SpaceNews
ESA picks Airbus to build a wind-monitoring satellite sequel with twice the lasers, launching in 2034 - because waiting a decade for better weather data is totally fine.
Banana Beach on Koh Hey is the best beach in Asia, according to Tripadvisor - so basically, it’s official: you should go before everyone else does.
BBC Business
After calling four earlier bids 'cheap,' EasyJet's board finds £5.2 billion acceptable - pending regulatory hurdles and a firm offer by August 3.
TechCrunch
Amazon's Mechanical Turk stops taking new customers in 2026, leaving its remaining workforce to ponder an ironic fate: being replaced by the very AI they helped train.
Ars Technica
Geologists propose that ancient asteroid impacts, not plate tectonics, melted Earth's early crust into a thin, gooey layer that eventually cooled into continents.
Ars Technica
Chemical accidents are up 57% since 2021, but the Trump administration wants to weaken safety rules anyway - because nothing says 'protecting communities' like rolling back protections while infrastructure ages.
BBC Politics
Nigel Farage's buddy with a fraud conviction apparently bankrolled his security and social media; no rules broken, says Reform UK, because it was all 'purely personal' - like a personal gift of £5 million.
BBC World
Iran's new supreme leader skips dad's funeral, sparking rumors of injury or extreme grief avoidance - while mourners call for Trump's death and the US president wonders if the tears are real.
The Guardian Europe
From bombing the Arctic to building a second moon, Tim Flannery rounds up the 20th century's most delightfully unhinged climate fixes.
The Guardian Europe
A mother's terrifying park accident turns into a testament to teenage decency as five strangers rush to help.
The Verge
NASA spends $30 million to send a robotic spacecraft to give a $500 million telescope a much-needed orbital boost.
The Guardian Europe
England chase home-soil glory against six-time champions Australia, with early wickets and tight bowling setting the stage at Lord's.
BBC Business
Sky's takeover of ITV won't immediately hide your soaps behind a paywall, but long-term integration, sports synergy, and potential newsroom consolidation could reshape British telly - with an American accent.
The Verge
Keurig saved office coffee from being burnt sludge, then unleashed a plastic pod apocalypse. The Verge's podcast explains how.
The Guardian Europe
Michael Phillips, 38, whose 0.38-inch member earned him the title of world's smallest penis, is getting enhancement surgery after crowdfunding nearly $13,000 - and politely declining a freebie from a Beverly Hills surgeon.
The Guardian Europe
New genetic study reveals Britain's endangered swallowtail butterfly has been a distinct subspecies for up to 1.7 million years, not 8,000 as previously thought, sparking a rethink of conservation strategies.
Germans file record 29,400+ travel complaints in first half of 2026, blaming weather, war, and AI teaching people to complain better.
The Atlantic
Supreme Court rules presidents can fire agency heads, finally solving an 1887 puzzle that law students have been complaining about for decades.
The Guardian
A newly rediscovered baptism record of an enslaved African teenager in 1798 sheds light on Black Mancunian life - and the complicated history of slavery, baptism, and abolition in Georgian England.
BBC World
Super Typhoon Bavi crashes Guam's party, prompting evacuations and plywood purchases as the storm brings 173-mph winds and a reminder that climate change is a real buzzkill.
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