
Lobito Corridor: A new line for trade and investment
The corridor is strategically significant given that Zambia, Angola and the DRC are home to some of the world’s most significant deposits of critical minerals
FRIDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2026, 04:20

The corridor is strategically significant given that Zambia, Angola and the DRC are home to some of the world’s most significant deposits of critical minerals

Recent deadly incidents in California and Europe are putting avalanches – and how to avoid them – in the spotlight.

Megan Keller scores in overtime to clinch Winter Olympic gold for the United States in a last-gasp 2-1 win over great rivals Canada.

Team GB will go for gold after beating Switzerland 8-5 to reach the final of the men’s curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Paris St-Germain are showing interest in Erling Haaland, several European clubs want Bernardo Silva and Carlo Ancelotti intends to extend his stay as Brazil boss.

Keely Hodgkinson breaks the long-standing women’s indoor 800m world record set by Slovenia’s Jolanda Ceplak on the day the Briton was born in 2002.

The International Paralympic Committee decided to allow six Russian and four Belarusian athletes to compete under their national flags in Italy. The decision has caused an outcry in Ukraine.

NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Max Colchester about the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and the new details that have emerged in the Epstein files.

Hull Kingston Rovers withstand a fierce comeback from Brisbane Broncos to win the World Club Challenge.

Duhan van der Merwe’s try-scoring X-factor makes him perfectly suited to return to the Scotland XV against Wales on Saturday, writes Tom English.
A bare-bones Chinese app called “Are You Dead?” — whose entire premise is that solo-living users tap daily to confirm they’re still alive, triggering an alert to an emergency contact after two missed check-ins — has rocketed to the top of China’s app store charts and gone viral globally without spending a dime on advertising. The app wasn’t built for the elderly, as many assumed; its creators...

Benni McCarthy has addressed being called ‘super size’ by management of his former Premier League club. Here’s what he said…

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sky and Amanda Roberts, family members of the late Virginia Giuffre, now that the former Prince Andrew has been arrested by police in the U.K.

Eileen Gu is the most decorated female Olympic freestyle skier in history, and a global superstar, but continues to divide opinion.

Team GB’s Zoe Atkin earns a score of 91.50 to qualify for the women’s freeski halfpipe final in first place at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

British freestyle skier Zoe Atkin qualifies top for Saturday’s halfpipe final as she looks to add the Winter Olympic title to her World Championship crown.

The Executive Branch has a reported membership list that includes Trumpworld elites like David Sacks. A WIRED review of corporate filings reveals an under-the-radar player: a notorious former DC police officer.
Microsoft Research has published a paper in Nature detailing Project Silica, a working demonstration that uses femtosecond lasers to etch data into small slabs of glass at a density of over a Gigabit per cubic millimeter and a maximum capacity of 4.84 terabytes per slab. The slabs themselves are 12 cm by 12 cm and just 2 mm thick, and Microsoft’s accelerated aging experiments suggest the data...

A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

BBC Sport’s ice hockey commentary team of Seth Bennett and Kent Simpson explain that the colour of the advertising boards around the ice have become lighter, because the goaltenders are struggling to pick the puck up off the backboards near the net.

Mikola Statkevich, who spent more than five years in prison in his native Belarus, is now recovering from a stroke at home, his wife says.