Diplomats say China will nominate maternal-health official Song Li to succeed Tedros, entering a seven-way race for an agency ...

Trump approves the Army’s first execution since 1961, choosing a firing squad for Nidal Hasan days after Tennessee’s lethal ...

Police briefly detained Rahul Gandhi, his sister and some 260 others as 300 opposition MPs marched on India’s Election ...

August Hanning, who ran Germany’s BND from 1998 to 2005, was arrested with his former chief of staff on suspicion of passing state secrets to a foreign intelligence service.

A worker at Irkutsk’s anti-plague institute died after reports of a broken test tube; Moscow says pneumonia of unknown origin ...

Francis Halzen, 82, won the 2026 physics Nobel alone for building IceCube, the South Pole detector that first caught ...

Israel scrambled fighters to down Flydubai 1073 with 150 Israelis aboard after the co-pilot attacked the captain, CBS reports ...

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 prize for optogenetics, the tool that lets scientists turn ...

President Michael Kotlikoff pledged an independent law-firm review of Cornell’s 2024 handling and a reexamination of Greek ...

Trump told a Nebraska rally the Iran war’s gas prices are “a small price to pay” and that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego; Newsom called him “deranged.” ...

Yemen’s government says it retook Bab el-Mandeb and Mocha in a day with Saudi air cover; Houthis deny it and claim strikes on Riyadh airport and Aramco.

An Irvine realtor was arrested at LAX before a Shanghai flight, charged with surveilling Lai Ching-te’s son for Beijing; messages read “Saw him. It’s that young one.” ...