2026/08/20 Daily Edition

The switch to quieter electric equipment is not going as fast as some would like.

The US hit a debt milestone this week, but just how worried should we be about the world's largest economy?

Twenty-somethings are much less likely to own a home than previous generations. But data suggests things may be turning a corner.

The Panama Canal will limit daily vessel traffic from September 3, the Pnama Canal Authority said Thursday, as a severe drought fuelled by El Nino depletes water supplies needed to operate the vital trade route. The restrictions will reduce crossings from 36 ships a day to 34, and then to 32 from September 15.

The suspect, Jessica Bowie, 35, was arrested on charges of providing material support for 'terrorism'.

A foreign policy specialist, she was politically savvy and well versed in global issues, and traveled widely with her husband, Henry A. Kissinger, on his diplomatic missions.

Holidaymakers tell the BBC they paid for luxury breaks but faulty air conditioning left them in sweltering heat.

New York mayor challenges $10,000 bonus law, citing conflict with collective bargaining rules.

What does rebuilding look like for families after war? Al Jazeera’s Hannah Raslan reports from Syria.

The case was the third of nine major personal injury cases that could expose Meta, YouTube, Snap and TikTok to financial damages and force them to change the designs of their platforms.

Experts worry that the conflict in Iran and other regional dynamics are setting the stage for a Somali pirates’ comeback.

US authorities charged Jessica Bowie, a woman who allegedly supported the Islamic State group, with a terrorism offense Thursday after she told an FBI informant she "wanted to destroy" the New York State Capitol buildings.

Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Dr. Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher, journalist, author and President of PEN Ukraine. According to Dr Yermolenko, Ukraine is confronting serious threats to its democracy. Suspending elections during wartime carries real dangers as political power is increasingly centralized around President Zelensky. Yet holding elections while cities remain under attack could unleash precisely the political turmoil Ukraine can least afford. The challenge is not simply whether Ukraine should choose democracy or wartime unity, but how it can preserve democratic accountability without allowing internal political conflict to weaken its resistance to Russia.

Nigeria's Drug enforcement has broken up an international cocaine trafficking ring that used the continent's most populous country as a transit point for internaionally bound shipments of life devastating narcotics.

President Trump’s threats of an “economic D-Day” carry a clear signal to Iran that he does not want to go back to war.

With one semi-final in her last seven tournaments, the coming months will define the next stage of her career Towards the end of a messy first set tie-break late on Wednesday, Aryna Sabalenka wildly sprayed another painfully nervous backhand before slamming her racket to the ground. As the racket connected with the acrylic floor, its vibration dampener detached from the strings and rolled off in the direction of the broadcast camera pit by the side of the court. With the diminutive 20-year‑old Czech player Sara Bejlek leading Sabalenka 6-5 in the tie-break, this slapstick sequence forced play to pause while the Belarusian and a couple of volunteers comically searched for the missing vibration damper underneath the cameras until she gave up and retrieved a new one. A few minutes later, Sabalenka trailed by a set...

Japan had tried to dissuade the U.S. from imposing sanctions on Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court, but the White House pressed ahead.

A tradition on a river once fished by US President Jimmy Carter could be coming to an end.

Manas Vajpayee, a government bank employee, posted on WhatsApp that he killed his wife for cheating and then shot his sister before taking his own life

US economic restrictions have strained the island's already fragile economy, prompting blackouts and medical shortages.

Our colleagues at The Amplifier newsletter have music recommendations for the final sun-basking days of summer.

The former prime minister of Pakistan, who was convicted on corruption charges, has been fighting a legal battle over his medical treatment.

The Essex batsman, filling in for Jacob Bethell, wasted no time in laying down a claim to a longer run in the England side When Jordan Cox was 19, playing in his fifth first-class match and unbeaten overnight on 167 for Kent against Sussex, he decided to set himself a new task. Cox told Sam Billings, his captain and an England international, that he would go past Billings’ first-class best of 171. The top scores of other teammates were in sight, too. “I was just ticking people off,” Cox said a few weeks later. “Having a higher score than Sam Billings and Joe Denly at 19, that’s what got me going.” Denly, an England No 3, had a best of 227. Cox finished on 238 not out. Six years on, that confidence and bit of swagger made its way to Leeds, with Cox resuming on 23 after England’s near-perfect Wednesday. There were no visible nerves, no rollerskates on the feet. A few gentle taps of the ground, a small shift on to the back foot and then plenty of time before he presented the middle. He looked on holiday while batting in only his second Test, and that too with the responsibility of building a first-innings lead at first drop. Joe Root, 167 Tests in, was at the other end and Cox did not look out of place alongside his captain. The pair have done a bit of this now. Just last week they were decked out in red, trying to launch it together in the Hundred. Strong Welsh Fire, strong England?..

Heartbreak, loss on Lebanon’s front lines, the story of a first responder

The incident took place in the country's northwest ​Sokoto state, with many of the victims feared to be children.

A protest organised by hundreds of Tibetans in New Delhi led many exiles to shave their heads.

Four railway workers spraying herbicide on tracks north of Tokyo were killed by an express train.

WHO says vaccines for Ebola virus disease being allocated to DRC amid largest outbreak that has killed nearly 2,500.

Cameroonian President Paul Biya returned to the country on Thursday after a 73-day absence, with local media reporting the 93-year-old had been in Geneva with his family and close aides. The country's opposition criticised Biya's long absence, saying he had left the country on "autopilot".

Syria's civil society grapples with redefining its role as the state reasserts itself after Assad's fall.

Amputee children in Gaza are learning to swim as part of a programme helping them rebuild confidence and mobility.

Meetings around event seen as chance to lobby for votes Fifa president may meet his most credible challenger Gianni Infantino wants to split the European and North American coalition that is seeking to oust him by attending a junior tournament in the Dominican Republic this weekend in another gamble to cling on to power from the Fifa president. The Guardian has learned that Infantino has made plans to attend the U14 Boys Challenge competition organised by the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), 21 of whose associations are voting members of Fifa, despite being urged to stay away from the event by senior figures within Concacaf – the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football – which is working with Uefa to remove him...

From state and local food-safety response to the federal health agencies that fund that work, a record-breaking year for cyclosporiasis cases runs up against the Trump administration's cuts last year.

Total prize pool for tournament will be $108m Players guaranteed $140,000 for making first round The world’s leading tennis players have welcomed the US Open’s announcement of a 20% increase in prize money and agreed not to continue their protests at this year’s tournament as a result. The build up to both the French Open and Wimbledon was overshadowed earlier this year by a media boycott as the players continue to demand a greater share of tournament revenues, but after the US Tennis Association announced a record prize pot of $108m there will be no such disruption at Flushing Meadow...

New managers galore suggest many of the usual suspects will struggle to dethrone the champions, but their own hunger could be the key Mikel Arteta wants to get his messaging absolutely right. According to him, Arsenal are not about to defend their Premier League title. They are set to attack another one. Remember Win the dog, who the manager brought in to the club’s training ground a few years back? She must now be called “Won”. But it is when Arteta quibbles over another bout of semantics that he highlights why he is entering the new season with such energy and optimism...

England were 366-8 at stumps on a rain-marred second day, 195 runs ahead of Pakistan's meagre first innings of 171.

Fuel prices above $4 per gallon impact consumer behaviour, driving spending trade-offs and slowing Walmart's growth.

Schools across Thailand are carrying out active shooter drills to save lives and spread awareness.

Harden previously declined $42.3m player ⁠option on his contract in bid to secure a multi-year basketball deal.

Fishermen were rescued after being found floating in the Pacific where they spent five days clinging to a fish cooler

Researcher Nathan Cofnas, an outspoken critic of DEI, was himself sacked from Cambridge in 2024 over his views on race.

Scott Bessent has not said if countries such as China could be targeted in an effort to economically isolate Tehran.

First Test day two: Pakistan 171; England 366 for eight Hosts slip from 322 for five to 364 for eight The clock had just ticked past 7pm, there was still half an hour of play left on this soggy second day, and it looked for all money that Harry Brook would end a year-long wait for his 11th Test century with a first at his home ground of Headingley. Brook had agonisingly missed out by one run against India here last summer. And this time, against a ragged Pakistan side that had gifted him a life second ball amid another outing to forget, the box was practically begging to be ticked...

At least a half-dozen federal agencies have moved to undermine the state’s environmental efforts.

The detentions of the workers, who have been released, are a sign of legal pressure that the world’s largest crypto exchange faces in the Emirates, which is home to its main regulator.

Who is Ahmad Hassoun, the 'barrel bomb mufti' close to the inner circle of the al-Assad regime?

Annette Young is pleased to welcome Dr. Simon Williams, Behavioural Scientist, WHO Consultant, Lecturer in psychology and a public health researcher at Swansea University. What concerns Dr. Williams most is that the health consequences of extreme heat, particularly for older adults, are emerging sooner and at lower levels of warming than we had previously understood. We are already living with approximately 1.3°C of global warming, and increasingly severe summers are exposing profound age-related vulnerabilities, from reduced physiological capacity to cool the body to underlying cardiovascular and other health conditions.

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Leïla Mörch, CEO / Founder of Geminy. She specializes in technology, public policy, with a focus on social media regulation. She sees the landmark trial against Meta as potentially significant not simply because the social media giant is being asked to answer for harms associated with social media, but because the legal focus is shifting from content to design. Section 230 has historically shaped debates around platforms’ responsibility for what users publish. Here, however, the central question is increasingly about the infrastructure itself: recommendation systems, infinite scroll, attention-maximizing features, and the choices platforms make about how users encounter content and engage.

Swalwell, a vocal Trump critic, resigned from Congress and dropped out of California governor's race amid allegations.

We know that trees are good for cities. A new study finds that mature trees are especially good.

The US Treasury secretary says allies will need to decide whether they "are with us or against us".

Liberia is part of a growing list of partners under US President Donald Trump to accept third-country deportations.

High gas prices and weaker pharmacy sales pushed Walmart's growth to its slowest pace in six years

Human Rights Watch alleges that the killings by Africa Corps troops took place in the presence of Malian soldiers.

Al Jazeera’s AlMigdad Alruhaid travelled along one of the main supply roads to Sudan’s besieged city of el-Obeid.

Spanish tennis star had missed the French Open, ‌Wimbledon and the hard-court events in Toronto and ​Cincinnati.

The president’s empty advice that children should receive separate jabs against measles, mumps and rubella will only lead to less take-up by parents Nobody wants to hurt a child. The howl of pain, the tears, the look of betrayed shock all make it very hard to deliver a cherished small person to the needle-wielding nurse. But that’s part of being a responsible parent. It becomes a lot tougher if mum or dad is being fed mixed and erroneous messages about the benefits and harms of vaccination. Parents have to make a lot of decisions about what’s right for their child, from the school they should go to and the food they should eat to the hours they should spend on the phone or watching TV. In the US, Donald Trump wants them to add another: do they choose to give their children separate jabs against measles, mumps and rubella, involving six visits to the clinic, or should they opt for the combined MMR vaccine, which does the job in two? For decades, the vast majority of families have been taking the advice of doctors, accepting their assurance that the MMR vaccine is safe and very effective. But what are they to think when a US president announces that the triple jab could be “quite lethal” and signs an executive order advising states to offer separate vaccines?..

Prof Katya Rubia withdraws support for The Great ADHD Myth? as other leading figures voice criticisms A contributor to a controversial Channel 4 documentary on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has withdrawn her support for the programme, saying it was biased and could lead to an increased suicide risk by encouraging parents to take their children off medication. Katya Rubia, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, also said The Great ADHD Myth? misrepresented her views...

Bangladesh elects Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir by parliamentary vote, filling vacancy after Shahabuddin's resignation.

Ghent University in Belgium said it suspended the professor, Nathan Cofnas, pending an investigation.