Corners, chaos and a 4-3 stunner: Real Madrid rescue Mourinho’s Rome return
For 80 minutes, José Mourinho’s homecoming in Rome was turning sour. Then Real Madrid found a weapon nobody expected to decide the night and rode it to victory by four…
Tokyo’s $21 billion bet on upstate New York: Japan funds two GlobalFoundries chip plants
A record-sized Japanese cheque is heading for American chip factories: Tokyo will pay as much as $21 billion. Trade minister Ryosei Akazawa confirmed on Thursday that two new fabrication plants…
GFS Pride goes down in Hormuz as Iran’s campaign against shipping widens
A Singapore-registered container vessel, the GFS Pride, now lies on the seabed off Oman after being hit by what Singapore’s port authority called an unidentified projectile. The blast set the…
A classroom gives way: Peshawar school collapse kills at least 29, most of them young children
Morning lessons at the Al-Khair private school in Peshawar had barely started on Thursday when an upper-floor classroom came down onto the room beneath it, and that ceiling caved in…
Back-to-back thunder: Brewers stun the Dodgers 6-2 and sit one win from the Series
Dodger Stadium briefly found its voice again. Then Jake Bauers refused every empty outcome, Garrett Mitchell cleared the fence right after him, and Milwaukee left Los Angeles holding a 6-2…
Guardiola watches from the box as PSG turn City’s homecoming into a 4-2 lesson
Manchester City tried to stage a show of unity. Pep Guardiola slipped into the directors’ seats in a flat cap, the stand that bears his name unfurled a CTID mosaic,…
Fake roots, real mud: Thailand’s eroding delta tries a mangrove shortcut
On one of Thailand’s hungriest shorelines, engineers have planted a forest that never grew. Rows of wood-plastic “roots” now stand in the Chao Phraya mud, and early monitoring says they…
Pump shock lands in the CPI: US inflation hits 3.7% and the Nasdaq flinches
America’s price gauge just reminded markets that war-driven fuel costs are no sideshow. Headline consumer inflation climbed 0.6% through September and 3.7% across twelve months, according to the labour statistics…
Gone in 28 days: Japan’s farm minister quits and leaves Takaichi exposed
Tokyo’s newest Cabinet already has a vacancy. Kazuo Yana, handed the agriculture brief only weeks ago under Sanae Takaichi, walked away on Wednesday once local scandals left him no room…
Two wins, then a new deal: Red Bull lock in Laurent Mekies until 2031
Fifteen months after he walked into the hottest seat in Formula 1, Laurent Mekies has been told the job is his for the long haul. Red Bull confirmed on Wednesday…