Burkina Faso cuts ties with France, finishing a divorce that was already over in everything but name

World

A West African junta formally severs relations with its former colonial ruler — the last paperwork on a split made years ago.

Finance

A 30-year fixed-rate loan was meant to be the one bill that never moved.

Tech

Australia doubled the maximum penalty on platforms that fail to keep under-16s off social media, even as new research finds more than four in five teens are still online six months in.

Mind & body

The fight-or-flight system is a brilliant short-burst tool: it floods you with fuel and speed for a real emergency, then is supposed to switch off.

Climate

A record heatwave is not just killing people across Europe.

Space

A solar storm severe enough to damage the grid is overdue, and the data centers powering AI can't ride one out.

Biotech

A 154,000-person study found a generation's bodies are ageing faster than the calendar says, and that the gap predicts who gets cancer young.

Money

Compound interest means earning interest on your interest, so the base keeps growing and the growth speeds up.

Sports

The "second apron" is a payroll line that doesn't just cost more money — cross it and you lose the tools to fix your team.

Gaming

GTA 6 pre-orders opened at $80 with no physical copy, just a download code in a box.

Food

Forecasters say there is a 63% chance this El Niño reaches "very strong," among the worst since 1950.

Cyber

A single Chinese app-building framework is behind more than 200,000 investment-scam websites, security researchers found — a sign that online fraud has turned into a mass-produced product.