As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that have set the tone for the country’s development over more than seven decades – we examine how these documents inform and reflect high-level policy priorities, what to expect in the coming iteration and how infrastructure spending and…
After three years of unrelenting assault by Israel’s Defence Forces, Palestinians, in Gaza, hold only a faint hope of peace. What began in the aftermath of a Hamas attack on Israel has since become a prolonged campaign of vengeance, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, who has seized every opportunity to unleash bombardment upon the densely populated…
Eli LedermanOct 11, 2025, 07:18 PM ET Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. DALLAS — Texas rolled into the Cotton Bowl at 12:30 p.m. sharp on Saturday facing what Longhorns’ coach Steve Sarkisian…
Hollywood is mourning the loss of Diane Keaton. The Oscar-winning actress —known for her roles in Annie Hall, the Godfather trilogy, Father of the Bride, Something’s Gotta Give and The First Wives Club — died on Saturday in California at the age of 79. Her cause of death is not yet available. Following the news…
Firefights broke out along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border late on Saturday, with the Afghan Taliban attacking Pakistani posts, according to security officials from both countries, following a Pakistani air strike in Kabul this week. Pakistani security officials said that they were responding “with full force” to what they called unprovoked firing from Afghanistan. The exchange of…
PUBLISHED October 12, 2025 There’s a moment in Steve, Netflix’s quiet gut-punch of a drama starring Cillian Murphy, when the camera lingers on a boy’s face as he’s asked by a documentary crew to describe himself in three words. He pauses, searching for something. Averting his eyes from the camera lens, “Depressed,” he finally says….
PUBLISHED October 12, 2025 The Lahore Fort is one of the city’s most majestic treasures, steeped in centuries of stories and splendour. Yet among its many wonders, the outer Picture Wall feels like a world of its own — a mosaic of colour and history stretching as far as the eye can follow. In her…
Jake TrotterOct 11, 2025, 07:40 PM ET Close Jake Trotter is a senior writer at ESPN. Trotter covers college football. He also writes about other college sports, including men’s and women’s basketball. Trotter resides in the Cleveland area with his wife and three kids and is a fan of his hometown Oklahoma City Thunder. He…
Mortal Kombat II screenwriter Jeremy Slater revealed that New Line and Warner Bros. have already greenlit the next film at the end of the sequel’s Saturday New York Comic Con panel, telling the excited crowd to show up to theaters next summer and “make sure they know there’s an audience for this movie because we…
PUBLISHED October 12, 2025 KARACHI: The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) is scheduled to take place in Belém, Brazil, on November 10, 2025. But can we expect this one to be any different from the previous 29? The COP is an annual event organised by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),…
