Canada calls off its strongest trade weapon before it fires

World

Ottawa rules out choking oil exports to the US even as Trump walks away from the free-trade deal, the Gulf war grinds into a second phase, and a drought quietly starves Uganda's north.

Finance

A new Fed chair kept quiet, the market read silence as weakness on inflation, and long-term borrowing costs spiked to their highest since 2007 on their own.

Tech

A new UK prime minister broke up the technology ministry and scattered digital work across three departments; plus Google's EU fine spawns a $10bn damages hunt, a fresh tech layoff wave, an Azure slip, and a Chinese memory chipmaker's blockbuster debut.

Mind & body

An internal clock in the brain keeps a roughly 24-hour rhythm on its own, then re-syncs to the sun.

Climate

A new oil-refinery plan runs against a two-decade retreat, while solar quietly out-produces coal and a fresh El Nino loads the dice for a record-warm year.

Space

Astronomers pinned down a tiny Jovian moon for Europe's JUICE probe to swing past in 2031 - a mission that reaches Jupiter not on its own fuel, but by stealing speed from planet after planet.

Biotech

MapLight's schizophrenia drug hit its main goal and lost two-thirds of its value the same morning, Lilly posted huge weight-loss numbers with murkier heart data, and an FDA panel rejected a Duchenne therapy - three trials this week judged less on whether an effect was real than on how big it was.

Money

A dollar is a dollar, but our minds file each one in a labeled drawer - and the labels quietly cost us when they stop us from seeing the whole balance sheet.

Sports

English clubs outspent the rest of Europe combined this summer while Real Madrid banked record revenue without a trophy - the money is pooling at the top, and the pooling is the story.

Gaming

Capcom and Krafton post blockbuster quarters while more studios shed staff, and the way players pay keeps shifting toward the bundle.

Food

A parasite outbreak tied to Mexican lettuce has cut US restaurant salad sales just as growers face a crop that spoils in days.

Cyber

The week's security numbers describe an industry buried in signals: record patch batches, a $4.99M average breach, half of alert teams overwhelmed.