- Yemen Tilts Toward Full-Scale War as Saudi-Houthi Clashes Escalate The New York Times
- Iran war updates: UNSC meets on Yemen after Houthis seize city of Mocha Al Jazeera
- How Yemen’s Houthis Are Raising the Stakes in the Iran War Bloomberg.com
- EXCLUSIVE: Pakistan warns Iran to rein in Houthis as Riyadh strikes back Reuters
- Security Council LIVE: Fresh attacks prompt emergency meeting on Yemen UN News
Why are borrowing costs rising across the world?
Rising bond yields are lifting borrowing costs for governments, businesses and households across the global economy.
US records hottest summer in 132 years
The United States had its hottest summer since records began, says NOAA, with August also setting a new heat record.
Breathing depends on a cylinder: Gaza faces medical oxygen crisis
Only 12 of Gaza's 34 oxygen-generation stations remain operational, worsening the health crisis in the besieged enclave.
Zelenskyy’s plane ‘almost hit’ by drone on way to Oslo, Norwegian PM says
Jonas Gahr Store says incident happened when jet carrying Ukrainian president took off from Moldova.
Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia could activate defence pact, Pakistan says – Al Jazeera
- Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia could activate defence pact, Pakistan says Al Jazeera
- EXCLUSIVE: Pakistan warns Iran to rein in Houthis as Riyadh strikes back Reuters
- Yemen Tilts Toward Full-Scale War as Saudi-Houthi Clashes Escalate The New York Times
- Fighting escalates in Yemen; Houthi attacks trigger alerts in Saudi Arabia Al Jazeera
- How Yemen’s Houthis Are Raising the Stakes in the Iran War Bloomberg.com
Explosion at depot storing weapons left from Syria war kills 14
An explosion tore through a temporary weapons depot near Sarmada, in northwestern Syria killing at least 14 people
Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia could activate defence pact, Pakistan says
Pakistan warns Mecca defence agreement may be activated if Yemen's Houthi rebels continue targeting Saudi Arabia.
Striking portrait of a seahorse farewell wins Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 – CNN
- Striking portrait of a seahorse farewell wins Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 CNN
- Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 winners announced Oceanographic Magazine
- Photo of tiny seahorses gathered around their 'father' after being released into the world wins prestigious award. "We spent countless hours searching in difficult conditions, with no guarantee of finding a single seahorse," says photographer Digital Camera World
- Crocodile in submerged forest among 12 astonishing images from Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 BBC Wildlife Magazine
- Winners of Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 The Atlantic
EXCLUSIVE: Nepal puts climate justice at centre of global pitch for flood aid – Reuters
- EXCLUSIVE: Nepal puts climate justice at centre of global pitch for flood aid Reuters
- Why Nepal is demanding climate justice and compensation after deadly floods Al Jazeera
- Q&A: What can – and cannot – be said about global warming’s role in the 2026 Himalayan floods Carbon Brief
- Why it’s so hard to predict a tragedy like Nepal’s glacier collapse grist.org
- Nepal endured months of political upheaval. Devastating floods are now testing its new government AP News
How the West is powerless to track North Korea’s hidden nuclear network as secret uranium factory revealed – the-sun.com
- How the West is powerless to track North Korea's hidden nuclear network as secret uranium factory revealed the-sun.com
- North Korea builds new Yongbyon uranium enrichment facility, IAEA says CNN
- North Korea has built new uranium facility to expand nuclear arsenal, UN agency says The Guardian
- N Korea has built two-storey uranium enrichment facility, says watchdog bbc.com
- North Korea's New Uranium Plant: 4 More Warheads Yearly 조선일보
Trump gave $45,000 cash gifts to Natalie Harp and two other aides, public records show
The White House has described the cash gifts to Harp and three others as personal - and legal.
How significant are new European sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements?
Israel is accused of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Uganda to withdraw from Invictus Games ‘out of respect for King Charles’, says military chief
Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba announces decision to pull out in post on X, citing tensions over ‘Harry-Meghan nonsense’
Uganda is withdrawing from the Duke of Sussex’s Invictus Games, the country’s military chief has said, out of respect for King Charles amid division over the “Harry-Meghan nonsense”.
Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of the Ugandan president, made the surprise announcement in a post on X on Wednesday.
Continue reading...Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in Really Old Teeth – The New York Times
- Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in Really Old Teeth The New York Times
- Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds The Guardian
- Earliest evidence of habitual drug use found in teeth in Indonesia New Scientist
- Oldest known evidence of human drug use discovered in fossil teeth ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Ice Age origins of one of humanity's oldest drug habits discovered Phys.org
Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds
Analysis of two skeletons reveals tooth wear and traces of psychoactive substance in what may be earliest known evidence for human drug taking
What may be the earliest known evidence for human drug taking has been traced to ancient Indonesian foragers who sucked on mind-altering nuts as long as 25,000 years ago.
Analysis of two exceptionally rare skeletons from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi revealed dramatic tooth wear and traces of a psychoactive substance in the individuals’ remaining teeth, suggesting they routinely sucked on hard, abrasive betel nuts.
Continue reading...Back to work, not school: Yemen’s crisis forces children to drop out
Struggling families in Yemen are forced to choose between education and survival amid mounting economic challenges.
Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements
Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence
Prominent British rabbis have backed Ed Miliband’s sanctions on Israeli settlements, warning that the time for inaction on settler violence must come to an end.
The intervention comes after the UK’s chief rabbi, the spiritual leader of mainstream Orthodox Jews in the UK, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, described UK sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as a “dark day for British Jews” and warned they could embolden people who “use hatred as a weapon against Jews”.
Continue reading...UN nuclear watchdog board reports Iran to the UN Security Council for the first time in 20 years – AP News
- UN nuclear watchdog board reports Iran to the UN Security Council for the first time in 20 years AP News
- US moves to ramp up pressure on Iran at UN as Tehran warns of 'recalibrated' military posture Fox News
- IAEA board refers Iran to UN Security Council over nuclear ‘non-compliance’ Al Jazeera
- IAEA says Iran blocking nuclear inspectors as Hormuz threats mount Euronews.com
- Iran Nuclear Impasse Deepens After US Wins UN Watchdog Vote Bloomberg.com
British Police Expand Investigation Into Reform U.K. After Undercover Sting – The New York Times
- British Police Expand Investigation Into Reform U.K. After Undercover Sting The New York Times
- 'Farage faces Met inquiry' and 'Ready for departure?' BBC
- Police launch investigation into allegations Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party broke campaign finance law CNN
- UK police widen criminal probe into Reform UK over new allegations Reuters
- Reform UK says it will ‘fully cooperate’ with Met after inquiry launched into alleged overseas donations – as it happened The Guardian