Miami moved back to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, while Texas and Penn State — the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively — fell all the way out of the Top 25 for the first time since 2022 after losses to unranked opponents. No. 1 Ohio State was dominant in...

Egyptian antiquities officials on Sunday said a Pharaonic painting has disappeared from the famed Saqqara necropolis just outside Cairo, becoming the latest artefact to disappear in a country known for its rich history. Mohamed Ismail, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the limestone painting was in the tomb of Khentika in the...

Torrential monsoon rains have turned streets into raging rivers at several Chinese towns near North Korea this week, videos on Chinese social media show, in a sign that flooding may also be impacting vulnerable DPRK communities across the border. Two storm fronts have closed in on North Korea’s northwest provinces of North Phyongan and Jagang...

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As a British Jew, I was extremely disappointed to read about Shabana Mahmood calling pro-Palestine protests “fundamentally un-British” in the wake of last Thursday’s tragedy, when a synagogue was attacked by a terrorist (Home secretary calls Gaza protests in wake of Manchester attack ‘un-British’, 3 October). I am extremely proud to be both British and...

The deployment would mark the latest escalation of Donald Trump’s use of federal intervention in Democrat-led cities, which the US president describes as rife with crime. California Governor Gavin Newsom has said that US President Donald Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon, after a judge temporarily blocked his administration from deploying...

We’re through Week 6 of the 2025 college football season, and this weekend’s games were highlighted by a wild upset. For the first time since 1985, a top-10 team lost to a team with an 0-4 or worse record. UCLA — led by quarterback Nico Iamaleava — held off No. 7-ranked Penn State, winning 42-37....

Rival gunmen shot at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city on Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others in a chaotic street scene that left authorities trying to find out who started it, police said. The dead included a 43-year-old woman, identified by police as Shalanda Williams,...

North Korean women are quietly gaining ground in an area where they have long faced restrictions — on the road.  Until very recently, it was universally assumed in North Korea that driving was not — and should not be — a woman’s job. Women were not only excluded from such positions; they were barred from...