The speech argues that ancient Greece gave the West far more than democracy, philosophy and political institutions: it bequeathed a distinctive ideal of human excellence, intellectual curiosity, courage, competition and national loyalty.
India’s space programme is entering a new phase, but a difficult question is emerging alongside its ambitions: can the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) be expected to concentrate on the country’s most
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US President Donald Trump has announced an unprecedented move to secure majority control, through private companies, over more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves, saying the arrangement will more
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The United States is confronting a munitions shortage that could take years to reverse, raising questions about how long Washington can sustain its expanding military commitments while remaining prepared for a potential
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Editorial King Harald V of Norway died today, 28 August 2026, aged 89, ending one of the most unusual royal lives of the modern era. He spent more than three decades on
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The war that resumed in Sudan in April 2023 has created the largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world, forcing more than 11 million people from their homes by June 2026.
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The United States has removed Syria from its designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, granting the post-Assad government of Ahmed al-Sharaa another major vote of confidence as Washington seeks to consolidate
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Editorial Ratko Mladić is dead at 84, having spent the final years of his life behind the walls of a United Nations detention facility in The Hague. His death closes the biological
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Migrant smuggling to Europe remains a lucrative illicit industry even as overall irregular migration has declined, exposing a persistent security challenge for European governments and a humanitarian danger for those attempting to
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A flash flood in Nepal’s Bhotekoshi River has left dozens confirmed dead and hundreds unaccounted for, sweeping through settlements, markets and critical infrastructure in Rasuwa and neighbouring districts and leaving rescue teams
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The political fight over Islam in Spain is no longer confined to mosques, immigration or religious clothing. It has reached school canteens, border debates and the language of “national priority”, as political
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On New Year’s Eve 1989, as the Berlin Wall had fallen and reunification was becoming imaginable, photographer Maurice Weiß of the Ostkreuz agency captured a moment of extraordinary optimism at the Brandenburg
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What if the greatest political danger of artificial intelligence is not that machines become more powerful than humans, but that humans become increasingly unwilling to share the wealth those machines create? That
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Forty-five years ago, Mel Brooks imagined a comic future in which ultra-Orthodox Jewish astronauts protected the Jewish people from gentiles. At the end of his 1981 film History of the World, Part
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Editorial Washington has moved from threatening an “Economic D-Day” against Iran to putting it into operation. On Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced “Operation Economic Outcast”, an expanded sanctions campaign intended
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The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in February of this year. For six months, US missiles and bombs have fallen upon civilian and military targets inside
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