The United States is turning 250. As I write this, sprawled out in a shallow inflatable pool in my yard, a gull-winged WWII-era Corsair has just thundered low over the trees. The rumble of warbirds has been rolling across the sky all day. It stirs a feeling deep inside me, not of sentiment but of…
Defending champions Ahly opened their 2025-26 Egyptian Premier League campaign with a 2-2 draw against Modern Sport on Saturday. Midfielder Ahmed Reda put Ahly ahead five minutes into the second half with a precise header from inside the box. Modern Sport hit back just eight minutes later when Hossam Hassan found the net, before Ali…
DAMASCUS, Syria — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Monday in Syria, making him the first major western leader to visit the war-torn country since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in 2024. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited in April but Macron is the first leader from western Europe or North America to do so. The French…
Today’s wellness industry is worth a staggering $6.8 trillion (as of 2024) and is expected to soar to $9.8 trillion by 2029. And that’s really not a surprise, considering how our collective preferences for health products have shifted towards what we perceive as being ‘more natural.’ With this almost universal shift to ‘natural’ or ‘organic’…
The United States is turning 250. As I write this, sprawled out in a shallow inflatable pool in my yard, a gull-winged WWII-era Corsair has just thundered low over the trees. The rumble of warbirds has been rolling across the sky all day. It stirs a feeling deep inside me, not of sentiment but of…
Defending champions Ahly opened their 2025-26 Egyptian Premier League campaign with a 2-2 draw against Modern Sport on Saturday. Midfielder Ahmed Reda put Ahly ahead five minutes into the second half with a precise header from inside the box. Modern Sport hit back just eight minutes later when Hossam Hassan found the net, before Ali…
DAMASCUS, Syria — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Monday in Syria, making him the first major western leader to visit the war-torn country since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in 2024. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited in April but Macron is the first leader from western Europe or North America to do so. The French…
Today’s wellness industry is worth a staggering $6.8 trillion (as of 2024) and is expected to soar to $9.8 trillion by 2029. And that’s really not a surprise, considering how our collective preferences for health products have shifted towards what we perceive as being ‘more natural.’ With this almost universal shift to ‘natural’ or ‘organic’…
Murat Gassiev now knows his opponent for his upcoming WBA heavyweight title defence on Saturday. Gassiev became WBA Regular heavyweight champion in December with a knockout win over Kubrat Pulev, and after Oleksandr Usyk vacated his unified world heavyweight titles last month, the Russian is now the WBA’s only belt-holder in the banner division. He…
Martin Chandler | 6:07pm BST 05 July 2026 We are halfway through another year already, and still waiting for a number of the books I announced in January to appear, but there are still a good many new titles that I can mention, and which I hope will appear before the end of the year….
BERGAMO, ITALY – JANUARY 25: Ederson of Atalanta looks on during the warm up prior to the Serie A match between Atalanta BC and Parma Calcio 1913 at Gewiss Stadium on January 25, 2026 in Bergamo, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images) Andrea Pirlo has backed Ederson to make a smooth transition to the…
Egyptian archaeologists uncovered on Saturday 4 July a remarkably well-preserved Byzantine-era residential city in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis, offering new insights into daily life in one of the country’s ancient desert settlements. The discovery was announced by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities following excavations by an Egyptian archaeological mission at the Ain El-Sabil archaeological site…
Reporting Highlights Rollback of Protections: The Trump administration has gutted policies that gave immigrant minors access to legal counsel and relief from deportation while they applied to stay in the U.S. Detained and Removed: ProPublica’s analysis found unaccompanied minors are being detained and removed at about three times the rate as during the final years…
President Donald Trump on Monday defended making a phone call to FIFA President Gianni Infantino, which led to the soccer association controversially overturning a one-game World Cup suspension of U.S. Men’s National Team striker Folarin Balogun. “I asked for a review because I didn’t think it was a foul,” Trump said, referring to a referee…
