Aug 3, 2026 · 13 stories

Evening Edition · 3 August 2026

The Rhine falls to record-low water levels as a severe drought grips rivers across Europe

Water levels on the Rhine dropped to record lows as a hot, dry summer parched rivers across Europe, with the Danube and Po also shrinking. The low water has curtailed cargo shipping and cut hydroelectric output, officials said. Drought warnings stretched from Britain to the Balkans as wildfires burned in France and Greece.BBC, AP · Aug 3, 2026

A wide river reduced to a narrow channel between broad expanses of exposed, cracked riverbed and gravel banks under a hazy summer sky.

Historical

Literary

Musical / Artistic

Politics

The marble west facade of the United States Supreme Court building with its tall Corinthian columns, photographed at dusk.

The US Supreme Court declines to halt a $655 million judgment against the PLO and Palestinian Authority over past attacks

Reuters, APAug 3, 2026

A tall border fence topped with razor wire running down toward a rocky Mediterranean shoreline.

Hundreds of migrant children remain stranded in Spain's Ceuta as the EU calls for stronger external borders

AP, BBCAug 3, 2026

Conflict

An empty courtroom with rows of plain wooden benches and tall windows, dust hanging in shafts of pale light.

A Sudanese army drone strike hits a civil court session in Darfur, killing at least 35, a rights group says

AP, BBCAug 3, 2026

A wide sandy beach along a calm sea under a summer sky, striped umbrellas and empty loungers scattered on the shore.

Russia says a Ukrainian drone struck a crowded Black Sea beach resort, killing seven, including three children

BBC, MeduzaAug 3, 2026

Economy

The columned neoclassical Wall Street facade of the New York Stock Exchange building, draped with a large flag.

Amazon becomes the fourth company valued at $3 trillion as US stocks rally near a record on falling oil prices

Reuters, APAug 3, 2026

Rows of stacked shipping containers and a gantry crane at a busy port terminal handling imported goods.

Twenty-five Democratic-led states sue to challenge President Trump's latest round of tariffs

AP, ReutersAug 3, 2026

Science

A microscope view of round, stained Cyclospora parasite oocysts against a pale laboratory background.

Michigan reports the first two US deaths in a cyclosporiasis outbreak caused by a foodborne parasite

Reuters, APAug 3, 2026

The sun's glowing white corona streaming around the black disc of the moon during a total solar eclipse against a dark sky.

A total solar eclipse on 12 August will sweep across Spain, Iceland and Greenland, the first over mainland Europe since 1999

AP, NASAAug 3, 2026

Technology

A new twin-engine Boeing 737 MAX airliner in flight against a clear sky.

The FAA certifies Boeing's 737 MAX 7 jetliner for passenger flight after years of delays

AP, ReutersAug 3, 2026

The White House in Washington, its columned north portico seen across the lawn.

Meta, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are set to meet Trump administration officials on AI safety testing

Reuters, BloombergAug 3, 2026

Culture

The modernist stone-and-glass headquarters of world soccer's governing body on a wooded hillside above Zurich.

European soccer body UEFA warns FIFA of legal action over Infantino's abandoned plan to sell World Cup stakes

AP, BBCAug 3, 2026

The stone-and-glass facade of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art building, with its tall studio windows.

A Scottish architect launches a campaign for a full rebuild of Glasgow's fire-ravaged Mackintosh Building

Dezeen, The ScotsmanAug 3, 2026