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The costs and challenges facing the 2026 World Cup
The World Cup officially kicked off this week - but alongside the football, there are questions around heat, cost, the environmental impact and travel restrictions.
Niagara Falls: Is there a better spot to watch a World Cup game?
Football fans gathered at a FIFA World Cup watch party at Niagara Falls for the Canadian and USA teams' opening matches.
Watch: Why is Trump not at the World Cup?
All three leaders of the North America host nations have missed the tournament opening matches.
The college scam that promised students fleeing war a new life in Finland
BBC speaks to students from war-torn Myanmar who say they were cheated after paying to study abroad.
The Swiss would be foolish to cap their population at 10m
Immigration sometimes needs brakes, but the proposal would be like driving into a wall
Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer’s master switch
A promising drug could be the first of an entirely new class of treatments
Cover Story newsletter: A World Cup paradox
How we chose this week’s image
The value of SpaceX rockets on its stock-market debut
Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire
Alexis de Tocqueville and America today
Our weekly podcast on America. This week, what we can learn from one of the best books ever written about the United States
Watch: Four UFO videos newly declassified by US government
The eyewitness footage shows bright orbs in the sky over an undisclosed location in the northeastern US.
What to watch this week
Our recommendations send characters into the unknown
David Hockney believed in working from the heart
Britain’s boldest and most innovative painter died on June 11th, aged 88