Houthi missiles push Six Kings Slam to December and knock out three Saudi Pro League games
Saudi Arabia’s sporting calendar is starting to buckle under the Houthi bombardment. The Six Kings Slam, the eye-wateringly lucrative tennis exhibition that was meant to fly Alcaraz, Djokovic, Zverev and…
Kenya confirms second Ebola case as contact tracers race to find 15 missing people
A relative of the man who brought Ebola into Kenya has now tested positive himself. The 39-year-old fell ill on Tuesday with fever, fatigue and aching joints – but he…
Kyiv says Starlink now drops drones above 100mph – and asks who flipped the switch
Somewhere in orbit, a rule seems to have changed overnight. Since Tuesday night, Ukrainian officials say, Starlink terminals moving faster than about 160km/h (100mph) simply lose their link. On paper…
An old film where the news should be: Turkey seizes Halk TV, the opposition’s biggest voice
Viewers who tuned in to Halk TV on Wednesday morning expected the news. What they got, after the feed was cut mid-interview, was a Turkish movie from 1973. Within hours,…
A goal inside a minute, a red card and a public broadside: Manchester United’s miserable night in Madrid
Manchester United arrived in Madrid talking about a fightback. They left with a 2-0 defeat, ten men and a defender openly questioning the people who run the club – a…
Nine saved, the tenth lands: Ann Li finally topples Sabalenka in a nerve-shredding Wuhan thriller
There comes a point in a tennis match when the player who keeps missing chances starts to doubt herself. Ann Li never reached it. Having watched nine match points vanish…
A Bronze Age cargo with no ship left: divers off Turkey find what may be the oldest wreck ever discovered
Some 4,500 years ago a small merchant boat went down off what is now Turkey’s southern coast, and the sea swallowed every trace of its timber. What it could not…
Ireland’s biggest strike in two decades shuts schools and courts as 300,000 public workers walk out over pay
Picket lines formed outside hospitals, school gates and even Garda headquarters on Wednesday as more than 300,000 Irish public servants stopped work for 24 hours. It is the largest industrial…
Who blew up Nord Stream? A Ukrainian ex-officer goes on trial in Hamburg, putting Berlin in an awkward spot
For four years the question of who wrecked the gas pipes under the Baltic has hung over European politics. On Wednesday a German court began trying to answer it. In…
Tresoldi hat-trick as Club Brugge stun Inter 4-3 in San Siro thriller
Club Brugge pulled off the upset of the Champions League’s second matchday on Tuesday, winning 4-3 at San Siro and leaving Inter Milan pointless. Nicolo Tresoldi scored three times for…