TIME - Keeping Score

A journalist browses the Messina museum website showing a picture of the Early Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina's artwork, the Polyptych of San Gregorio, in Rome on Aug. 16, 2026. —Gregorio Borgia—AP

While the Sicilian city of Messina celebrated its most important religious summer holiday, thieves carried out a heist at the regional museum, making off with several work...

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In September 2022, I set myself a very public personal goal: to run a 5-minute mile. 

 

It was a completely mad idea. I was 58 years old, and, although in reasonably good shape, the fastest I could then complete a mile was in just over s...

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There’s something uniquely irritating about being forced to listen to whatever a stranger has decided to watch on their phone. Suddenly, the airport gate has a soundtrack—and it’s a tinny s...

People spend time near the river as a helicopter collects water to extinguish the fire that broke out in a distribution warehouse near Moscow, Russia, after Ukraine's drone attack on Aug. 16, 2026. —Stringer/Anadolu—Getty Images

Ukraine launched one of its largest aerial assaults on Russia overnight on Saturday, firing on targets deep inside the country and killing at least si...

Duane Davis speaks with attorney Michael Sanft during the fourth day of jury selection in a murder trial related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, at Clark County District Court Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Aug. 13, 2026. —Bizuayeha Tesfaye—Pool

Nearly 30 years ago,