A quarantine plan Kenyans don't trust turns deadly, while Ebola spreads across the border

World

A US plan to build an Ebola isolation centre in Kenya has drawn three weeks of protest, two deaths, and a court block — even though Kenya has no cases.

Finance

SpaceX and OpenAI grabbed the headlines with their IPOs.

Tech

Apple is withholding its upgraded AI Siri from the EU rather than open it to rivals under the Digital Markets Act.

Mind & body

A habit is a small loop your brain builds so it can run a behavior without you.

Climate

65 banks pledged $906bn to coal, oil and gas in 2025 — an 8% rise — even as a US heat study warns of doubling hospital visits.

Space

A radio search of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS found no sign of alien technology, just as expected.

Biotech

One of the largest Ebola outbreaks ever is outrunning the response in eastern Congo, where medics improvise without boots or masks while donors scramble.

Money

You're not buying protection against your own bad luck — you're buying a share of a pool that everyone pays into and a few people draw from.

Sports

Duplantis dropped his first competition in three years, an Olympic 800m champion ran a personal best and still lost, and the French Open crowned two first-time winners after the top seeds fell early.

Gaming

A wealthy, growing audience of players over 55 keeps spending while the rest of the industry shrinks — but the people who build games, and the dashboards they watch, can barely see it.

Food

A trade deal promised $17 billion in farm purchases, but China had already secured 90% of its soybeans from Brazil.

Cyber

NSO Group is accused of breaking a permanent US court order to target WhatsApp users — a sign of how little a legal ban deters a company when the prize is bigger than the penalty.