on Sunday, setting fire to a refinery in southern Russia in a strike that authorities said killed at least two people. The attack came as President Vladimir Putin publicly acknowledged that Russia's economy is passing through a 'difficult period'.

The Michael Jackson biopic 'Michael' has reached roughly $977 million worldwide, edging past Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' to become the top-grossing biographical film of all time — a milestone powered by Jackson's global fame, and shadowed by the allegations the film largely sets aside.

Comcast-owned Sky has agreed terms to take over ITV's television channels and ITVX streaming service, in a deal reported at around £1.6bn that would reshape British broadcasting — sweetened by a £2bn pledge to keep funding shows like 'Coronation Street'. Regulators and unions are already watching closely.

Three wildland firefighters were killed and two others injured when a fast-moving fire overran them on the Colorado–Utah border, US authorities said — the deadliest moment yet in a punishing fire season gripping the American West.

Pixar's 'Toy Story 5' kept the top spot at the North American box office over the weekend, while the new DC film 'Supergirl' opened to a soft estimated $38 million — another sign that animation remains Hollywood's safest bet even as superhero titles struggle to soar.

Prosecutors trying to prove that a California man sparked the catastrophic Palisades wildfire built part of their case on his conversations with ChatGPT. The trial ended in a deadlocked jury and a mistrial — but it offered a striking glimpse of how AI chat histories are entering the courtroom.

Spurred by fitness culture and the rise of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, Americans are chasing protein as never before — and the dairy industry, the source of much of it, is straining to keep up. Whey prices have soared, high-protein staples sell out, and processors are pouring billions into new plants.

Ben Stokes, England's Test captain and one of the most influential cricketers of his generation, has announced he will retire from all international cricket at the end of the current Test against New Zealand — closing a 15-year England career defined by some of the sport's most dramatic moments.

A helicopter operated by the Saudi state oil company Aramco crashed at the Ras Tanura oil complex on the kingdom's Gulf coast early Sunday, killing all 14 people aboard, the energy ministry said. The cause is under investigation.

A discount app or a manufacturer's QR-code coupon can turn a startling pharmacy bill into a fraction of the price — sometimes beating your own insurance copay. Here is how these programs actually work, why US drug prices swing so wildly, and what to watch before you use one.

Thousands of community banks and credit unions are mounting a campaign against the new US law governing stablecoins, warning that a loophole could siphon deposits out of Main Street and into crypto — and choke off lending to small towns. Stablecoin backers say the fears are overblown and the law brings overdue rules.

NASA is extending the public-private model it used to reach the space station and the Moon all the way to Mars, tapping the rocket startup Relativity Space to build and launch an atmospheric orbiter in 2028 — a bet that private industry can take on the Red Planet faster and cheaper, if it can deliver where no company has before.

Morgan Stanley has told clients that salt — or rather the sodium in it — could become a strategic commodity to rival oil, as cheap sodium-ion batteries challenge lithium in the race to store energy. It is a striking call, and, like all such forecasts, far from a sure thing.

An experimental once-a-day pill has produced substantial weight loss in a mid-stage trial, adding to evidence that the obesity drugs now given by injection could one day come in tablet form — cheaper to make and easier to take, if it clears the long road to approval.

More than three years into a war that has become the world's largest displacement crisis, Sudan's two warring generals show little appetite for peace — and the besieged city of el-Obeid, where the UN says half a million people are at risk, is bracing for the worst.

Schlitz — once the best-selling beer in America and the pride of Milwaukee — is being retired by its owner, Pabst, after 177 years. Its long fall from the top is one of the most cautionary tales in American business: a brand that damaged itself by cutting corners on the very product that built it.

The Bank for International Settlements — the institution that serves the world's central banks — has cautioned that record government debt, a surge of borrowing to fund the artificial-intelligence boom and other fragilities are building up risks in the global financial system, even as the economy has so far held up.

A civilian aircraft carrying people on a parachute-jump outing crashed near the town of Tomblaine in eastern France on Sunday, killing all 11 on board, authorities said. The cause is not yet known, and an investigation is under way.

In a polarized country, medical debt has become one of the few causes that unites people across the political divide — and small congregations are turning modest collections into millions of dollars of forgiven hospital bills, sometimes for thousands of strangers at once.

Google has restricted how much of its Gemini artificial-intelligence models rival Meta can use, citing a shortage of computing capacity, according to a Financial Times report — a sign of how a deepening scramble for AI compute is straining even the industry's biggest players.

Uganda's military commander, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba — the son of President Yoweri Museveni — has ordered the closure of Nation Media Group's outlets, forcing the broadcaster NTV Uganda and others off air and declaring that he does not believe in a free press.

Shooting star, falling rock, icy wanderer — the words we use for debris in the solar system are easy to mix up, and often used wrongly. Here is a simple guide to what each one really means, and a rule of thumb to keep them straight.

Iraqi security forces detained several officials, including five members of parliament, in overnight raids inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone — part of a widening corruption investigation that began with a former deputy oil minister, and one that is already stirring questions about its political timing.

France's public-health agency estimates that around 1,000 more people than usual died in the days after an intense heatwave gripped the country in late June — most of them elderly, and many at home. The toll is a stark measure of how dangerous extreme heat has become for Europe's most vulnerable.

As the thirteen colonies moved toward independence, the food on the table was a clear marker of where you stood. Imported sugar and fine wine for the wealthy, cornmeal and salt pork for ordinary families, and the barest rations for the enslaved — with 250 years of American cooking taking shape across that divide.

A bet on whether a single word — 'donk' — would be uttered during an esports broadcast has turned into a revolt on Polymarket, the crypto prediction market. The dispute is trivial on its face, but it exposes a serious question hanging over the booming sector: who decides what actually happened, and can you trust them?

Battered by some of the worst blackouts in its history, Cuba is attempting one of the fastest solar build-outs anywhere on the planet, with Chinese financing and panels. By day the new parks are easing the strain; by night, without batteries, the island still goes dark.

Ocado is preparing to replace its co-founder and long-serving chief executive, Tim Steiner — and his exit has trained the spotlight on the roughly £100m he is reported to have earned over the years, at a company whose share price has collapsed and which was dropped from the FTSE 100.

On calm, scorching afternoons, large limbs occasionally crash down from apparently healthy trees with no warning and no obvious defect. Arborists call it summer branch drop — and despite decades of observation, exactly why it happens remains one of the open questions of tree science.

Polls have opened in New Caledonia's first provincial elections since 2019 — a vote repeatedly postponed and overshadowed by deadly unrest in 2024, and one that will help decide which vision prevails in the French Pacific territory: independence, or a new status within France.

A cruel second wave of fraud is targeting people who have already lost cryptocurrency: scammers posing as 'recovery' firms who promise to retrieve lost or stolen funds for an upfront fee — then vanish. Because crypto transactions can't be reversed, no legitimate service can deliver what they claim.

The Green Party of England and Wales is reviewing how it sets policy after its membership roughly tripled under its new leader, Zack Polanski — a surge that has tested whether a party built on grassroots, member-led democracy can run at a far larger scale.

Researchers in Hawaii are turning some of the Pacific's most stubborn pollution — derelict fishing nets and ocean plastic — into asphalt for the islands' roads. Early tests are encouraging, but scientists are watching closely for the catch: whether plastic pavement sheds microplastics of its own.

Dartmoor Zoo has begun breeding black-veined white butterflies — a species extinct in Britain since 1925 — with plans to release them into the Devon countryside as early as next summer, in a conservation push partners hope can restore a small piece of the nation's depleted wildlife.

A wave of drinks promising gut health, sharper focus and muscle recovery has turned the beverage aisle into a wellness battleground — drawing billion-dollar bets from PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Starbucks, even as regulators and lawsuits question whether the science matches the marketing.

Kenyan policy has said for nearly 50 years that young children should begin school in their mother tongue. In most classrooms, that is not what happens — and a growing body of research says the gap between policy and practice is holding back a generation of learners.

Reform UK has entered Wales's enlarged Senedd as the official opposition, after a May election ended decades of Welsh Labour dominance and made Plaid Cymru the largest party. In its first weeks, the party's combative style has already drawn rebukes and walkouts in the chamber.

Dilip Asbe, who runs the body behind India's vast UPI payments network, says artificial intelligence will be central to its next phase — bringing in new users in their own languages, catching fraud at scale, and extending credit to those the formal banking system has overlooked.

Jaron 'Boots' Ennis dropped Xander Zayas three times and forced a seventh-round stoppage at Barclays Center, taking the WBO and WBA junior-middleweight world titles, handing the unbeaten Puerto Rican his first professional defeat and becoming a world champion in a second weight class.

Lionel Messi came off the bench to score in Argentina's 3-1 win over Jordan, his sixth goal of the 2026 World Cup — extending the all-time men's tournament scoring record he claimed days earlier and sending the defending champions into the round of 32 with a perfect group-stage record.

With dengue cases nearing 50,000 this year and hospitals filling up, Sri Lanka has deployed drones and military personnel to hunt down the hidden pools of water where disease-carrying mosquitoes breed — part of a growing global turn to aerial technology against a disease that now threatens half the world's population.

Shoko Kawata, the 35-year-old mayor of Yawata, is believed to be the first sitting mayor in Japan to take maternity leave. The backlash and support her decision drew have exposed a contradiction in a country urgently trying to lift its record-low birth rate — yet uneasy when a leader does what the government is urging.

Matter — the standard meant to let smart-home gadgets from Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung finally work together — projected confidence at its annual industry conference this month. Outside the room, users and developers are still waiting for the promise to arrive.

A Yoane Wissa double and a Fiston Mayele strike turned a one-goal deficit into a 3-1 win over Uzbekistan, sending the Democratic Republic of the Congo into the World Cup knockout rounds for the first time — and setting up a round-of-32 meeting with England.

A growing number of women are making a deliberate decision to remain childfree — and in doing so they are pushing back against old assumptions even as they form part of a demographic shift that has economists and governments on edge.

The longest day of the year has barely passed, yet daylight in the Northern Hemisphere is already shrinking again. The reason lies not in how close Earth is to the Sun — it's actually about to get farther away — but in the steady geometry of a tilted planet circling a star.

US Representative Julia Letlow won the Republican nomination for Louisiana's open US Senate seat on Saturday, defeating state Treasurer John Fleming in a runoff. With the backing of President Donald Trump and in a heavily Republican state, she is now the strong favorite to win the seat in November.

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny brought a fully Spanish-language stadium show to London this weekend, selling out two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in what organizers called the largest Spanish-language music events ever staged in Britain — and a milestone for Latin music's global reach.

Few dates carry the weight of June 28. On this single day, five years apart, a pistol shot in Sarajevo helped ignite the First World War — and a stroke of the pen in a gilded French hall brought it to a formal close. The symmetry was no accident.

Undefeated champion Xander Zayas puts his junior-middleweight world titles on the line against Jaron 'Boots' Ennis, the feared former welterweight king stepping up in weight, in a Brooklyn showdown that pits youth and home advantage against one of boxing's most explosive punchers.

Air-raid sirens sounded in Bahrain and Kuwait said its air defenses were confronting incoming threats on Saturday, as a second day of US strikes on Iran dragged the Gulf's smaller states — home to major US military bases — into a crisis they have spent weeks trying to avoid.

Australia's corporate regulator is investigating KPMG after a whistleblower alleged that senior partners used a client's confidential documents to win lucrative audit work — a scandal that has cost the firm its chief executive, its audit chief and other senior figures, and renewed pressure on the country's big-four accounting firms.

The world's leading animation festival has crowned a hand-drawn Singaporean feature, 'The Violinist,' as its best film, while the French director Louis Clichy's debut 'Iron Boy' swept three awards and the American independent animator Don Hertzfeldt won the prestigious short-film Cristal.

Steve Clarke has resigned as Scotland's men's head coach following the team's group-stage elimination from the 2026 World Cup, ending a seven-year tenure that delivered the most successful run in the national side's modern history — including a first World Cup appearance in 28 years.

Four days after twin earthquakes killed more than 1,400 people in northern Venezuela, fury is spreading through the ruins of La Guaira: residents say they are being kept from digging for trapped neighbors, even as a flood of untrained volunteers has, by some accounts, tangled the very rescue effort they came to help.

A second-half double from Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane gave England a 2-0 win over Panama at the 2026 World Cup, sealing top spot in their group and a place in the round of 32 — with Kane's goal taking him past Gary Lineker as England's all-time leading scorer at the tournament.

Campaigners want to grant Lough Neagh — the British Isles' largest lake, and a source of much of Northern Ireland's drinking water — the legal standing of a 'person,' drawing on a global rights-of-nature movement. Supporters say it could force action where regulation has failed; skeptics ask whether it would change anything at all.

Apple, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have all raised prices on major devices in 2026, pointing to the same culprit: the AI boom is soaking up the world's supply of memory chips and driving up their cost. But analysts are divided on whether AI is the whole story — or a convenient one.

US Central Command says its forces struck Iranian military sites for a second day running, after Iran attacked another commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz — a sharp escalation that is straining a ceasefire the two countries reached less than two weeks ago.

The advertising industry's biggest festival wrapped on the French Riviera with a noticeable change of tone: the debate over whether AI would reshape marketing has given way to harder questions about how to use it — while the awards spread the spotlight well beyond New York and London.

A UK housing minister is reportedly developing plans for a state-owned developer that would build homes directly, as the government's pledge of 1.5 million new homes this parliament runs well behind schedule and ministers look beyond the private market to close the gap.

Elon Musk's vision of solar-powered AI data centers in space has caught the industry's imagination — but SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and a growing number of engineers warn that cooling, radiation, launch costs and repair make computing in orbit far harder than the pitch suggests.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić told supporters he intends to step down within weeks and call early elections, after some 18 months of mass protests sparked by a deadly railway-station collapse. But he set no firm date — and analysts say the move may keep him in power, not end it.

A woman on an early-morning walk in Alberta's Kananaskis Country came face to face with a grizzly bear that circled her and her dog, reared up and closed to within a metre. She kept filming, stood her ground — and both got away unharmed. Wildlife officials say her instincts were largely right.

At a literary festival in Portugal, the author of 'The Handmaid's Tale' turned a skeptic's eye on artificial intelligence, arguing that AI systems are only as good as the human writing they are trained on — and recounting the one time she tried a chatbot, which got her answer wrong.

A government-appointed commission in Berlin has proposed gradually lifting Germany's retirement age toward 70, tying it to rising life expectancy. The plan reignites a worldwide argument about who pays for aging societies — and invites uneasy comparison with the United States, where Social Security's main trust fund is now projected to fall short by 2032.

Israel's defense minister said the military has been ordered to prepare for an open-ended presence in southern Lebanon, ruling out a withdrawal until Hezbollah is disarmed — a day after the United States announced a framework deal that set no timetable. Hezbollah rejected the agreement outright.

Spain beat Uruguay 1-0 at the 2026 World Cup, the only goal coming when veteran goalkeeper Fernando Muslera turned Álex Baena's shot into his own net — a calamitous error on a miserable night that ended Uruguay's tournament at the group stage.

Rockstar Games has confirmed that the boxed edition of Grand Theft Auto VI will contain only a download code, not a disc — a decision by one of the industry's biggest studios that has reignited a long-running debate over ownership, preservation and the slow disappearance of physical media.

Researchers say they have identified a specific population of fat-cell precursors that switches on with age and pumps out new fat cells around the abdomen — a finding that offers a possible target for one of midlife's most familiar changes, though the core work was done in mice.

Gunmen stormed a paramilitary Rangers headquarters in Karachi on Friday after ramming an explosive-laden vehicle into its gate, killing three soldiers before security forces fought off the assault, Pakistani officials said. No group immediately claimed responsibility.

Carved out of the boreal forest not far from the Arctic Circle, Fairbanks is one of America's coldest and most remote cities — and an improbably good place to eat, home to a dense cluster of drive-thru Thai huts and a surprising range of world cuisines. The story of how that happened is as layered as a bowl of tom yum.

Tony Brown, the journalist, educator and broadcaster who built 'Tony Brown's Journal' into the longest-running public-affairs series in the history of US public television and a national forum for Black America, has died at 93.

As a severe global shortage of memory chips drives up its costs, Apple has reportedly pressed Washington for assurances that it can safely buy DRAM from CXMT, a Chinese manufacturer the Pentagon links to China's military — testing the tension between US export controls and the company's need for supply.

Tropical Storm Mekkhala skirted Taiwan's east coast this week without making landfall, but its rain bands — fed by an approaching front — dumped torrential downpours that killed at least two people, triggered hundreds of flood incidents and left swaths of the island's south underwater.

Tens of thousands of riders from dozens of countries converged on Rome this weekend to mark 80 years of the Vespa, the humble postwar scooter that grew into one of the world's most recognizable symbols of Italian style — and, for its devotees, a way of life.

With cuts to its Colorado River supply looming, Arizona has become a flashpoint in a wider conflict: a rush of AI-driven data centers, drawn by cheap land and sun, is colliding with residents who fear the warehouses of servers will drain water and power a parched state can no longer spare.

A California appeals court has unanimously affirmed Harvey Weinstein's 2022 Los Angeles rape conviction, rejecting his bid to overturn it — while ordering a lower court to resentence him because part of his term rested on a New York conviction that has since been thrown out.

From hockey rinks to royal palaces, gay male romance is one of publishing's fastest-growing categories — and the readership driving it is, perhaps surprisingly, largely straight women. The roots of the phenomenon reach back half a century to the manga shelves of Japan.

A decade after Google Glass became a cautionary tale, Meta, Google, Apple and Snap are pouring money into AI-enabled eyewear they believe could be the next computing platform. The technology has improved; persuading ordinary people to put a camera on their face remains the harder problem.

A shortage of the memory chips inside nearly every electronic device is rippling through the technology industry, as AI data centers soak up supply and the world's big memory makers shift production toward the more profitable chips that power artificial intelligence. The result: sharply higher prices that big companies can absorb — and smaller ones may not survive.

The heat dome that has scorched Western Europe for a week is shifting toward Germany, Central Europe and the Balkans, where forecasters warn of new records — even as France counts the cost in strained hospitals, drowning deaths and nuclear reactors knocked offline by overheated rivers.

K. Bhagyaraj, the prolific screenwriter, director and actor whose wry, character-driven films helped shape Tamil popular cinema in the 1980s — and who often wrote, directed and starred in the same picture — has died in Chennai at 73.

Profits at China's major industrial firms rose 21.1% in May from a year earlier, official data showed, extending a double-digit run that underscores how heavily the world's second-largest economy now leans on factories and exports — even as weak consumer demand and falling retail prices reveal the limits of that model.

A Portugal-based startup called Amble has revealed its first vehicle: a stripped-back, open-air electric buggy modeled on NASA's 1971 lunar rover, designed by a team that includes a veteran of the Apple Watch and Audi — and aimed first at luxury resorts rather than the open road.

Drone and missile attacks overnight killed at least three people, Ukrainian and Russian-installed officials said, as Ukraine struck a weapons factory roughly 1,000 kilometers inside Russia and Russian drones hit homes and apartment blocks across several Ukrainian regions.

A free online ordination and a heartfelt speech: friends and family — not clergy or hired professionals — now perform most American weddings. Here is why, and what a first-time officiant actually needs to get right.

Crude oil has dropped close to where it sat before this year's Iran conflict, yet drivers are still paying more at the pump than the slide in oil alone would suggest. The reason lies in how a gallon of gasoline is actually built up — and in a well-documented quirk of how fuel prices move.

Dong Guangping, a 68-year-old former Chinese police officer who endured decades of imprisonment and repeated deportations for his pro-democracy activism, has — after a 30-hour escape across the Yellow Sea in a small inflatable boat — finally been allowed to travel to Canada to rejoin his family, the New York Times reported.

In 2022, NASA deliberately flew a spacecraft into an asteroid to see whether humanity could shove one off course. It worked. Here is how the world watches the skies, weighs the odds, and plans to act if a rock is ever found heading our way.

Bruno Bischofberger, the Zurich art dealer who became a bridge between European collectors and the American avant-garde — securing Andy Warhol's work for Europe, championing Jean-Michel Basquiat early, and engineering their famous collaboration — has died at 86.

Cambridge Bay, a community of about 1,900 people on an island in Nunavut with no road to the rest of Canada, is seeing the world's cuisines arrive on its tables — carried north by a small but growing wave of newcomers, alongside the Inuit country food that remains the backbone of life here.

They look almost identical in the wrapper, and both are roughly 80% fat — but butter and margarine behave very differently in the oven. The reasons come down to the shape of their fat molecules, the water they carry, and the chemistry of browning.

Action on World Health, the campaign group co-founded by the UK politician Nigel Farage to challenge the authority of the World Health Organization, is broadening its push into the United States, adding American figures to its board — a move its supporters call overdue reform and its critics call an opaque lobbying effort.

Researchers in Louisiana are training artificial intelligence on decades of archival recordings of Cajun French — a language once punished out of schoolyards and now racing extinction. The effort shows both the promise of technology for endangered tongues and its limits.

After one of the worst peacetime economic collapses in modern history, Venezuela had finally strung together a fragile recovery. Then last week's earthquakes — the deadliest in the country in generations — struck the very corridor that links its capital to the sea, putting that rebound at risk.

In northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the volunteers and health workers trying to contain a fast-growing Ebola outbreak — caused by a strain with no approved vaccine or treatment — increasingly face hostility from the very communities they are trying to protect.

A review of thousands of studies has concluded that screen time in the first two years of life is associated with delayed communication, weaker problem-solving and disrupted sleep — even as most toddlers far exceed the limited screen use that health authorities advise. Researchers stress the evidence shows association, not proof of cause.

A Minnesota man accused of being a central recruiter in one of the largest pandemic-era fraud schemes in US history has been arrested in Mogadishu after more than four years as a fugitive, in a joint operation by the FBI and Somalia's national intelligence service.

Africa produces more than a quarter of the world's gold and sits on an estimated 40% of its reserves — yet the refining, trading and biggest profits flow overseas, and hundreds of tonnes leave the continent each year through smuggling, depriving African states of billions in revenue.

A ceasefire signed barely ten days ago between Washington and Tehran is under severe strain after the two traded strikes in the Strait of Hormuz region — with Iran's Revolutionary Guard saying it hit US military sites in retaliation for American attacks, and each government accusing the other of breaking the deal.

The first 48-team World Cup has reached its knockout phase, and with it a stage that has never existed before: a Round of 32. Here is how teams reached it, when the knockouts are played, and what the bigger tournament means.

Graduates in England who borrowed for both an undergraduate degree and a master's can lose up to 15 pence of every pound they earn above modest thresholds — a double deduction built into the design of the student finance system, and one a frozen repayment floor has made sharper over time.

Argentine football supporters have poured into Texas for the World Cup carrying flags, drums — and firm opinions about beef. Their arrival has reignited a good-natured rivalry between two of the world's proudest cattle cultures over the right way to cook a steak.

Europe has been struck by two severe heatwaves in barely a month, with June temperature records falling across Spain, France and Germany. The atmospheric machinery behind such repeat events is well understood — and a warmer climate is making them harder to escape.

SpaceX is on track to enter the Nasdaq-100 on July 7, an unusually fast addition to one of the world's most-tracked stock indexes that will force passive funds to buy billions of dollars of its shares — less than a month after the company's record-setting public debut.

Automated software routinely beats human buyers to concert, sports and even train tickets, feeding a multibillion-dollar resale market. A decade of laws and platform defenses has barely dented the problem — in part because bots are only one piece of it.

Milwaukee Brewers starter Jacob Misiorowski unleashed a 105.5 mph fastball against the Chicago Cubs — tying for the third-fastest pitch in the era of modern tracking, and the hardest ever thrown by a starting pitcher.

Texas's education board has approved a state reading list for its more than five million public-school students that includes specific Bible stories, the latest in a series of moves bringing religious material into the state's classrooms — and a fresh test of the constitutional line between church and state.

Six months after Australia became the first country to bar under-16s from social media, the idea is spreading: Indonesia and Malaysia have enacted their own bans this year, and Britain, New Zealand and France are weighing similar limits — putting the world's biggest platforms under growing pressure to keep children off their services.

Two straight quarters of shrinking output have revived talk of a Canadian recession, but the fuller picture is more mixed: unemployment is easing from its peak, exports are finding new footing, and much now hinges on a single variable — the renegotiation of the North American trade pact with the United States.

One of Asia's most distinctive cuisines has long been overlooked outside its homeland. Now, as conflict scatters a new generation of cooks across the world, the food of Myanmar — its tea-leaf salads, its fish-broth noodles, its coconut-free curries — is reaching diners far from home.

Two hikers who failed to return from a walk in Kosciuszko National Park were located in the dark with the help of a drone that used artificial intelligence and thermal imaging to pick them out of the bush — a sign of how machine vision is changing wilderness search and rescue.

John Bolton, the former US national security adviser, has pleaded guilty to a single federal count of unlawfully retaining classified national defense information, resolving a case he says was politically motivated and that prosecutors say protected national security.

The goldfish that seems so harmless in a bowl becomes something else entirely in the wild — growing to the size of a football, churning up lake beds and tipping whole ecosystems out of balance. Scientists say the trouble starts the moment an owner tips a tank into a pond.

Four months after the Iran war sent crude soaring and disrupted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices have fallen back to where they stood before the conflict began — relief for refiners and airlines that scrambled to cope with a sudden supply shock.

Uruguay are out of the 2026 World Cup at the group stage after a costly error by veteran goalkeeper Fernando Muslera handed Spain a 1-0 win, a result that confirmed Spain top of Group H and Cape Verde through in second.

A goalless draw with Saudi Arabia was enough to send Cape Verde through to the World Cup's last 32, making the Atlantic archipelago of around 525,000 people the smallest nation by population ever to advance beyond the group stage.

The Anaheim Ducks dealt 23-year-old center Mason McTavish, a former third overall pick, to the St. Louis Blues for the 15th and 29th selections in the 2026 NHL Draft, a draft-weekend swap that hands Anaheim more young assets and gives St. Louis an established center.

Ann Blyth, who earned an Academy Award nomination as a teenager for her portrayal of the venomous, social-climbing daughter in the 1945 film noir 'Mildred Pierce' and went on to a varied career as an actress and singer, has died at 98.

When Grand Theft Auto VI arrives in November, even shoppers who buy a physical copy will open the box to find a download code rather than a disc — a decision that has angered some retailers and revived a long-running argument over whether players truly own the games they pay for.

A carbonized papyrus that has not been opened since Mount Vesuvius buried it in AD 79 has now been digitally unrolled and read almost in its entirety, the latest breakthrough in a years-long effort to recover the only library to survive intact from the ancient world.

Decades after Argentine geologists pried fragmentary bones from a frozen island, the creature they found — a heavily armored plant-eater called Antarctopelta — is still reshaping how scientists understand dinosaur evolution and the lost, temperate world that once covered Antarctica.

The Toronto Maple Leafs selected Yukon-born forward Gavin McKenna with the first pick of the 2026 NHL Draft, landing the consensus top prospect and a franchise-defining talent for a team chasing its first Stanley Cup since 1967.

Geothermal energy is effectively limitless and runs around the clock, yet it supplies only a sliver of the world's electricity. A new generation of engineers is borrowing techniques from the oil and gas industry to try to change that.

Technology shares suffered one of their worst weeks in a year as anxiety mounted over the debt and spending behind the artificial-intelligence buildout, with Oracle posting its steepest monthly decline since the dot-com bust.

American aircraft hit Iranian missile and radar installations after Iran launched a drone attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, an exchange that has put a fragile two-week-old ceasefire under fresh strain.

Two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela's northern coast within seconds of each other have killed at least 920 people and left tens of thousands unaccounted for, as international rescue teams join an overwhelmed local effort to pull survivors from the rubble.

Senegal scored five unanswered goals against a 10-man Iraq in Toronto to keep alive their hopes of reaching the World Cup's last 32 — though their fate now rests on results elsewhere. Iraq exit the tournament without a point.

RJ Scaringe, chief executive of the Amazon-backed electric-vehicle maker Rivian, argues that traditional automakers pulling back on EVs are making a costly mistake — even as US electric-car sales slump and federal incentives disappear. Skeptics say demand has genuinely cooled.

Six decades ago, every African nation walked away from the 1966 World Cup rather than accept a qualifying system that guaranteed the continent no place at the tournament. The boycott reshaped global football — and African teams have featured at every World Cup since 1970.

OpenAI has announced GPT-5.6, which it calls its most capable AI yet, but is releasing it only to a small group of government-vetted partners after the Trump administration asked it to slow the rollout for a security review — an arrangement critics call ad hoc and untested in law.

Thousands of migrants in South Africa are sheltering in makeshift camps or seeking buses and flights home ahead of a June 30 deadline set by anti-immigration movements. The government has pledged to allow peaceful protest but bar violence; rights groups warn of a looming crisis.

A fully stocked corner store has appeared on Lake Ontario in Toronto's harbour — flags on the walls, snacks on the shelves, and no way to get inside. The public art installation has become the city's most charming, and most inconvenient, World Cup greeting.

A New York City board has voted to freeze rents on about one million rent-stabilized apartments, delivering on a signature promise of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Tenant advocates hailed relief in a costly market; landlords warned it would starve aging buildings of repair funds.

Ousmane Dembele scored one of the fastest hat-tricks in World Cup history as France beat Norway 4-1 to win Group I with a perfect record. Norway, already through, rested Erling Haaland.

Yves Lacoste, the French geographer who argued that geography is never a neutral science but a tool of states and armies, has died at 96. He reframed the discipline as the study of power over territory and revived the contested idea of geopolitics.

President Donald Trump has threatened to impose steep tariffs — reportedly 100% — on goods from any country that levies a digital services tax on American technology companies, escalating a long-running dispute over how the profits of global tech giants should be taxed.

A wave of World Cup commercials built around Egyptian football pessimism has divided viewers at home — some found the self-mockery refreshingly honest, others worried it risked making low expectations feel permanent.

A Kyiv court has sentenced a former senior officer of Ukraine's security service to life in prison for high treason, after finding he passed state secrets to Russia's FSB — one of the most serious espionage cases inside Ukraine's own intelligence agency since the full-scale war began.

The United States says Israel and Lebanon have reached a framework agreement to begin handing some Israeli-held territory back to the Lebanese army. Washington called it only 'the beginning,' and major disputes — including over Hezbollah's weapons and a full Israeli withdrawal — remain unresolved.

Oleksandr Usyk, the undisputed heavyweight champion and one of the finest boxers of his era, says he is giving up his major world titles to free them up for other contenders — but insists he has one more fight, a 'last dance,' still to come.

At the VivaTech show in Paris, Europe's space sector signaled a shift in ambition: a continent that long built single-use rockets is now racing to master the reusable launch technology that reshaped the industry.

Dutch authorities have recorded the first case of euthanasia involving a child aged between one and twelve since the country extended its end-of-life rules to that age group in 2024 — a development that has reopened a deeply sensitive ethical debate.

Portable chargers and vapes have overtaken other devices to become the leading source of battery fires on passenger planes. The incidents remain rare, but they are rising — and regulators are tightening the rules. Here is what travelers need to know.

The US has sanctioned a Kigali gold refinery and linked companies and individuals, accusing them of laundering gold from conflict zones in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with the M23 armed group. Rwanda has long denied related accusations.

Canada has become eligible to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest after a change to the rules governing who can compete — the latest step in the famously European event's gradual reach beyond the continent.

A Seoul court has sentenced Kim Keon-hee, the wife of ousted former president Yoon Suk-yeol, to seven years in prison for bribery and other charges. She denies wrongdoing and plans to appeal.

Few fans watching the World Cup think of Sialkot. But the Pakistani city has long hand-stitched many of the world's footballs — a painstaking craft now being squeezed by machines and a changing industry.

A court in Magdeburg has sentenced the man who drove a car into the city's Christmas market in December 2024, killing six people and injuring hundreds, to life in prison, with a finding of 'particular gravity' that blocks early release.

The UN's annual World Drug Report says cocaine production has hit a record high and a wave of new synthetic drugs is spreading fast, as the fall of the Assad government and Afghanistan's opium ban reshape global narcotics markets.

A small aircraft crashed into the China Zun, Beijing's tallest skyscraper, on Friday, scattering debris and prompting an evacuation of the landmark tower in the capital's business district. Casualties and the cause were not immediately confirmed.

Buckingham Palace says King Charles III has paid more than £30 million in income and capital gains tax since taking the throne in 2022 — the first time a reigning British monarch has made such figures public. Anti-monarchy campaigners called the disclosure incomplete.

Nigeria's Senate has passed a constitutional amendment that would let each of the country's 36 states run its own police force — the biggest proposed shake-up of Nigerian policing since independence — as the nation struggles with insecurity. The bill still has a long path to becoming law.

A Paris court has ruled that TotalEnergies must factor the emissions produced when customers burn its fuels into its legal risk planning — the first time France's corporate 'duty of vigilance' law has been applied to climate change. The court stopped short of ordering production cuts.

As much of Europe tightens borders and steps up deportations, Spain has opened a sweeping program that could grant legal status to around half a million undocumented migrants — its seventh such regularization in four decades. Supporters cite the economy and demographics; critics warn it sends the wrong signal.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Facebook policy director whose memoir about Meta became a bestseller, has sued the company, alleging it used a private arbitration order to gag her. Meta rejects the claim, saying an arbitrator already found she broke an agreement she signed.

A severe late-June heatwave is gripping much of Europe, straining hospitals and prompting emergency measures in France — from restrictions on public drinking to cancelled festivals — as temperature records fall and authorities report scores of heat-related deaths across the continent.

Research using artificial intelligence to decode the song of nightingales has won a $100,000 prize for advances in understanding animal communication — a step, scientists stress, toward listening to other species, not 'talking' to them.

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile and upgraded artillery systems under the eye of leader Kim Jong Un, its state media said, as South Korea announced plans to train its entire military to operate drones — the latest signs of an intensifying arms competition on the peninsula.

Vast crowds of pilgrims have gathered in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala to observe Ashura, the most solemn day in the Shia Muslim calendar, which commemorates the killing of Imam Hussein at the Battle of Karbala more than thirteen centuries ago.

Kenyan police sealed off central Nairobi with roadblocks and razor wire and made hundreds of arrests, largely preventing demonstrations on the second anniversary of the 2024 anti-tax protests in which scores of people were killed. The government called it security; critics called it a violation of the right to protest.

The two powerful earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela this week — a magnitude 7.2 followed within about 40 seconds by a stronger 7.5 — were no fluke. They struck along one of the most active fault systems in the Americas, and seismologists say aftershocks will pose a danger for weeks.

An earthquake's shaking rarely kills people on its own — buildings do. What separates the structures that stand from those that fall comes down to physics, engineering, and whether the rules meant to keep buildings standing are actually enforced.

Asian stock markets fell sharply this week, led by a steep drop in South Korea, as anxiety over the cost of the artificial-intelligence boom hammered chipmakers and other technology shares from Seoul to Tokyo.

Ivory Coast beat Curaçao 2-0 to finish second in Group E and reach the World Cup knockout rounds for the first time, ending more than two decades of group-stage heartbreak for one of African football's proudest sides.

On June 26, 1945, delegates from fifty nations signed the Charter of the United Nations in San Francisco — an attempt, born from the ruins of the deadliest war in history, to build a system that might prevent the next one. Eighty-one years on, the institution remains both landmark and lightning rod.

When Türkiye faced the United States at the 2026 World Cup, the name on the scoreboard was unfamiliar to many viewers. The campaign behind it has run for years — and the world's institutions and broadcasters are still split on what to call the country.

Many football fans in Myanmar say they will not watch the World Cup through official channels after the country's broadcast rights went to Mytel, a telecom operator part-owned by the military — arguing that tuning in would help fund the junta they oppose.

Kaan Ayhan struck deep into stoppage time to give Turkey a 3-2 win over the United States in their Group D finale at the World Cup — a painful late blow for the co-hosts, who still finished top of the group and advanced.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington wants a comprehensive agreement with Tehran but will not accept one on any terms, as disputes over nuclear inspections, the Strait of Hormuz and sanctions tested a fragile 60-day negotiating window.

OpenAI will initially limit its next model, GPT-5.6, to a small group of government-approved enterprise customers before any wider release, after the Trump administration asked the company to hold back the launch over cybersecurity concerns, according to multiple reports.

A wave of foreign investment is wiring Africa for the AI age — undersea cables, data centers and GPU clusters. As US tech giants, Gulf funds and Chinese firms compete for position, African policymakers are asking a harder question: who owns the infrastructure, and who decides how it is used?

Russian-installed authorities say overnight Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least five people across annexed Crimea and two Russian border regions, damaging energy infrastructure and forcing power cuts. The claims could not be independently verified, and Ukraine did not immediately claim responsibility.

The Netherlands sealed top spot in World Cup Group F with a 3-1 win over Tunisia, while Japan and Sweden drew 1-1 to send both through to the knockout rounds. Tunisia finished bottom without a point, their tournament over.

Manchester City have agreed a club-record fee to sign England midfielder Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest, according to multiple reports, with a medical said to be pending. Neither club has yet confirmed the move.

Two young men who have admitted carrying out the 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London — one of Britain's most disruptive breaches — had come to the attention of law enforcement before the attack, raising questions about how authorities identify and divert young people drifting into serious cybercrime.

The Florida immigration detention camp in the Everglades known as 'Alligator Alcatraz' has shut down less than a year after opening. State officials cited hurricane risk, costs and expanded federal capacity; advocates said the site never should have existed.

Geothermal energy — the heat beneath our feet — is clean and always on, but high drilling costs and the need for the right geology have long kept it niche. New techniques borrowed from the oil-and-gas industry, and demand from power-hungry data centers, are starting to change that.

FIFA says fans may bring rainbow flags into the Egypt-Iran World Cup match in Seattle, which falls during the city's Pride weekend, rejecting formal objections from both nations' football federations while stopping short of endorsing any official 'Pride match.'

Gonzalo Plata's late strike gave Ecuador a 2-1 win over Germany at MetLife Stadium, sending the South Americans into the World Cup knockout stage. Germany, already qualified, still finished top of Group E despite the defeat.

Memory-chip prices are surging, dragging up the cost of laptops, phones, PCs and game consoles. The cause is artificial intelligence, whose data centers are soaking up the world's memory-making capacity — and analysts warn relief may be years away.

The International Maritime Organization has paused a new effort to guide stranded ships and crews safely out of the Persian Gulf after a containership was struck off the coast of Oman, a setback for an operation meant to ease the toll of the recent conflict on seafarers.

The expanded 2026 World Cup has brought the Middle East and North Africa their largest-ever presence at the tournament — eight Arab nations, alongside Iran — turning a region long used to watching from the margins into one of the competition's louder stories.

A group of women who say they were raped or sexually assaulted in France is calling for the country to abolish the statute of limitations for such crimes, arguing that legal time limits deny justice to victims who take years to come forward. Legal experts caution that lifting all limits raises its own difficulties.

Tennis great and broadcaster Chris Evert has announced that her ovarian cancer has returned and that she will miss Wimbledon this year while undergoing surgery and chemotherapy. The 18-time Grand Slam champion said she would step back from her work to focus on her health.

Powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela, Japan and California within about a day of each other, prompting an inevitable question: are they linked? Seismologists say the timing is almost certainly coincidence — somewhere on Earth, the ground is always moving.

The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that federal pesticide law blocks many state-court claims accusing Monsanto of failing to warn that its Roundup weedkiller can cause cancer — a decision that could halt much of the litigation involving tens of thousands of plaintiffs and is a significant victory for Bayer.

FIFA says its first Under-15 World Cup, to be held in Azerbaijan in October, will be open to all member associations — a step that would let Russia compete in a FIFA tournament for the first time since its teams were suspended after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Critics say it is too soon.

The US Supreme Court ruled for the Trump administration in two immigration cases, allowing officials to turn back asylum seekers before they cross into the United States and clearing the way to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians. Both decisions split 6-3 along ideological lines.

Born in the survival and self-invention of Black and Latino LGBTQ+ communities in 1970s New York, voguing and ballroom culture have spread across the globe — carried forward by figures like Vinii, a Paris-based 'Father' of the House of Revlon, who calls the dance a form of liberation.

Several footballers at the 2026 World Cup began life in refugee camps, displaced as children by wars across four continents. Their journeys — from Buduburam to Kakuma to Cabinda — are among the tournament's most resonant stories.

A study comparing the laughter of tickled great apes and humans finds that the basic rhythm of a laugh has stayed remarkably stable for millions of years — suggesting the giggle is far older than our species.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met for a rare bilateral summit on the French Riviera, two leaders from opposing political camps seeking common ground on defense, energy and Europe's place in a more uncertain world.

Apple has raised prices across its Mac and iPad lines, blaming a sharp jump in memory-chip costs driven by surging demand for artificial-intelligence hardware. The iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods were left unchanged — for now.

A major international conference on rebuilding Ukraine has opened in the Polish city of Gdańsk, drawing thousands of officials, donors and investors — but without President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose absence reflects a sharp diplomatic rift with host country Poland over wartime history.

An American diplomatic effort to end more than a decade of Libyan division by stitching together a single government has stirred sharp disagreement among the country's rival factions, with backers calling it a rare chance for stability and critics warning it could entrench powerful families rather than deliver democracy.

US officials have floated the idea of Iran buying American farm goods as part of a post-ceasefire thaw. But decades of sanctions, severed banking links and deep mistrust mean the distance between that rhetoric and real commerce is vast.

Europe's largest budget airline, Ryanair, says it will stop charging parents to sit beside their young children — a change it framed as a 'reluctant' concession after Britain's competition regulator opened an investigation into the practice.

IBM says it has built a prototype chip that stacks transistors in vertical layers — like floors in a block of flats — a design it claims could roughly double computing density and sharply cut energy use as the traditional shrinking of flat chips runs into the limits of physics.

About 235 people have been killed and more than 4,300 injured by two powerful earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela, the government says, with the toll still rising more than a day on as rescuers dig through rubble. The United States is sending warships and aircraft to help, and President Trump has authorized $150 million in aid.

Disney has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it used its control of ESPN to push up prices across live-TV streaming services, with current and former YouTube TV and DirecTV subscribers able to claim a share. Disney denies any wrongdoing.

An analysis using graduates' actual tax records finds a gap of hundreds of thousands of pounds between the highest- and lowest-earning university subjects in Britain — and that for some courses, the financial return can be close to zero or even negative.

An independent review led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden has found systemic, long-running failures in maternity care at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust — examining more than 2,500 families' cases in what is described as the largest review of a single NHS service in British history.

India's fastest-aging state, where decades of migration have left many older people living alone, is building an unusual web of volunteers, mobile clinics and new laws aimed at making sure none of its elderly are forgotten.

Crude oil has given up almost all the gains it made during the US-Iran conflict, with Brent slipping below $75 a barrel — back to levels last seen before the war that briefly closed the Strait of Hormuz and sent prices spiking.

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced Dr. Mahrang Baloch, a prominent campaigner against enforced disappearances in Balochistan, to life in prison — a verdict rights groups have condemned as the product of an unfair, closed-door trial. She denies the charges and is entitled to appeal.

North Korea has commissioned its first guided-missile destroyer, the Choe Hyon, with leader Kim Jong Un declaring his navy is on course to carry nuclear weapons at sea. Analysts call it a real step up — while questioning the ship's combat readiness and Pyongyang's claims.

A temporary cut in VAT from 20% to 5% on children's meals, theme park tickets and a range of family attractions has taken effect across the UK for the summer. The government calls it cost-of-living relief; critics question how much will reach consumers.

FIFA's disciplinary committee has suspended Qatar midfielder Assim Madibo for five matches after a tackle that left Canada's Ismaël Koné with a broken leg requiring surgery, during Canada's opening World Cup win.

Three sisters in Rio de Janeiro — aged 109, 104 and 103 — have been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living trio of siblings, with a combined age of more than 316 years. Scientists studying longevity are paying close attention.

Philippine authorities have temporarily blocked the mobile game GoreBox after police said one of the teenage suspects in a deadly school shooting in Tacloban had played it — a move that has revived a long-running debate over whether violent games drive real-world violence, a link researchers have not established.

The US artificial intelligence company Anthropic has accused the Chinese technology giant Alibaba of running a large-scale campaign to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude AI models. The allegation, made in a letter to US lawmakers, is unproven, and Alibaba has not publicly responded.

Thapelo Maseko's second-half goal gave South Africa a 1-0 win over South Korea in Monterrey, sending Bafana Bafana into the World Cup knockout stage for the first time in the nation's history.

Kenyan prosecutors have approved murder charges against eight students over a dormitory fire that killed 16 girls at a boarding school in May, in a case that has renewed alarm over a long pattern of deadly school fires.

The International Olympic Committee will give cash grants of $10,000 directly to Olympic athletes through a new fund, beginning with competitors at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games — a notable shift toward sharing Olympic revenue with the athletes who generate it.

A 1917 nude by Amedeo Modigliani sold for about £48 million ($64 million) at Sotheby's in London, a European auction record for the artist and the centerpiece of a landmark sale of works from the collection of billionaire Joe Lewis.

Europe is heating at roughly twice the global average rate. The reasons are a mix of geography, physics and decades of policy choices — and together they help explain why the continent keeps breaking heat records.

A Moscow court has sentenced Maxim Kruglov, a deputy chair of the liberal Yabloko party, to seven years in a penal colony over two social media posts about civilian deaths in Ukraine — the latest case in Russia's sweeping crackdown on wartime dissent.

Two years after young Kenyans stormed parliament in protests against a tax bill, families of those killed say accountability remains elusive — with the police watchdog reporting that only a handful of dozens of death cases have reached court.

The Trump administration has asked Congress for $87.6 billion in supplemental spending, the bulk of it for the Pentagon to cover the costs of the US military campaign against Iran — a request that lands a day after the Senate rebuked the president over that conflict.

From November, the Los Angeles public will be able to see space shuttle Endeavour as it looked on launch day — standing upright in a full stack with an external tank and rocket boosters, the only such display in the world.

Zoox, the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company, has updated its purpose-built robotaxi as it waits for federal clearance to begin charging fares — a step that would sharpen its competition with market leader Waymo.

With many corporate vacancies drawing hundreds of applicants and automated systems filtering résumés before a human sees them, job seekers face a harder market than they have in years. Recruiters and career advisers point to a handful of practical moves that improve the odds.

A federal judge in New York has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from obtaining the medical records of transgender patients who received gender-affirming care as minors, pausing a grand jury subpoena while a legal challenge proceeds.

Brazilian football great Ronaldinho has signed with Italian Serie C side Ravenna at the age of 46 — a deal first presented as a marketing tie-up, though club officials have not ruled out an actual appearance on the pitch.

Thousands of Scotland supporters took over Miami before their World Cup Group C finale against Brazil — and even an early Vinícius Júnior goal and a 1-0 defeat could not dampen the carnival the Tartan Army brought to South Florida.

OpenAI has revealed its first in-house AI processor — an inference chip called Jalapeño, designed with Broadcom — as the ChatGPT maker moves to control its computing costs and reduce its heavy reliance on Nvidia.

The leaders of Europe's five largest military powers met in Berlin and vowed to deepen support for Ukraine, setting the stage for a NATO summit in Ankara next month — a gathering shadowed by disputes over defense spending and Washington's recent Iran campaign.

A Spanish judge has ordered Begoña Gómez, the wife of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, to surrender her passport and report to court twice a month as a long-running corruption investigation moves toward a possible trial. Gómez denies any wrongdoing and has not been convicted of any offense.

Zimbabwe's Senate has approved a constitutional amendment that would extend elected terms from five to seven years, delay the next general election to 2030, and let parliament — rather than voters — choose the president. The government calls it modernization; critics call it a power grab.

As the contest to succeed Keir Starmer gets underway, reporting suggests Rachel Reeves would likely be replaced as chancellor should Andy Burnham — the clear frontrunner — reach Downing Street. His allies caution that no jobs have been promised.

Leah Stewart, a 34-year-old Sydney teacher who lost an arm in a shark attack at Coogee Beach, has briefly woken from an induced coma more than a week later — and her first words were for her mother and partner.

Switzerland beat co-hosts Canada 2-1 at a roaring BC Place in Vancouver to win Group B, as Canada reached the World Cup knockout stage for the first time despite the loss.

An intense June heatwave pushed France to its hottest day in modern records and drove southern Spain above 45C, as dozens of deaths, power cuts and red alerts spread across the continent.

Born into colonial privilege and driven by Enlightenment ideals, Simón Bolívar spent two decades on horseback breaking Spanish rule across half a continent. Nearly two centuries after his death, his legacy remains as fiercely contested as the republics he fought to create.

Artificial intelligence is recovering text from a carbonized papyrus scroll that has sat sealed since Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD — identifying its author, its title and words including the ancient Greek for 'disgust,' without anyone unrolling it. Researchers are presenting the latest results at a conference in Naples this week.

Stretching for more than 2,000 kilometers off the Australian coast, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest structure ever built by living organisms — and one of the most threatened. A warming ocean is now testing limits that geology took hundreds of thousands of years to build.

Born in a cobalt-blue house in Coyoacán and forged by catastrophic injury, Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) created some of the twentieth century's most arresting images — only to be recognized as a global icon long after her death.

Google has begun dismantling the walls around its Android app business, telling developers their apps will be offered to third-party app stores and letting them steer users to outside payment options — the concrete rollout of a settlement that ended its long antitrust fight with Epic Games.

Elon Musk has lost his short-lived status as the world's first trillionaire after shares in the newly public SpaceX tumbled from their post-listing peak, erasing hundreds of billions of dollars in estimated net worth in under two weeks.

Perched on an Andean ridge some 2,430 meters above sea level, the 15th-century citadel of Machu Picchu has survived earthquakes, jungle and a century of myth-making. What it has never been, scholars increasingly agree, is a 'lost city.'

On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union severed road, rail and canal links to the western sectors of Berlin, triggering one of the first great confrontations of the Cold War — and a Western airlift that would supply a city of more than two million people from the sky for nearly a year.

Octopuses open jars, carry tools and outwit their keepers — yet their brilliance arose on an evolutionary path that split from ours hundreds of millions of years ago, making them perhaps the closest thing to an alien intelligence on Earth.

From a rural village in Kenya's central highlands to the Nobel stage in Oslo, Wangari Maathai (1940–2011) built a movement that planted tens of millions of trees and, in doing so, redrew the world's understanding of how environment, democracy and peace fit together.

The shimmering green and crimson glows of the northern and southern lights are the visible aftermath of a collision between the Sun and Earth's magnetic shield. Here is how, and why, the sky catches fire near the poles.

With all 48 teams having played their second group matches, the first expanded World Cup has delivered early qualifiers and individual milestones from Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo — but a full round of group games still remains before the knockout bracket is set.

Each year, well over a million Muslims converge on the Saudi city of Mecca to perform the Hajj, a centuries-old rite that is at once a profound act of faith and one of the largest logistical undertakings on Earth.

Vaccines teach the body to recognize and fight a pathogen before a real infection strikes. Here is how that process works, the main vaccine types, and why availability differs even between strains of the same disease, such as Ebola.

When a country changes its leader between elections, some observers abroad ask why voters were not consulted. The answer lies in a basic divide among democracies: whether the head of government rises from the legislature or is elected separately by the people. That distinction shapes how power is won, used and lost across continents.

Broadway just posted its highest-grossing season on record, yet the number of brand-new original musicals reaching its stages is shrinking. With capitalization costs for a new musical now commonly cited around $20 million and recoupment rare, producers are leaning ever harder on revivals, jukebox shows and movie adaptations to manage the risk.

The world's largest tropical rainforest stores vast amounts of carbon, generates rain for a continent, and shelters roughly a tenth of known species. Scientists warn that deforestation and warming are pushing parts of it toward a dangerous threshold.

Meta has suspended an internal initiative that monitored staff keystrokes and screen activity to train artificial intelligence, the company confirmed, after a security flaw briefly exposed sensitive employee data across the workforce and a petition signed by more than 1,500 workers opposed the program.

Rockstar Games has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto VI will start at $79.99 in the United States and launch on November 19, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with pre-orders opening June 25 — a pricing decision that crystallizes a contentious shift toward $80 game software.

A doctor who had been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has tested positive for Ebola after returning to France — the country's first confirmed case. The health ministry said the patient is isolated and there is no sign of local spread.

A biometric border system that replaces passport stamps with fingerprints and facial scans is now live across the Schengen area for non-EU travelers. Here is how it works, why delays were feared, and how it differs from the separate ETIAS authorization still to come.

Europe's Euclid space telescope, built to chart dark matter and dark energy, has released a deep, wide-field view of stars packed toward the Milky Way's central bulge — a striking by-product of a mission designed to look far beyond our own galaxy.

A vast outdoor display at London's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, sets the monumental bronzes of Henry Moore among the trees and historic landscapes the sculptor always believed his work belonged in.

More than five years after Myanmar's military seized power, the country remains locked in an armed conflict that has displaced millions and reshaped control of large parts of its territory. Here is an overview of how it began, who is fighting, and what is documented versus contested.

An ocean away from Buenos Aires, the city straddling Europe and Asia has become an unlikely capital of Argentine tango, where milongas run nightly and a welcoming community keeps the embrace alive.

Shares in Europe's defense companies fell sharply on Wednesday, with Rheinmetall down as much as 13 percent, after reports that Germany plans to cancel its troubled F126 frigate project and buy smaller, cheaper warships instead.

Seven centuries ago, a West African emperor's pilgrimage to Mecca dazzled three continents and reportedly upended the price of gold in Cairo. Separating the documented record of Mansa Musa from the gilded legend reveals an empire of trade, scholarship and enduring myth.

Keir Starmer's resignation has opened a Labour leadership contest, but whoever moves into Downing Street will face the same hard arithmetic: weak growth, near-record debt and tax, tight fiscal rules and an aging society. It is a bind familiar across the rich world.

The Global Positioning System lets a phone find itself anywhere on Earth by listening to faint signals from satellites 20,000 kilometers up. The trick relies on flying atomic clocks so precise that engineers had to build Einstein's relativity into the math, or navigation would drift kilometers off course every day.

Crude prices extended their slide on Wednesday as the Iran-related risk premium continued to drain out of the market, and US President Donald Trump accused oil companies of 'gouging' consumers by failing to pass lower crude costs through to the pump, saying he had directed the Justice Department to investigate.

Almost everyone knows a recession is bad economic news. Far fewer agree on what the word means, or who has the authority to say a downturn has officially begun. The popular shorthand and the experts' definition are not the same thing.

More than seven decades after a dozen nations signed a mutual-defense pact in Washington, NATO has grown to 32 members and remains anchored by a single, often-misunderstood promise: that an attack on one is an attack on all. Here is how the alliance works, and what its collective-defense clause does and does not require.

For 1,500 years a sprawling web of overland and sea routes carried silk, faith, technology and plague between China and the Mediterranean. The romantic name we use for it was invented in 1877 — by a German geographer who never traveled most of it.

Mark Zuckerberg has named the Indian entrepreneur Kunal Shah, founder of the fintech app CRED, as the new global head of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart after nearly seven years — a striking choice to lead a messaging service whose single largest market is India.

Each year a vast seasonal shift in winds soaks South Asia, West Africa and beyond, delivering the rains that feed crops and fill reservoirs for billions of people. Here is how the monsoon works, why it is both lifeline and threat, and how a warming climate is making it less predictable.

Three progressive candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won Democratic primaries for US House seats on Tuesday, unseating two incumbents. In a separate, heavily funded Manhattan race that drew rival artificial-intelligence super PACs, Assemblymember Micah Lasher prevailed.

Born as a battlefield simulation in ancient India and reshaped by Persian courts, Islamic scholars and Renaissance Europe, chess is one of humanity's most-traveled inventions — and a rare cultural artifact still being rewritten, by computers and the internet, today.

Most of the universe's matter neither shines nor reflects light, yet its gravity shapes galaxies and the cosmos. Here is what the evidence shows — and what remains unsolved.

Humans spend roughly a third of their lives asleep, and after more than a century of research scientists can describe in remarkable detail what happens during sleep. Yet the deepest question — why the brain demands it at all — remains only partly answered.

Coffee began as a wild plant in the Ethiopian highlands and became a global ritual carried by Sufi mystics, Ottoman cafes, London's 'penny universities' and colonial plantations. The famous goat-herder origin story, though, is legend rather than fact.

A single 'no' from any of five countries can stop the world's most powerful diplomatic body in its tracks. Here is the mechanism behind the UN Security Council veto, its 1945 origins, who has used it most, and the long-running fight over whether to change it.

A degree from Stanford or its peers was long a near-guarantee of a coding career. As artificial intelligence absorbs the entry-level tasks that once trained junior engineers, even highly credentialed graduates are finding the first rung of the ladder harder to reach — though analysts disagree on how much of the squeeze AI is really to blame.

The Washington Wizards selected BYU forward AJ Dybantsa with the first overall pick of the 2026 NBA draft on Tuesday, choosing the 19-year-old over Kansas guard Darryn Peterson to anchor a rebuild after three seasons near the bottom of the standings.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Defense seeking removal from a Pentagon list of alleged 'Chinese military companies,' calling the designation baseless, while the Pentagon declines to comment on the pending litigation.

Each year billions of birds cross oceans and continents with uncanny precision. Scientists have identified several overlapping compasses that make the feat possible — but the most intriguing one, a magnetic sense, may reach down to the level of quantum physics, and exactly how it works is still unresolved.

England were frustrated by a resolute Ghana in a 0-0 draw at the 2026 World Cup, with captain Harry Kane skying a glorious late chance over an open goal as both sides took a point in Group L.

Google's YouTube has agreed to settle a Kentucky school district's lawsuit alleging that social-media platforms were designed to addict young users — one of the first of a vast wave of such cases to resolve, days before a closely watched trial, even as more than a thousand similar claims remain unresolved.

The Buffalo Bills cut the ribbon on a gleaming new Highmark Stadium this week, a roughly $2.1 billion home built with about $850 million in public money — and reopening a long-running debate among economists over whether taxpayer-funded sports venues are ever worth the price.

Keir Starmer's resignation has triggered a Labour leadership contest whose winner will move into Downing Street without a general election. Here is how the process works.

Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished drama about OpenAI's 2023 boardroom crisis lost its Amazon distributor days after Amazon's reported deal with OpenAI — crystallizing an industry that is at once eager to dramatize artificial intelligence and increasingly anxious about it.

As the Northern Hemisphere passes the longest days of the year and ultraviolet levels peak, health authorities are urging people to treat the daily UV index as a cue to protect their skin. Here is what the number means, how sunscreen works, and which sun-safety beliefs the science contradicts.

As the longest days settle over the Northern Hemisphere, communities from Stockholm to Alicante mark Midsummer and St John's Eve on June 23–24 with fire, flowers and song — a constellation of celebrations that braids ancient solstice rites with a Christian feast day.

The Atlanta Falcons have agreed a three-year, $54 million contract with tight end Kyle Pitts that includes $36 million fully guaranteed — described as the richest three-year deal for a tight end in NFL history — ending the uncertainty that hung over the former top-five draft pick.

As the Wimbledon Championships return to the All England Club in late June, one tradition is as fixed as the white dress code and the green grass: bowls of strawberries and cream, a Victorian indulgence that has trailed the tournament since its very first edition in 1877.

As a record-breaking June heatwave bakes western Europe, economists are tallying a bill that goes far beyond air-conditioning — lost work, wilted crops, buckling rails and strained health systems that fall hardest on the workers least able to escape the sun.

The NCAA's Division I Cabinet has unanimously approved a sweeping overhaul of college sports eligibility, replacing the decades-old 'five-to-play-four' system with a model that gives athletes five years of competition tied to their age and enrollment — a change framed as a response to a wave of lawsuits over the old rules.

Each July, the phrase 'dog days' returns along with the heat. Its origins trace back thousands of years to Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky — but the astronomy and the meteorology tell very different stories.

The NHL is exploring expansion into Texas, with Austin and Houston identified as the cities under consideration, according to multiple reports tied to the league's Board of Governors meeting in New York. The reporting stresses the talks remain at an early, exploratory stage.

Campaigners opposed to London Gatwick's second runway said they were considering an appeal after the High Court on Tuesday rejected their legal challenge to the UK government's approval of the project, ruling the decision lawful.

When Formula E opens its 2026/27 season in Jeddah this December, it will do so with a new car its organizers call the most powerful in the series' history — a 600-kilowatt machine with all-wheel drive that narrows, on paper, the long gap to Formula 1.

FIFA's expanded 48-team tournament keeps the four-team groups and simultaneous final kickoffs designed to stop collusion. But the new round of 32 and the chase for eight 'best third-placed' spots have revived an old question about fairness on the last matchday.

Meta has suspended an internal program that monitored its own employees' keystrokes, mouse movements and screen activity to train artificial intelligence, after a security flaw left the collected data accessible to staff across the company.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored inside five minutes against Uzbekistan in Houston on Tuesday to give Portugal a 1-0 win, becoming the first man to score at six different World Cups at the age of 41.

Super PACs tied to the artificial intelligence industry and to its critics have spent a combined total reported at around $27 million on a Democratic congressional primary in Manhattan, turning a race featuring AI-safety legislator Alex Bores into a national test of the sector's political muscle.

Artist Helen Cammock has withdrawn a video installation from London's National Portrait Gallery after a clash over how it depicted Winston Churchill's role in the 1943 Bengal famine — an episode that has reignited a long-running and contested historical debate.

As another heatwave grips much of Europe, meteorologists are again invoking the phrase 'heat dome.' Here is what the term means, how high-pressure ridges trap and intensify heat, and what climate science can — and cannot — say about whether these events are growing more severe.

The Edmonton Oilers named Mike Babcock their head coach on Tuesday, days after the NHL concluded an investigation into his abrupt 2023 departure from Columbus and found no basis to restrict his employment, clearing the way for the veteran coach's return to the bench.

Lincoln Center Theater will stage Broadway revivals of Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama 'A Few Good Men' and the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical 'The Sound of Music' as part of its 2026-2027 season, with both productions slated for its Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Valve has confirmed it is collaborating with Nvidia, and broadening Intel coverage, to run its Linux-based SteamOS on graphics hardware beyond the AMD chips inside the Steam Deck — though full Nvidia support remains a longer-term effort that may not land in 2026.

A stagnant 'heat dome' has pushed temperatures past 42C across Iberia and France around the summer solstice, prompting red 'danger to life' alerts, shuttered schools and a continent-wide mix of official cooling centres and centuries-old domestic tricks.

The fighting between the United States, Israel and Iran has ended, but the disruption it caused to fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz is still rippling outward — raising input costs for smallholder farmers in Africa and South Asia and stoking warnings of weaker harvests and higher food prices.

On 23 June 1868, a Wisconsin printer named Christopher Latham Sholes and two collaborators won a US patent for an early typewriter. The strange six-letter sequence at the top-left of that machine's keyboard is still under your fingers today — and the popular story of how it got there is largely wrong.

A decade on from the 23 June 2016 referendum, Britain marks the anniversary amid fresh political upheaval. newsparlor weighs what was decided, what followed, and how Leave and Remain assess the outcome.

Lionel Messi became the all-time leading scorer in men's World Cup history on Monday, scoring twice as defending champion Argentina beat Austria 2-0 in Arlington, Texas, to reach the 2026 knockout rounds.

After a 3-2 win over Senegal sealed a place in the round of 32, Erling Haaland and his Norway teammates dropped to the turf and joined their fans in the 'Viking Row' — the latest crowd ritual to go viral at the 2026 World Cup.

Creative Artists Agency, long synonymous with movie stars and athletes, is moving aggressively to represent YouTube and digital creators — signing high-follower talent, recruiting specialist agents and launching a $250 million vehicle to invest in creator-led businesses, part of a broader scramble among Hollywood's leading agencies.

Before Brexit, the seasonal hands that gathered Britain's strawberries belonged almost entirely to workers from the European Union. Today they increasingly come from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan — a quiet rewiring of the rural labour map driven by the UK's post-Brexit Seasonal Worker visa scheme.

Federal investigators are examining a crash in which a Tesla Model 3 left a suburban Houston road and struck a home, killing a 76-year-old woman. The driver said the car was using Autopilot; Tesla says its data show he pressed the accelerator to full.

A group of ten Australians, including First Nations leaders, a firefighter and disability advocates, has filed a complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee arguing that the federal government's continued backing of coal and gas exports violates their rights to life, family and culture.

Long before a ball is kicked, FIFA decides exactly which jersey, shorts and socks every nation will wear at the 2026 World Cup — a colour-by-colour exercise designed to keep teams distinct for referees, broadcasters and fans, including those with colour blindness.

A wave of startups is selling wearable sweat sensors that promise a personal hydration score in real time. Independent scientists say the technology is improving fast — but warn the evidence still lags behind the marketing.

China added 10 American firms — including rare-earth miner MP Materials and magnet maker USA Rare Earth — to its export-control list on Monday, barring shipments of Chinese-origin dual-use goods to them and underscoring Beijing's leverage over a supply chain Washington has scrambled to rebuild.

Britain's Competition Appeal Tribunal has cleared a roughly £3bn collective claim against Apple over its iCloud storage service to proceed, potentially entitling tens of millions of UK iPhone and iPad users to compensation. Apple says the case is without merit and intends to appeal.

When ransomware tore through the software linking more than 100 Romanian hospitals in early 2024, staff kept patients safe with a strikingly low-tech response: they unplugged from the internet and reached for pen and paper. Recent and backups, officials say, did the rest.

Keir Starmer's resignation as prime minister has thrown the future of his chancellor, Rachel Reeves, into question, with commentators already weighing who could run the Treasury under his likely successor. Any change is speculative: a new prime minister is free to keep Reeves, and no appointment can be made until Labour chooses a new leader.

Sir Keir Starmer announced on Sunday that he is resigning as British prime minister and Labour leader, bowing to a revolt within his own party after heavy election losses. He will stay on until Labour chooses a successor, with former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham an early frontrunner.

The Milwaukee Bucks have agreed to trade two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Miami Heat in one of the highest-profile deals in recent NBA history, according to multiple reports, though salary-cap rules mean the swap cannot be formally completed until early July.

Scientists working in a far-north Queensland rainforest have described a tiny spider that engineers a spring-loaded silk snare, triggered by its prey, to launch aggressive green tree ants into a waiting net — a feat researchers say ranks among the most powerful biological catapults known.

Clive Davis, the record executive whose ear for talent helped launch the careers of Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Alicia Keys across six decades, has died at his home in New York at the age of 94, his family said.

Britain's competition regulator has fined ticket resale platform StubHub UK and ordered it to refund more than 51,000 customers who were charged fees not shown upfront, in one of the first major enforcement actions under new rules banning so-called drip pricing.

A CPU-only machine called LineShine, installed in Shenzhen, debuted at No. 1 on the June 2026 TOP500 ranking at 2.198 exaflops, ending the run of the US nuclear-weapons system El Capitan and marking China's first top placement since 2017.

Iran said it had taken on no new obligations to open its war-damaged nuclear sites to international inspectors, directly contradicting US Vice President JD Vance, who said a day earlier that Tehran had agreed to invite IAEA monitors back into the country.