A number of snooker stars have moved away from the UK in recent years, and Hossein Vafaei has made a similar decision to ...

A number of top snooker stars are finding homes outside of the United Kingdom and Hossein Vafaei appears to be one of the ...

Wu Yize’s remarkable Crucible triumph made it back-to-back Chinese world snooker champions but where are all the talented ...

Mark Allen suffers a devastating final-frame World Championship semi-final defeat by Wu Yize - after missing a simple match-winning black to win.

This is the introduction to Middle East Dispatch, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents take a look at the warfare, politics and economics of a region that is at the centre ...

Operation Epic Fury has sunk Iran’s largest naval ships, degraded its air defenses and killed many of its top leaders. It has also laid bare the vulnerabilities of the American presence in the Middle ...

70 structures. 11 US military bases overseas. Seven countries. $5 billion in damage. The damage inflicted by Iranian forces on American and allied bases in the Middle East during the opening weeks of ...

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2026—Energy prices are projected to surge by 24% this year to their highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as the war in the Middle East sends a severe shock ...

John Higgins derailed old rival Ronnie O’Sullivan’s bid for a record eighth World Snooker Championship with an epic 13-12 win in the last 16 at the Crucible. 30 years on from their first meeting in ...

Ronnie O’Sullivan carved out a 6-2 overnight lead against old foe John Higgins in the first session of their second-round ...

The U.S. military said Friday that three aircraft carriers are operating in the Middle East, for the first time in more than two decades, as the U.S. enforces its naval blockade against Iran in the ...