Yesterday's dramatic news that US forces were searching for the crew of an F-15 fighter jet, apparently downed by a missile over Iran, will serve as a brutal wake-up call to the American public.
When I was 15 and boarding a flight with my mother and siblings to the Caribbean, I was struck by an overwhelming, rising terror. Since then, for two decades flying became a torturous affair.
MATTHEW LAMBWELL: Against the man who has turned the tennis history book into his personal wishlist, Carlos Alcaraz wrote a chapter of his own in Melbourne.
MATTHEW LAMBWELL: Rybakina was in the ascendancy but when Sabalenka won five straight games at the turn of the second and third sets, a fifth Grand Slam title felt awfully close.
MATTHEW LAMBWELL: He summoned up all his genius and all his experience to snap a five-match losing streak against Sinner, beating him in a match which concluded at 1.35am
MATTHEW LAMBWELL: The commuters rat-racing their way into central London this autumn might be surprised to learn that they may well have shared a train with Emma Raducanu.
MATTHEW LAMBWELL AT ARTHUR ASHE: After the chaos and the queuing, the waiting and the booing, eventually farce gave way to beauty as Carlos Alcaraz won the US Open
MATTHEW LAMBWELL IN NEW YORK: As she has with each of her Grand Slam titles, two here and two in Australia, Sabalenka dedicated the win to her late father, Sergey.