TodayWhy Editorial 
At 19:49 on Friday 31 July 2026, the ground under Pozzuoli moved hard enough to crack a port, close two railway lines and send people running into the street in their pyjamas. The Naples earthquake registered magnitude 4.7. On paper that is a moderate tremor. In Campi Flegrei it was the strongest shock recorded since … Read more
Update, 12 August 2026, evening: Today’s eclipse has now happened. Spain delivered on its forecast — clear skies across much of the path of totality, with NBC reporting live from Valladolid as the sky darkened at sunset. Iceland was less fortunate: dense cloud and rain rolled into Grundarfjörður on the west coast shortly before totality … Read more
The Ceuta crisis looked like a story about a fence, a court ruling and a smuggling network. Underneath it sits a much older and much bigger question: who governs a stretch of desert on the Atlantic coast that Spain walked away from fifty years ago. Western Sahara rarely makes headlines on its own — the … Read more
Ceuta, a tiny Spanish autonomous city on the North African coast, occupies one of the most geopolitically complex spots on Earth. Perched directly across the Strait of Gibraltar and sharing a 6.4-kilometer (4-mile) land border with Morocco, Ceuta—along with its sister city Melilla—represents the only physical land border between the European Union and the African … Read more
If you tapped your phone at a checkout today and nothing happened, you were not alone. Millions of people opened their Wallet app and got an error instead of a payment. So why is Apple Pay not working today? The short answer: Apple’s payment servers went down on the afternoon of July 31, 2026, and … Read more
On 31 July 2026, Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni said Spain should be excluded from the Schengen area after tens of thousands of people crossed into Ceuta from Morocco. She called the images shocking and said Italy was ready to act, including by suspending the Schengen agreement with Spain. Searches for “Schengen” spiked immediately. The … Read more
The name keeps appearing in headlines with no explanation attached. Trump’s Board of Peace announced a deal. The Board of Peace says Hamas will disarm. A Board of Peace official confirmed the terms. Almost nobody stops to say what it is — and the answer is genuinely unusual. It is a transitional government for Gaza, … Read more
On 30 July 2026, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his Board of Peace had reached a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza. A senior Hamas official confirmed to the BBC that the group had agreed. It is the first time in the conflict that … Read more
It sounds like a contradiction. A pardon wipes out the risk of prosecution. The Fifth Amendment protects you from being forced to incriminate yourself. So if you cannot be prosecuted, what is left to protect? That Fifth Amendment question moved from law-school seminar to live news on 29 July 2026, when Anthony Fauci invoked the … Read more
For about two years he was one of the most recognised people on the planet. Before that he spent four decades running a research institute most Americans could not name. Now he is back in the news for refusing to answer questions. So who is Anthony Fauci, what did he actually do, and what exactly … Read more