Monday, 12 October 2026
Picked from the best of the world's press
Gotland Grand National 2023. Gotland Grand National has long been considered the world’s largest Enduro competition and was first run in 1984.
A US company's tool can work backwards from a single indoor photo to a specific address, drawing on listing photos from Airbnb and Zillow, with the LAPD and Miami-Dade among its paying customers.
China's economic engine is not Beijing picking winners but thousands of city governments competing like venture capitalists, where promotion depends on how many companies a mayor lands.
A study of more than 2,600 people and over 12 million white blood cells found that immune ageing is not just a loss of rookies — the veterans that replace them split into two types, and more of one predicts higher mortality.
Israel's president pardoned Elor Azaria, the soldier who shot a wounded Palestinian in the head in 2016 — not an aberration, but the latest instance of a practice nearly eighty years old.
US copyright law contains a termination-of-transfer right: 35 years after signing a contract, a creator can void it and reclaim the copyright, no matter what the contract says.
Since 2003 the EU has charged emitters for their greenhouse gases; instead of shifting purchases to cheaper unregulated suppliers, EU countries ended up importing more from each other, while exports barely moved.
In 1621 a Mayflower colonist was frightened off by two 'wolves' at Plymouth; historian Strother Roberts argues they were Native American dogs, and that the misidentification served a colonial story about who deserved the land.
Astronomers traced a millisecond radio flash back to its host galaxy, the most distant fast radio burst yet pinned to a source.
Black men bear the psychological scars of racial trauma, yet society treats them as the danger rather than as people who have been hurt.
As of the end of September 2026, information technology made up 39.7% of the S&P 500, up about five points in a year, with the other ten sectors sharing barely over 60%.
