Bangladesh
Bangladesh Flood Recovery Falters as Three More Children Die and the Crops Drown
Bangladesh flood recovery stalls as three more children die in Chattogram and Cox's Bazar and monsoon rain destroys paddy and vegetable crops.
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Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin Weekend Trading Becomes the War’s Only Live Market Signal
Bitcoin weekend trading near $63,800 is the only live market signal as Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed and oil markets stay shut.
International
Strait of Hormuz Closure: Tehran Shuts the World’s Oil Artery and Dares Markets to React
Strait of Hormuz closure declared by Tehran as oil tops $75. What the shutdown of the world's key oil artery means for shipping and prices.
News
Iran Attacks Gulf States: Missiles Strike Qatar, UAE and Bahrain After Fresh US Raids
Iran attacks Gulf states Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE with missiles and drones after a third round of US strikes. Sirens sound across the region.
Culture
Bellingham Twice, Norway Once: England Outlast the Tournament’s Fairy Tale in Miami
England Norway will be remembered as the night the tournament’s best story met the tournament’s best player in his favourite minute. Norway 1, England 2, after extra time, in a Miami quarter-final that took 122 minutes to separate a fairy tale from a favourite — and it took Jude Bellingham, twice, to do the separating. […]
Atheism
Blind, Innocent, Imprisoned Ten Months: Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law Worked Exactly as Designed
The Pakistan blasphemy law has just produced what its defenders will call a success story. Nadeem Masih, a blind Christian man who earned his living with a weighing machine in a Lahore park, was acquitted this week by a sessions court — the prosecution could not produce sufficient evidence against him. The judge noted the […]
Culture
Bonnie Tyler, 1951–2026: The Voice That Out-Sang the Dark
Bonnie Tyler dies at 75, and somewhere tonight, in a karaoke bar in every city on Earth, somebody is turning around and finding only bright eyes. The Welsh singer behind “Total Eclipse of the Heart” died this week in a hospital in Portugal, after weeks of treatment that followed emergency intestinal surgery and a month […]
Bangladesh
Forty-Four Dead, a Million Stranded: The Flood Bangladesh Was Warned About Has Arrived
The Bangladesh floods have stopped being a forecast. At least 44 people are dead in the country’s southeast, killed by days of torrential monsoon rain that has sent hillsides sliding onto homes and rivers over their banks. More than a million people are stranded. The disaster management ministry counts 267,918 households cut off across seven […]
News
“1,000 Missiles, Locked and Loaded”: Trump Just Made His Own Life the Tripwire for War
Trump missiles Iran: the words arrived, as American strategic doctrine now does, in a Truth Social post. One thousand missiles, the president wrote on Friday night, are “locked and loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran” — to be launched if Tehran attempts to assassinate him. The orders, he said, have already been […]
Culture
Jayden Adams Made World Cup History Two Weeks Ago. He Died This Morning at 25
Jayden Adams dies at 25. There is no way to write that sentence that makes sense of it. Two weeks ago he was on the pitch in the biggest tournament in his sport. This morning he was found dead in Schotsche Kloof, the Cape Town neighbourhood where his story began. No cause of death has […]
Ex-Muslim Voices
Column: Flood Relief Must Carry No Sermon — a Bangladeshi Ex-Muslim’s View
Column: flood relief in Chattogram must be unconditional. Aid that arrives with politics or preaching attached is not charity.
Atheism
Column: Iran’s Supreme Leader Has Been Invisible for Four Months — and Belief Fills the Gap
Column: Iran's supreme leader has not been seen publicly in four months. A theocracy is asking 90 million people to take him on faith.
Humanism
Column: AI Governance Is Now Child Protection, and the UN Says We Are Failing
Column: AI governance is now child protection. The UN warns that millions of children use AI daily while safeguards fail to keep pace.
Opinion
Opinion: Government Clearance for AI Models Sets a Precedent We Are Accepting Too Quietly
Opinion: government clearance for AI models arrived with GPT-5.6, and the precedent deserves far more debate than it is getting.
Cryptocurrency
TeraWulf Bets $3.5 Billion That Its Future Is AI, Not Bitcoin Mining
TeraWulf plans a $3.5 billion debt raise for a Kentucky data centre leased to Anthropic — a $19 billion signal that miners are becoming AI landlords.