Britain changes prime minister again as war widens on three fronts

World

Andy Burnham becomes the UK's seventh leader in a decade after Keir Starmer resigns, while fighting spreads across Ukraine, Iran's Gulf, and Gaza — and the EU fines a Chinese retail giant a record sum.

Finance

A New York Fed survey shows credit applications at their highest since 2021, even as a third of households say they'd struggle with a $2,000 surprise.

Tech

ASML raised its forecast twice this year and is handing staff €20,000 to stick around — a window into where the real bottleneck in the chip boom actually sits.

Mind & body

Your immune system runs two defences — a fast one that forgets and a slow one that keeps a record.

Climate

A once-a-year auction that buys the power grid's spare capacity cleared far below target — a quiet number that tells you where electricity bills, data centers, and the energy transition all collide.

Space

The Space Force raised one launch contract's ceiling from $5.6 billion to $17 billion and now keeps seven rocket companies competing for the work — even though SpaceX wins most of it.

Biotech

Researchers traced organ aging to the body's failing waste-disposal system, not the damage itself — plus AI-designed gene editors, a psoriasis pill, and a gentler prostate treatment.

Money

Safety and reward are priced against each other.

Sports

A month of football in the United States turned into a bidding frenzy, with Chelsea paying a club-record £117m for Morgan Rogers and clubs across Europe breaking their own records for players who shone at the tournament.

Gaming

A memory shortage driven by AI datacenters is pushing consoles and PCs upward in price — reversing a decades-old pattern — while studios in the middle keep closing and the blockbusters keep breaking records.

Food

Seventeen grower groups pushed for a federal antitrust probe of a fertilizer industry now down to a handful of firms, as input costs drive farms toward record losses.

Cyber

Hugging Face says an autonomous AI agent breached its systems, running tens of thousands of actions on its own.