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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-17 11:00:33 (5 days ago)

World Cup of memes: Japan fans, Beckham unbothered and a simmering bromance

A tournament with more teams and more games has been filled with euphoria, heartbreak, and these weird and wonderful viral moments

As a Japanese supporter exclaimed to a television camera, “Texas is good, everything is big”, we knew the World Cup had started. In those early euphoric moments, seeing the palpable joy when everything is still possible, it seemed Japan fans were the MVPs of memes.

They came in their thousands, dressed in sombreros and Mario outfits, tossed into the air like confetti and line dancing with the Dutch. Then the heartbreak arrived.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-17 11:00:33 (5 days ago)

How has Donald Trump changed our view of reality? | Fiona Katauskas

Things are a lot less scripted now

• See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-17 11:00:32 (5 days ago)

Twelve days nursing my father in the ‘dying room’ taught me the value of planning for death

Dying is difficult, a nurse told me. It might have been even more appalling had Dad not been clear about his wishes. Yet most of us remain deeply reluctant to outline how we want the end to go

My father spent the last 12 days of his life unconscious, unresponsive, in a hospital bed on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

My mother sat beside him night and day, holding his hand. I massaged Dad’s legs, horribly swollen, the effects of oedema – a buildup of fluids. His mouth fell open, dried out; I swabbed it constantly in an attempt to keep it wet. Sometimes his breath was a gurgle. My brother and I took turns sleeping on a stretcher in his room – the “dying room” was what hospital staff called it.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-17 11:00:32 (5 days ago)

A friend, Facebook or ... Ukraine? No easy surrogacy options for Australian families desperate for children

With huge amounts of money at stake and power imbalances in play, the Australian Law Reform Commission is looking at how to better regulate the industry

Over eight years, Ethan and his wife went through nine rounds of IVF in Melbourne.

They travelled to Spain for two more, without success.

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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-17 11:00:31 (5 days ago)

Genuine hope may have been fleeting for England. But it was still life-affirming | Max Rushden

Two minutes and 55 seconds. That’s how long I really had hope of reaching the World Cup final. And it didn’t kill me

In her book Hope in the Dark the author Rebecca Solnit examines if it is possible to have hope when you consider all of human suffering. She quotes the Bulgarian writer Maria Popova: “Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naivety.” By all accounts it is a compelling argument for hope as a catalyst for social change.

Meanwhile, Graham Burrell wrote: “It is the hope that kills you” following Lincoln City’s 2-1 home defeat to Wigan in 2024. “I feel perhaps our playoff push was finally killed off yesterday.”

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-17 10:57:33 (5 days ago)

Don Lemon reveals he's 'totally serious' about considering a presidential run

Don Lemon says he's "totally serious" about a potential 2028 presidential run, revealing he's talked to political insiders about what it would take.

BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-07-17 10:56:26 (5 days ago)

At least two dead in Texas floods ravaging same area where campers died

The same area devastated by floods last year's floods, which caused more than 130 deaths, is once again being hit.

Fox News - Video

2026-07-17 10:52:46 (5 days ago)

US strikes destroy Iranian surveillance tower

U.S. forces successfully destroyed the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower in Iran during precision strikes on July 16, U.S. Central Command announced Saturday.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-17 10:52:36 (5 days ago)

Mother of Henry Nowak’s murderer jailed for removing knife from scene

Kiran Kaur, 53, sentenced to three years for assisting Vickrum Digwa after he stabbed student in Southampton

The mother of Vickrum Digwa, whose false claims of racism against Henry Nowak triggered riots in Southampton, has been jailed for removing a knife from the murder scene.

Appearing at Southampton crown court, Kiran Kaur, 53, was jailed for three years for assisting an offender by taking the knife from where her son had murdered the 18-year-old student on 3 December 2025 back to her family home.

France 24 - World News

2026-07-17 10:51:58 (5 days ago)

Germany to join French nuclear exercise in bid to boost defence cooperation

Germany will take part in a French nuclear exercise later this year, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday after key defence talks with French President Emmanuel Macron at an air base near Cologne. Merz said the two countries would also continue to develop ​the ‌cloud solution from ‌the ​FCAS joint fighter jet project that ​collapsed ​earlier this ​year.

New York Times - World News

2026-07-17 10:50:01 (5 days ago)

Venezuela Earthquakes Force a Grim Homecoming for Migrants

Mass migration, which defines modern Venezuela, has heavily marked the earthquake, too, saving many who had left, but also making their grief harder.

Fox News - Video

2026-07-17 10:49:38 (5 days ago)

Don Lemon 'totally serious' about considering presidential run

Former CNN host Don Lemon revealed he was "totally serious" about considering a presidential run during a podcast interview and said people had been asking him to run.