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Farewell to the Rhinestone Queen Who Changed Country Music Forever Dolly Parton, one of the most recognisable, successful and widely loved entertainers of the modern era, has died aged 80. The singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist died peacefully in Nashville on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, bringing an extraordinary seven-decade journey from poverty in the Tennessee mountains t...

Trump Turns on Ontario as Tariff War Erupts Across US-Canada Border Donald Trump has opened an extraordinary new front in his confrontation with Canada, saying the United States is giving “serious consideration” to changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” What might otherwise sound like political theatre has landed in the middle of a rapidly intensifying trade fight between two countri...

74 Restricted AI Servers Reached China Before Taiwan Stopped Another 56 Taiwanese prosecutors have charged nine people in an extraordinary case involving high-end artificial intelligence servers allegedly diverted towards China, including a manager at Nvidia and people linked to server manufacturer Super Micro. The case centres on 130 advanced B300-based servers that prosecutors say were obtained...

Trump Wanted Canada To Fall In Line — Canada Just Did The Opposite Canada has answered Donald Trump’s latest tariff offensive with one of its clearest acts of economic retaliation yet, imposing new duties on C$27.6 billion of American imports and matching Washington dollar for dollar and rate for rate. The measures will take effect on September 8 and cover more than 700 products at tariff rates of...

The Strait Trump Says Iran Can No Longer Mine Donald Trump says the United States Navy has removed or detonated every mine from the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz, declaring one of the most dangerous physical obstacles to Gulf shipping cleared after months of conflict. He coupled the announcement with an unmistakable warning to Iran: any vessel caught laying new mines will be destroy...

Why Has America’s CIA Chief Just Flown Into Moscow? CIA Director John Ratcliffe has reportedly travelled to Moscow for meetings with Russian officials after a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III made an unusual flight into the Russian capital. The journey turns what initially appeared to be a mysterious military-aircraft movement into something considerably more significant: a direct, high-level cha...

‘Miscarriage of Justice’ Claim Crushed by Federal Judge Ghislaine Maxwell has suffered another major legal defeat after a federal judge rejected her attempt to overturn the conviction that put her in prison for 20 years. The latest challenge was significant because Maxwell argued that newly disclosed material connected to the Jeffrey Epstein files exposed serious constitutional problems with her p...

Hundreds Feared Abducted in Nigeria as Tinubu Orders Immediate Rescue Nigeria has ordered an immediate national rescue operation after a mass abduction in Niger State escalated into what could be one of the country’s largest kidnapping incidents in recent years. President Bola Tinubu has directed the military, police, intelligence services and other security agencies to find the captives and bring...

Inside The Calder Road Investigation The Interstate, The Payphone, The Empty Acreage And A Mystery Stretching Across Generations South of Houston, Interstate forty-five runs towards Galveston through a landscape shaped by water, industry and relentless development. Today the journey passes subdivisions, shopping centres, refineries and junctions carrying thousands of vehicles. Decades ago, there w...

A Ceasefire, Donbas Deal And a Deadline: Zelenskyy Reveals Ukraine’s Emerging Endgame Volodymyr Zelenskyy has put a political clock on one of the biggest diplomatic questions of the war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian president believes the strongest opportunity for American-led diplomacy could run from the US-hosted G20 summit in December 2026 until the end of summer 2027, before America’s 2028 preside...

The World’s Oil Map Is Turning Into a War Map The global oil market has crossed an extraordinary threshold. Countries affected by wars and related geopolitical disruption accounted for roughly 45 million barrels a day of oil production based on 2025 output — more than 43% of global supply. What once looked like a series of separate regional crises is increasingly becoming one interconnected threat...

America’s Spy Loophole A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is demanding that the Trump administration close a loophole they say could allow American citizens and companies to provide expertise and technology to foreign intelligence and security agencies, including those belonging to China and Russia. Their warning cuts to an uncomfortable national security problem: Washington has spent years restri...

Could the Iran War Be Nearing an End? Pakistan says it has made “significant progress” in high-level talks with Iran aimed at stopping further escalation, reviving negotiations with the United States and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The announcement is one of the strongest diplomatic signals in weeks that the six-month confrontation could again be moving towards negotiation rather than an expan...

UN Warns World Is Near ‘Moral Red Line’ As Machines Move Closer To Killing Humans Autonomously The world is edging towards a form of warfare in which a machine could identify a human being, decide that person meets its targeting criteria and apply lethal force without a human making the final decision. The United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross have now issued one of their str...

The Pan Am 103 Case Explained The Suitcase, The Flight, And The Investigation Still Moving Nearly Four Decades Later On the evening of December twenty-first, nineteen eighty-eight, Pan American World Airways Flight 103 is preparing to cross the Atlantic. The Boeing 747 has begun its journey in Frankfurt, passengers have connected through London Heathrow, and the aircraft is now heading from London...

Mystery Evidence Halts Historic US Lockerbie Trial at the Eleventh Hour A trial that was supposed to open an unprecedented American courtroom reckoning over the Lockerbie bombing has been stopped just before jury selection after the discovery of new evidence. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, the Libyan man accused by US prosecutors of helping construct the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flig...

From Emperor To Mao In 38 Years Of Chaos China did not become communist in a single uprising, and Mao Zedong did not suddenly seize a stable country in 1949. The revolution that created modern China was the culmination of almost four decades of collapsing imperial authority, failed republican government, foreign invasion, warlord rule, ideological conflict and one of the largest civil wars of the...

The Fall Of Imperial Russia: How Lenin And The Bolsheviks Took Power The Russian Revolution was not one sudden uprising in which Vladimir Lenin appeared, overthrew Tsar Nicholas II and created communism. It was a chain reaction: decades of political resentment, an earlier revolution in 1905, catastrophic war, economic breakdown, the collapse of the monarchy, a failed attempt at democratic governme...

Could Walt Have Got Away With Everything? Walter White came astonishingly close to winning Breaking Bad . By the time Hank Schrader picked up Leaves of Grass in Walt’s bathroom and noticed Gale Boetticher’s inscription, the meth empire was effectively over. Walt had made an extraordinary fortune, stopped cooking, returned to the car wash and appeared ready to spend whatever remained of his life wi...

Game Of Thrones ended with something that almost never lasts in Westeros: peace. Daenerys Targaryen was dead, the Iron Throne was molten metal, the Night King had been destroyed, the North was independent and Bran Stark had been elected ruler of the remaining Six Kingdoms. But the finale was an ending to the characters' immediate wars, not necessarily to Westerosi history. Bran had no conventi...

The most likely future of Succession is not Kendall Roy eventually making his triumphant return, Shiv secretly taking control through Tom, or Roman suddenly discovering that he was the most talented Roy all along. It is considerably sadder than that. Ten years after the GoJo takeover, the Roy children are almost certainly still extraordinarily rich, famous and connected. They can buy companies, fu...

The Real Succession: New Court Files Expose The Battle For Rupert Murdoch’s Empire Rupert Murdoch’s succession battle is no longer merely a story about which son he preferred. Newly unsealed court findings reveal an organised attempt to ensure Lachlan Murdoch’s control of the family’s media interests could not be overturned after Rupert’s death, while also casting fresh doubt on some of the suspic...

The Economy After the Paycheque Artificial intelligence does not have to eliminate every job to transform the economic system. If businesses can eventually produce more goods, services, software and knowledge with fewer hours of human labour, the question stops being simply whether AI can do a person's job. It becomes something more fundamental: if fewer people receive salaries, who has enough...

The Data Centre Leaving Earth The artificial intelligence boom is beginning to collide with the physical limits of Earth. AI needs enormous quantities of electricity, cooling infrastructure, land, advanced chips and increasingly expensive data centres — and one startup believes the answer is to move part of that infrastructure off the planet entirely. Starcloud has now raised another $250 million...

Arsenal’s £55m Defensive Statement Arsenal have completed the signing of England defender Ezri Konsa from Aston Villa in a deal reportedly worth up to £55 million, adding another proven Premier League player to a squad already trying to defend its title. The 28-year-old has signed a long-term contract after Arsenal moved decisively to strengthen a defence hit by injuries to William Saliba and Jurr...