Profiles

Due to be re-elected for an unprecedented fourth term in March, the president of FIFA has monetised the World Cup and filtered that money down to football associations around the world

Manchester City's goalscoring machine has repeatedly found the net at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with his dad, Alfie, watching from the stands. How did he get to where he is today?

The dominant family in Libya's east tried to take the capital by force in 2019 but were thwarted. Could a son's carefully planned succession soon lead to the same outcome?

The charismatic former Mayor of Manchester is widely regarded as the frontrunner to become the next UK prime minister following Keir Starmer's resignation

The temporary Director of National Intelligence is a partisan appointment by the US president, who seems to want him to dig into the 2020 election

One by one, critics of the Israeli prime minister's security approach in the region are being replaced by yes men

Fidel's brother built Cuba's armed forces and took over the presidency when his more charismatic sibling fell ill two decades ago. A recent US indictment from a 1996 incident now asks new questions.

The Communist Party's general secretary since 2012 may have grown up in a secure compound for the elite, but he forged his values in the fields of rural Shaanxi province

His argument is simple. He wants Europe to defend international law consistently, ensuring it is applied not only in the case of Ukraine but also in Gaza.

Some see his nomination as a bid to buy time until the US-Iran war outcome becomes clearer, which could very well shift political calculations in Iraq