The Enhanced Games—a kind of Olympics for athletes who are doping—today announced the date and venue for its first competition: May 21-24, 2026, at Resorts World Las Vegas. Athletes competing in the event will be allowed to take performance-enhancing drugs like testosterone and anabolic steroids that are usually banned from elite competition, provided they are…
Martin Lindsay Senior Investigations Reporter BBC The tree – now no longer nestling in its gap – was one of the most photographed in the world Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers have been found guilty of cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap tree. The deliberate felling of the tree on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland angered…
Bill Gates at The 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony held at Barker Hanger on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images) Gilbert Flores | Variety | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Rich countries “owe it to the world” to get themselves down to net zero emissions, according to Microsoft founder…
President Trump said Thursday that he would rename Veterans Day, on Nov. 11, as “Victory Day for World War I” and May 8, widely known as V-E Day, as “Victory Day for World War II,” so that the United States could celebrate its achievements in those conflicts. “We won both Wars, nobody was close to…
Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed the text of a legally binding treaty designed to better tackle future pandemics. The pact is meant to avoid the disorganisation and competition for resources seen during the Covid-19 outbreak. Key elements include the rapid sharing of data about new diseases, to ensure scientists and pharmaceutical…
Global commodities have slumped more than 20% from the same period last year, according to the S&P GSCI Commodities index. Jung Getty | Moment | Getty Images Global commodity prices are getting hammered, as trade war tensions once more fester between the world’s two largest economies — and recession signals are flashing red. The S&P…
The heads of six UN agencies have appealed to world leaders to act urgently to make sure food and supplies get to Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel has stopped letting in deliveries for more than a month. A joint statement said Palestinians were “trapped, bombed and starved again” with supplies “piling up” at crossing points….
Global bond yields cratered in the wake of U.S. Donald Trump’s tariff announcement last Wednesday, as investors hunt for any safe havens amid the stock market sell-off — but economists warn the rally may not be sustainable if inflation concerns weigh. The yield on Germany’s 10-year bund — the benchmark for the euro area —…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said US tariffs on European Union imports are “wrong”, after US President Donald Trump announced he would begin charging a 20% rate on EU goods. Meloni is one of the many world leaders reacting to Trump’s “liberation day” announcements, which include a universal 10% baseline tariff on all imports…
Natalie Sherman BBC News, New York Watch: Key moments in Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs announcement President Donald Trump has unveiled plans for sweeping new import taxes on all goods entering the US, in a watershed moment for global trade. The plan sets a baseline tariff on all imports of at least 10%, consistent with a…
