Being a woman in China is getting harder. But in Chengdu, female-only spaces are flourishing
The socially relaxed city has seen a cautious feminist revival despite authorities’ growing alarm at women who shun traditional roles In a small, unassuming bookstore in south-west China, a discreet…
David Squires on … the World Cup reimagined as Gianni Infantino’s West Side Story
As football’s greatest spectacle comes to North America, our cartoonist creates a heartwarming narrative around the Fifa president Buy a cartoon | David’s favourite works of 2025 And his latest…
World Cup 2026 visa chaos: from referee Omar Artan to Iranian officials – who is affected?
Fifa has found its tournament squarely caught up in the second Trump administration’s aggressive border restrictions For successive men’s World Cup tournaments Fifa has managed to bulldoze its way through…
Iran federation says ticket allocation has been pulled days before start of World Cup
Iran due to play group matches in Los Angeles and Seattle Federation says decision ‘raises questions about interference of non-sporting considerations’ Iran’s football federation said on Tuesday its ticket allocation…
‘We are knocking on the door’: Africa’s 10 contenders target World Cup glory
Morocco’s semi-final appearance in Qatar has raised the possibility of an African team reaching the final, but who are best poised to do so? With a record 10 African teams…
Didier Deschamps: ‘Mbappé knows that when he speaks, he speaks for all the players’
Questioned in France but championed from afar, the departing head coach has forged a legacy that no one – bar, perhaps, himself – would dare dispute Follow the verdant path…
Mo Touré: Australia’s Ter-Mo-Nator who just wants to be seen as a ‘good person’
The rising Socceroos star isn’t interested in celebrity and heads into his first World Cup with a strong connection to his roots and feet firmly on the ground The 22-year-old…
John Bennett didn’t factor a war into his farm’s finances. Now he’s at risk of losing $600,000
Urea prices have risen 75% since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran, eroding the already thin profit margins of Australian grain farmers Video report: How the war in…
‘Osprey cam’ streams life of nesting seabirds perched at tip of 55 metre-long Queensland rainforest canopy crane
Researchers believe the same pair of birds has been mating and nesting in the unusual spot in the Daintree Rainforest for 15 consecutive years Follow our Australia news live blog…
Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters
Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure grows Seattle has passed a year-long moratorium on the construction of new datacenters. The city council…