Top tennis players brush aside Sabalenka’s post-French Open outburst by performing a viral dance on the Centre Court. Just in case anyone might have wondered whether there was any lingering animosity between Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka after their French Open final, the two tennis stars offered proof that all is well by dancing together at…
Maksym Ustimenko’s aircraft shot down seven air targets before losing altitude and crashing, the air force says. Ukraine has lost an F-16 aircraft and its pilot while repelling a Russian missile and drone strike, according to the war-torn country’s air force. After shooting down seven air targets, the plane was damaged and lost altitude overnight,…
A look at some of the top photos of the past week. From the solemn funeral procession honouring Iranian military commanders, among others killed in Israeli strikes, to the catastrophic flooding that ravaged Venezuela, here is a look at some of the top photographs of the week. A drone captures the devastation of a collapsed…
The US president’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill clears its first hurdle in the Senate. The Republican-controlled Senate of the United States has voted to take President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” into the next phase of discussion, making it more likely to pass in the coming days. The measure, which is Trump’s…
Budapest advertises itself as a party town. On Saturday, the party spilled out onto the streets, and occupied, in the scorching heat of summer, the Elizabeth Bridge and the river banks and downtown areas on both shores of the Danube. Between 100,000 and 200,000 mostly young people danced and sang their way from Pest to…
Iran has the capacity to start enriching uranium again – for a possible bomb – in “a matter of months”, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog has said. Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the US strikes on three Iranian sites last weekend had caused severe but “not total” damage, contradicting…
When asked how the one-hour-53-minute stoppage impacted Chelsea’s match against Benfica in the Club World Cup, Enzo Maresca’s response was: “This is not football.” The manager seemed to question whether the US was a suitable host for Fifa competitions, like the Club World Cup, one year before the 2026 World Cup is hosted across North…
When a nine-year-old Jonathan Rowe was walking out alongside England and Brazil at a packed Wembley he was living every football-mad child’s dream. An AFC Wembley youth player, he was picked to be mascot for the visit of the five-time world champions in 2013. He later watched on as Frank Lampard’s second-half goal gave the…
Republican Senate leaders have released their latest version of the budget bill that is pivotal to President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda, as they scramble to corral backbench holdouts. Their latest draft of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, released in the early hours of Saturday, has some notable differences to the version passed by a…
Senate Republicans have narrowly advanced a sprawling budget bill that is pivotal to President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda ahead of a self-imposed 4 July deadline. The Senate moved 51-49 to open debate on the bill. Two Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the move. Republican party leadership had been twisting arms for the initial vote on…
