Donald Trump faces a potentially damaging electoral defeat as Americans prepare to vote in midterm elections, with economic dissatisfaction, allegations of corruption and growing opposition to his foreign policy threatening Republican control
Tata Steel has warned it may be forced to mothball steel mills across the United Kingdom, putting more than 3,000 jobs at risk, as the country becomes what executives describe as a
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The name of the Dalai Lama has appeared 168 times in newly released court files related to Jeffrey Epstein, triggering renewed international scrutiny of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s past associations, according to
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From the moment a visitor stands at the foot of Sigiriya and looks up at its mist-veiled summit, a strange quiet seems to press down on the landscape. The sheer granite monolith,
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by Durga Yi-Ling Liu’s The Wall Dancers begins not with theory or metaphor but with a body learning fear. “When I was a child in Beijing, I learned early how to stay
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Pavan K. Varma’s The Lady Who Carried the Monk Across the River presents itself as a parable “for ordinary people,” but that description is almost aggressively misleading. This is not a gentle
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Algeria has begun formal procedures to cancel its air services agreement with the United Arab Emirates, a move that signals a further deterioration in relations between the two countries. The agreement, signed
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Anthropic is spending millions of dollars on commercials during Sunday night’s National Football League championship game to take a public swipe at rival OpenAI, escalating one of the most visible clashes yet
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In the Sardinian city of Nuoro, a high stone wall still surrounds a prison once infamous for housing Italy’s most dangerous mobsters and convicted terrorists, exiled far from the mainland. For years,
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Iran will strike U.S. military bases across the Middle East if it comes under attack by American forces, its foreign minister has warned, as tensions escalate amid a growing U.S. military presence
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On a warm morning outside a Los Angeles courthouse, silence carried more weight than slogans. Thirteen parents stood shoulder to shoulder on the stone steps, each holding a framed photograph of a
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Half a century has passed since Concorde lifted off with paying passengers for the first time, yet the anniversary feels less like a celebration and more like a quiet admission of loss.
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The internet has always been powered by a simple, humbling impulse: the need to ask a question we are slightly embarrassed not to know the answer to. Long before algorithms curated feeds
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When Hugo Chávez arrived in London in October 2001, two years into his presidency, the visit was presented as routine diplomacy between allies. Chávez was scheduled to meet prime minister Tony Blair
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When a Russian model emailed Jeffrey Epstein in 2017 to say it had been nice to see him, the exchange initially followed a grimly familiar pattern. Epstein asked her to “send a
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The United States has accused China of secretly carrying out at least one yield-producing nuclear test in recent years, a claim that, if substantiated, would mark a dramatic breach of Beijing’s long-stated
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