World Cup Opens in North America While Israel and Iran Exchange Missile Strikes
The 2026 FIFA World Cup opened across the United States, Canada and Mexico this week while NASA named an all-male crew for its 2027 lunar mission and Israel and Iran exchanged missile strikes after a two-month ceasefire.
bbc.co.ukThe 2026 FIFA World Cup opened this week across host nations the United States, Canada and Mexico. Iran's national team arrived in Mexico for the tournament, though players and staff must fly in and out of the United States for each group-stage match because of visa restrictions. NASA announced the crew for the Artemis III mission.
All four astronauts are men, and the flight is scheduled to launch in 2027 to test systems ahead of a planned Moon landing. Israel and Iran traded missile strikes for the first time since a ceasefire began two months ago. President Trump completed a two-day summit in Beijing with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during the same period.
U.S. federal officials arrested four people and charged them with trafficking more than $45 million worth of cocaine through a tunnel linking the United States and Mexico. S. Nationals over the 1996 downing of two civilian aircraft. S. Air Force rescued 11 people after a plane crashed off the Florida coast.
Passengers spent hours on a floating life raft following the 20-minute flight between two islands.
