World
Nineteen dead across both countries in the war's biggest night of long-range strikes, as Kyiv targets the warehouses of ordinary Russian life.
Monday, 17 August 2026
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World
Nineteen dead across both countries in the war's biggest night of long-range strikes, as Kyiv targets the warehouses of ordinary Russian life.
Finance
Japan grew at half the expected pace and the yen stayed weak, because the gap between American and Japanese interest rates just refused to close.
Tech
PJM has proposed pushing data centers onto their own backup generators when power runs short, after its capacity auction hit the price cap and still came up 6.8 gigawatts short.
Mind & body
A working muscle is mostly a heater.
Climate
Petrol is dear and electric car sales are climbing almost everywhere.
Space
At a defence symposium in Alabama, and in a run of contracts around it, the US military set out what it wants in orbit.
Biotech
Congo's outbreak is on course to pass 2014-16 as the worst ever, against a species with no vaccine and no drug.
Money
A raise lifts how you feel for a few months, then the new income becomes the ordinary.
Sports
Prediction markets turned every game into a live price.
Gaming
Twitch confirmed it trains Amazon's AI models on streams, clips and chat, with every creator switched on unless they go looking for the toggle.
Food
France's maize crop may halve, the EU's could fall below 50 million tonnes for the first time since the 1990s, and Britain faces its worst cereal harvest since 1984.
Cyber
Chrome now has a serious answer to the attack that beats two-factor codes.