As the FIFA World Cup 2026 gets underway in the US, Canada, and Mexico amid mounting controversy, aspects of the world’s most popular sport are under…
Gregori Saavedra
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 gets underway in the US, Canada, and Mexico amid mounting controversy, aspects of the world’s most popular sport are under…
It feels like a long time since the Republican People’s Party (CHP) in Türkiye defeated the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the 2024…
A childhood friend of Maradona stands at "El Potrero de D10S" field in Villa Fiorito, outside of Buenos Aires, on 13 June 2026, where the football legend took his first steps playing soccer at his childhood club, Estrella Roja.
A young football fan looks on from outside a hotel where the Iran team is staying ahead of their first match in Tijuana, Mexico, on 14 June 2026.
A displaced woman waits to return to her village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on 15 June 2026.
A Palestinian boy washes himself in a makeshift shelter at Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp on 11 June 2026.
A visitor looks at the latest artwork of French artist JR, "La Caverne du Pont Neuf" ("The Pont Neuf Cave") on the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris on 15 June 2026.
Pope Leo XIV leading a Holy Mass at the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the Canary Island of Tenerife on 12 June 2026.
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, after it was hit during Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 15 June 2026.
Workers of the Panama Canal Authority carry out maintenance work inside the locks' tunnels during a media visit as the Gatun Locks undergo maintenance at the Panama Canal, in Colón, Panama, on 15 June 2026.
Tourists wearing rented traditional Thai costumes pose for photographs at Wat Arun Buddhist temple in Bangkok on 11 June 2026.
Brazil's Diego Lopes and America's Steve Garcia fight in the featherweight bout during the "UFC Freedom 250" mixed martial arts event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on 14 June 2026.
Now that Iran and the United States have reached a memorandum of understanding to end direct hostilities, especially in the contested Strait of…
The fall of the Assad regime created a rare civic opening Syria had not seen in decades. Syrians have crossed an invisible line and begun asking…
The term ‘Axis of Defiance’ was once associated with a number of Arab states opposed to any peace agreement with Israel, particularly after the…
Billions of dollars in frozen assets have emerged as one of the most significant issues in the latest round of US-Iran negotiations, with Tehran…
Rewind almost a century, to the 1930s, and the FIFA World Cup had no need to produce an official song or fashion a unified sonic identity. This was a…
Last August, an Egyptian man in his 50s with Type 1 diabetes went to work as usual, used his glucose meter, and discovered that his blood sugar level…