A face-saving formula to reopen the world's biggest oil chokepoint

World

Oman and the Gulf states are pushing a 'voluntary fee' compromise for the Strait of Hormuz that lets Iran collect money without either side conceding who controls it.

Finance

Barclays grew its bonus pool almost a third off a rate windfall, owners pushed back on managers across the market, and the AI trade cracked again.

Tech

European carriers may spend up to 40 billion euros tearing out Chinese network gear they installed cheap years ago, as Amazon quietly kills the AI models it rushed to build.

Mind & body

Reacting to what you feel is too slow to keep you upright or clear-eyed, so your nervous system acts on a prediction of its own next move.

Climate

Solar now floods the middle of the day so hard that prices go negative, then vanishes at the evening peak.

Space

Amazon asked US regulators for a 5,105-satellite network to reach phones directly, joining a race that has cost three companies about $36 billion in a single year just to get in.

Biotech

A study across 2.5 million people found 26 genetic signals for fibromyalgia, planting a long-doubted condition firmly in the brain.

Money

Putting the same dollars in at regular intervals buys more shares when prices are low and fewer when high, so your average cost lands below the average price.

Sports

FIFA wants to raise about 4.2 billion dollars by selling a stake in the World Cup's commercial arm to private investors led by a Kushner fund.

Gaming

Xbox and PlayStation each suffered day-long outages that blocked digital libraries, landing weeks after Sony said it will stop making PS5 discs in 2028.

Food

US ports reopen to Mexican cattle after a screwworm ban, Tyson and JBS shares jump, and farm-gate prices slide - a plain lesson in who holds the power when a few buyers face many sellers.

Cyber

A newly public exploit lets a low-privileged Windows account seize an entire company domain, part of a week where the walls meant to keep a small break-in small kept giving way.