Nigeria frees all 44 schoolchildren and teachers held captive for two months

World

A Nigerian army operation brought home every pupil and teacher seized from three rural schools in May — a rare clean win against a wave of mass kidnappings, and the freshest good news in a heavy week.

Finance

A rare bipartisan law aims to fix housing by making it easier to build, not just easier to borrow.

Tech

A fast public "no" from an actor and an actors' union forced Meta to pull an image tool that opted everyone in by default.

Mind & body

A wound closes in four overlapping stages — seal, clean, rebuild, reinforce — run by platelets, immune cells, and fibroblasts on a schedule that reaches full strength months after the skin looks fine.

Climate

The state hit 8 gigawatts of small-scale solar — ahead of schedule — while Illinois and Massachusetts built the plumbing that lets scattered rooftops and batteries act as one.

Space

Astronomers used the James Webb telescope to study the one known planet that survived a Sun-like star's death, while a separate study nudged up Earth's own odds of outlasting the Sun.

Biotech

The FDA cleared a new drug for IgA nephropathy, a disease that erases kidneys over decades.

Money

When your workplace adds its own money to your pension for every pound you put in, that match is an instant, guaranteed return no market bet can promise — yet nearly half of working-age UK adults claim none of it.

Sports

A country of 5.5 million reached the World Cup quarter-finals with a youth system that bans league tables and trophies for young children — while the United States, 60 times larger, went out early again.

Gaming

The week's best gaming news wasn't a blockbuster.

Food

The Every Company is quadrupling output after its animal-free egg white landed in Walmart and Target, orders up 550%.

Cyber

Interpol's Operation First Light shows what defense against borderless fraud looks like when nations pool their evidence — plus a week of ransomware insiders jailed and a 15-year-old flaw quietly fixed.