Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has set out a package of asylum reforms that will form the basis of the UK’s forthcoming Immigration and Asylum Bill, including three brand-new Shabana Mahmood UK immigration routes for refugee sponsorship. The announcement is one of the most searched UK political stories this week — and it comes wrapped in … Read more
Seattle’s World Cup fixture between Egypt and Iran on June 26 was never going to be just another Group G finale. Months before the teams were even drawn, the city’s Pride Match Advisory Committee had already designated the date as a celebration tied to Seattle Pride weekend — and when the draw landed Egypt and … Read more
When the final whistle blew at Lumen Field in Seattle on June 19, the United States had just beaten Australia 2-0 in their second match of the 2026 World Cup, sealing a spot in the knockout rounds. But the moment that actually went viral wasn’t the result — it was what happened next. Roughly 67,000 … Read more
On the afternoon of June 26, 2026, a small aircraft slammed into the upper floors of the CITIC Tower, also known as China Zun, sending debris and a section of the plane’s tail tumbling onto the streets of Beijing’s Central Business District below. The Beijing CITIC Tower plane crash triggered an immediate evacuation of the … Read more
When the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes tore through northern Venezuela on June 24, 2026, the most haunting images weren’t cracked walls — they were entire apartment towers reduced to flat stacks of concrete slabs, floor pressed on floor with almost no open space between them. Engineers have a name for this: pancake collapse. So … Read more
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeast coast on June 25, 2026, rattling the Tohoku region hard enough to suspend Shinkansen bullet train service and prompt the government to set up an emergency response team. Given Japan’s history with devastating tsunamis — most notably the catastrophic 2011 Tohoku disaster — many people braced for … Read more
On the evening of June 24, 2026, Venezuela was hit by two massive earthquakes within 40 seconds of each other — a magnitude 7.2 foreshock followed almost immediately by a magnitude 7.5 mainshock. Buildings collapsed across Caracas, a tsunami threat was briefly issued for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the United States … Read more
Greater Manchester is heading into an unplanned mayoral by-election on July 30, 2026, after Andy Burnham gave up the post to take his seat in Parliament. The vacancy is a direct consequence of Burnham’s decisive win in the June 18 Makerfield by-election, and it marks the first time anyone other than Burnham has held the … Read more
Britain has gone through prime ministers faster than almost any other stable democracy in modern history. Since 2016 alone, the country has had five different occupants of 10 Downing Street — and a sixth change may be imminent, with Keir Starmer widely expected, though not yet confirmed, to announce his resignation. The pattern raises an … Read more
As Keir Starmer’s premiership hangs by a thread, one name keeps surfacing as his most likely successor: Andy Burnham. The Greater Manchester mayor just won a parliamentary seat in a by-election explicitly engineered to bring him back to Westminster — the first time that’s happened in Britain since 1965. Here’s who he is, how he … Read more