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Bednarek Did the Sprint Double, Dos Santos Ran 45.98, and the First Ultimate Championship Ended With a US Sweep Enric Mas Won the Vuelta at the Fourth Attempt, Twelve Years After Contador, in the Race Pogačar Was Supposed to Win An AI-Designed Lung Drug Made Six Ageing Clocks Run Backwards in a Small Trial. That Is Not the Same as Reversing Ageing A Hundred Radio Flashes From Deep Space Have Given Astronomers a New Way to Weigh the Universe's Missing Matter Europe's Leaders Met in Lapland to Talk About the Arctic, and a Russian Drone Hit a Train Two Kilometres From Poland Falcon's 700th Flight, Europe's Plant-Fluorescence Satellite, and Djibouti Signs the Artemis Accords: A Weekend in Orbit

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Loneliness Raises the Risk of Early Death by About a Quarter, and the World Health Organization Now Counts It as a Cause

Aug 23, 2026/4 min read

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The Ten-Year Touched Five Per Cent, Brent Held Near 107, and Chip Stocks Fell on a Warning From the People Who Sell Them

Sep 15, 2026/3 min read

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Sep 15, 2026

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Bednarek Did the Sprint Double, Dos Santos Ran 45.98, and the First Ultimate Championship Ended With a US Sweep

Sep 15, 2026

Sports

Enric Mas Won the Vuelta at the Fourth Attempt, Twelve Years After Contador, in the Race Pogačar Was Supposed to Win

Sep 15, 2026

Health

An AI-Designed Lung Drug Made Six Ageing Clocks Run Backwards in a Small Trial. That Is Not the Same as Reversing Ageing

Sep 15, 2026

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A Hundred Radio Flashes From Deep Space Have Given Astronomers a New Way to Weigh the Universe's Missing Matter

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Bitcoin Is Holding Near 77,000 Dollars as Rate Rise Odds Climb, Which Is Better Than the Textbook Says It Should

Down 4 per cent on the week and 34 per cent on the year, but up 21 per cent on the month, with the Fed about to raise rates and oil up eleven per cent in five days. Ether is at 2,500. What the price is telling you, and what it is not.

Sep 15, 2026/3 min read

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The Hormuz Talks Collapsed Before They Began, a Ship Was Hit Off Qeshm, and Trump Said the US Could Keep Iran's Oil

Oman's Salalah meeting was meant to draw the corridor maps and settle a toll. Saudi Arabia objected to language fixing a new status quo, Bahrain called it appeasement, and it was postponed. Hours earlier an Iranian cargo ship burned off Qeshm with one dead.

Sep 15, 2026/3 min read

The Qasr al-Hosn palace on the seafront at Salalah, Oman, where the postponed meeting between Iran and the Gulf states was to have been held

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Saudi Arabia Shut Its Only Way Round Hormuz After Drones From Iraq Hit the Pipeline. The Houthis Took Two More Islands

The 1,200-kilometre line to Yanbu carried the crude that could no longer leave through the Gulf. Riyadh chose not to hit back at Iraq, flew more than 300 strikes on Yemen instead, and took dozens of missiles at Khamis Mushait. Brent is near 108.

Sep 15, 2026/3 min read

Oil pipelines running across the desert near Jubail in eastern Saudi Arabia, photographed in 2012; the East-West line begins at Abqaiq in the same province

Business

Petrol Drove a Third of August's Inflation, Core Ran Hot, and the Market Now Treats Wednesday's Rate Rise as Done

Prices rose 0.4 per cent in August and 3.4 per cent over the year. Petrol is up 27 per cent, airfares 23. Core came in a tenth hotter than forecast, and futures moved from a coin toss to nine in ten for a quarter-point rise on 16 September. Stocks rose anyway.

Sep 12, 2026/4 min read

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The Houthis Took Mocha, the Red Sea Is Now the Second Strait in Play, and Two Ships Were Hit Off Oman Overnight

With Hormuz reduced to a trickle, Saudi exports go out through the Red Sea. On Thursday the Houthis took Mocha, eighty kilometres from Bab al-Mandeb, after the heaviest fighting since the 2022 truce. Hours later four projectiles hit two ships off Khasab.

Sep 12, 2026/3 min read

Perim Island and the Shaikh Said peninsula at Bab al-Mandeb, the strait between Yemen and Djibouti, photographed from the International Space Station in 2010

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A Bedroom That Is Not Quite Dark Is Linked to a Thicker, Stiffer Heart, in the First Study to Measure Both

Sep 12, 2026

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A Feather Inside a Tyrannosaur's Droppings Is the First Ever Found That Way, and It May Say Why Some Birds Survived

Sep 12, 2026

The Maritime Theatre at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, a circular island villa ringed by a moat; the lightning marker was found in the Amphitheatre area elsewhere on the site

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At Hadrian's Villa, a Marble Slab Still in Its Place Marks Where Lightning Struck at Night and the Ground Became Sacred

Sep 12, 2026

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Mistral Raised Three Billion Euros and Doubled Its Value in a Year. The Bet Is That Europe Will Pay to Own Its AI

Sep 12, 2026

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Twenty-Five Years On: Four Former Presidents at Ground Zero, Trump on Iran at the Pentagon, and a Seventh Silence

Sep 12, 2026

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Technology

Apple's Foldable Is the iPhone Duo, Costs 1,999 Dollars and Ships on 23 October. Everything Else Ternus Announced

Sep 10, 2026

A United States guided-missile destroyer under way in the Gulf of Oman, in an archive US Navy photograph; not one of the ships involved this week

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The US Sank Five Iranian Tankers, Iran Fired Twenty Missiles at a Base in Jordan, and Oil Closed Above a Hundred Dollars

Sep 10, 2026

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Business

Oil Above a Hundred Has Made Next Week's Fed Meeting a Coin Toss on a Rate Rise, and the Treasury Tripled Its Buybacks

Sep 10, 2026

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The Rhine at Bacharach with its gravel bed exposed at low water in August 2022, the last time the river ran this dry; Copernicus reports exceptionally low flows again this August

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August Was the Joint Hottest Month Ever Measured, and the First Above 1.5 Degrees Since Last November

The EU's climate service puts last month at 16.96 degrees Celsius globally, level with July 2023 and 1.65 degrees above pre-industrial. The oceans set their own record, western Europe had its hottest summer, and its rivers ran low. What the numbers mean.

Sep 10, 2026