- 4h ago
Andy Burnham secures 349 Labour MP nominations, becomes UK prime minister on 20 July
The Greater Manchester mayor received an additional 27 nominations on Monday, taking his total to 349 and making it impossible for any rival to reach the 81 endorsements needed to challenge. He will formally take over the Labour leadership on Friday and enter 10 Downing Street on 20 July.
- 4h ago
US strikes Iran's Bandar Abbas naval base with kamikaze drone boats in first-ever combat use of sea drones
Three Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit a submarine and ship maintenance facility at the Bandar Abbas naval base on Sunday, U.S. Central Command said.
- 5h ago
Chinese exports jump 27% in June, car shipments top 1 million units as imports also beat forecasts
Outbound shipments jumped 27% in dollar terms while imports climbed 36%, both handily beating analyst estimates, as auto exports crossed 1 million units for the first time and AI-related chip demand lifted trade across Asia.
- 6h ago
Trump slashes Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by over 90%, opening nearly 3 million acres to mining and drilling
The executive orders reduce Bears Ears to 121,100 acres from 1.36 million and Grand Staircase-Escalante to 181,500 acres from 1.87 million, targeting coal, uranium, and critical mineral reserves across southern Utah.
- 7h ago
A passenger was partially sucked through a shattered window on a Ryanair flight when a piece of the right engine broke loose
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 lost a window in flight after an engine failure on July 10, partially ejecting a passenger who was held inside by his wife and fellow travelers until the plane returned to Thessaloniki.
- 7h ago
SpaceX's 13th Starship flight will attempt first Starlink V3 deployment and in-space engine relight
The 13th flight of the world's most powerful rocket is set to lift off from Texas with 20 next-generation broadband satellites aboard, marking SpaceX's first attempt to deploy operational Starlink V3 units during a test mission.
- 8h ago
Spanish prosecutors and state lawyers reject Zapatero's bid to exclude PP-led popular prosecution from jewellery investigation
The anti-corruption prosecutor and Spain's State Legal Services have both filed submissions opposing former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's request to remove the Partido Popular-led popular prosecution from a separate investigation into unexplained jewellery valued above 1.3 million euros found in his office.
- 8h ago
Twelve US states sue to block Paramount's $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery takeover, citing cinema and competition fears
A coalition of twelve US states, led by California, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday to stop Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, a deal already approved without conditions by the Trump administration's Justice Department in June.
- 9h ago
Erling Haaland returns from World Cup with a $750 stuffed raccoon, greeted by 90,000 fans in Oslo
The Norway striker stepped off the team plane in Oslo on Monday clutching a taxidermy raccoon purchased in Dallas, drawing a crowd of nearly 90,000 after his seven-goal World Cup debut.
- 10h ago
Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard found guilty of 1990s sexual assault in Montreal, adding to 11-year sentence
The 84-year-old former fashion executive, already serving 11 years for Toronto assaults, chose not to contest evidence from a 1997–1998 incident in his Montreal penthouse.
- 12h ago
Israel secretly courted ex-President Ahmadinejad to lead a post-ayatollah Iran, using Budapest climate conference as a front
A years-long Israeli intelligence effort to turn Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into a post-regime Iranian leader involved secret meetings in Budapest, payments for travel, and a daring extraction attempt during the 28 February airstrikes, investigations by The New York Times and Haaretz reveal.
- 13h ago
Tom Cruise goes under heavy prosthetics for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Digger as a corrupt oil tycoon in eco-satire
The first full trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's dark comedy shows Cruise hidden under layers of prosthetics, a pot belly, and a Southern drawl as Digger Rockwell, a billionaire whose company may have triggered an eco-disaster. The film opens worldwide October 2.
- 14h ago
US judge voids Trump's IRS settlement, rules $10 billion lawsuit was filed in bad faith to grant the president and his family tax immunity
A US federal judge in Florida voided the settlement President Donald Trump reached with the Internal Revenue Service, ruling the $10 billion lawsuit that spawned it was a sham designed to confer tax immunity on the president and his family.
- 14h ago
Rubio vows to 'dismantle the ICC brick by brick' as US launches whole-of-government campaign against the Hague court
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a State Department campaign on Monday, 13 July 2026, aiming to 'systematically disable' the International Criminal Court, accusing the Hague-based tribunal of waging a 'war' on American sovereignty through international law.
- 15h ago
Nine European nations and Ukraine form coalition to build integrated ballistic missile shield
Meeting at a summit of Kyiv's allies in Paris, ten nations announced a coalition to pool industrial and operational resources for a shared European defence against ballistic missiles, citing Moscow's intensifying strikes.
- 15h ago
12 US states sue to block Paramount Skydance's $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery takeover, setting up antitrust clash
California and 11 other states filed suit in federal court Monday to stop Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing the deal would raise prices for moviegoers and cable subscribers while squeezing independent theaters.
- 15h ago
Hungarian Parliament Ousts President Sulyok in Constitutional Overhaul, Threatening Crisis
The Hungarian parliament passed an extraordinary constitutional amendment on Monday to remove President Tamás Sulyok, a loyalist of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, pushing the country toward a possible constitutional crisis.
- 16h ago
ICE agent fatally shoots Colombian man in Maine, the second deadly encounter in a week
Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian national with a work permit, was shot dead by an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday morning as he tried to flee in a vehicle. It is the second fatal ICE shooting in six days.
- 16h ago
Dutch referee Rob Dieperink found dead at 38 after World Cup removal over dropped sexual assault case
The body of Dutch football referee Rob Dieperink was discovered at his home in Borculo, weeks after FIFA excluded him from the 2026 World Cup VAR panel following a police investigation in London that was later dropped.
- 16h ago
Spanish-led team detects sugar in interstellar space for the first time, revealing ingredients for life form before stars exist
Using two radio telescopes in Spain, astronomers have identified erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar found in raspberries, inside a molecular cloud 27,000 light-years from Earth. The finding fills a gap in prebiotic chemistry and shows that sugars essential for life's building blocks can assemble before stars or planets.
