2026 News Archive

Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats make more headlines.

Win is significant for region’s premier, Doug Ford, who blames protected zones for city’s traffic ills The Ontario government is now free to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes on its busiest streets after the region’s top court ruled in favour of the province on Friday, overturning a lower court’s decision that decreed removal would violate constitutional rights. The win is significant for Ontario’s premier, Doug Ford, and his government, who have long railed against Toronto’s bike lanes, blaming the protected zones for the city’s traffic ills...

The Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir says he will continue to engage with the Ulster Farmers' Union.

It marked the first time a court had heard Mangione describe how he committed a crime that garnered worldwide attention.

The State-wide demonstrations were held to criticise the TVK-led regime for not fully waiving cooperative crop loans and on its ‘lax’ handling of the Mekedatu issue

The TV personality posted in Brazil "the police will not be able to catch" him, a court hears.

Commercial vehicle maker flags commodity cost pressures, maintains ₹1,000-crore investment plan and says AI is deployed to improve productivity and not replace workforce

"Coal demand is projected to rise further to an estimated 1.6 billion tonnes by 2030," Dutt said, adding that we are at an "inflection point" where we are shifting from a scarcity scenario to one of surplus

New Delhi sold 50 billion rupees ($524 ⁠million) of 30-year sovereign green bonds, at a so-called greenium of four basis points on Friday, leading to an average premium of four bps ‌in the fiscal half-year, the highest since such sales began in the second half of fiscal 2023

The current account deficit was primarily driven by a widening merchandise trade deficit, which rose to $30.2 billion in June 2026 from $19.2 billion a year earlier

The overall kitty had jumped by $10.512 billion to $692.866 billion in the previous reporting week ended July 31

Sergei Lavrov said the alleged U.S. support included the supply of intelligence

In the last few months and over a year now, we have had several engagements and several ministerial visits from Afghanistan, says Randhir Jaiswal

Mangione has long denied his role in the killing but pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges on August 14, 2026

Thousands of sailors on the Lincoln have reportedly faced food shortages and broken plumbing, with some considering jumping overboard.

The Ministry says there is adequate competition within the TV industry and between TV and digital media, and the government has therefore decided to remove the duration cap

Assembly @ Dance Base, Edinburgh A sunny mashup of music accompanies choreographer Marc Brew’s feelgood coming-of-age story Marc Brew made the acclaimed show An Accident/A Life in 2024, with choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, about the car accident that left him paralysed below the waist aged 20. Brew went on to be a successful dancer and choreographer, performing using a wheelchair, and Brew’s latest piece returns to autobiographical territory. This time the focus is on the young Marc – or dancer Ross Malloy as a proxy – growing up in rural Australia, surrounded by football fans and sheep, and told repeatedly that boys don’t dance. What the show does really well is capture Malloy’s character’s absolute joy in dancing, how totally innate it is, the rhythm in his blood as he’s throwing himself into the routine from Footloose, or dancing along to a nostalgia-fest of songs and video clips from Culture Club, Wham! and cartoon pop star Jem, to the theme from Wonder Woman or jingles for Gillette. We get a sunny mix of disco, jazz, acro-moves and fizzing energy, with BMX tricks thrown in. It’s a reminder of the power of pop music, and also of the boredom and freedom of an 80s childhood. When his mum is out, Malloy dresses up in her clothes and performs, but this thing he desires is also torturing him, as does living in a place where he has to hide his true self...

Carcasses of 10 animals found in Vorkady panchayat over the past two weeks; residents urge authorities to ensure that the carcasses are safely disposed of to prevent any possible health risk

The drive against encroachers is being taken up ahead of laying pipelines to the city from a 190-mld water treatment plant that has been planned

Flights will be suspended until at least Saturday afternoon, leaving hundreds of travellers stranded.

Jason Arday's body was found in south London just a week after he resigned from the University of Cambridge.

US President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed concerns about the toll on sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, who have endured a record deployment of almost nine months, saying that the deployment had been “not nearly long enough”. The Lincoln has been supporting the US war against Iran, and reports have emerged of sailors struggling with mental health issues.

The measure, if implemented, would be a step towards Israeli annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory — something several Ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government openly call for

Defense Minister Katz called for the military to turn over to the police the responsibility for protecting Palestinians after two West Bank families were besieged by violent settlers.

The 1892 Holdings consortium, led by former QPR chairman Amit Bhatia, also includes Bezos’s K5 Sports Fund.

Officials say the blaze, near the port town of Omis, is one of the worst in Croatia's history.

While the BJP dares government to ban RSS, Home Minister wonders if the RSS was a terrorist/underworld organisation or a group of criminals to threaten those who questioned it

Action was taken against the officers following allegations of misconduct during the investigation into a theft case

The authorities tracked the animal after a string of close encounters with residents, reigniting a bitter debate over how a small, densely populated country should live with wolves.

The US has not confirmed the revocation which comes amid crackdown on Mexican politicians with alleged ties to cartels.

Pole wins her first title in 11 months ‘Sometimes we need to fight things we shouldn’t’ It came as no surprise that almost a year of pent-up emotion exploded from Iga Swiatek the moment she slotted her final backhand winner to clinch the Canadian Open title by defeating Elena Rybakina in two clean sets on Thursday night. As she screamed towards her team members on her corner of the court, pointed to her head and furiously pumped her fist, though, it was the tenor of Swiatek’s emotion that made her reaction noteworthy: she was angry. Her anger, she explained later, stemmed from the doubtful, disapproving voices she has heard throughout these difficult periods, most of it coming from viewers and the media alike in Poland...

A potential environmental disaster is unfolding off Oman, where a grounded tanker is leaking sanctioned Russian oil.

The British police said a man had been found dead at a home linked to Mr. Arday, who resigned after the university announced an investigation into allegations of plagiarism and fabrication.

The awards were announced by the Government of India on the occasion of Independence Day

‘Goal number one is to keep oil and gas cheap for Americans; and then obviously goal number two is ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon,’ says Vice President J.D. Vance; the U.S. is set to announce new ‘economic punishment’ for Iran soon

Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, a former president’s son, lashed out at the Trump administration after he said it canceled his visa, another flashpoint in the tense U.S.-Mexico relationship.

Women across the country speak of public floggings, losing their jobs, and barriers to healthcare that endanger lives.

Google enabled A.I. features for K-12 schools that have allowed student access to Gemini. Until this week, Google automatically enabled Gemini in Classroom only for students 18 or older.

Elon Musk earned 2.5 million times more than a Tesla worker's median pay in 2025, despite revenue and sales declines.

Nine Moldovans are being investigated in connection with the theft of paintings by Cezanne, Renoir and Matisse.

Young survivors of Israel's genocidal war in Gaza find safe spaces to process trauma and rediscover joy.

The arrest comes weeks after Trump criticised Jeanine Pirro for dropping charges over damage to the Reflecting Pool.

⚽ Updates from Molineux; kick-off 8pm BST ⚽ Weekend fixtures | Looks like Rodrigo Gomes could play as a genuine winger rather than a wing-back. Wolves are also without Hwang Hee-Chan, Sasa Kalajdzic, Santiago Bueno and Ladislav Krejci for a variety of reasons. Damn, they’ve got a strong squad for the Championship, even if a couple of the aforementioned depart. I’m not ashamed to go to the Championship because I played in it for many years. I had a good chat with Eddie Howe and made my decision at the end of the season that I wanted to try something new. There were a few [interested] clubs but it was important for me that I was close to my children...

Ultimatum issued hours before plan was scrapped European Football Clubs demanded Infantino back down Europe’s leading clubs threatened not to participate in future Club World Cups unless Gianni Infantino withdrew his Fifa Forward Enterprise scheme, issuing their ultimatum hours before the plan was scrapped. In a letter to the Fifa secretary general, Mattias Grafström, seen by the Guardian, the influential European Football Clubs (EFC) group warned its cooperation with future tournaments would hinge on Infantino backing down. It said the threat will hold unless a joint venture between EFC and Fifa – a framework for which has already been agreed – is completed before television rights can be sold for the 2028 Women’s Club World Cup...

Nigel Farage, the Reform U.K. leader who resigned from Parliament and won back his seat on Thursday, stays on the offensive and says voters don’t care about allegations of financial impropriety.

In Kenya, since the end of June, at least 19 elephants, mostly females or young animals, have died after displaying the same symptoms, notably partial paralysis preventing them from standing.

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Former international sprinter not been for two months Situation ‘very worrying’, says former teammate Mystery surrounds a highly regarded British Athletics coach who has not been heard from since visiting Morocco around two months ago. Leon Baptiste, 41, who coaches a number of elite athletes including the Paris Olympic 4x400m relay bronze medallist Charlie Dobson, is believed to have gone to Morocco for the weekend with some close friends for a stag do or golf trip...

Updates from Friday’s evening session in Birmingham Latest report | Sean Ingle digs deeper into whether the gaps will damage London’s chances of hosting the 2029 world champs...

Teenager involved in an accident in Portugal Rider’s NSN Development Team ‘heartbroken’ The British cyclist Finlay Tarling, 19, has died following an accident that occurred ⁠during the eighth stage of the Volta a Portugal race. Tarling ⁠was ​a Welsh time-trial specialist who had joined the NSN Development Team last ⁠year...

Thursday has been described by residents as ‘horrendous’, ‘distressing’ and ‘one of the scariest days of my life’ People in Stourbridge have described the fires that devastated more than a dozen homes as “horrendous” and “distressing”, with one describing blazes that surpassed the height of residential houses. Multiple fires spread across the West Midlands on Thursday as temperatures reached record highs of 38.1C in the UK, during the country’s fifth consecutive heatwave...

Rescue workers rushed to free a survivor Friday in Colombia amid the rubble left by a powerful earthquake nearly four days earlier that killed at least 285 people and injured 4,000. Some 400 people were still missing and tens of thousands of homes were ​damaged, leaving many Colombians sleeping in shelters or outside.

Civil servants are entitled to extra money for working in difficult or dangerous cities around the world.

Two families have been trapped in their homes in the occupied West Bank for several days.

Record-breaking heat is the new normal. At Station 18 in Phoenix, firefighters are on the front lines tackling it — one bag of ice at a time. Watch the full Op-Doc, “A New Inferno.”

Rights groups warn settler and state-led violence aim to displace Palestinians and annex land in the occupied West Bank.

What’s next for far-right Reform UK after Farage’s by-election win?

Planning consultation told ‘robust security measures’ will be needed amid growing resistance to such developments Scottish police have warned that a proposed datacentre will require “robust security measures” to prevent “incursion” amid growing public resistance to such developments in Scotland. “A great deal of public opposition is likely” to a datacentre planned in Larbert, about 30 miles west of Edinburgh, the Scottish police have said in a letter submitted as a part of a planning consultation earlier this month...

Government launches investigation into potential unsafe practices at Spanish healthcare company Grifols A chain of private plasma donation clinics in Canada said Friday it is pausing collections after the deaths of two donors and a new government investigation into potential unsafe practices. Grifols, the Spanish healthcare company that runs 17 clinics across Canada and is the country’s only private clinic for plasma donation, said it informed Health Canada of its decision to temporarily pause collections on Wednesday...

Families of drug war victims testify before the Truth Commission, seeking answers and closure after years of silence.