Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

An estimated 40,000 seafarers are stuck on board ships on either side of the Strait of Hormuz, which has been almost entirely shut since the US and Israel began bombing Iran in late February. There ...

Around 90% of Iran's oil exports pass through Kharg Island, but the US president says oil infrastructure was not targeted.