Everyone knows them as the Queen's favourite dogs. Yet corgis started out as something quite different – tough herding dogs from Wales.

NASA's Artemis II mission takes four people around the Moon.

A second straight year near record lows – shortfall twice the size of Texas.

A major study shows the vaccine is measurably saving children's lives in Africa.

New telescope data rule out a lunar impact in 2032.

Spain win the 2026 World Cup: 1-0 after extra time against Argentina.

She does it all herself – and the new single „Miss Mango“ shows just how much range she has. A portrait of one of Brooklyn's most exciting young voices.

Design test post: a piece about the people who stay – warm, short, direct.

We just celebrated Sinatra – now let's be honest: New York has more than one anthem. For a whole generation, Alicia Keys sings it.

Why Frank Sinatra's voice still moves us today – and how „New York, New York“ became a whole city's unofficial anthem.

Europe's 55 football associations say they will not play FIFA tournaments as long as FIFA plans to sell World Cup stakes to investors. FIFA chief Infantino defends the plan.

The Rhine gauge at Kaub is nearing a record low. Because every cargo ship must pass there, fuel supply comes under pressure. What the much-discussed centimetres really mean.

A dummy test post: studies on morning coffee — and what's really behind it.

With the years, news arrives more often of people the same age as ourselves. That this confronts us more strongly with our own mortality is a well-researched psychological phenomenon.

After a week of massive protests, India's education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned. The demonstrations had been sparked by education policy.

Through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, Greek firefighting aircraft are deployed in Spain to fight the wildfires west of Madrid.

The media group Paramount Skydance has postponed its planned merger with Warner Bros. The combination would create one of Hollywood's biggest players.

The International Criminal Court has removed its chief prosecutor Karim Khan following allegations of sexual misconduct. Khan had denied the allegations.

To slow the dying of the reefs, scientists are turning to corals that tolerate higher water temperatures – a glimmer of hope for the threatened ecosystems of the seas.

On 12 August the sky darkens: a total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, Portugal and northern Spain – the first over continental Europe in years.