A two-week war pauses over the Gulf as trade blocs splinter

World

The US and Iran hold their fire for a second day and oil drops sharply, while a fractured response to US tariffs shows how much harder small players bargain apart than together.

Finance

A chipmaker offers to stand behind its biggest customer's borrowing, oil skids on an Iran pause, and the Fed meets under pressure to hike.

Tech

As Google burns $6bn in cash on the AI buildout and Alphabet's forecast spooks investors, Apple's refusal to pour in the capex made it the Mag7's top performer - while chipmakers and model labs race to make tomorrow's compute cheaper.

Mind & body

Your blood sugar barely moves, whether you feast or fast, because two opposing hormones push it back toward a narrow target - insulin to bring a high down, glucagon to bring a low up.

Climate

The IEA says a Middle East gas-price spike is pushing electricity prices up worldwide - because in most markets the last, priciest unit needed sets the price every generator gets paid.

Space

Starship's 13th test flight deployed 20 next-generation Starlink satellites and tested the design NASA has picked to land astronauts on the Moon.

Biotech

A new study finds the brain runs on jack-of-all-trades neurons, not a roster of experts - plus an FDA panel waves through unproven peptides, Lilly's next weight-loss drug, measles at a 35-year high, and a death in a Chinese gene-editing trial.

Money

We genuinely mean to save and wait, then when "now" arrives we take the smaller reward in front of us.

Sports

A boom league feuds with its own players over the split, football's late transfer cheques keep clearing, new billionaires buy in, and the World Cup's bill lands in the broadcasters' favour.

Gaming

New Circana numbers reveal how few physical games still sell, as Xbox posts a surprise sales jump amid deep layoffs and a worsening memory crisis pushes hardware prices up.

Food

A UN report says one in three people can't afford a healthy diet, US grocery prices logged their biggest jump in 50 years, and 7.4m UK households are going without essentials.

Cyber

Attackers are using AI to write sharper scams at scale, and defenders are shipping AI tools to find flaws faster - each answering the other, with breaches rolling on all the while.