13 h. ago Inside the £9.5billion mega airport set to become one of the biggest in the world

Long Thanh International Airport in Vietnam hopes to open its doors in 2026, after years of construction. Vietnam is often considered to be one of the most budget-friendly travel destinations.

Economics

13 h. ago World Athletics Championships 2025 Wednesday Schedule and Prize Money

It’s day five at the biggest competition of the year for the world’s greatest athletes.

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16 h. ago Foodies flock to world's biggest chicken wing festival complete with 'Lava Wing Challenge'

Foodies with a love of all things spice are this weekend invited along to Wing Fest, a celebration of all things chicken wings with plenty of innovative flavours in store

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38 h. ago World Athletics Championships 2025 Prize Money: Tuesday schedule and how much the gold medal winners get

It’s the biggest competition of the year for the world’s greatest athletes.

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42 h. ago ‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on storytelling, their strangest interactions with fans and bonding over The Lord of the RingsHow does one measure success? For Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the historians behind the hit podcast The Rest Is History, it could be the number of unexpected and overly familiar conversations with strangers. On a holiday high up in the mountains of Bulgaria, Holland was wandering around a secluded monastery when someone called out, “Love the podcast!”Sandbrook, meanwhile, is used to getting weird looks from fans who find it hard to compute that the man in front of them is one half of the soundtrack to their dog walks and commutes. “The weirdest thing that people say – which I’ve heard more than once – is, ‘My wife and I listen to you in bed every night,’” he says, looking mildly appalled. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago British grandfather reveals he has the world's biggest collection of post boxes

Arthur Reeder (pictured), 70, from Newport, Isle of Wight, has gathered the record stash of 260 items over 30 years, displaying them throughout his house, garden and shed.

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3 d. ago 'World's biggest cheeks' model's throwback snap as she goes under the knife again

Anastasiia Pokreshchuk shared a throwback snap of herself as a fresh-faced teenager before she became addicted to cheek fillers and underwent a number of cosmetic procedures

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4 d. ago Ruthless New Zealand machine an ominous obstacle on England’s horizon | Andy Bull

Black Ferns are gathering momentum and pose the biggest threat to the Red Roses’s hopes of lifting the World CupThe Black Ferns were slow leaving the pitch at half-time, but very quick coming back on to it once the break was over. With 40 minutes to play, the scores tied 10-10, and a spot in the semi-finals on the line, the Black Ferns’ captain Ruahei Demant pulled her team into a huddle, while the Springboks trotted past them and in to the changing rooms at Sandy Park.The team talk, according to player-of-the-match Kaipo Olsen-Baker, was only three letters long: “AFD” which, Olsen-Baker just stopped herself from blurting out during a live TV interview afterwards, means “all fucking day”. They scored three tries in the next seven minutes play. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Canelo vs Crawford fight free live Netflix stream warning issued

Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford clash tonight in an undisputed super-middleweight world title fight which could go down as one of the biggest in boxing history

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4 d. ago Boxing tonight: Live stream, card and ringwalk times as Canelo fights Crawford

The super-fight between Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and Terence Crawford will be available to a larger audience after one of the world's biggest streaming services landed the rights

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5 d. ago New footage shows colossal size of world's second biggest animal left to rot on Welsh beach

The fin whale is decomposing at popular Cefn Sidan sands in Carmarthenshire

Culture

6 d. ago What Canelo vs Crawford means for the complicated tradition of big

Ahead of a colossal clash this weekend, Alex Pattle is in Vegas to explore the heritage and future of the ‘fight capital of the world’ – amid a period in which the biggest bouts have drifted elsewhere

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7 d. ago Linking of oil giants to major heatwaves marks ‘leap forward’ for legal liability cases

Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensationCarbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have been directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for the first time, according to a new analysis. The research has been hailed as a “leap forward” in the legal battle to hold big oil accountable for the damages being caused by the climate crisis.The research found that the emissions from any one of the 14 biggest companies were by themselves enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible. The study shows, in effect, that those emissions caused the heatwaves. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time

Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensationCarbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have been directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for the first time, according to a new analysis. The research has been hailed as a “leap forward” in the legal battle to hold big oil accountable for the damages being caused by the climate crisis.The research found that the emissions from any one of the 14 biggest companies were by themselves enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible. The study shows, in effect, that those emissions caused the heatwaves. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Sebastian Coe hails ‘mahogany hard’ Keely Hodgkinson and calls Gout Gout ‘real deal’

Pair tipped for greatness before world championships Coe says ‘you have to marvel’ at Hodgkinson comebackKeely Hodgkinson could end her career as one of the greatest of all time while the 17-year-old Australian sprinter Gout Gout is the real deal, Sebastian Coe has predicted on the eve of the world championships in Tokyo.Coe won two Olympic 1500m gold medals, broke nine world records and has known most of track and field’s biggest stars in the past 50 years. So his words carry extra weight, particularly when it comes to the 800m, the event in which he held the world record for 18 years. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Epstein bombshell as big shot executor of pedophile's will is revealed after six years

Kathryn Ruemmler, was listed as the backup executor of Jeffrey Epstein's January 2019 will. Ruemmler has ties to the Obama administration and to one of the biggest banks in the world.

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8 d. ago Raising the bar: Duplantis leads the stars aiming to break world records in Tokyo

From the pole vaulter in a class of his own to Kipyegon and Warholm, the world championships in Japan offer tantalising chances for new global marksArmand Duplantis is in a class of his own with a 17-foot pole in his hands. The Swede has broken the world record 13 times, including three times this year. His clearance of 6.28m at June’s Diamond League on home soil in Stockholm was particularly special: “This was one of my biggest goals and dreams, to set a world record here at Stadion. It’s magic.” In Budapest last month, he went to 6.29m. At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics he won gold but failed in his three attempts at a world record. “I really thought I had it,” he said. This time? Continue reading...

Politics

8 d. ago Top EU official von der Leyen to outline plans for dealing with Europe's challenges in major speech

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to deliver a major state of the union speech on the challenges facing the world’s biggest trading bloc and laying out her vision for tackling them

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8 d. ago Majority in EU’s biggest states believes bloc ‘sold out’ in US tariff deal, poll finds

Average of 77% of respondents across five countries thought agreement would benefit US economy above allWhere there’s a will there’s a whey: cheese producers lean into their craft as Trump tariffs biteA majority of people across the EU’s five biggest member states believe the European Commission sold citizens out when negotiating a “humiliating” tariff deal with Donald Trump that “benefits the US” far more than Europe, a survey has shown.The poll by Cluster17, which is published on Tuesday, found 77% of respondents – ranging from 89% in France to 50% in Poland – thought the deal would benefit above all the US economy, with only 2% believing it would benefit Europe’s. Continue reading...

Economics

9 d. ago World's 'biggest' train station five times bigger than Grand Central is now open

The Chongqing East Station in China has just opened its doors and is set to be the world's largest train station, surpassing London's King's Cross in size

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