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Trump gave Xi a rare planeside welcome on Wednesday ahead of Thursday's formal arrival ceremony, the first state visit by a Chinese leader to Washington since Xi's 2015 trip. The two governments extended their trade truce to January and put AI on the agenda.
Sep 24, 2026
The tournament delivered crowds and global attention. Its lasting value will depend on transport, public space, community football and honest accounting.
Jul 28, 2026
Solar panels integrated into the Grand Egyptian Museum show how cultural landmarks can cut operating emissions without compromising architecture or visitor experience.
Aug 3, 2026
While war rattles the wider region, Dubai and Saudi Arabia are still posting visitor growth, and the numbers say the Gulf is winning the confidence contest.
Aug 14, 2024
The ice broke away above the Lhende river in Tibet on Wednesday morning, dammed it, then let go. Nepal's tourism department has 668 visitors from 34 countries listed as missing. The mechanism has a name, and the Himalaya is producing it more often.
Aug 28, 2026
The September festival is beginning to reveal its citywide program, where districts, installations and small studios matter as much as headline landmarks.
Jul 28, 2026
New resorts, new dive licences and a scaled-back masterplan. Here is the real state of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea diving push, not the pitch deck version.
Feb 10, 2026
Billions have been promised across the Red Sea coast and Diriyah. Here is what travelers can actually book right now versus what remains a rendering.
Mar 9, 2025
The fourth global coral bleaching event hit 84 percent of the world's reefs. Here is what that means underwater, and what responsible diving looks like now.
Jun 18, 2026
Egypt's most famous sinkhole is also its most argued-over dive site. What the Blue Hole actually is, and why so much depends on who is diving it.
May 20, 2024
A unified GCC tourist visa has been discussed for years and is now said to be entering a pilot phase, at an estimated 100 to 150 dollars for 30 to 90 days. The economics of it are more interesting than the convenience.
Aug 21, 2026
Islamabad, Lahore and Manila go on sale for a carrier still under 15 destinations. The choice says the airline is chasing volume that already exists rather than demand it has to invent.
Aug 7, 2026
Trump says America gets permanent control of Greenland's security, a large new garrison and a veto on rival bases, at no cost. Copenhagen says the text recognises Danish sovereignty and Greenlandic self-determination. Nobody has published the document.
Sep 22, 2026
A World Cup spanning three countries and closed Middle East airspace are both reshaping summer routes and fares. Here is what is actually happening.
Jul 10, 2026
After 47 days in theatres the film's domestic total passed the 936.6 million dollar mark The Force Awakens set in 2015, and it is the first film since Avatar: The Way of Water to top the weekend chart six weekends running.
Sep 24, 2026
Tanks, troop carriers, anti-aircraft guns and a helicopter sit in ordered rows off Aqaba. It is the world's first underwater military museum, and the reasoning behind it is economic.
Aug 6, 2026
The two met for about 40 minutes on Tuesday during UN General Assembly week. Trump said 'I think we're going to make a deal'. Zelenskyy proposed a ceasefire limited to energy infrastructure and repeated his call for a three-way meeting with Putin present.
Sep 24, 2026
Smoke rose from a fuel depot by King Khalid airport and the coalition said nobody was hurt. Bisha, Taif, Farasan and Yanbu were targeted the same morning. Trump says he would meet Pezeshkian in New York; Iran says it knows of a planned attack.
Sep 22, 2026
Wednesday's hearing tested the government's national-security defence of barring three outlets, with Judge Kelly noting the 1977 Sherrill precedent on due process. He set no date for a ruling but said he would 'try to get an answer as soon as I can'.
Sep 24, 2026
About 450 were aimed at the capital, in what its mayor called an unprecedented attack. Two died and twenty were hurt in the Moscow region. Russia says it shot down 1,110. Near Kyiv, a mother and her three-year-old twins were killed the night before.
Sep 22, 2026
Once niche, modest fashion is now a USD 295 billion market, and the GCC's influence is reshaping global style. Major luxury brands are paying attention.
Jul 30, 2024
A war that closed the Strait of Hormuz and hit every GCC state should have broken the region's economics. Reserves and diversification kept it standing.
Jul 16, 2026
The announcement came on Truth Social on Friday, citing fake news; on Saturday three correspondents had their hard passes taken at the gate. The outlets sued on First Amendment and due process grounds. Fox News journalists objected. The judge is Trump's.
Sep 22, 2026
Brent settled at 101.20, an eleven-day low, as Trump said he would meet Pezeshkian in New York and Saudi crude found its way through Hormuz at 2.9 million barrels a day. The S&P 500 rose 1.5 per cent, Meta 11.4, and the ten-year slipped back under five.
Sep 22, 2026
With the East-West pipeline still shut, no Saudi crude has left the Red Sea since 11 September and Europe's late-September cargoes are being cancelled. The coalition called the Mecca drone a red line. An American drone killed the crews of two IRGC boats.
Sep 17, 2026
The Nevada Transportation Authority voted unanimously to let Tesla, Waymo and Uber run paid driverless rides in Clark County. The permitted number and the deliverable number are very different figures, and the company said so itself.
Aug 22, 2026
Hinge founder Justin McLeod has raised $18 million for a voice-first matchmaker that promises fewer profiles, no swiping and more deliberate introductions.
Jul 21, 2026
Five Italian divers died in a Maldives cave near Vaavu Atoll on 14 May 2026, and a Maldivian rescue diver died during the search that followed.
May 15, 2026
A Cochrane review of twenty-one trials found yoga probably better than no exercise for chronic low back pain, with small improvements. Emergency department data shows injury rates rising, most steeply among people over sixty-five.
Sep 4, 2026
Shinrin-yoku has produced a body of research showing reduced cortisol and blood pressure after time among trees. It has also produced evidence that expecting to go may lower cortisol by itself, which complicates the story usefully.
Sep 4, 2026
Two words cut into a slab forty centimetres across, FVLGVR SVBMANIVM, record a rite the Romans performed wherever a bolt came down: bury what it touched, mark the spot, never build on it. Found in place near the Amphitheatre by the University of Urbino.
Sep 12, 2026
Home is first, work is second, and the third place is everywhere else you can exist without a transaction. In fast-built cities that category has been squeezed hardest, and people feel it before they can name it.
Aug 8, 2026
Egyptian ful is crushed, oily and cumin-heavy. Lebanese ful keeps chickpeas in it and more lemon. Sudanese ful arrives under cheese. The bean is the same and almost nothing else is.
Aug 15, 2026
A meta-analysis of seventy studies put the increased mortality risk from loneliness at 26 per cent and from living alone at 32 per cent. A WHO commission estimates 871,000 deaths a year. What the numbers mean, and what has been shown to help.
Aug 23, 2026
Shark bites made headlines again in 2025. The numbers behind those headlines tell a very different story for the people actually diving with sharks.
Mar 5, 2026
A decade after Vision 2030 was announced, the non-oil economy is the majority of Saudi output, the sovereign fund has grown roughly sixfold, and about 1.3 million more Saudi women are in work. The record is strong, and the interesting part is the method.
Aug 22, 2026
