Europe's deadly summer: wildfires rage as heat quietly kills thousands

World

Fires burn across Spain and France while new data shows heat killed 2,700 in the UK and 10,000 across Europe.

Finance

Big US banks kick off earnings this week alongside fresh inflation data and the new Fed chair's first testimony — the first hard read on how households are really doing.

Tech

The corporate order to 'use more AI' is misfiring inside the firms that gave it, software layoffs are feeding a political backlash, and the chipmakers underneath the boom keep breaking records.

Mind & body

Sleep isn't the brain switching off.

Climate

Oil-linked firms are racing to bury CO2 underground for billions in US subsidies, alarming towns like Clymers, Indiana — while scientists and critics argue over whether carbon capture is climate salvation or a licence to keep drilling.

Space

Perseverance's organic carbon, Viking's 50th anniversary, and a new UFO panel all circle the same hard question — how do you prove you've found something?

Biotech

Fate's ready-made CAR-T shows early promise in a rare autoimmune disease — while $10B and $1.5B deals reshape the industry and Roche walks away from Huntington's.

Money

Three-to-six months of expenses in cash is the most repeated rule in personal finance.

Sports

A home World Cup is pulling the biggest football audiences American television has ever seen, and the fight for the next tournaments' rights could reach $2 billion.

Gaming

A remake of Assassin's Creed Black Flag sold 2 million copies on day one, and Ubisoft announced the figure — its first real sales number in years.

Food

A landmark repair settlement, a margin squeeze on US growers, jumpy grain markets, and a drought in Uganda that killed before it reached any market.

Cyber

OpenSSL, the encryption behind much of the web, patched a high-severity bug that an AI helped uncover.