France and Italy named their new men’s national soccer team managers — a Frenchman and an Italian, leaving them among the few countries that have very rarely employed foreign coaches.

Annie Jacobsen’s book is “a better briefing on the problem than the one we received in Downing Street,” a former UK government adviser wrote.

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a longstanding vaccine skeptic.

Some investors are concerned that tech giants’ enormous AI spending is unsustainable.

OpenAI and Anthropic both backed a petition signed by 1,224 AI workers calling for regulation to “pace the frontier” of development.

The strikes against Iran-backed militias that are said to have targeted Saudi oil facilities mark the first time Riyadh has acknowledged direct involvement in the war.

More than 250,000 people have been evacuated, with fires threatening the outskirts of Bordeaux and raging through popular tourist areas and wine regions.

The number of cases recorded this year already exceeds all of 2025, as declining vaccination rates allow the highly infectuous disease to spread.

Cycling teams are built around ensuring one rider wins, and Charly Wegelius was not that rider, but a “domestique.”

European countries are severely reducing overseas aid budgets, compounding Washington’s cuts.

The cancellation of the St Petersburg Navy Day parade shows how Kyiv’s long-range strike capabilities are hurting Russia far from the front lines.

BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin have reportedly piled a record $4.1 billion into venture capital rounds this year.