A ceasefire is signed for Lebanon while the bombs keep falling

World

Israel and Lebanon agreed to renew their truce in Washington — then Israel ordered all of south Lebanon to evacuate and kept striking.

Finance

US stocks snapped a nine-day winning streak — their longest run since 1995 — as the Iran war pushed bond yields to a 20-year high and investors stopped looking past the fighting.

Tech

Google's parent raised a record $85 billion for AI in a single oversubscribed sale, even as Europe moved to cap data-centre energy use, Americans told pollsters they don't want the buildings, and Amazon's own engineers showed up at city hall to demand limits.

Mind & body

A sugar pill can trigger your brain to release its own painkillers.

Climate

Europe warned the Iran war's energy-price surge could cost 1.3 million jobs — including, oddly, tens of thousands in solar and batteries.

Space

The James Webb telescope found a giant black hole that seems to have formed before the galaxy around it — backwards from how we thought the universe built itself.

Biotech

At the big annual cancer meeting, the theme was the same trick from many angles: tumours stay alive by hiding from the immune system, so the new treatments strip the disguise or train the body to see through it.

Money

Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is the most repeated money advice there is — and almost no one can say why it works.

Sports

A record US TV deal for England's top women's football league, the highest-paid woman footballer in the world, and a rookie's jersey selling for $64,720 are the same story: the money flywheel that built men's sport is, at last, turning for women's.

Gaming

For years studios chased the "forever game" — a live service you keep paying into — because a few of them made fortunes.

Food

A public-health journal lays out how tobacco firms took the cigarette playbook — engineer the product to keep you coming back, then manufacture doubt about the harm — straight into ultra-processed food after buying the brands.

Cyber

This week's security news has a single quiet theme: the most exploited weaknesses are flaws that already have a fix, sitting unpatched.