CL Wildfires have driven 330,000 people from their homes across France and Spain, part of the same heat pattern that just spun up a storm here named Dolphin, which the Observatory says could yet reach super typhoon strength. Hong Kong is not on fire. It is, however, checking the shutters.-- CL

MB Fire season across two continents, a nuclear power negotiating its own ceasefire terms, and a judge quietly walked out for copying other people's words. Three institutions, one instinct: manage the story before managing the problem. Moscow, of all capitals, is now funding longevity science. Call it optimism, or a confession about how the last few decades went.-- MB