How the story gets told.
A 1930s assassin turned doctorate becomes a viral cultural touchstone on the same week Chinese retail sales print their first monthly decline in three years — and the contrast tells you something about the country Beijing is steering through 2026.
A scheduled confirmation vote for Jay Clayton to lead the intelligence community is paused at the president's request, the latest signal that the…
The detention of Ilya Traber, long described as a 'shadow owner' of St Petersburg, opens a window onto a specific economy of relationships inside…
A hacktivist obtained the member directory of Dialog, the invite-only society Peter Thiel co-founded in 2006, and WIRED has confirmed the haul —…
A Canadian Safety Board report concludes the 2023 Titan implosion was foreseeable: an untested carbon-fibre hull, ignored warnings, and a culture…
A state-organising committee has begun publishing formal programmes for the commemoration of Ayatollah Khamenei's 'ascension,' reading less as grief…
A list circulating on Telegram this week names ten comedies it calls essential viewing. The selection is less interesting than the question it raises…
A training session filmed at Thames Dragons Boat Club points to something larger: a 2,000-year-old festival becoming an unlikely vehicle for urban…
Iran's foreign minister hosted senior foreign ambassadors in Tehran, praising what he called the Iranian nation's "heroic resistance" against a…
The prime minister took a crowd-surf tumble at Glastonbury. The clip — and the reaction cycle it triggered — says more about the British political…
A Japanese developer says Valve's storefront flagged scenes in an all-ages visual novel as sexually suggestive, renewing debate over who decides what…
A market on a neo-Nazi payments allegation at a flagship liberal group priced the story within hours. The platform is the news now, even when the…
A 51-48 vote to block a new curb on presidential war-making authority hands the White House another month of latitude — and underlines how narrow the…
The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival opens with an unusually international slate, recasting China's premier film showcase as a venue for…
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the fatal shooting of exiled Russian cartoonist Semyon Skrepetsky in Warsaw was almost certainly a political…
At the Eurosatory 2026 exhibition in Paris, Ukrainian defense company SkyFall unveiled an AI-enabled version of its P1-SUN Long interceptor drone — a…
A Russian performer and outspoken Putin critic is shot dead in Poland, three days after a protest piece near the Russian embassy in Berlin — and the…
Russia's long-ridiculed biolab narrative has been quietly re-energised by files from US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The claims…
Sevmash has begun construction of the nuclear submarine missile cruiser Murmansk, the latest in Russia's Yasen-class line — a project the Russian…
On the eve of talks, Iran's parliament speaker calls diplomacy a continuation of struggle by other means — and credits negotiation with past gains…
On 17 June 2026, Iran's parliament speaker used two back-to-back appearances to insist that battlefield gains only count if they're inked. The…
Iran's parliament speaker claims Tehran won the latest round of negotiations 'several times over' what an attack would have delivered. The boast…
Twelve inmates left the Qezelhesar penitentiary complex near Karaj on the eve of Muharram, the opening of the Islamic lunar new year and the start of…
A new National Library of Scotland exhibition frames 250 years of rain as the force behind Macbeth, the McLaren land raider and a national habit of…
For years the trade press called her bad luck. Then one release flipped the label — and the industry's small superstition about casting chemistry got…
A three-time Grammy winner tells The Indian Express that classical musicians, not pop stars, do the slow work of crossing cultural lines — a framing…
Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, speaker of Iran's parliament, used a Tuesday address to recast the post-war ceasefire as a tactical Iranian win — and to…
In a 19:41 UTC clip, Iran's parliament speaker cast himself as a fighter, not a diplomat. The line is doing more rhetorical work than it first…
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf tells Iranian audiences that Tehran's battlefield posture — not American goodwill — produced a Trump-ordered halt to the…
On the eve of negotiations, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf casts Iran's diplomacy in martial terms — a signal that Tehran's bargaining posture has…
On a tour of air-defence sites, the parliament speaker signalled that Tehran is recalibrating its deterrence pitch away from international legitimacy…
Hours after a strike on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra complex, Pope Leo XIV asked the faithful to pray for the end of a war that, in his words, "continues…
Peru's Ministry of Culture says the pre-Hispanic Triple Spiral, a thousand-year-old figure carved into the Nasca desert, was deliberately damaged —…
The Berlin Philharmonic's chief conductor is sending the cash from Denmark's prestigious Léonie Sonning Prize to support Ukrainian musicians and…