World
A blockade of three Palestinian homes in Qusra pushed Israel's defence minister to order a change in who polices settlers - a step Palestinians call annexation by another name.
Saturday, 15 August 2026
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World
A blockade of three Palestinian homes in Qusra pushed Israel's defence minister to order a change in who polices settlers - a step Palestinians call annexation by another name.
Finance
American shoppers cut spending for the first time since October, and traders quietly dropped their bets on another rate rise.
Tech
ChangXin Memory is worth $524bn, more than the internet giant that buys its chips.
Mind & body
A nerve signal is a private line that arrives in milliseconds and stops when the firing stops.
Climate
The UK named the first 43 places where new power lines are going in and offered nearby homes 250 pounds a year off their bills.
Space
The Sun's surface was imaged more finely than ever before, Webb pulled three growing black holes out of one ancient galaxy, and two enormous sky catalogues landed.
Biotech
A 214-patient trial found a single psychoactive session still beating placebo on anxiety scores three months later - the first real movement in anxiety drugs since 2007.
Money
A savings account paying 4% while prices rise 3% earned you 1% in things you can actually buy.
Sports
Fourteen teenagers have moved from EFL and Scottish academies into Premier League development squads this summer, matching all of last season.
Gaming
Netflix, Amazon and Supermassive all pulled back this week.
Food
Russian strikes have all but shut Ukraine's Black Sea ports at the peak of the wheat harvest.
Cyber
Flock shortened how long it holds a record of where your car has been, after officers used the system to follow exes.