•Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, hold their baby son Archie Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will visit the UK next month with their two children, their first family trip back to the country since 2022, British media reported today. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be […]
•Diezani Alison-Madueke Former Nigerian petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, was found not guilty of six bribery charges by a London jury today, after a rare corruption trial of a high-profile former energy official. The verdicts are a major blow to British authorities, who began their investigation into corruption allegations against ...
•Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch US astronaut Christina Koch, the first woman to take part in a lunar mission, was today named the winner of a top Spanish prize for having “helped extend the frontiers of humanity”. The jury of the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord said Koch’s career was an inspiration for […]
Oil prices inched lower today, extending the previous session’s declines as investors assessed the US-Iran peace deal, though uncertainty over the full resumption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz limited further falls. Brent crude futures dipped 16 cents, or 0.2%, to $78.80 a barrel by 0340 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate fell...
•Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV today hailed a deal on ending the Middle East war announced between Iran and the United States as the result of “encouraging work in dialogue and negotiation”. The United States and Iran agreed this week to a deal to end the conflict, and Leo expressed his “gratitude” to those […]
•US airstrike on Iran Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used in strikes against Iran, the United States government revealed in a legal briefing seen yesterday by our correspondent. The June 15 brief defends the gas turbines used by a giant data center belonging to the trillionaire’s company xAI, which are the target of [&hellip...
Shares of SpaceX surged again early today, boosting Elon Musk’s rocket company above Amazon as the world’s fifth biggest enterprise in terms of market value. About 10 minutes into trading, SpaceX shares stood at $213.72, up 11 percent with a market capitalization of about $2.75 trillion compared with Amazon’s $2.66 trillion. The company began ...
•Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko (L) visiting the burnt Dormition Cathedral in the Orthodox complex of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, yesterday An overnight Russian barrage of missiles killed at least 11 people across Ukraine and sparked a fire at one of the most important Orthodox monasterie...
•Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that the joint US-Israeli military campaign against Iran had spared his country from what he described as the Islamic republic’s threat of “nuclear annihilation”. In his first public remarks since the United States and Iran announced an agreement in the early ...
Iran has executed at least 40 people, including 18 protesters, on “national security grounds” since the start of 2026, the United Nations said today. UN rights chief Volker Turk said he felt “deeply for the people in Iran, caught between war and cruel repression”. Since the start of the year, the Iranian authorities “have executed […]...

