Month: June 2026

The Arsenal midfielder admits he was a touch pink in pre-tournament photos as players try to adjust to scorching conditions. ...

John McGinn was a boy from Clydebank with a “big, round head” and bigger dreams. Scotland’s World Cup opener marks a new high in a storybook career. ...

, by Nick Greene. Tracing the sport’s growth from the “folk football” of medieval England — in which players kicked around sheeps’ bladders and human heads — to the 19th-century private schools that popularized the modern game, Greene writes that soccer is “less an invention than some side effect of ...

This year’s World Cup is already historic for being the biggest in the competition’s history, stretching across Mexico, the US, and Canada — but it could also become the hottest and most polluting tournament ever. Heat is a central concern, measured not just by air temperature but by the wet-bulb ...

China’s main way of serving overseas markets is, by a wide margin, exports, but rising trade barriers may leave the country with little choice but to expand its investments in foreign countries’ clean tech manufacturing capacity. Since 2014, China has announced $173 billion of FDI in clean technology sectors, but ...

The News Jeff Bezos is ready to open up about Prometheus, the secretive AI startup he’s leading with former Google X executive Vik Bajaj. In his first CEO role since handing over the reins of Amazon in 2021, the tech billionaire said in an interview that he had raised $12 ...

Private credit giant Blue Owl Capital is opening a regional headquarters — somewhat of a loaded term in the Gulf — in Abu Dhabi, an indicator that Wall Street firms are still betting on the UAE capital despite uncertainty over the Iran war. The firm, which manages $315 billion in ...

New York’s 29-point comeback in Game 4 was the largest in NBA finals history. For a team forged by disappointment, it felt strangely inevitable What does a team of destiny look like? You know it when you see it. The evidence has been mounting for weeks – months, even – ...

The ‘fraud’ he sees is in the very concept of democracy, in the idea that people who don’t agree with or fawn over him might have a say, too By now, it is an event as regular and predictable as the tides: a Democrat wins an election, and Donald Trump ...

Cat allergies affect millions of people. Experts explain how to manage symptoms without necessarily giving up a pet When I got a kitten in February, I thought I had done everything right. I’d considered getting a cat for years and carefully thought through the decision. I am allergic to them, ...