The US steps back as the world's guarantor, and its allies rush to realign

World

For the first time since 1949, Washington told Europe to take primary charge of its own defense - and the Gulf, Japan and Ukraine are all recalculating who they can count on.

Finance

Prologis pays a 39% premium to buy UK rival Segro in a busy deal week, while a South Korean casino shows what a bold bet costs when it misses.

Tech

Reuters counts about $1 trillion in AI data-center leases Big Tech has signed but not yet booked as debt - and a China chip shock just showed how fast hidden leverage can unwind.

Mind & body

Your body cannot move water directly.

Climate

The world's installed solar just tripled to 3 terawatts, and prices have fallen so far that Chinese panel makers are bleeding cash.

Space

SpaceX is stretching the life of its proven Crew Dragon fleet rather than commit to a Starship handover - a deliberate hedge while the new ship is still test-flying.

Biotech

New tools this week all attacked biotech's oldest problem - the space of possible molecules and targets is astronomically large, so the whole game is narrowing the search.

Money

Owning something quietly inflates its value in our own eyes.

Sports

Clubs are being crowned champions of the summer market - but winning the window rarely translates into winning games, as Liverpool's collapse and Eddie Howe's exit both show.

Gaming

A giant with hundreds of millions could not build a rival to Grand Theft Auto - because the thing it was up against was not a game but a crowd.

Food

A record-dry July pushed more than half of England into drought, halved some UK vegetable harvests, and sent produce prices sharply higher - as the usual import backstop, Europe, bakes too.

Cyber

A vulnerability in software that thousands of IT firms use to manage their clients' computers was fixed, then reopened by a patch bypass - and US agencies were given three days to fix it.