Hurricane Simon Nears Category 5 as Mexico Shuts Down Its Pacific Resort Coast
Shops shut by official order, shelters open, and not a single commercial flight leaving Manzanillo: Mexico’s west coast is bracing for a storm that kept gaining strength through Saturday. By…
US Jet Cripples Cargo Ship in Gulf of Oman as Rival Blockades Squeeze Hormuz
Two navies, two blockades, and one narrow channel that much of the world’s energy still depends on. That is the picture in the waters off Iran after an American warplane…
Veteran Henderson Steals the Show as Chelsea Thrash Bournemouth 5-1
Thirty-six years old, one home game in a Chelsea shirt, and already a match-winner. Jordan Henderson found the net two times and provided an assist on Saturday as Chelsea swept…
Two Labs, One Milestone: The First Nuclear Clocks Are Ticking
Physicists have talked about nuclear clocks for more than two decades. This week, two of them actually ran. Teams in Vienna and Beijing, working separately and with different equipment, each…
Belgium Budget Fight Spills Onto the Streets of Brussels
Belgium’s prime minister has until Tuesday to close a budget deal. On Friday, a huge crowd made sure he knows what they think of it. Police counted roughly 30,000 marchers…
Riyadh Airport Hit Again as Saudi-Led Coalition Escalates Yemen Offensive
Saudi Arabia’s war with Yemen’s Houthi rebels is no longer being fought only on Yemeni soil. On Saturday afternoon, Riyadh’s main airport, King Khalid International, came under fire once more…
Arsenal Find a Way Again: Super-Sub Guimarães Ends Leeds’ Unbeaten Run
For an hour at the Emirates, Leeds United looked every bit the side that had arrived unbeaten. Then the champions remembered who they were. Arsenal struck twice in eight minutes…
Hurricane Isaias: The Season’s First Storm Leaves 800,000 in the Dark
For most of 2026 the Atlantic barely stirred. Then, on Friday evening, Isaias roared ashore on the Florida Panhandle close to Destin as a Category 2 storm packing sustained winds…
Delhi Locks Down as Police Detain Thousands at India’s ‘Cockroach’ Protest
India’s government went to remarkable lengths on Saturday to stop a single rally. Metro stations in New Delhi were shuttered, mobile data was cut in parts of the capital, trains…
Glide Bombs Hit Zaporizhzhia Apartments, Killing 17 a Day After Diesel Deal
It was still morning when the first of five bombs released from Russian aircraft crashed into blocks of flats in Zaporizhzhia. By afternoon, regional officials counted at least 17 dead,…