Deepening opposition among European leaders to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to press ahead with a controversial settlement…
Sara Padovan
The Iran-backed Houthis launched their offensive on Thursday in western Taiz and along Yemen’s western coast, seeking to reach the high ground…
Water tricks, wildfires and flash flood aftermath
Hussein FALEH / AFP
A youth performs on a flyboard in the waters of the Shatt al-Arab River near the Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr Bridge in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on 4 September 2026.
Adnan Beci / AFP
An Albanian army helicopter drops water while fighting a wildfire raging in Levan, near the city of Fier, south of Albania, on 4 September 2026.
AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
Houses damaged by flash floods are seen on the bank of Trishuli river in Dhunge, Nuwakot district, Nepal, on 7 September 2026.
REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
A Palestinian child looks on during the funeral of three-year-old Saadi Ghalia, who was killed by an Israeli tank shell, according to medics, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on 7 September 2026.
HANDOUT / ISAR AEROSPACE / AFP
This handout photo, released on 6 September 2026 by the German Isar Aerospace company, shows the launch of a rocket into orbit from Andøya in Norway on 5 September 2026.
REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori
Horse riders dressed in traditional costumes ride horses during an Al-Miz performance at a Libyan wedding in Benghazi, Libya, on 4 September 2026.
Yt HARYONO / AFP
Pigeons are seen in front of Mount Sinabung as it spews ash and thick smoke, as seen from Karo, North Sumatra province, early on 2 September 2026.
REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
An otter rests on a floating platform along the waterfront near Samut Prakan City Hall, in Samut Prakan province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, on 6 September 2026.
INA FASSBENDER / AFP
Scientists test spacesuits during a press event at the new LUNA lunar simulation facility at the campus of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), near the European Astronaut Centre, , in Cologne-Porz, Germany on 3 September 2026.
REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq
Migrants after boarding an inflatable dinghy before leaving the coast of northern France in an attempt to cross the English Channel to reach Britain, near Calais, France, near Calais, France, on 6 September 2026.
Between the risks of distraction and cyberbullying and the promise of better academic performance, school phone bans are producing mixed results…
The 9/11 attacks of 2001 ushered in a security paradigm centred on identifying and defeating a particular enemy: transnational terrorism. Twenty-five…
On 25 July this year, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi revealed what was in the deep-sea mud samples scooped up off the island of Minami…
Yemen’s Houthi movement has stepped up efforts to gain full control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which would allow it to restrict maritime shipping…
Assala Nasri has not yet taken the stage in Damascus, but her upcoming concert is already testing the boundaries of Syria’s post-Assad cultural order…
There is a fatal flaw in the Trump administration’s recently announced “economic D-Day” against Iran. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared…
For filmmaker Takashi Miike, whose cinema has spent decades challenging conventions, confronting violence and turning genre expectations upside down,…
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