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On 28 February 2026, Israel and the United States began coordinated joint attacks on various sites in Iran, starting a major war aimed at a regime change. Codenamed Operation Roaring Lion by Israel and Operation Epic Fury by the United States, the attacks have targeted key Iranian officials, military commanders, and facilities. Iran named its response Operation True Promise IV.
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. xxx is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
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James Dell Talarico ( TAL-uh-REE-koh; né Causey, born May 17, 1989) is an American politician, Presbyterian seminarian, and former educator who has served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives since 2018. Talarico is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 2026 and has been called a "rising star" among Texas Democrats.
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The ICC Men's T20 World Cup, formerly the ICC World Twenty20, is a biennial world cup for cricket in Twenty20 International (T20I) format, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was held in every odd year from 2007 to 2009, and since 2010 has been held in every even year with the exception of 2018 and 2020.
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Corey R. Lewandowski (; born September 18, 1973) is an American political operative, lobbyist, political commentator and author politically aligned with Donald Trump. He served as the first campaign manager for Trump's 2016 presidential campaign – despite being dismissed during the Republican Primary – and later, a political commentator for One America News Network (OANN) and Fox News.
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Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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IRIS Dena (75) (Persian: ناوشکن دنا) was a Moudge-class frigate in the Southern Fleet of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy. It is named after Mount Dena, and was commissioned into the navy in 2021. On 4 March 2026, during the 2026 Iran war, she was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine of the United States Navy in international waters near the southern coast of Sri Lanka.
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
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Timothy Patrick Sheehy ( SHEE-hee; born November 18, 1985) is an American politician, businessman, aerial firefighter, cattle rancher, and former Navy SEAL officer serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Montana. A member of the Republican Party, he is the youngest Republican U.S. senator and the second-youngest U.S. senator, after Jon Ossoff.
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Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American government official and former television personality who has served as the 29th United States secretary of defense since 2025. Hegseth studied politics at Princeton University, where he was the publisher of The Princeton Tory, a conservative student newspaper.
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Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought.
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Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals.
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Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian politician, Shia cleric, and revolutionary who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the main leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and transformed Iran into an Islamic republic.
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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy New York City family, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei (born 8 September 1969) is an Iranian politician and Twelver Shi'ite cleric. The second eldest child of Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei served in the Iran–Iraq War from 1987 to 1988, and also reportedly took control of the Basij that was used to suppress the protests over the 2009 election.
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Young Sherlock (British TV series)
Young Sherlock is a mystery television series that is created by Matthew Parkhill and developed by Peter Harness and Guy Ritchie. It is inspired by Andrew Lane's Young Sherlock Holmes book series, itself a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories. Guy Ritchie directed the series, and Hero Fiennes Tiffin stars as Holmes.
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Elizabeth Lyon (fl. c. 1722–1726), nicknamed Edgworth Bess or Edgware Bess, was an English thief, prostitute and the partner of the criminal Jack Sheppard. Little is known about her background or her early life, but it is known that she was working as a prostitute at the Black Lyon alehouse in London by 1722 or 1723.
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes, as of December 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth is US$239. 4 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world.
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Jiang Xueqin (Chinese: 江学勤; pinyin: Jiāng Xuéqín; born 1976), also known as Professor Jiang or PredictiveHistory is a Chinese-Canadian educator and writer based in Beijing, China. Jiang is a teacher at Moonshot Academy, Beijing, since 2022. His course Western Philosophy has been recorded and uploaded to his YouTube channel Predictive History.
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Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021, Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister. Born in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu was raised in West Jerusalem and the United States.
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980) was the last Shah of Iran from 1941 to 1979. He succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until he was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution led by Ruhollah Khomeini, which abolished the Iranian monarchy to establish the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 1967, he took the title Shahanshah (lit.
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Sanju Viswanath Samson ( ; born 11 November 1994) is an Indian international cricketer, who is a member of the white-ball formats of Indian national team. A right-handed wicket-keeper-batter, he plays for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League and Kerala in domestic cricket. He was a member of the Indian team that won the 2024 T20 World Cup.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN; Persian: نیروی دریایی ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران, romanized: Nirū-yē Dəryâyi-yē Ərtēš-ē Žomhūri-yē Ēslâmi-yē Irân), also referred as the Iranian Navy (abbreviated NEDAJA; Persian: نداجا), is the naval warfare service branch of Iran's regular military, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army.
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Big Shoes (Italian: Scarpe grosse) is a 1940 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Dino Falconi and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Lilia Silvi and Elena Altieri. It is based on a play by Sándor Hunyady which had previously been turned into a 1939 Hungarian film Istvan Bors. It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome.
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Bridgerton is an American alternative history regency romance television series created by Chris Van Dusen for Netflix. Based on the book series of the same name by Julia Quinn, it is Shondaland's first scripted show for Netflix. The series stars Adjoa Andoh, Golda Rosheuvel, Ruth Gemmell, Nicola Coughlan, and Claudia Jessie, and narrated by Julie Andrews.
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The Strait of Hormuz ( Persian: تنگهٔ هُرمُز, romanized: Tangeh-ye Hormoz , Arabic: مَضيق هُرمُز, romanized: Maḍīq Hurmuz) is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points.
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Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans
Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans is the 50th season of the American competitive reality television series Survivor. It premiered on February 25, 2026, on CBS in the United States, and it is the eighteenth consecutive season to be filmed in the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.
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The 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is the tenth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, co-hosted by Board of Control for Cricket in India and Sri Lanka Cricket from 7 February to 8 March 2026. Sri Lanka had previously hosted the competition in 2012 and India in 2016. A total of twenty teams are competing in 55 matches across five venues in India and three in Sri Lanka.
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2026 Nepalese general election
Early general elections are currently being held in Nepal on 5 March 2026 to elect the 275 members of the House of Representatives as announced on 12 September 2025 by the President of Nepal, on the recommendation of the Government of Nepal. The election was called after youth protests in September 2025 that led to the resignation of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli.
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YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself.
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Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 21st century. Spears's involvement in reviving the teen pop genre, as well as her energetic stage performances, brought great success.
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The 2026 World Baseball Classic is an international professional baseball tournament between 20 national baseball teams, and the sixth iteration of the World Baseball Classic (WBC). It began on March 5, 2026 and will run until March 17. Its pool-play rounds will be played in Miami, Florida; Houston, Texas; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Tokyo, Japan.
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Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.
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Denniston Oliver "D. J." Moore Jr. (born April 14, 1997) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Maryland Terrapins and was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the first round of the 2018 NFL draft.
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Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan
The Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan (CPFIK; Kurdish: هاوپەیمانیی هێزە سیاسییەکانی کوردستانی ئێران, romanized: Hevpeymaniya Hêzên Siyasî yên Kurdistana Îranê) is an alliance of major Iranian Kurdish parties.
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Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician who has served as the chief minister of Bihar since 2015, having previously held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. The national president of the Janata Dal (United), he is Bihar's longest-serving chief minister, holding the post for his 10 terms.
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Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Sophia Charlotte; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city.
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Alysa Liu ( ə-LISS-ə LYOO; born August 8th, 2005) is an American figure skater. She is the 2026 Winter Olympic champion in both women's singles and in the team event, the 2025 World champion, the 2022 World bronze medalist, the 2025–26 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Grand Prix medalist, a four-time Challenger Series champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion.
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Finnley Hugh Allen (born 22 April 1999) is a New Zealand International cricketer who plays international cricket for New Zealand in the One Day International and Twenty20 International formats of the game. He plays as a top order batter who can also keep wicket. He plays domestic cricket for Auckland, having previously played for Wellington, and has played in a variety of T20 franchise leagues.
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Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman ( zen-DAY-ə; born September 1, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, and was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. Her films as a leading actress have grossed over $3. 9 billion worldwide.
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Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel occupies the West Bank and the Gaza Strip of the Palestinian territories, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights.
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Deverakonda Vijay Sai (born 9 May 1989), widely known as Vijay Deverakonda, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Telugu films. Vijay is the recipient of a Filmfare Award, a Nandi Award and three SIIMA Awards. Deverakonda made his debut with Nuvvila (2011) and received praise for his supporting role in the coming-of-age drama Yevade Subramanyam (2015).
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The Beauty is an American science fiction body horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Matthew Hodgson. It is based on the comic book The Beauty, written by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, and stars Evan Peters, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope, Rebecca Hall, and Ashton Kutcher. The series premiered on FX and Hulu on January 21, 2026.
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A company is a legal entity representing an association of legal persons with a shared objective, such as generating profit or benefiting society. Depending on the jurisdiction, companies can take on various forms, including voluntary associations, nonprofit organizations, business entities, financial entities, banks, and educational institutions.
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup, marketed as FIFA World Cup 26, will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will take place from June 11 to July 19, 2026. It will be jointly hosted by sixteen cities—eleven in the United States, three in Mexico, and two in Canada.
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The Twelve-Day War was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025. It began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassinating prominent military leaders, nuclear scientists, and politicians, killing civilians, and damaging or destroying air defenses.
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV series)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an American fantasy drama television series created by Ira Parker and George R. R. Martin. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the third television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise and is an adaptation of the Tales of Dunk and Egg series of novellas, beginning with The Hedge Knight.
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2026 Iranian Supreme Leader election
An election for the third supreme leader of Iran is planned to take place at an unspecified date in 2026, following the assassination of Ali Khamenei on 28 February 2026 during the Israeli–United States strikes on Iran.
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Gareth Frank Bale (born 16 July 1989) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a right winger, most notably for Tottenham Hotspur, Real Madrid, and the Wales national team. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation and the greatest Welsh player of all time.
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James Eugene Carrey (; born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian and American actor and comedian. Known primarily for his energetic slapstick performances, he's regarded as one of the most prominent comedic actors of his generation. He has received two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for BAFTA Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Jessie Buckley (born 28 December 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. Her accolades include a British Academy Film Award, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Scottish BAFTA, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. Buckley began her career in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything, in which she came second.
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Love Story is an American biographical romance anthology television series created by Connor Hines and executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, D.V. DeVincentis, Kim Rosenstock, and Hines. The fifth installment in the American Story media franchise, it airs on FX and FX on Hulu.
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The 2026 Indian Premier League (also known as IPL 19 and branded as TATA IPL 2026) will be the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League. The tournament will feature 10 teams competing in 84 matches from 28 March to 31 May 2026. It will be held across India, with Bengaluru hosting the opening ceremony and the final as the defending champions.
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Pamela Jo Bondi ( BON-dee; born November 17, 1965) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 87th United States attorney general since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the 37th attorney general of Florida from 2011 to 2019. Born and raised in the Tampa Bay area, Bondi graduated from the University of Florida and Stetson Law School.
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE), also known simply as the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, situated at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a federal semi-constitutional monarchy made up of seven emirates, with Abu Dhabi serving as its national capital. The UAE borders Oman to the east and northeast, and Saudi Arabia to the southwest.
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Reza Pahlavi (born 31 October 1960) is an Iranian political activist and dissident in exile in the United States. A member of the Pahlavi dynasty, he is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and his wife, the Empress Farah Diba. He is described as the most prominent figure in the opposition to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Lanterns is an upcoming American superhero television series created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King for HBO, based on the DC Comics Green Lantern characters Hal Jordan and John Stewart. It will be the third television series in the DC Universe (DCU). It features Jordan and Stewart investigating a murder on Earth.
