Egypt takes $1.3bn a year from the US, and gives China a military welcome

World

The truth: Nobody changed sides in Egypt this week.

Finance

The truth: The date of a meeting, more than the state of the economy, is deciding which figures get to matter - and the figure pushing hardest toward a rate rise is an oil price no interest rate can reach.

Tech

The truth: Google was found to be an illegal monopoly, and the argument that decided its punishment was one only Google had the information to make.

Mind & body

The truth: Vitamin C is settled at the bottom of its range and wide open above it, and almost all the selling happens in the part that is open.

Climate

The truth: A limit the world agreed to hold has quietly become a limit the world plans to come back to, and the return depends on removing carbon at a scale nobody has built yet.

Space

The truth: The biggest new item in NASA's Mars budget is a radio relay, because the two rovers already driving there cannot be reached much longer through orbiters launched in 2001 and 2005.

Biotech

The truth: Cutting calories has extended life in animals for decades and hardly anyone can sustain it, so ageing research has largely become a hunt for a drug that copies the result without the discipline -- and in mice, one nearly does.

Money

The truth: The price of a small loan is mostly the cost of checking a stranger and chasing them, and the cheapest way to do both has always been a group of people who cannot avoid each other.

Sports

The truth: England's Premier League is now rich enough to be its own market, and half of a record 3.528bn-pound window was twenty clubs paying each other prices no outside buyer was there to test.

Gaming

The truth: The games industry is not contracting so much as relocating, and the layoff count only measures the side it is leaving.

Food

The truth: The fight in India is not over whether shoppers are told, but over how many of three limits a food must break before anyone tells them - and the firms being measured were consulted on that number.

Cyber

The truth: The Sality operation is being announced as law enforcement winning, and what actually happened is that a security company reverse-engineered a botnet, nobody was arrested, and 15,000 computers are still infected.