Iran’s foreign minister claimed the Strait of Hormuz was open to all except America or its allies. President Trump had threatened to strike Iran’s main oil export terminal if it did not lift the de facto blockade.
Eleven people were rescued overnight after a minibus taxi got stuck in rising floodwaters in Nairobi.
Uganda's military chief has said Bobi Wine is wanted "dead or alive", although some ministers have denied he is being sought.
Volodymyr Zelensky says restoring the flow of Russian oil via Ukraine into the EU would be like lifting sanctions on Russia.
Mohammed, aged five, and Othman, aged seven, were killed alongside their parents, the Palestinian health ministry says.
Brent Bozell in New Orleans in 2019.
Members of the Iranian women’s national soccer team before a match this month in Australia.
Iranians hammering nails in a mock coffin draped with an American flag on Friday at the annual Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran.
Sir Ed Davey is calling on the government to start work on a "fully independent British nuclear deterrent".
Oil and gas prices have surged due to the US-Israel war in Iran, with fears over the cost of living.
The move would allow officers to search premises without a warrant, seize assets and arrest those suspected of criminality.
Brandon Herrera campaigning last month in Somerset, Texas.
Ernesto Martinez and Noe Rubío, both workers from the H-2A program, pruning peach trees on at Talbott Farms on Monday.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts now features President Trump’s name on its exterior.
Mr. Trump saluting as coffins holding six Army Reservists killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait were brought off a plane at Dover Air Force Base on March 7.
The US president says he hopes China, France, Japan and South Korea will also send ships to defend the key oil shipping route.
Magic City, a strip club in Atlanta, in 2023. The club has served as a cultural epicenter connecting celebrities, athletes and musicians for decades.
Oil and gas prices have surged due to the US-Israel war in Iran, with fears over the cost of living.
The conflict in the Middle East could raise the cost of petrol, household energy bills and even food.
Dubai International Airport early this month. Emirates has become one of the world’s largest and most profitable airlines over the last 40 years.
Waymo’s co-chief executive, Tekedra Mawakana, said that she understood that the burden was on the company to prove the technology is safe.
Paying taxes would feel better if the truly rich were bearing a fair share, our columnist says.
A seven-page document, mailed by an elusive figure, has set off a court battle over the estate of Tony Hsieh, the former chief executive of Zappos.
Conan O’Brien is back for a second year as the host of the annual awards, which will again be available to stream on Hulu.
The new investors paid the Treasury roughly $2.5 billion of the fee when the deal closed in January.
Under the terms of a settlement, Adobe will pay $75 million to the Department of Justice and provide customers with $75 million worth of free services.
Smoke rose after a reported Iranian drone strike on a fuel facility of Bahrain International Airport on Thursday. Iranian drones have also struck Amazon’s data center in Bahrain and two others in the U.A.E.
The new changes by the Pan-European Game Information age-ratings body (PEGI) will start from June.
“When there is an attack that kills civilians or doesn’t hit its intended target, people are going to be asking, Oh, was that a human who made that mistake or was that an A.I. system?”
In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.
The new A.I. model that Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, is pushing had been targeted for release this month.
Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has already been decided.
The move would allow officers to search premises without a warrant, seize assets and arrest those suspected of criminality.
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council says projects can receive up to £5.000.
A view from the Blue Ghost lander as it orbited the moon at an altitude of about 62 miles on Feb. 24, 2025.
The Artemis II rocket returned from the launchpad to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center after the mission was scrubbed in February.
Nasa says technical problems that have delayed the rocket are fixed and it is ready for launch.
A new study offers clues as to how the insects survive flooding as they emerge from a hibernation-like phase every winter.
An F.B.I. investigator preparing to search for remains at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., in 2009. Moss evidence helped form the case against cemetery workers accused of digging up remains and discarding them elsewhere.
Erin McGuire ran a research network that studied how to get healthy food to marginalized populations around the world.
Angel Coronado, a community health worker, helps Johnny James Ganados plan for his release from the Elmwood jail in Santa Clara County.
The number doctors use to demarcate hypertension keeps going down, a trend applauded by many experts, who point to studies linking high blood pressure and dementia.
A finger-prick blood test. The American Heart Association recommends starting to test for levels of LDL cholesterol — the “bad” cholesterol — during childhood, at around age 10.
Lauren Macpherson was travelling home from a festival in London when her life changed forever.
Donating plasma, which is used to make lifesaving medicinal products, is widely perceived as low-risk, and millions of people donate frequently in North America.
A recent poll found that health care costs topped a list of the public’s economic anxieties, above concerns about the prices of food and groceries, gas and utilities.
Flights are restricted due to the conflict leaving people stuck running up bills for rooms and food.
In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.
Harry Styles is host and musical guest, while James Austin Johnson and Colin Jost cement their duo as President Trump and his defense secretary on “Saturday Night Live.”
Co-creator and star of We Might Regret This, Kyla Harris on delving into issues rarely seen on screen.
Sinners, One Battle After Another and Hamnet will all be vying for Hollywood's highest honour on Sunday.
The 54-year-old former star of Grange Hill and London's Burning was found dead at HMP Bure in Norfolk.
Online wagering is all the rage. But the crowdsourced data generally doesn’t interest experts who have built a brand predicting Academy Awards races.
Michael B. Jordan plays twins in “Sinners”; he is nominated for best actor at the Academy Awards.
Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn’s latest Gorillaz album features voices of lost former collaborators.
Extracts from a new book about the Royals claim the Queen said Meghan had "brainwashed" Prince Harry.
In his latest BBC Sport column, England World Cup winner Matt Dawson discusses England's last-gasp defeat by France in Paris and what is next for Steve Borthwick's side.
Bryson DeChambeau wins his fourth LIV Golf title following a 'brutal' play-off victory over wildcard Richard T Lee
Kimi Antonelli takes his first Formula 1 victory in leading team-mate George Russell to a Mercedes one-two in the Chinese Grand Prix.
Jadon Sancho is set to leave Manchester United this summer, almost three years after his last Premier League appearance for the club.
With more sunshine seen than snow at the Winter Paralympics, calls for the Games to move in the calendar grow stronger.
History, records, upsets, high-scoring classics - and a thrilling finale. The 2026 Six Nations is likely to go down as the best edition in the tournament's history.
France edge out England with the last kick of the game in a sensational 13-try decider, to secure back-to-back Six Nations titles at the Stade de France.
World number two Jannik Sinner puts on a masterclass to beat Alexander Zverev 6-2 6-4 and reach his first final at Indian Wells, while Daniil Medvedev ends Carlos Alcaraz's winning run.
Colossal Biosciences’ CEO says its work follows a ‘moral obligation’ while critics say it’s ‘tech bro’ hype that could undermine conservationCan and should we resurrect animal species that have been extinct for thousands of years? Such weighty, existential questions were once the preserve of science fiction but are now being played out within an unassuming brick building in a Dallas business park.Colossal Biosciences, valued at $10.2bn after raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from investors including celebrities spanning from Tiger Woods to Paris Hilton, has provoked a stampede of acclaim as well as denunciation after announcing last year it had made the dire wolf, a species lost from the world for more than 10,000 years, “de-extinct” via the birth of three new pups. Continue reading...
A snow-making machine in Nederland, Colo. Some are now aimed at buildings to help protect against the possibility of wildfires.
An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in 2024.
Greenhouse gases dropped just 0.1% last year as environment minister criticises lack of improvementGreenhouse gas emissions in Germany have again missed targets set by the Climate Protection Act and barely fell at all in 2025.Emissions decreased by just 0.1% last year compared to the previous year, according to data from the German Environment Agency. Continue reading...
US test of 120 umbilical blood cord samples identified 42 Pfas compounds, which do not naturally break downSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxNew peer-reviewed research shows fetuses likely have much higher levels of Pfas “forever chemicals” in their blood than previously thought.Testing of umbilical cord blood typically looks for a small number of common Pfas compounds, like Pfoa and Pfos. However, thousands of Pfas exist, and a new Mount Sinai study tested 120 umbilical blood cord samples that were previously found to contain up to four compounds. Continue reading...
Review from non-profit finds range of scenarios of firms simultaneously lobbying for and against Pfas regulationsSome top US lobbying firms are simultaneously working both sides of the Pfas “forever chemicals” issue, raising serious conflict of interest questions and concerns that their activity is slowing states’ efforts to rein in the public health threat.The review of six states’ lobbying records conducted by the non-profit F-Minus found a range of scenarios in which firms lobbied both sides. Most common Pfas are linked to cancer. The lobbying firm Holland & Knight works for the American Chemistry Council, which represents the nation’s largest Pfas makers, and aggressively opposes most regulations. Simultaneously, Holland & Knight lobbies for the American Cancer Society. Continue reading...
A naval vessel sailing this month in the Strait of Hormuz. The waterway remains the only option to export most of the energy produced in the region.
An eight-week voyage to the bottom of the Earth helped the photojournalist Chang W. Lee better understand his late father.
What the American painter saw during his trips to Florence molded his vision and his understanding of space and color.
Late-night hosts addressed Melania Trump’s women’s history month speech, Maga’s Iran messaging and the ongoing oil crisisOn Thursday night, late-night hosts discussed an odd White House women’s history month event, the fallout of the war on Iran and why Melania Trump is starting to sound an awful lot like her husband. Continue reading...
While Academy voters are supposed to keep their picks secret, another batch of anonymous ballots have leaked – giving us some insight on a hard-to-call raceOscars 2026: how to watch, nominations, what to read and predictionsIt took a great deal of blood, sweat and tweets, but in 2016 the Academy finally took notice and started to embrace both diversity and modernity. The #OscarsSoWhite furore over two straight years of all-white nominees (Michael B Jordan’s Creed snub was in my opinion the cruelest) led to a dramatic shake-up and one that has continued ever since with more women, people of colour and international voters added to what had been an overwhelmingly homogenous base.It has all led to an Oscars race that is increasingly harder to predict using old-fashioned thinking in ways that have become rather thrilling over time, the idea of an “Oscar movie” now far more slippery. Films such as Parasite, Anora, Moonlight, Anatomy of a Fall, Nomadland, Get Out and The Zone of Interest have now found their way into the major categories in past years, and this year’s crop showcases further progression – from foreign language picks to outsider narratives to pricklier characters than ever before. Continue reading...
If the long-mooted third instalment of the 80s sword and sorcery series finally gets off the ground, it could be Arnie’s chance to go from ageing action hero to cinematic totemIf you’re a fan of 1980s and 1990s Arnold Schwarzenegger, his late-era career has probably come as a bit of a disappointment. The Austrian oak was once Hollywood’s most reliable tool for punching killer robots, but he’s never really had his Unforgiven moment. Despite an absurdly influential run of sci-fi and fantasy movies, Schwarzenegger has missed out on the sort of grizzled, late-career reckoning that might have deconstructed his own youthful myth, just as Clint Eastwood’s epic 1992 western confronted the very legend the actor-director spent decades building.It’s not as if Hollywood hasn’t tried. In fact, studios have spent the last decade or so trying to produce Schwarzenegger’s “old warrior” phase, as if prodding the action hero myth with a stick to see if it still roars. The problem is, nothing has quite landed. Terminator: Dark Fate turned the T-800 into a retired drapery salesman reflecting on his own violent past. Maggie had him as a grieving father in a quiet zombie family drama. Aftermath is essentially a sombre meditation on grief that briefly veers into revenge thriller territory. None quite managed to become the monument to the Schwarzenegger enigma that the actor’s era-defining body of work seemed to demand. If Arnold fans wanted the sort of late-career statement that turns an ageing action star into a cinematic totem, they instead got an increasingly mortal-looking man who turns up in mid-budget streaming thrillers looking faintly concerned. Continue reading...
Ridiculed, ‘memed’ and consigned to worst-dressed lists, seven standout Oscar outfits from over the yearsAt the 2001 Oscars, Gladiator won best picture with Russell Crowe picking up best actor. But, if those facts might have faded to fodder for a pub quiz, the red carpet produced a moment of fashion legend – Björk wearing what is now known as “the swan dress”.Made by the Macedonian designer Marjan Pejoski, the tutu skirt with the swan draped around the musician’s neck – and egg accessories – was panned. “It’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen,” said the TV fashion critic Steven Cojocaru. Continue reading...
It has swept awards, been lauded for its accuracy and become a word-of-mouth triumph. Now, after a big delay, The Pitt launches in the UK. We visit the set to meet the team behind this tense, unflinching US medical dramaLike many US hospitals, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center (PTMC) is a place where time melts away. Rain or shine, 1am or 1pm, everything is bathed in the same retina-frying fluorescent light. Wait times often exceed several hours; in the lobby is a barrage of all-caps warnings (“aggressive behavior will NOT be tolerated”), while several TVs play clips of a Deadliest Catch-style show in two-minute loops. Purgatory, it seems, looks a lot like an American hospital … as recreated on a soundstage in Burbank, California.On the day I visit PTMC, the 52-bed ER on the Warner Bros lot, the hold-up is some babies. The infant actors are here to film a second season scene for The Pitt, the HBO Max medical drama that singlehandedly resuscitated the genre back from its Grey’s Anatomy flatline, swept almost every television award in the US and is now, finally, heading for the UK. (No bad blood, though: on set, I glimpse a flyer for a Pitt softball game against the crew of Seattle Grace.) Developed by the team behind 90s hospital hit ER, The Pitt follows a melange of hospital workers – the doctors, nurses, social workers, security and administrative staff of a cash-strapped emergency room in Pittsburgh – as they deal with everything from gunshot wounds to burnout, fentanyl overdoses to dreaded note-taking, with all the emotional trauma in between. Continue reading...
The artist has spent three decades changing the face of African art, and has just won the prestigious Hasselblad award. But they say the win isn’t about them – it’s for under-represented people still living with the echoes of ApartheidZanele Muholi has been named the winner of the 2026 Hasselblad award. The South African artist, who identifies as non-binary, now takes their place within the pantheon of the world’s greatest art photographers, from Carrie Mae Weems, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans and Sophie Calle all the way back to the forebears of the art form, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ansel Adams.It’s the kind of accolade that codifies the breathless reception with which Muholi’s work has been heralded to date. When their 2020 survey show at London’s Tate Modern was stymied by pandemic visitor restrictions, the gallery brought it back four years later. One critic likened their arresting self-portraits to Rembrandt’s. Continue reading...
This three-part documentary about women who were exploited and duped into sex work is filled with astonishing detail – while being sensitive to its intervieweesYou are invited to an exclusive yoga retreat at “the villa”. When you arrive, it’s a grim building in Romania in which women cavort in micro-bikinis and drink each other’s urine after a mass orgy. You are summoned to meet a spiritual guru in Paris. When you arrive, a woman wraps your sim card in tin foil and drives you to the suburbs. Later you are taken to a dingy flat where you are expected to have hours-long sex with an elderly man whom you must “transfigure” into a less undesirable entity.If this were a dream, you’d probably wake up disturbed by the weirdness of your subconscious. But for a number of women, this surreally terrifying chain of events was no nightmare. While the finer details of Twisted Yoga’s tale may be intriguingly wild, the broader picture is infuriating and sad. Continue reading...
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