- WeightWatchers will announce Dr. Kim Boyd as its chief medical officer, and plans for a new program to help women manage the transition into menopause and beyond, part of its growth strategy in emerging from bankruptcy.
- Rio Tinto's new CEO, who could be announced as soon as this month, should be open to transformative merger and acquisition deals as well as sharpening productivity and cost cuts, said two people aware of the chair's priorities.
- For a rundown of the markets, watch our daily rundown.
- German luxury sports carmaker Porsche said its sales fell in the first half of the year, blaming challenging market conditions and intense competition for a 28% slump in the Chinese market.
- From New York's mayoral race to Jeff Bezos' wedding party, critics of global capitalism abound. But few can agree on solutions. In this episode of The Big View podcast, author and investor Ruchir Sharma argues the problem is big government, entrenched companies, and cheap debt.
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Campers' belongings lie on the ground following flooding on the Guadalupe River, at Camp Mystic, Hunt, Texas, July 7, 2025. REUTERS/Marco Bello |
- Search teams plodded through muddy riverbanks and flew aircraft over flood-ravaged central Texas as hopes dimmed of finding survivors among dozens still missing from a disaster that has claimed at least 96 lives, many of them children.
- Trump, hosting Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, said the US had scheduled talks with Iran and indicated progress on a controversial effort to relocate Palestinians out of Gaza.
- Building a new US political party from scratch is a daunting task, even for the world's richest man. But that is what Elon Musk said he plans to do in the wake of his falling out with Trump.
- Russia's sacked transport minister has been found dead in his car outside Moscow with a gunshot wound and the principal hypothesis is that he took his own life, state investigators said, hours after Vladimir Putin fired him.
- Trump said the US would send more weapons to Ukraine, primarily defensive ones, to help the war-torn country defend itself against intensifying Russian advances.
- A man was gored and seven others lightly injured on the second day of Pamplona's San Fermin festival in which thousands of people line the medieval city's narrow streets for the centuries-old tradition of running with bulls.
- Britain's King Charles will welcome French President Emmanuel Macron to Windsor Castle for the first state visit by a European leader since Brexit in a trip aimed at celebrating the return of closer political ties between the countries.
- Over two dozen people were missing after torrential rain in China's Tibet region triggered a deluge in the Bhote Koshi River, washing away the "Friendship Bridge" that links China and Nepal.
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China's Myanmar rebel ultimatum threatens global supply of heavy rare earths |
A soldier from the Kachin Independence Army and his comrade cross a stream, Laiza, Kachin state, January 29, 2013. REUTERS/David Johnson/File photo |
The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the Chinese-backed military junta in the hills of northern Myanmar. |
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The star and orbiting planet, illustration released by the European Space Agency on July 2, 2025. Janine Fohlmeister, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam/Handout via REUTERS |
Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a predicament never previously observed. This exoplanet, as planets beyond our solar system are called, orbits its star so tightly that it appears to trigger flares from the stellar surface - larger than any observed from the sun - reaching several million miles into space that over time may strip much of this unlucky world's atmosphere. |
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