Colombia votes on whether to fight its endless war or keep talking to it

World

A presidential runoff Sunday pits a hard-line crackdown against a decade-old peace strategy — as Bolivia sends in the army, Congo's Ebola toll climbs, and a rare climate pattern unsettles global markets.

Finance

After a six-week blockade, Iran resumed loading crude from Kharg Island and tankers are clearing Hormuz.

Tech

Two of Google DeepMind's most senior researchers left for rivals in a single week.

Mind & body

A cut doesn't rebuild your skin.

Climate

A wave of small, cheap electric cars is arriving in Europe just as a record heatwave bakes the continent.

Space

A $30 million rescue craft launches June 27 to grab a $500 million observatory that was never built to save itself.

Biotech

Intellia's in-vivo CRISPR treatment for hereditary angioedema posted the first late-stage results for editing genes inside a living person.

Money

The price of something and what you can actually get for it right now are two different numbers — and the gap between them, called liquidity, decides whether your wealth shows up in an emergency.

Sports

UEFA's financial monitor handed Marseille a suspended ban and an $11.5m fine, the latest case of sport governing money through deferred threats rather than bright lines.

Gaming

Xbox is negotiating spin-off-or-shutdown deals for Compulsion, Double Fine, and Ninja Theory; Sega writes down its Angry Birds buy; a nine-person team is laid off a month after a praised launch.

Food

H5N1 landed on the one continent that had stayed clear, after a strain killed more than three-quarters of the seal pups on a remote Australian island.

Cyber

Criminals are using AI-polished fake "beta test" invitations to steal gamers' logins, personal data, and bank details ahead of Grand Theft Auto VI.