Haiti books an election in a capital it does not control

World

The regional body for the Americas told Haiti it needs help to hold December's vote, in a country where armed groups own the roads.

Finance

America's biggest retailer posted its weakest sales growth in over six years and its shares fell about 9%.

Tech

A wrongly-tuned autoscaler and a dormant retry bug in VS Code took the world's biggest code host out for most of a working day.

Mind & body

Vision is not a continuous stream.

Climate

A giant new battery plant opened in Michigan, Europe's storage fleet passed 100 GWh, and the world's biggest battery maker admitted where its emissions really sit: upstream, in the making.

Space

Astronomers have watched one speck of the Milky Way's centre since 2017.

Biotech

A one-time infusion reaches children with an inherited sugar disorder, two children die in gene-editing trials abroad, and a new study finds a mother's age leaves a mark that is not written in DNA.

Money

Own the place you live in and you are two people at once.

Sports

The preseason exists to gather information about players nobody knows yet.

Gaming

US console sales had their worst July since the pandemic, and physical game sales hit a 31-year low.

Food

A charity's audit found 80% of UK fruit and 47% of its vegetables come from abroad, mostly from countries more exposed to heat than Britain.

Cyber

Attackers hit a critical GitLab flaw two days after the fix shipped.