Day 1 at the Open Championship: An unlikely leader...
Jackson Suber had never been to Europe before and now he's on top of the leaderboard following the first round at Royal Birkdale.
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School bus crash kills at least 20 pupils in Uganda
More than 60 others were injured in the crash, suspected to have been caused by a mechanical fault.

Australia news live: mobile networks ‘not infallible’, Telstra boss tells Senate inquiry; Anton Enus to retire from SBS World News
Telstra outage hit ‘approximately 45%’ of calls and data, CEO tells Senate inquiryGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPauline Hanson has been called “un-Australian” over her appearance on a podcast…

China hits out at British Steel nationalisation
The UK government said taking the firm into public hands would safeguard "a vital national capability".
Japan revises law to ensure supply of (male) heirs to the imperial throne
A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes it.
Business
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Chip and memory stocks slide in fresh bout of Wall Street tumult
Investors pull away from shares in companies that have led markets higher this year
The mega-IPO glut comes with a containment problem
Never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing
Brussels seeks climate vs industry trade-offs in ETS revamp
Also in this newsletter: Brussels seeks bigger, simpler banks in competitiveness overhaul
FirstFT: Burnham plans policy blitz
Also in today’s newsletter: BoE bond sales and Accor’s chief executive
Technology
More in Technology →Software, hardware and the machines behind them
South Korea making its own security-centric AI model
Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos
Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief
Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom
OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'
Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid
Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project
Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel
Science
More in Science →Research, discovery and analysis
Intelligent Three Level Learning Architecture for Autonomous UAV Swarms in Search and Rescue
arXiv:2607.14093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a novel three level hierarchical learning architecture for autonomous UAV swarms performing search and rescue operations. Unlike conventional approaches…
HG-RAG: Hierarchy-Guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Structured Knowledge Graphs
arXiv:2607.14095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has proven to be a widely successful process at improving the quality of outputs from a Large Language Model (LLM) for wider context. H…
IMEX Interaction-Based Model Explanation
arXiv:2607.14096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In predictive modeling, the ability to explain why a model produces a given target prediction has become increasingly important [5, 10]. Black-box models do not provide a t…
RegNetAgents: A Multi-Agent Framework for Cross-Network Regulatory Driver Identification in Cancer Genomics
arXiv:2607.14097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce RegNetAgents, an AI-oriented multi-agent framework for structured, query-driven regulatory candidate identification across heterogeneous gene regulatory networ…
Sports
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Day 1 at the Open Championship: An unlikely leader...
Jackson Suber had never been to Europe before and now he's on top of the leaderboard following the first round at Royal Birkdale.

England vs Argentina: A one-sided rugby rivalry - will Pumas bite back?
Fresh from the drama of Wednesday's FIFA World Cup semi-final between England and Argentina, the nations meet again on Saturday as part of rugby's Nations Championship in Santiago del Estero.
Entertainment
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‘God Of War’ To Recast Lead Kratos After Ryan Hurst Suffers Injury On Set Of Prime Video Series
EXCLUSIVE: This is a shocker: Prime Video’s God Of War will have a new actor playing Kratos as the lead role in the high profile fantasy drama series is being recast, Deadline has learned. The decision, made after a care…

PVR Inox’s Sanjeev Kumar Bijli On India’s Box Office Recovery, Cinema Expansion & Cannes Acquisitions Haul
EXCLUSIVE: India’s theatrical market is one of the few in Asia that has outstripped pre-pandemic revenues, despite the growth of streaming, the slowdown in the Hollywood pipeline and all the other factors that have hampe…

Sinclair-Owned ABC And NBC Stations Preempt Networks To Carry Trump Primetime Speech
UPDATED with more details: ABC and NBC stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting ended up airing President Donald Trump’s primetime speech on Thursday, after ABC News and NBC News said earlier in the day that they would on…

Donald Trump Says ABC And NBC Should Lose Broadcast Licenses Because They Didn’t Carry His Primetime Address On Election Claims
Donald Trump lashed out at ABC and NBC, the two networks that chose not to carry his speech live on their broadcast platforms, as he delivered a 25-minute long speech full of claims that included China obtaining voter re…
Health
More in Health →Public health and medicine worldwide
New WHO guidelines: up to 45% of dementia risk could be prevented or delayed
The World Health Organization (WHO) today released updated guidelines on reducing the risk of cognitive decline and dementia, providing countries with evidence-based recommendations to help prevent or delay the onset of …
Global childhood immunization coverage inches forward despite conflict and hesitancy – UNICEF, WHO
In 2025, 90% of infants globally – or nearly 116 million – received at least one dose of a diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine, and 85% – or 110 million – completed the full three-dose series, according to th…
El Salvador validated by WHO as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated El Salvador as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Trachoma is the world's leading infectious cause of blindness.
WHO calls for urgent action as new cancer cases are projected to nearly double by 2050
Millions of people are facing physical, emotional and financial toll of cancer, a disease that claims more than 26 000 lives every day, according to a report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO). With an…
