US strikes reach Tehran as Iran hits Gulf neighbours and moves to choke Hormuz

World

A collapsed ceasefire has become a sixth day of open war between the US and Iran.

Finance

Memory-chip stocks fell for a second week and the AI rally wobbled — and underneath the swings sits a fast-growing kind of fund built to double or triple each day's move.

Tech

Brussels invokes its gatekeeper law to force open two of tech's biggest platforms, while TSMC's record quarter, a Coca-Cola ransomware shutdown, and China's chip and model push fill out a busy day.

Mind & body

Your kidneys don't pick the waste out of your blood.

Climate

The U.S.

Space

For the first time, astronomers have detected an atmosphere on a rocky world in the zone where liquid water could exist — a small step toward answering whether we are alone, and a reminder of how much of the sky stays dark to us.

Biotech

A record-fast treatment trial and a new vaccine show what years of pooled preparation can do.

Money

You pay a small sum each year hoping never to use it.

Sports

Chelsea keeps turning cheaply-bought youngsters into accounting gold, because the way a transfer sits on the books decides which player it makes sense to sell.

Gaming

Sony will stop making PlayStation discs in January 2028, and this week Mexican lawmakers moved to sue over it — a fight about whether the shift to all-digital can ever be undone.

Food

New research finds a widely used pesticide damages bumblebee reproduction at low doses, even as pesticide firms stack legal wins over health and environmental groups.

Cyber

Enterprises are granting AI agents broad, standing access to their systems, creating what one analysis calls "invisible privilege."