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DECODING: Oman's mediation stalls, Hormuz remains a knife at the throat
The Strait of Hormuz has never been a simple maritime passage. Since the outbreak of the 2026 war between Iran, the United States and…
FACT-CHECK: Hormuz Shipping Traffic Collapses From 110 to 15 Vessels a Day
According to CNN, which analyzed data from maritime tracking firm MarineTraffic on July 10, 2026, only 15 commercial vessels crossed the waters surrounding the…
DECODING: Trump Demands Hormuz Declared Open, Iran Refuses to Bend
On July 11, 2026, the White House made a request that sounds almost disarmingly simple: that Iran publicly declare the Strait of Hormuz open…
The shortest boxing match in history was over in a matter of seconds
The shortest professional boxing match in history, certified by Guinness World Records, ended in a knockout just seconds after the opening bell,
How Cambridge students invented the rules of modern football
In 1863, students at the University of Cambridge, in England, drafted one of the very first written sets of rules for association
This cricket match lasted 12 days without either team winning
In March 1939, in Durban, South Africa, England and South Africa played an international cricket match that would go down in history
Live pigeon shooting, the most controversial Olympic event in history
At the Paris Olympic Games held in 1900, the official program included an event that would seem utterly inconceivable in today's sporting
The wild Cooper's Hill cheese race that injures its participants every year
Every year, in Gloucestershire, England, hundreds of people gather at the top of Cooper's Hill to take part in one of the
Modern tennis descends from a handball game born in French monasteries
Before becoming one of the most popular sports in the world, tennis had a little-known prehistory, woven through the corridors and cloisters