Venezuela's earthquake toll passes 5,000 as its own rescue is found to have stalled

World

The death count from June's twin quakes crosses 5,000 and the IMF releases $346m — as a new investigation finds Venezuela's first days of rescue were crippled by delayed orders and tangled chains of command.

Finance

In one weekend, Italy's state-owned post office won board backing for a $14.9bn takeover of Telecom Italia, Britain finished nationalising British Steel, and China warned of retaliation.

Tech

The White House now approves who can access Anthropic and OpenAI's frontier models, even as it calls the arrangement "voluntary."

Mind & body

Sealing a cut is not one event but four systems in tension: a plug, a self-amplifying chemical chain, a set of brakes that keep it local, and a crew that dissolves it.

Climate

Andy Burnham is expected to approve new oil and gas drilling on his first day in Downing Street, reviving fields his own party once called "climate vandalism" and reopening the fight over whether homegrown fossil fuels actually lower anyone's bills.

Space

NASA and Draper mutually cancelled a $73 million contract to land science instruments on the moon's far side, after redesign after redesign pushed the target from 2025 to 2031 — and the agency is already spreading the same science across other landers.

Biotech

A drug class proven for a decade finally comes as a once-a-day tablet.

Money

Every choice has two prices — the one printed on the receipt, and the value of the best thing that same money or time could have done instead.

Sports

Baseball quietly outlawed teams from using artificial intelligence to help make live in-game calls.

Gaming

The largest leveraged buyout in history is nearly done — and the way it's paid for tells you more about EA's future than who now owns it.

Food

New research links ultra-processed food to a large share of heart-disease deaths, just as the FDA and USDA struggle to define the category at all.

Cyber

A fraudster took 115 elderly people's homes by promising to keep them safe.