2+ hour, 30+ min ago  (963+ words) From his secret bunker last June, as Israeli missiles rained down on Tehran, Iran's supreme leader issued an instruction he had never given before: to prepare for his succession. With the threat of decapitation strikes hanging over him, Ayatollah Khamenei…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (767+ words) Parked at a petrol station, Peter Yazzie slipped into his orange high-vis vest before heading to work on a construction site when several cars pulled abruptly into the lot. Seeing other vehicles or people was rare at 4.30am in Phoenix. But…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (865+ words) International flights are being cancelled. Petrol has all but run out. Universities have closed. The electricity supply is more off than on. And nobody quite knows how it will end. President Trump's bet is that the communist government of Cuba…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (930+ words) Spooked by President Trump's praise of "very good talks" with Iran, Binyamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington on Tuesday to try to impress upon the US that any deal must curb ballistic missiles as well as Tehran's nuclear ambitions. The Israeli…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1304+ words) At a packed butcher's shop in Detroit, Abdul el-Sayed gives short shrift to the notion that he is the next Zohran Mamdani, whose upstart campaign swept aside the Democratic establishment to win New York's mayoral race. "I don't have any…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (693+ words) The King was heckled by members of the public about his brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, during an official visit to Essex on Thursday. One man was heard to ask whether the King had urged the police to investigate Andrew. Charles did…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1768+ words) The news in October that stars and coaches from America's National Basketball Association, the NBA, were allegedly involved in a $7 million illegal gambling operation " involving what prosecutors described as "x-ray poker tables" and "sunglasses to read the backs of playing…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago  (499+ words) Jeffrey Epstein had "very low" testosterone levels and appeared to have cryogenically frozen his sperm, according to medical records released as part of the US Department of Justice's investigation. A urology test showed he had well-below-normal testosterone levels in 2016, which…...

3+ week, 23+ hour ago  (339+ words) The ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with the murder of his wife. A Delaware grand jury charged William Stevenson, 77, with one felony count of second-degree murder of his wife Linda, 64, police in New Castle announced…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (600+ words) A political row has erupted in Spain over the government's decision to grant residency to about 500,000 undocumented migrants. The move sharply diverges from tougher immigration policies taking hold elsewhere in Europe and the United States. Scheduled to be approved by…...