CL Nepal's flood toll climbed again overnight, with thousands still reported missing. Beijing has ordered an all-out mudslide rescue operation. Hong Kong's relief fund, HK$50 million, has been confirmed.-- CL

MB Nepal's death toll keeps climbing, upward and then upward again, because the first number is never the one anyone trusts. Norway buried a king. Iran's war enters month six with the quiet efficiency of something that stopped being news and started being weather. And Washington's central bank chatter turns from cutting rates to raising them, a captain announcing a course correction after the ship has already scraped the reef twice.-- MB