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The Epidemic That Refuses to Slow The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola catastrophe has crossed another grim threshold. The country has now recorded 6,186 confirmed cases and 3,007 deaths, with the epidemic spreading faster than any previous Ebola outbreak during its opening months. That means almost one in every two confirmed patients has died. Congo’s National Institute of Public Health p...

America’s Fiscal Reckoning America has crossed another staggering financial threshold. The United States' gross national debt has passed $40 trillion for the first time, even as President Donald Trump has spent years promising to rein in wasteful government spending and restore fiscal discipline to Washington. The milestone was crossed on August 19, 2026, according to US Treasury data. The num...

Trump Has Already Taken Steps to Speed Entry Donald Trump is bringing some of America’s biggest travel executives into the White House as the United States tries to turn a spectacular summer of World Cup tourism into something much harder: a sustained recovery in international visitors. The President was scheduled to meet US travel executives in the Oval Office on Wednesday, September 2, with repr...

What Really Happened At Second Street? A narrow house on Second Street sits close to the pavement in Fall River, Massachusetts. Inside, doors divide rooms from corridors, staircases separate parts of the building, and the family has developed a habit of keeping entrances locked. It is a house in which movement matters: who can enter, who can leave, and who can move from one floor to another withou...

The Car Sadiq Khan Says He Never Owned For a politician whose approach to motorists has generated years of fury, protests and legal battles, the optics could hardly be stranger. London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been convicted and ordered to pay £340.84 after an untaxed 24-year-old Nissan Micra was recorded against his name. There is, however, a rather important problem with the story: Khan says the car...

A World Beyond Drivers Uber is cutting roughly 3,300 jobs in its biggest workforce reduction since the pandemic, stripping out management layers, consolidating teams and shrinking an organisation that executives say became too complicated as the company expanded. The cuts amount to roughly 10% of its workforce and come as Uber pours resources into one of the biggest technological disruptions its b...

A Government Nobody Trusts America has stumbled into a form of political agreement almost unheard of in its current age of polarisation. A record 89% of US adults now say corruption is widespread throughout government, the highest figure recorded in the 20-year history of the measure and a remarkable 10-point increase in just one year. This does not mean 89% of Americans believe every politician i...

The New Industrial Scam Economy Americans reported losing a record $15.9 billion to fraud in 2025 , around 25% more than a year earlier. Yet even that extraordinary number may capture only a fraction of what is actually being stolen. The Federal Trade Commission has estimated that when unreported cases are included, the overall cost of fraud to American consumers in 2024 could have reached $195.9...

The Night the US-Iran War Exploded Back Into Life The United States and Iran have shattered weeks of relative restraint with their biggest exchange of fire since July, raising the prospect that the war is moving back towards sustained regional combat. American forces struck Iranian military infrastructure along the country's southern coast before Tehran retaliated with missiles and drones aime...

1066 Returns to Britain French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Britain for a visit carrying one of the most extraordinary symbols imaginable of the shared — and frequently violent — history between Britain and France. At the centre of the occasion is the Bayeux Tapestry, the nearly 1,000-year-old account of the Norman Conquest that has returned to England for the first time since it was m...

The Midterm Clock Is Now Hanging Over Trump’s Iran War Donald Trump’s war with Iran has acquired another deadline, and this one has nothing to do with Tehran’s nuclear programme or the Strait of Hormuz. It is November 3: the US midterm elections, when Republicans must defend narrow congressional majorities while the president battles weak approval ratings, voter anger over living costs and deep op...

Were sacrifices made specifically to the Sun? One of Succession’s coldest scenes begins not with a corporate threat but with ancient history. Logan Roy tells Kendall that during terrible crises the Inca would sacrifice a child, before recalling Marcia’s question: “What could you possibly kill that you love so much… it would make the sun rise again?” It is a devastating metaphor because Logan is pr...

Who Shot Tupac? On the night of 7 September 1996 , Las Vegas is packed for one of boxing’s biggest events. Mike Tyson is fighting Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Among the celebrities sitting ringside is twenty-five-year-old Tupac Shakur, already one of the biggest rappers in America. The fight itself barely lasts. Tyson wins in the first round. Within minutes, the crowd begins spillin...

The Day Apple Changed Hands For the first time in 15 years, Apple has a new chief executive. John Ternus formally takes over as CEO on 1 September 2026, ending Tim Cook's extraordinary run at the top of one of the most valuable companies ever created and beginning only Apple's second CEO transition since Steve Jobs stepped aside in 2011. This is not a rescue mission. Ternus inherits annual...

Starmer Walks Away: Labour Faces Fight to Keep His London Seat Sir Keir Starmer is walking away from Parliament, bringing his 11-year career as MP for Holborn and St Pancras to an abrupt end and forcing Labour into an awkward by-election in the former prime minister’s own backyard. The resignation comes only weeks after Starmer left Downing Street — and after he had previously indicated that he in...

Why the EU Just Put ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox in Its Highest-Risk Digital Tier The European Union has brought ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox into the toughest tier of its Digital Services Act, dramatically increasing the regulatory scrutiny facing three of the internet’s fastest-growing services. ChatGPT has been designated a Very Large Online Search Engine, while Reddit and Roblox have been classifi...

Keffe D Found Guilty of Tupac Shakur’s Murder For almost 30 years, Tupac Shakur’s murder lived somewhere between a criminal investigation and an American myth. There were suspects, rivalries, confessions, denials, documentaries, books and theories, but nobody had ever been convicted. That changed in Las Vegas. A jury has found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of first-degree murder for his role in the...

1,000 Years of Power, Unions, War and Survival Norway has just entered a new royal age. King Harald V died on 28 August 2026 after more than 35 years on the throne, and his son immediately succeeded him as King Haakon VIII. Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra, just 22, is now the heir to a monarchy whose origins stretch back more than a thousand years. Yet the remarkable thing about the Norwegian mona...

Which Country Wins on Money, Work and Happiness? Norway and the United Kingdom are both wealthy European countries with universal healthcare, developed welfare states, high wages and some of the strongest institutions in the world. Yet the experience of actually living and working in them can feel remarkably different. For someone choosing between the two in 2026, the decision comes down to a fund...

Are Norway’s Controversial New Royals Still Popular? Norway has entered a new royal era. Following the death of King Harald V on 28 August 2026, his son immediately succeeded him as King Haakon VIII , while Haakon’s wife became Queen Mette-Marit . The transition places one of Europe’s most respected royal heirs on the throne — but it also elevates one of its most controversial future queens at per...

How The Victors Turned The Norman Conquest Into A Story Nearly a thousand years after the Norman Conquest, one of the most famous surviving objects from medieval Europe is about to return to the country whose defeat it records. From September 2026 until July 2027, the Bayeux Tapestry is due to be displayed at the British Museum, the first time it has been exhibited in Britain since its creation al...

How The System Separated Mothers And Babies For decades, one of the most consequential moments in a young woman's life could begin with a simple social fact: she was pregnant, and she was not married. In post-war Britain, that could be enough to change where she lived, how her family treated her, what help she received and, ultimately, whether she was permitted any realistic chance of raising...

The Lighthouse Evidence Examined On a December afternoon in nineteen hundred, three men are working inside one of the most isolated lighthouses in Britain. Around them is the Atlantic Ocean. Their station stands on Eilean Mòr, the largest of the remote Flannan Isles west of Lewis, a place where there is no village, no harbour in the ordinary sense and, at the time, no radio connection with the mai...

Why The Arctic Could Become The Next Great-Power Battleground For most of modern history, the Arctic protected itself. Extreme cold, months of darkness, thick sea ice and enormous distances made the top of the world one of the hardest places on Earth to operate. Now that barrier is weakening at exactly the moment relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated and China is seeking influenc...

The First Western Pop Group To Break Into Communist China In April 1985, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley stepped into a country where their brand of brightly coloured, unapologetically Western pop culture had barely existed in public. Wham! were already international stars, but China was something else entirely: a vast Communist state only beginning to reopen itself to the outside world after d...