CL Nepal's flood toll rose again, hundreds still missing under mud rescuers are moving by hand. Officials in Kathmandu called it an unprecedented weather event. Hong Kong's own red rainstorm warning today was a reminder that the region's infrastructure faces the same underlying pressures.-- CL

MB The Nepal death toll climbed by hundreds today. Officials had been using softer terms, missing rather than recovered, recovered rather than bodies, one news cycle longer than the facts allowed. Meta agreed to pay eighteen billion dollars for child harm, the kind of number a company signs only once denial stops being cheaper than payment. China called its warships around Taiwan routine. Standard Chartered called its sanctions failures a lapse.-- MB