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Culture15 Jul 26
Twenty-five injured in Pamplona as the bulls come home

Culture15 Jul 26
Piss Christ at 40: what the 1989 culture war still gets wrong

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Coordinated Strikes Reported Near Sirik and Inside Kuwait on Thursday Morning

Opinion15 Jul 26
Ukraine's Patriot pitch: why Zelenskyy's missile gambit matters beyond the front line

Opinion15 Jul 26
Blockade, badges, and bromides: reading the new US-Iran escalation

Opinion15 Jul 26
Kyiv's Patriot line, and the Middle East deal Zelensky won't name

Science15 Jul 26
Bacteria that herd, amphibians that switch menus: how two Queen Mary studies reframe life under pressure

Culture15 Jul 26
Actress returns with 'Radical Frame,' his first solo LP in two years

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Explosions reported across Ahvaz and Chabahar as unverified strikes reshape Iran's night
Investigations15 Jul 26
Reports of a strike on Ahvaz Children's Hospital: what three wires actually say
Opinion15 Jul 26
Striking a hospital: what the Ahvaz strike says about the rules the US is now operating under
Investigations15 Jul 26
Strikes Near an Iranian Cancer Hospital: What the First Hours of Reporting Show
Opinion15 Jul 26
Satellite damage at Al Udeid forces a rethink of Gulf base immunity

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Argentina's 86th-minute equaliser denies England in friendly, as Prince William offers consolation

Investigations15 Jul 26
Strikes from Kuwait: what the ATACMS footage does and does not tell us

Culture15 Jul 26
Paramount bets that a one-week theatrical window can rescue a streaming-first franchise launch
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Explosions and Patriot interceptions reported over Manama as Bahrain comes under fresh attack
Opinion15 Jul 26
Bampur and the barracks: what the Iranian Army strike does and does not tell us

Sport15 Jul 26
Barcelona's €100m Alvarez play tests Arsenal's resolve before the World Cup

Culture15 Jul 26
The $5.6 million settlement and the cultural-prescription study: two American stories that don't quite line up

Tech15 Jul 26
CENTCOM opens a daylight round against Iran, with Greater Tunb back in the frame
Investigations15 Jul 26
CENTCOM's overnight barrage on Iran: what 10 p.m. ET, 14 July actually changed

Tech15 Jul 26
Seven hours over Iran: the strike that closed one door and opened another
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
CENTCOM opens a second night of strikes on Iran, while Tehran's media frames the command as a terrorist outfit

Culture15 Jul 26
Dead Meat bets on a theatrical pipeline, and the indie horror circuit is paying attention
Investigations15 Jul 26
Alleged Iranian drone intercepted over Erbil as Kurdish force reports blast

Opinion15 Jul 26
Strikes, screenshots, silence: what the Gulf overnight actually tells us
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Three strikes in three hours: what Hormozgan reported on 15 July 2026
Opinion15 Jul 26
Hormuz on a hair trigger: what Bandar Abbas tells us about the next round
Investigations15 Jul 26
Hormuz on a hair trigger: Trump threat, Iranian counter-threat, and the chokepoint holding roughly a fifth of global oil
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Hormuz shut: IRGC warning shots leave 6,000 sailors stranded as the world's oil chokepoint goes dark
Opinion15 Jul 26
Hormuz is becoming a toll booth, and the bill is starting to come due
Opinion15 Jul 26
Hormuz tolls, walk-backs, and strikes: what the White House actually sold this week

Opinion15 Jul 26
The vote wasn't the story, the 100 Democrats who broke ranks were
Opinion15 Jul 26
Tehran's al-Udeid claim lands on a press corps that already drew its lines
Investigations15 Jul 26
Tehran's Azraq claim: Iranian Army says it struck US-linked base in Jordan as ceasefire rhetoric collapses
Opinion15 Jul 26
A 13-missile strike on an Iranian barracks, and the war of words it kicks off
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Iran says 7 killed in US strike on Bampur barracks, vows retaliation
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Tehran sends a delegation to Doha: what an Iranian-Qatari track would actually move
Investigations15 Jul 26
Iran releases detained US citizen, claims strikes on American targets in Kuwait, and watches Washington absorb both
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Tehran signals escalation as Foreign Ministry declares US in breach of understanding

Tech15 Jul 26
Iran's Strait of Hormuz toll bet hits Polymarket just as CENTCOM widens the southern strike campaign
Investigations15 Jul 26
Tehran puts Pars 2 and Rad 1 back on the launch list and opens its imagery to the public
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Iranian state media reports US strikes near Hormuz Strait port town of Sirik

Science15 Jul 26
Iran strike fatality and a five-year sentence: two same-day signals from the Israel-Iran front
Investigations15 Jul 26
Tehran's SIGINT gap and Trump's blockade: the next week in the Iran file
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Iran warns of infrastructure strikes as rhetoric over US Persian Gulf posture sharpens
Investigations15 Jul 26
Strikes, signals, and a SS7-shaped hole: what the Iran-US escalation actually exposed
Opinion15 Jul 26
Tehran, Washington, and the sanctions that follow the call
Opinion15 Jul 26
An Iranian missile, a Haifa death, and the framing war that follows
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Washington doubles down on Iraq disarmament deadline as grantmaking overhaul draws fire at home
Opinion15 Jul 26
Iran's IRGC claims a fifth wave against the US Fifth Fleet, but the evidence has not arrived

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Strikes in South Lebanon Test the Framework Holding the Israel–Hezbollah Calm Together
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Israel assesses US gearing for renewed Iran war as Hormuz standoff drags
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Inside the Israeli soldier's five-year sentence for handing Iran wartime footage
Opinion15 Jul 26
Kerman blasts, Chabahar footage, and the geometry of an unverified war
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Kuwait and Bahrain report sirens and explosions as Iran-linked strikes hit Gulf targets
Investigations15 Jul 26
Kuwaiti air defenses engage drone wave as Tehran is blamed for the attack

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Kyiv hammered by overnight ballistic barrage as Russia shifts tempo of strikes

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Kyiv warns against losing Washington, Tehran's negotiator calls the confrontation existential
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Maharashtra's farm-debt write-off sets a fiscal template other states will be pressed to follow
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Missiles impact Bahrain after two interceptors fail, regional channels report
Opinion15 Jul 26
Qalibaf's two-track doctrine: Tehran's parliament speaker reframes war and diplomacy as a single instrument

Sport15 Jul 26
Scaloni wants the Falklands out of the dressing room
Opinion15 Jul 26
Sirens in Kuwait, then Bahrain: a thin wire and a thick question
Opinion15 Jul 26
The Strait Closes, the Spigot Runs Dry: How a 21-Mile Channel Is Reshaping the Oil Math
Opinion15 Jul 26
The Strait of Hormuz asks who pays for the waterways the world depends on
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Strait shut, bombers in the air: a 24-hour map of the US-Iran escalation

Culture15 Jul 26
Damascus opens the IAEA door, and the diplomatic room behind it
Opinion15 Jul 26
The Strait Is the Story

Opinion15 Jul 26
Toronto's orange sky is a fire warning dressed up as a photo op

Business15 Jul 26
Treasury freezes $130m in crypto tied to Iran's central bank as sanctions escalate
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Trump's 47-year taunt and the diplomacy that didn't happen
Opinion15 Jul 26
Three posts, one evening, and the shape of Washington's Iran posture
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Trump floats Iran deal while disclosing 52,000-dead shock from Epic Fury
Opinion15 Jul 26
Trump escalates the pressure on Tehran: strikes on the table, Hormuz in the crosshairs
Investigations15 Jul 26
Trump threatens Iranian power plants by next week as strikes escalate into open-ended campaign
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Strikes, metaphors, and a meeting: Trump’s Iran war drifts toward escalation
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Trump tells Putin to stop, claims Russia deal "in the near future"
Investigations15 Jul 26
US air-defence systems in Bahrain 'failed to intercept' Iranian strikes, Iranian and Iraqi outlets claim
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Naval alert, crypto freeze, hostile label: a single day of trilateral signalling between Washington, Moscow, and Tehran
Investigations15 Jul 26
Blockade precedent: US Senate halts DoD funding bill as Trump threatens Iranian bridges and power plants
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Strike near Ahvaz cancer hospital forces evacuation of 211 patients, Press TV says
Investigations15 Jul 26
US strike on Iranian barracks in Bampur leaves seven soldiers dead, Tehran-aligned outlets report
Investigations15 Jul 26
US strikes hit vicinity of Ahvaz children's cancer hospital, prompting evacuation
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
US strikes near Ahvaz hospital deepen uncertainty over Iran campaign
Investigations15 Jul 26
US strikes hit IRGC base in Ahvaz as sirens sound across Bahrain
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
US strikes hit Chabahar and Konarak in opening salvo against Iran
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
US strikes Iran, expands UAE AI access in parallel moves that redraw Gulf bargain

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
US strikes hit Sirik as Iran insists surrender is off the table
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Vance on Rogan's couch: the Vice President opens up on AI wealth, Iran, and the Epstein file

Culture15 Jul 26
A strike, a name, a question: who killed the chief engineer of Zaporizhzhia NPP?
Europe15 Jul 26
SAS inquiry hears troops dropped prisoners from a forklift 'for fun'

Sport15 Jul 26
England's Atlanta exit leaves Kane facing the question every captain dreads

Science15 Jul 26
China's Quiet Science Stack: From Itch Sensors to Tritium Coatings, a Week in Three Lab Notes

Crypto15 Jul 26
Binance says it has clawed back $8 billion in mistaken transfers; the second-order question is who eats the next one

Crypto15 Jul 26
Soft CPI, Hot ETFs, and a UK Tax Nudge: Crypto's Quiet Re-Pricing Week
Science15 Jul 26
A turquoise Black Sea and a Soyuz on the pad: two glimpses of Earth viewed from low orbit

Sport15 Jul 26
Heading the ball killed Nobby Stiles. The coroner's ruling lands harder than any tackle he ever made.

Opinion15 Jul 26
A number in Gaza, and the question of who is allowed to count

Science15 Jul 26
Caves of the Fem: a 30-day dig rewrites what we know about Europe's last hunter-gatherers
Science15 Jul 26
The retail investor now trades in milliseconds. The data telling us what that does to returns is finally arriving.
Science15 Jul 26
GRS 0917+75 is a giant radio galaxy, observations confirm
Science15 Jul 26
What drives the remarkable eyes of deep-sea hyperiid amphipods
Science15 Jul 26
The retina speaks twice: a Yale finding upends how vision is modelled
Science15 Jul 26
Two decades of warming soils, and one typhoon, redraw the carbon ledger
Science15 Jul 26
A stellar census gives the standard universe a quiet win
Science15 Jul 26
Strikes reported on Dehloran as Iranian outlets carry Washington's claim with no on-the-ground detail

Business15 Jul 26
Gas tanker blast near Hermel army post, Israeli strike on Deir Saryan: a single afternoon of cross-border pressure on…
Business15 Jul 26
Hong Kong's Tokenised Fund, IBM's 25% Slump, and the Quiet Rewiring of Cross-Border Money

Opinion15 Jul 26
Unverified drone reports out of Kuwait: how a Telegram cascade becomes a Gulf crisis headline
Business15 Jul 26
Pump.fun's 57-Billion-Token Unlock Lands While Insiders Head for the Exit
Business15 Jul 26
A dollar coin, a data-centre jobs pitch, and a $132bn bid: Washington is selling the same asset three ways
Business15 Jul 26
Ukraine's unmanned forces say they hit 20 Russian vessels in the Black Sea in a single update

Investigations15 Jul 26
IDF says it killed a Hamas captor of the October 7 abductees. The sourcing chain is a Telegram channel.
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Israel deploys white phosphorus munitions in south Lebanon, monitoring groups say
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Lebanon and Israel close a Rome round, with the harder questions still on the table

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
A freight train in flames, a province burning: what the Armstrong footage tells us about Ontario's fire season

Sport15 Jul 26
Formula One courts a wider audience, but the calendar keeps asking who pays
Sport15 Jul 26
F1's female-fandom surge lands on a male-coded sport at Silverstone weekend
Sport15 Jul 26
Atlanta's pivot: the Hawks roll out their 2026 rookie class

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Israel pounds south Lebanon as Houla and Deir Siryan absorb artillery and demolition blasts
Sport15 Jul 26
Inside the £5.5m counterfeit shirt haul and the World Cup supply chain behind it
Long Reads15 Jul 26
The 58% That Moved Twice

Europe15 Jul 26
SAS inquiry hears soldiers dropped detainees from forklift 'for fun' as war crimes investigation grinds on

Science15 Jul 26
A cleaner stack, a quieter lab: the 2D-heterostructure advance that could reshape quantum hardware

Science15 Jul 26
Farming for two harvests: Brussels study finds biodiversity and yields can move together on European cropland

Science15 Jul 26
Why some toad populations outlast a fungal apocalypse: a London-led study points to skin microbes

Culture15 Jul 26
Orwell, but with a happy ending: the new Animal Farm that strips the bite

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Anthropic tilts toward public markets as prediction markets price a Morgan Stanley-led IPO

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Anwar's deportation pledge signals a sharper edge in Malaysia's Israel posture

Culture15 Jul 26
Avni Doshi's second novel turns the mother-daughter story inside out
Investigations15 Jul 26
Satellite imagery shows damage at US Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain; scope and cause unverified
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Satellite imagery shows drone strike on US Fifth Fleet facility in Bahrain

Sport15 Jul 26
Folarin Balogun's waived World Cup ban lands in the IOC's inbox

Sport15 Jul 26
BBC's daily World Cup guessing game is the small football habit that keeps the audience hooked
Science15 Jul 26
Berlin lab shows evanescent-field atom traps can extend quantum memory
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Biden bets the memoir can settle his own history
Science15 Jul 26
Brain, heart, gum: a week of research that quietly redraws where disease and decision begin
Science15 Jul 26
A thinner skin on the moon: Brown University team maps regolith depth for future landing sites

Tech15 Jul 26
Buffett's Google mea culpa lands inside a louder debate about who owns the mistake
Culture15 Jul 26
California's film permit fight: the symptoms, not the cause
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
CENTCOM opens fourth round of strikes on Iranian military targets, citing shipping threat
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
CENTCOM opens fourth wave of strikes on Iran, targeting military and commercial-shipping infrastructure
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
A fourth wave: US Central Command opens new round of strikes on Iran

Tech15 Jul 26
CENTCOM opens new strike wave on Iran after overnight barrage
Science15 Jul 26
The chili-cancer signal, and a new map of the retina: two science stories worth reading past the headline

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
China calls on Washington to end Cuba blockade in latest Beijing–Havana alignment
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
China's 4.3% second-quarter print lays bare the trade-off Beijing won't name
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
China's slowest growth in three years lands the same week its robots do backflips
Science15 Jul 26
Three science notes, one quiet shift in how knowledge is built

Culture15 Jul 26
'The world wasn't ready': Del LaGrace Volcano on a lifetime of photographing bodies the cameras refused to see
Opinion15 Jul 26
A funeral in Doha, a sanctions file in the background
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Explosions heard in Erbil as drone reports surface across Iraqi Kurdistan
Science15 Jul 26
Europe's two climate counts: wetlands lost faster than its people
Opinion15 Jul 26
The Fed is shrugging. China's carriers are bleeding. Both are telling the same story.
Culture15 Jul 26
A Filipino caddie, a country club, and the class wall the trailer dares to name
Science15 Jul 26
Five small animals are quietly redrawing the map of human disease

Tech15 Jul 26
A drone, a helicopter, and 87 kilometres: what Belgorod footage actually shows

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
France's assisted dying vote: a 291-241 margin that masks a longer fight
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
France’s assisted dying law clears parliament in a 291-241 vote, ending a decade of deadlock

Culture15 Jul 26
FSB 'bio-drone' arrests point to a quieter war of payloads and proxies

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Gaza casualty toll crosses 73,000 as daily deaths continue, Palestinian health ministry says

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Gaza health ministry tallies 1,123 post-ceasefire deaths as cumulative toll climbs past 73,000
Tech15 Jul 26
Twelve detainees cross into Gaza as Israeli fire resumes near Bureij
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Gaza health ministry reports 1,123 killed since ceasefire as cumulative toll climbs past 73,000
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
A leopard, a pet dog, and the doctor who lost both: how a Gujarat village absorbed a single night of grief
Science15 Jul 26
Heat is not a feeling. It is a distribution.

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Hegseth orders annual testosterone checks for troops 30 and up; under-30s can opt in
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
In Himachal, 2.5 lakh investors and a crypto case the state cannot move

Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Two unrelated Hong Kong incidents, one political backdrop: a baby's donor appeal and an airport bomb-scare arrest
Culture15 Jul 26
Hong Sang-soo's Day She Returns drinks the same wine, finds a stranger vintage

Culture15 Jul 26
Zombies, gore and creepy kids: why we cannot stop playing horror games
Science15 Jul 26
Horses read a predator's face long before they read a flood tide. Both instincts are worth studying
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Trump tells ICE agents to halt vehicle pursuits, citing two recent fatalities
Investigations15 Jul 26
Five years for a conscript: how a routine leak cost an IDF soldier his freedom
Investigations15 Jul 26
New Delhi puts $19.8 billion on the table to prise electronics supply chains out of Beijing's grip
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
When the bureaucracy is the fire: Indian insurance disputes and the cost of opaque data
Science15 Jul 26
Two papers, one question: how did life get its chemistry?
Investigations15 Jul 26
Iran's Al Udeid strike: what satellite imagery actually shows
Opinion15 Jul 26
Oil markets, missile intercepts, and an escalation that won't sit still
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Israel greenlights $400m for 34 new West Bank settlements as Ramallah operation continues
Investigations15 Jul 26
Israel's deputy FM resigns over draft-dodger shield as Gaza toll climbs past another daily threshold
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Israel reversed a ban on U.S. refueling tankers at Ben Gurion. The haggling tells a bigger story.
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Israel approves $400m for 34 new West Bank settlements as demolitions and raids continue
Science15 Jul 26
Fertiliser from the loo: a German greenhouse trial puts human excreta back on the field
Science15 Jul 26
The low-hanging-fruit myth in biology, and why 2026 keeps proving it wrong

Culture15 Jul 26
A Russian pianist on a summer podcast, and the silence around it
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Meloni turns on her own side as the Italian electoral law fight exposes a coalition under strain

Culture15 Jul 26
Meshell Ndegeocello's 'Synonym' brings a 30-year collaborator's network into one Blue Note frame

Tech15 Jul 26
Meta Faces Class Action Over Claims AI, Not Managers, Drove Layoffs of Disabled Workers

Culture15 Jul 26
Meta accused of weaponising workplace AI to flag disability and medical leave for layoffs
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Morgan Stanley's $1.2 trillion AI bet, and the IPO it might run
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Mumbai's monsoon vector threat returns as doctors warn dengue and malaria peaks have not arrived

Sport15 Jul 26
Steinbach, Burries, and a Quiet Photoshoot That Betrays the Draft Class of 2026
Geopolitics15 Jul 26
Netanyahu calls Graham's death a great loss for Israel, will travel to Washington
Science15 Jul 26
The ocean remembers: how today's carbon is rewriting deep-time chemistry
Science15 Jul 26
Sub-Saharan Africa's oldest ancient animal DNA pulled from a Kenyan cave

Science15 Jul 26
Empty waters, harder hunts: rethinking the "halo" around the world's seabird cities
Science15 Jul 26