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UN Warns El Niño Is ‘Supersizing Before Our Eyes’ as World Faces Extraordinary Weather Threat One of the planet’s most powerful natural climate patterns is rapidly intensifying, with the United Nations warning that El Niño is being “supersized before our eyes” as extraordinarily warm Pacific waters threaten to reshape weather across much of the world. The World Meteorological Organization says the...

Could an Asteroid Destroy Civilisation? The Real Planet-Killer Risk — and the Objects Scientists Are Watching There is a natural disaster capable of dwarfing almost anything humanity has experienced in recorded history. No government could stop its immediate effects, national borders would become irrelevant and, at sufficient scale, the climate itself could change. A large asteroid striking Earth...

What Was There Before the Big Bang? The Leading Scientific Theories Explained Ask what happened before the Big Bang and physics runs into one of its deepest problems. The conventional Big Bang model describes an extraordinarily hot, dense early Universe expanding and cooling roughly 13.8 billion years ago, but it does not by itself tell us whether that state represented the absolute beginning of r...

What Would Actually Prove an Afterlife? For almost all of human history, death has marked the border science could approach but never cross. Religions described souls, heavens, reincarnation and judgment; materialism offered a colder answer in which the brain stops and the person disappears. Modern medicine has complicated both pictures, because death is increasingly understood not as one instanta...

What Would Actually Prove an Afterlife? For almost all of human history, death has marked the border science could approach but never cross. Religions described souls, heavens, reincarnation and judgment; materialism offered a colder answer in which the brain stops and the person disappears. Modern medicine has complicated both pictures, because death is increasingly understood not as one instanta...

The Predictions That Came True, the Ones That Failed and What Comes Next Few scientific subjects have escaped the laboratory and become as politically explosive as global warming. It influences elections, energy prices, taxation, transport, farming, international relations and arguments over how people should live — meaning a debate that began with atmospheric physics now reaches directly into que...

All Options on the Table JD Vance has sent Iran an unmistakable warning: the United States is not closing off military, economic, diplomatic or covert options as the confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz enters another dangerous phase. The vice president has also ruled out negotiations while Tehran continues attacking commercial shipping, leaving Washington and Iran without an obvious diplomatic...

Katy Perry Reveals She Was ‘Crying’ Through Orlando Bloom Breakup as She Opens Up About ‘Hardest Time’Katy Perry has given one of her clearest accounts yet of how badly the end of her long relationship with Orlando Bloom affected her, describing the period surrounding their breakup as possibly the hardest point of an already bruising year. The singer says she was crying, far from her closest frien...

Steve Irwin’s Children Mark Exactly 20 Years Since His Death With Heartbreaking Tributes Exactly 20 years after Steve Irwin was killed in a freak encounter with a stingray, his children have marked the anniversary with deeply personal tributes to the father they lost when they were still young. Bindi and Robert Irwin used the milestone not simply to remember the world-famous Crocodile Hunter, but...

Carla Jeffery’s Family Denies Drugs Were Involved in Disney Star’s Death at 33 as Autopsy Mystery Deepens The family of Disney Channel actress Carla Jeffery has moved publicly to shut down speculation that drugs were involved in her death at just 33. Jeffery died at her California home on September 1, 2026, but an official cause of death has still not been established. Her relatives say she did no...

Mexican Musician, Pregnant Wife and 3-Year-Old Daughter Bound and Shot Dead in Penthouse Massacre Mexican musician Jonathan Meléndez, his pregnant wife, their three-year-old daughter and a 21-year-old woman who worked for the family were killed inside an upscale penthouse outside Mexico City in an attack that has shocked the country. The family dog was also killed, while the couple’s six-year-old...

Trump Orders Work to Begin on Enormous Washington Arch Before Final Approval Donald Trump’s plan to reshape one of Washington’s most symbolic approaches is moving from models and government hearings towards physical construction, with the administration preparing to begin excavation for a gigantic 250-foot triumphal arch within roughly two weeks. The extraordinary part is not simply the scale. Wor...

Maria Bartiromo Abruptly Out at Fox News After 12½ Years as Mystery Swirls Around Sudden Exit Maria Bartiromo is out at Fox News Media in an abrupt break that ends one of the most recognisable careers across Fox News and Fox Business. The company confirmed on September 3 that Bartiromo was no longer with the organisation “effective today”, ending her 12½-year tenure and immediately beginning the p...

Pacific Nations Confront China Over ICBM Test as Nauru Breaks Ranks Pacific leaders have delivered a rare collective warning over China’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile test, demanding greater transparency after the weapon crossed the Pacific region without adequate advance notice. But the attempt to present a united front has exposed a politically important fracture: Nauru refused to s...

Pacific Nations Confront China Over ICBM Test as Nauru Breaks Ranks Pacific leaders have delivered a rare collective warning over China’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile test, demanding greater transparency after the weapon crossed the Pacific region without adequate advance notice. But the attempt to present a united front has exposed a politically important fracture: Nauru refused to s...

Iran Bombards US Military Target in Kuwait With Missiles and Drones as Gulf War Escalates Iran has launched missiles and attack drones towards a military base in Kuwait used by US forces, opening another dangerous front in the expanding confrontation between Tehran and Washington. Kuwait activated its air defences as incoming Iranian weapons approached the country, while Iran said its intended tar...

Iran Bombards US Military Target in Kuwait With Missiles and Drones as Gulf War Escalates Iran has launched missiles and attack drones towards a military base in Kuwait used by US forces, opening another dangerous front in the expanding confrontation between Tehran and Washington. Kuwait activated its air defences as incoming Iranian weapons approached the country, while Iran said its intended tar...

Scientists Find 1,260 DNA Variants Linked to Personality in Huge Genetics Study Scientists have uncovered the strongest genetic map yet of human personality, identifying 1,260 DNA variants associated with the five major personality traits used by psychologists. The vast study analysed genetic and personality data from as many as 1.14 million people and found hundreds of associations that had never...

Einstein’s Gravity Observed Acting on a Quantum Object in Historic First Scientists have directly measured a long-predicted effect of gravity on the quantum state of a freely falling object, pushing one of Albert Einstein’s most important ideas into a realm where the rules of nature become profoundly strange. The experiment showed that the quantum phase accumulated by falling atoms behaves as expe...

Scientists May Have Caught the First Direct Glimpse of Dark Matter Deep Underground Nearly a mile beneath South Dakota, an experiment built to detect some of the most elusive particles in the universe has recorded one collision scientists cannot comfortably explain. The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, known as LZ, found a high-energy nuclear recoil inside its liquid-xenon detector that could have been prod...

Federal Grand Jury Indicts ICE Agent Christian Castro Over Minnesota Shooting Statements An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been taken back into custody after a federal grand jury indicted him over statements connected to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Christian Castro, 52, was re-arrested in Texas after being fe...

Russia Turns Kyiv Into a 24-Hour Battlefield as New Drone Tactics Push Air Defences to the Limit For years, people in Kyiv learned the grim rhythm of Russia's air war. The worst attacks usually came after dark, sirens dragged people from their beds, air defences fought through the night and the city tried to function again the following morning. That rhythm is now breaking down. Russia has shi...

The Tunnel That Still Held Life Two workers have been rescued alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after catastrophic floods tore through the Himalayan region, delivering an extraordinary breakthrough in a disaster where thousands of people remain missing. The rescues at the Upper Trishuli 3A project provide the clearest evidence yet that people cut off deep underground may still be a...

Lindsay Clancy Trial Nears Breaking Point as Defence Targets Lone Juror The Lindsay Clancy murder trial has entered its most volatile stage yet after her defence tried to have a juror removed amid an extraordinary dispute inside the deadlocked jury. Judge William Sullivan rejected the request on Thursday, September 3, leaving the same 12 people to return on Friday for a seventh day of deliberation...

Argentina Escalates Falklands Dispute as Milei Targets British-Backed Oil Project Javier Milei has dramatically intensified Argentina’s confrontation with Britain over the Falkland Islands, announcing tougher sanctions against companies involved in offshore oil development, additional defence spending and a new naval base in Tierra del Fuego. The Argentine president has also placed the South Atlan...