Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent, at COP30 in Belém, Brazil Chris McGrath/Getty Images Turkey has proposed holding the 2026 climate talks in Antalya The COP31 climate meeting is now expected to be held in Turkey after Australia dropped its bid to host the annual event. Under the UN rules, the right to host the COP in 2026…
Adam RittenbergNov 19, 2025, 02:30 PM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian pushed back against claims that he is looking to leave the program, saying Wednesday that he is “not going anywhere.” Sarkisian addressed reports about his potential departure, calling them “absolutely false and…
For as long as there has been technology, there have been attempts to let ordinary people shape stories with it. The proto-interactive 1960s project The Sumerian Game allowed users to make choices in an ancient setting that a system could then react to and incorporate. During the 1990s, developers began working on Facade, in which…
North Korea is expected to remain largely impervious to Western diplomatic overtures for the foreseeable future as it rails against its rivals’ “hostile” policies. On Tuesday, North Korean state media denounced last month’s summit between US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung as proof of the “confrontational will” of its adversaries to…
. Kabul’s quest to reach out to Delhi by antagonising Islamabad is myopic in essence. It is a pity that the landlocked country is behaving in quite an unnatural manner, and is bent upon snubbing all the largesse Pakistan has exhibited all long. The gesture on the part of Pakistan to open trade routes with…
The Kenyan authorities paid a network of trolls to threaten and intimidate young protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations, Amnesty International has said. A new report by the human rights organisation said government agencies also employed surveillance and disinformation to target organisers of the mass protests, which swept Kenya across 2024 and 2025. The demonstrations were…
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter late last night to President Trump’s top antitrust enforcer, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater, raising concerns about a potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery and demanding that any deal review be “conducted transparently, independently, and in accordance with federal antitrust and…
MIAMI — Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry will miss Wednesday night’s game in Miami with ankle soreness. The team’s other headliners, Jimmy Butler (back) and Draymond Green (illness), also are out for the game. Curry initially tweaked his right ankle last Friday night during a 49-point performance in San Antonio and then tweaked it…
China’s political tightrope with Japan has lurched into a sharper and more confrontational posture this week after Chinese pundits urged Beijing to ban exports of rare earths to Japan andhalt imports of Japanese seafood and farm goodsin response to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s pro-Taiwan remarks. “I suggest banning rare earth exports to Japan, halting imports…
. The recent disclosure that Mayo Hospital in Lahore alone received 1,796 dog bite cases in 14 months has caused justifiable public alarm and is representative of a trend in every large and mid-sized city in the country, due to city managers’ failure to control stray dog populations. What makes this doubly unfortunate is that…
