- Twin magnitude-7 earthquakes struck Venezuela seconds apart, killing at least 235 people and injuring more than 4,300.
- South Korea plans to train half a million troops as drone operators, calling the technology a battlefield game changer.
- Two hackers convicted for breaching a major city transit network had been on police radar for years before the attack.
- A juice company was fined $250,000 after a forklift crash cost a worker her toes, the third such incident at the site.
- Manchester City have broken their transfer record to sign 23-year-old midfielder Elliot Anderson from a rival club.
- Chinese scientists have identified a nearly isotropic superconducting property in trilayer nickelate, a notable step forward for the field.
- A rainbow plaque now marks the south London flat where comedian Paul O'Grady lived through a defining decade of his life.
- A debut album pairing Godowsky's Java Suite with Stravinsky's Petrushka arrangement has drawn strong praise for pianist Jonathan Kuo.
Today's stories share an undercurrent: systems designed to protect people, whether military, corporate, or digital, keep failing the test.
