China catches a rocket coming home — and America's cheap-space monopoly gets a rival

World

China recovered an orbital rocket booster for the first time, narrowing the one lead the US held alone in cheap space access.

Finance

A US private-equity firm gazumped a rival to buy the low-cost airline, earnings season opened with Delta holding fares high, and a UN report showed 113 poor countries now spend more repaying debt than teaching their children.

Tech

Apple's lawsuit says former staff took confidential files to OpenAI's hardware team.

Mind & body

Balance isn't a single sense.

Climate

Trump has spent $2.7bn paying companies to cancel wind projects and $1.125bn propping up coal, the fuel utilities were already retiring because it costs too much.

Space

For 25 years Jeff Bezos funded Blue Origin out of his own pocket.

Biotech

A Lund University trial put lab-grown dopamine cells into eight Parkinson's patients' brains and reported a clean first-year safety record — the first serious attempt to rebuild what the disease destroys rather than top it up.

Money

A credit score is a single number, 300 to 850, that turns your past borrowing into a bet about your future.

Sports

Peter Mallouk paid a record $700m for Sporting Kansas City, then said sports teams are worse investments than stocks.

Gaming

Xbox cut 3,200 jobs and spun off four studios as its new CEO conceded the Game Pass subscription bet fell far short of the 77 million subscribers it was built for.

Food

A wildly wrong official figure got caught on sight, exposing how much the food market runs on trust in numbers that fewer people are left to check.

Cyber

A vishing campaign talks victims through 'enrolling a passkey' on fake Microsoft pages while the attacker quietly registers their own key.