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World Cup and social media: football players reach new heights in popularity

Erling Haaland's playful, offbeat Instagram posts won over American audiences unfamiliar with his European stardom, driving an 80% surge in followers and cementing him as the World Cup's most talked about true breakout personality online

Wreckage of Pan Am plane lost in 1952 Puerto Rico crash located on Atlantic seabed after 74 years

An autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with sonar and high-resolution cameras spent days scanning the seabed off San Juan before spotting the Douglas DC-4's remarkably preserved fuselage, its aluminium gleaming some 600 metres below the surface

Trump: US will respond immediately if Houthis threaten Red Sea shipping

US President Donald Trump has pledged that Washington will act without delay if Iran-backed Houthi rebels attempt to disrupt commercial shipping through the Red Sea, though he stressed no such incident has yet occurred

Former minister Ann Widdecombe killed in hammer attack, court told

Joshua Kerry, accused of murdering former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe, struck her 21 times on the head with a hammer, prosecutors told Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, as an inquest opened separately into her death

Houthis open a second war front: Threat of a Saudi Arabia blockade brings new risk to oil

Yemen's Houthi movement has declared a naval blockade of Saudi ports, warning tankers to stay away as Riyadh weighs how to respond to a group it fought to a costly stalemate over nearly a decade

France records worst wildfire season in 20 years by mid-July

More than 42,000 hectares have burned across France since January, already surpassing the total for all of 2025, as satellite monitoring shows fires this month tearing through Fontainebleau, the Var, the Drôme and Corsica alike

Crisis escalates in the Strait of Hormuz: “We hit two more tankers,” say the Revolutionary Guards

Reports indicate that one of the two vessels was Greek – The US carried out another series of strikes on Iranian targets – Brent crude prices eased slightly but remained close to $90 per barrel

Court puts “brake” on $110 billion paramount–Warner Bros. merger

The decision came after a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 12 states led by California

Trump: Every time Iran kills an American soldier, it will pay a much higher price

In a post, the U.S. president said he had already issued the relevant order to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine, as well as all senior U.S. military leaders

“When she turns eight, they will take her”: Children sold as brides to repay family debts in Afghanistan

Shocking testimonies reveal the extent of child marriages under the Taliban - Underage mothers and girls “promised” as brides from infancy

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