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Britain, France and Canada Ban Settlement Goods, Nine States Follow, and Israel Closes the British Consulate

Ed Miliband told Parliament the trigger was the E1 tender for 1,200 homes east of Jerusalem, a red line Britain drew two decades ago. The ban covers settlement goods and the services that build settlements, not Israel itself. Twelve countries signed on.

Sep 10, 2026

Fashion

Linen Creases Because of Exactly What Makes It Good, and Most of the World's Crop Grows in One Corner of France

The fibre comes from the stem of a flax plant that is left to rot in a field. It is stronger wet than dry, it moves heat away from the skin faster than cotton, and it will never lie flat. A guide to buying it well.

Sep 6, 2026

The Gulf's Restaurant Scene Is Reinventing Itself in 2026

After two years of shocks, Gulf dining is rebuilding around homegrown brands and confident local concepts rather than imported franchise names.

May 19, 2026

Europe’s Wildfires Are Rewriting the Summer Travel Map

Evacuations near Cap-Ferret and one of Spain’s largest fires show why Mediterranean and Atlantic holidays now require a live risk plan, not just insurance.

Jul 23, 2026

Wildfire Smoke Does Not Respect Borders, and Its Health Toll Outlasts the Flames

As fires force evacuations across France and Spain, fine particles can travel far beyond fire lines and worsen heart and lung disease after the immediate emergency fades.

Jul 25, 2026

Why Gulf Diners Are Eating Differently This Year

Boycotts, tighter budgets and a longer war are reshaping where GCC consumers eat, and Western fast food chains are the ones feeling it hardest.

Sep 10, 2024

Spain Are World Champions Again, and Messi's Last Dance Ends in Tears

Ferran Torres struck in extra time to beat Argentina 1-0, denying Messi a fairytale exit and handing Spain a second World Cup title.

Jul 20, 2026

The Thirty-Year Treasury Is at 5.32 Per Cent and the Federal Reserve Has Not Touched a Thing

Long government borrowing costs are at multi-decade highs across the United States, Germany, France and Japan. The cause is not central bank policy. It is the sheer volume of debt being issued, and some of it is paying for data centres.

Aug 18, 2026

Fashion

Haute Couture Is a Protected Legal Term, and Almost Nothing Sold Under the Word Couture Qualifies

Since 1945 the words have belonged to houses that meet rules set in Paris: a workshop in the city, a minimum staff, and fifty original designs shown twice a year. Why the rules exist, who meets them, and what couture on any other label means.

Sep 6, 2026

Where Everyone Went in 2025: The Destination Shifts That Defined the Year

Tokyo topped search interest, dupes replaced hotspots, and Bali and Puerto Vallarta surged. Inside the destinations that actually moved in 2025.

Dec 4, 2025

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

NAUI: The Agency That Lets the Instructor Decide

Older than PADI, structured as a non-profit membership association, and built on a principle almost nobody else uses: the instructor may exceed the standards, and is expected to.

Aug 12, 2026

One Company Now Owns Aqualung, Apeks, Mares, rEvo and a Training Agency

HEAD rescued Aqualung out of receivership with a 50 million euro package. The result is a single group holding four of diving's best known equipment names and SSI, the agency that certifies divers to use them.

Aug 18, 2026

Crypto

Europe's MiCA Rules Are Now Fully Live. Crypto Just Grew Up

The EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets law became fully applicable on December 30, forcing every exchange and stablecoin issuer to operate under a real license.

Jan 8, 2025

Freediving's 2026 Pool Season Ran Twice, in Two Rulebooks

Budapest and Novi Sad staged world championships nine days apart under rival federations. Four AIDA world records fell, then CMAS records fell again, often to the same athletes.

Aug 4, 2026

The Saudi Pro League Spent About 230 Million Euros This Summer, and the Biggest Deal Was a Winger From West Ham

The seventieth season began on 13 August. Crysencio Summerville to Al Hilal at 64.5 million euros is the summer's largest move, and the shape of the spending says more about the league's direction than the total does.

Aug 24, 2026

The Saudi Pro League Is Selling More Players Than It Buys

With the season opening on 13 August, outgoing transfers outnumber incoming ones by a wide margin and summer spending sits far below the headline years. That is a strategy shift, not a slowdown.

Aug 8, 2026

The Red Sea Crisis Is Squeezing Gulf Restaurant Margins

Shipping disruption is pushing up the cost of imported produce and packaging, and Gulf restaurateurs are running out of room to absorb it quietly.

Apr 9, 2024

World Cup 2026 Preview: 48 Teams, Three Hosts, One Giant Gamble

The biggest World Cup ever kicks off across the US, Mexico and Canada. Here is what the expanded 48-team format actually changes.

Jun 5, 2026

IANTD: The Agency That Made Nitrox Respectable

In the late 1980s, teaching recreational divers to breathe enriched air was close to heresy. IANTD taught it anyway, then built the trimix and rebreather syllabi much of technical diving still runs on.

Aug 12, 2026

Nutrition

Low-Carb vs Low-Fat: What Decades of Trials Converged On

The biggest head-to-head diet trial ever run found near-identical weight loss. The real variable turned out to be the person, not the macro.

Nov 18, 2024

Design

The 2026 Pritzker Went to an Architect Who Builds Small, Strange Things Out of Stone and Fibreglass

Chile's Smiljan Radic Clarke is the fifty fifth laureate of architecture's most significant prize, cited for work that is immediately recognisable and conceptually evasive. In a decade of megaprojects, the jury picked the opposite.

Aug 22, 2026

PADI, SSI, NAUI, IANTD or GUE: Which Certification Actually Matters

The agencies argue endlessly and the accident data barely distinguishes between them. Here is what genuinely differs, what does not, and the questions to ask a dive centre before you pay.

Aug 13, 2026

Iran Says It Will Declare a Restricted Zone Beyond Hormuz, Names Oman as Corridor Partner, and Jizan Is Hit Again

Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.

Sep 8, 2026

Four Deals in Five Days, and Not One of Them Was Large

Measurement, medical imaging, homebuilding and a presentation startup all changed hands in the first fortnight of August. The mid-market is moving while the giants wait on regulators.

Aug 15, 2026

PADI, Explained Properly: What the Standards Require and What They Do Not

The world's largest training agency is also the most argued about. Setting the snobbery aside, here is what a PADI course actually mandates, where the flexibility sits, and what the card does not cover.

Aug 12, 2026

There Is a Three Week Bicycle Race Going On and This Desk Has Never Once Mentioned It

The Vuelta a Espana runs from 22 August to 13 September, 21 stages and 3,310 kilometres from Monaco to Granada. If you have never followed a grand tour, the thing to understand is that it is not really a race. It is twenty one of them.

Sep 2, 2026

Twelve Days That Closed the Gulf's Skies

Israel's strikes on Iran and the retaliation that followed grounded Gulf carriers and shut down entire national airspaces within hours.

Jun 26, 2025

Health

Intermittent Fasting Works About as Well as Eating Less, Because in the Trials That Is What It Turned Out to Be

Three randomised trials put time-restricted eating against ordinary calorie control or against nothing. The eating window on its own did little. Combined with eating less, it did what eating less does. What that means for anyone considering it.

Sep 6, 2026

Gulf Aviation Is Heading for a $4.3 Billion Loss, and the Airspace Advisory Still Runs to 31 August

Middle East carriers earned 7.2 billion dollars in 2025 and are forecast to lose 4.3 billion this year. Emirates is flying at three quarters of capacity, jet fuel is up nearly half, and European regulators still advise avoiding four countries' airspace.

Aug 22, 2026