- In this issue8 features
The Race That Never Stays the Same: Austria's Enduring Theatre of Fortune
At the Red Bull Ring, where champions are made and unmade in moments, the Austrian Grand Prix has written twenty years of Formula One's most dramatic chapters — and secured another two decades to come.
The Variant No One Was Ready For: How Bundibugyo Ebola Broke Through
When a long-dormant strain emerged in Congo's Ituri province this May, the international health architecture faced a test it had spent years trying to avoid — and the cracks are showing.
The Closing Hour: How Three Weeks of War in Iran Pushed the World to the Brink
A conflict that began on 28 February has severed the arteries of the global economy, leaving governments from Manila to Nairobi scrambling to ration fuel, slash taxes, and prepare their citizens for a crisis no one thought would come this fast.
The Summit That Moved a Border: France's G7 and the Price Switzerland Paid
When Emmanuel Macron chose Évian for the 2026 G7, he set in motion a security operation that would seal a frontier, deploy an army, and test the limits of neighbourly cooperation.
The trillion-dollar bet: inside the SpaceX flotation reshaping American capitalism
Elon Musk's space company has pulled off the largest stock-market debut in history—and the real story isn't rockets, but a new model for monetising data centres in orbit.
The Room Where It Happened: Inside the Fraught Rebirth of Israel–Lebanon Diplomacy
After 33 years of silence, Israeli and Lebanese negotiators are talking again — but the ghost of 1983, the shadow of Iran, and the blood of recent war make this the most precarious peace process in the Middle East.
The Heat That Came Too Early: Europe's Lethal Summer Arrived in Spring
A heat dome that shattered records from May through June killed more than a thousand people and forced a continent to confront how quickly climate change is rewriting the rules of survival.
The Sixteen-Minute Meeting That Ended a Government
How a sequence of cabinet resignations, electoral humiliation in Wales, and the blocked return of a popular mayor brought down Keir Starmer's premiership in less than a fortnight.