London games are sold as spectacle. This one was a division game that behaved like a playoff game. Houston led 17-14 at half-time and 31-21 late in the third quarter, lost that lead in a dizzying fourth-quarter…
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On paper this was the mismatch of the Week 6 slate: the AFC's last unbeaten team at home against the league's last winless one. For one half it played that way — 19-3, two Walker touchdowns, a milestone quietly…
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For three quarters this was a coronation. Then it became a survival exercise. Caleb Williams' first game in a month was the best passing day of his career, Chicago built a 24-point lead, and the Bears still needed a…
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For half an hour this looked like a routine home win. The Giants were up 10-0, their quarterback was dealing, and a 1-4 Saints team was playing out the string before a long trip to Paris. What followed was two games…
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For a half, this was the comfortable divisional win the standings promised: a rising young quarterback dealing, a 17-3 lead, and a visiting team that could not finish a drive. Then the Patriots' offensive line…
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On paper this was a mismatch: a Rams team favoured by nearly two touchdowns at home against a Cardinals side that arrived with the league's worst scoring defence, a four-game losing streak and a 3-16 record against…
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This is becoming Buffalo's signature: play just well enough to build a lead, just loosely enough to give most of it back, and then make the three or four plays that actually decide the game. The Bills scored 20…
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This is what containment is supposed to look like — and what it costs. Every one of Kenya's four newest Ebola patients was already locked inside the quarantine system when the fever started. That is the system…
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It was, on paper, a routine stop on a solidarity tour: a bus of American visitors in the Old City of Jerusalem. Then the slogans on the windows registered — "Send them back," in the heart of the Muslim Quarter — and…
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Every French protest day produces two stories: the march, and the count that follows it. The march on Saturday was enormous and mostly peaceful — 550,000 people by the government's own count, 800,000 by the CGT…
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A Saturday Mass in Guayaquil, shared live with parishioners watching from home, ended in a tragedy no one inside the church could prevent. By Sunday, the archdiocese had confirmed what the congregation already knew.…
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A beach holiday is supposed to end with photographs. This one ended with a building gone, four bodies found inside two toilets where people had apparently tried to shelter, and a question Bangladeshi officials were…
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There was no lost election, no scandal at the top, no economic shock behind this number. By Kyodo's account, the slide below 50% traces to something smaller and, in Japanese politics, often more damaging: a personnel…
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Georgia were nearly 20-point favourites, at home, in the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry, with a 93-game home winning streak by AP No. 1 teams against unranked opponents standing behind them. None of it survived the…
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For a century, a fighter pilot's job ended at the edge of his own cockpit. This month, over the California desert, that job quietly expanded: a pilot flying an F-22 Raptor issued tactical orders to a second jet — one…
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For decades, the most consequential boundary in glaciology was drawn as a line: the grounding line, where a glacier's ice lifts off the bedrock and begins to float. The new study says that line does not exist — not…
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It was the most ordinary scene in American life: a Saturday afternoon at a youth sports complex, children in shin guards chasing a ball, parents along the touchlines. At about 3:25 p.m., Sedgwick County 911 began…
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A papal window is a stage built for exactly this kind of moment. At noon on Sunday, under cloudy grey skies, the window of the Apostolic Palace opened and Pope Leo XIV appeared — smiling, unaided, five days after an…
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There is no partial version of what happened to Sri Lanka on Saturday. At around 11 a.m., on a bright weekend day, the entire national grid failed at once — every province, every city, the capital Colombo included.…
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The square in front of Milan's Gothic cathedral is where Italy shows itself to the world — fashion weeks, football celebrations, a million tourist photographs. On Saturday it became the latest European landmark to…
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The script on the Durand Line has become grimly familiar: an infiltration attempt, covering fire from Afghan Taliban posts, Pakistani artillery in reply, and then two incompatible stories about what the shells…
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It was meant to be the ceremonial high point of a night set aside to honour service: four airmen descending from the rafters of the Alamodome to the field, fifteen minutes before kickoff, in front of a crowd of more…
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An airport fence is the simplest security device in aviation: a line of wire that separates the public world from the one place where it must never intrude. At Leipzig/Halle on Saturday night, somebody drove through…
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They were walking to pray. In the small hours of Sunday, during Navratri — one of the holiest stretches of the Hindu calendar, when the Sheetla Mata Temple in Gwalior draws devotees through the night — a truck loaded…
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It was supposed to be the best night of the year. Saturday was Shashthi, the opening evening of Durga Puja, when Kolkata pours into the streets to begin five days of pandal-hopping at the festival UNESCO lists as…
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A ceasefire that was announced on social media, and never confirmed by either capital fighting under it, now has a scoreboard. On Sunday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy published the count himself: 76 Russian attacks on…
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Two officers are dead, and the argument over how Saudi helicopters are dying on the Yemen border started before the coalition had finished announcing it. Riyadh says an AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter was lost to a…
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Rebellions change leaders all the time. What happened in Goma this week is rarer: a rebellion acquired a former president. Joseph Kabila, who ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for 18 years, has taken direct…
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The confirmed facts are stark enough on their own: one of Canada’s busiest army bases suffered the worst peacetime training disaster in its modern history on a Saturday afternoon, when a grass fire that range control…
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On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order waiving the Russia sanctions Congress had passed in the Graham Act, two days before they were to take effect — and the order said nothing about how long the waiver…
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