Inside Nigeria’s World Cup qualification implosion. Plus: USMNT set for date with Ronaldo

Three managers, a threatened boycott and 'voodoo' allegations – how it all went so wrong for the World Cup regulars

Why the world's largest-known spider web surprised this scientist

Serban Sarbu, a cave scientist, thought he’d seen everything — until he entered a pitch-black cave along the Albania–Greece border. Inside, he found the world’s largest known spider web, and he explains how the enormous colony came to be.

Clamour for change inside the world's COP30 climate negotiations

An existential question hangs over this year's COP30 summit in Brazil: what are the annual U.N. climate negotiations really for?

Germany have confirmed their World Cup place but they are not where they are supposed to be

After Euro 2024 it was hoped this team would evolve and become a force for 2026. But that feels a long way off right now
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