Four groups open the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup on 4 September in Berlin, with the United States facing China, host Germany meeting Spain, and Nigeria beginning against South Korea.
The UCI Road World Championships in Montreal will bring more than 1,000 riders from nearly 80 nations to compete in 13 events from 20 to 27 September 2026.
Men's and women's singles quarterfinals at the 2026 US Open run on 8 and 9 September at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, followed by semifinals on 10 and 11 September.
Nigeria's D'Tigress enter the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup ranked eighth globally but listed as long shots in Group B, where five-time AfroBasket champions face France, South Korea, and Hungary.
Pontevedra hosts the World Triathlon Championship Finals from 23 to 27 September 2026, crowning elite world champions after a week of junior, age-group, and paratriathlon events in Galicia.
The NFL Kickoff Festival at Melbourne Park begins on 10 September 2026, three days before the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers meet in Australia's first regular-season NFL game at the MCG.
The Formula 1 Pirelli Gran Premio d'Italia runs from 4 to 6 September 2026 at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, with fan activities opening on 3 September at the historic Temple of Speed.
Montreal hosts the UCI Road World Championships from 20 to 27 September 2026, with 13 events across junior and elite categories on circuits built around Mount Royal and the city's downtown.
The 2026 US Open reaches the third round on 4 and 5 September at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, with day sessions from 11:00 a.m. and night sessions from 7:00 p.m. Eastern.
The 20th FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup begins on 4 September at Berlin Arena, with group play running through 7 September before the knockout rounds decide the champion on 13 September.
Concussion protocols, medical clearance, crowd safety, and the stories sport tells about itself all shape whether participation is safe and worthwhile. An examination of welfare and culture.
Why training is planned in cycles, what recovery actually does, and where the evidence on stretching, hydration, and altitude is stronger or weaker than popular belief suggests.
Formats, qualifying pathways, selection policies, classification, and anti-doping rules are all attempts to answer one question: what makes a result deserved? An explainer on the trade-offs.
Offside, handball, review systems, judged scores, and handicaps all rest on principles that are widely half-known. A careful look at what officials are actually deciding.
Federations, leagues, arbitration panels, and integrity units together decide who competes and on what terms. A guide to how authority in sport is layered and where it is contested.
World Resources Institute cites WMO and WHO data showing that while most meteorological services supply climate information to health sectors, few ministries embed it in national surveillance systems.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said El Niño is being 'supersized before our eyes,' warning that the planet is in uncharted waters as September forecasts confirm a very strong event through early 2027.
The September El Niño update points to above-normal rainfall in parts of the southern United States and eastern Africa, where wetter-than-average seasons have historically brought flooding and landslides.
WMO and BBC reporting highlight drier-than-usual conditions across Southeast Asia and Central America, with Indonesia already battling major wildfires as the El Niño peak approaches.
World Resources Institute research, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, estimates that early investment in climate-informed health tools yields strong economic returns even under conservative assumptions.
An interdisciplinary team linked household survey data from 9,813 coastal sites to satellite ocean temperatures, documenting how marine heatwaves correlate with undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries.
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences links marine heatwave exposure to increased odds of child mortality, wasting and stunting across 36 low- and middle-income countries.
BBC reporting on the September WMO update describes a rapidly intensifying El Niño that could be the strongest in more than 70 years, with diverging regional impacts from Southeast Asian drought to flooding in the southern United States.
For the first time, a WMO El Niño/La Niña Update expresses near-total certainty that the event will continue through early 2027, reflecting unprecedented agreement across its global forecasting network.
The World Meteorological Organization's September update confirms a firmly established El Niño that is forecast to reach very strong intensity before peaking late this year, with impacts continuing well into 2027.
Air quality indices, indoor smoke, antibiotic resistance, the microbiome and biodiversity loss are all environmental health stories. This guide explains how the evidence behind them is produced and where it runs out.
From the physics of the greenhouse effect to ice cores, ocean chemistry, tipping points and the difference between adaptation and mitigation, a grounded tour of how climate science reaches its conclusions.
Significance, confidence intervals, relative risk and screening accuracy are routinely misreported. A practical guide to the handful of statistical ideas that decide whether a health headline means anything.
Randomised trials, cohorts, case-control studies and systematic reviews each answer different questions with different certainty. Knowing which design produced a finding tells you most of what you need.
Research reaches the public as headlines, but it is produced by a long chain of design, review, funding and measurement. Understanding that chain is the most durable way to judge a scientific claim.
European natural gas benchmarks crossed €74 per MWh in early September as Gulf LNG supply risks and below-average storage levels intensified volatility ahead of winter.
The Labor Department reported 7.271 million job openings in July, below the 7.3 million forecast, as weak hiring suggested the labor market remained in a holding pattern.
Nvidia signed a definitive agreement on September 2 to acquire AI developer platform Hugging Face for approximately $12.93 billion, extending the chipmaker's reach from hardware into open-source software.
The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield pushed above 4.75% in early September, reaching its highest level since January 2025 as markets priced in higher-for-longer rates and an oil-driven inflation shock.
The Commerce Department reported that core PCE rose 0.2% in July and 3.3% year over year, leaving the Fed's preferred inflation gauge well above its 2% target heading into September.
Renewed hostilities around the Strait of Hormuz pushed Brent crude toward $96 per barrel in early September, rekindling inflation concerns as Persian Gulf oil flows remain well below pre-war levels.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted Revolut preliminary conditional approval on September 3 to establish Revolut Bank US, N.A. in Stamford, Connecticut, targeting a 2027 launch.
MRA Advisory Group's September outlook flags strong corporate earnings and resilient demand against elevated inflation, rising Treasury yields, and geopolitical pressure on energy prices.
Growth and small-cap indexes bore the brunt of September 1's selloff, with the Nasdaq Composite down 1.03% and the Russell 2000 falling 1.23% after fresh U.S. strikes on Iran pushed oil above $90.
U.S. stocks fell on September 1 as a global bond selloff pushed Treasury yields to 19-month highs and crude prices spiked amid renewed U.S.–Iran hostilities around the Strait of Hormuz.
What headline economic indicators measure, where each one is silent, and how the same pooling and pricing logic underlies insurance deductibles and premiums.
Why profitable businesses run out of money, how working capital and depreciation actually behave, and what distinguishes the main routes to raising finance.
The mechanics behind budgets, reserves, credit files, loan pricing, and payslip deductions, including why a flat rate and an effective rate describe very different costs.
How pooled funds, listed shares, and bonds actually work, what an index does and does not represent, and the mechanics behind allocation, rebalancing, and liquidity.
A structured way to read the three core financial statements, the audit report, and the offer document, and to recognise where familiar ratios quietly mislead.