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Help started arriving Sunday for thousands of evacuees on Indonesia’s Flores island after a powerful earthquake killed 48 people, injured dozens and damaged hundreds of houses and buildings. Some 5,000 people fled their homes as the 7.7-magnitude quake hit the island early Saturday, followed by at least 341 aftershocks in the hours that followed, a spokesman for the BNPB national disaster agency, Berton Suar Pelita Panjaitan, said. People in some areas were left without electricity and telecommunications and at least one emergency access road remained inaccessible. “We need food, drink, medicines, and diapers for the children,” Umri, a resident of…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The number of European companies flagging the impact of extreme weather on their businesses has jumped as a series of severe heatwaves boosts demand for some products but interrupts other business activities. Terms related to extreme heat, drought and wildfires were mentioned on a record share of earnings calls in recent weeks — one in 10 — for European companies with more than $1bn in market value, according to data from AlphaSense.Several manufacturers said the heatwaves had increased demand for their products,…

Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction that powers the sun to generate nearly limitless energy here on Earth. If startups are able to complete commercially viable fusion power plants, then they have the potential to upend trillion-dollar markets. The bullish wave buoying the fusion industry has been driven by three advances: more…

SRX Global reported a 4.3% EMJX gain that the company labels hypothetical, but its first post-acquisition disclosures still leave the central investor question unanswered: whether the strategy performs with company capital.SRX completed the acquisition on June 16, two weeks before its fiscal third quarter ended. In its Aug. 13 results release, the company described the EMJX result for June 16 through June 30 as “hypothetical” and “system-generated.” It explicitly said the figure did not represent actual trading results or returns earned on capital invested by SRX.That distinction matters because SRX had said in June, when it announced the completed acquisition,…

One of this summer’s biggest onscreen hits has had big beasts, great escapes and choppy waters, but it’s not Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – it’s a livestream of Alaskan brown bears catching salmon.The Brooks Falls bearcam at Katmai national park in the US was watched 7.3m times between 22 June and 4 August – up 70% from the same period last year and more than double the views it attracted in 2024.The cameras, run by the wildlife network Explore.org, show brown bears gathering at Brooks Falls waterfall to catch sockeye salmon as they make their way upstream. More than a…

Anthropic published a blog post Friday seeking to answer some basic questions about how it will watermark the text generated by its chatbot Claude. Such as: How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code? Claude users have been debating the move since the company revealed earlier this week that it would be doing this watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which requires AI companies to use systems that make it possible to identify AI-generated content. On Reddit, for example, one poster characterized this as a conspiracy…

The 21Shares Ethereum ETF, which trades as TETH, reported $48.4 million in TETH redemptions during the first half of 2026 and ended June with 86.42% of its ETH holdings staked, according to an Aug. 14 quarterly filing. The redemption total covers completed activity; the June 30 staking ratio exposes future settlement to the timing of Ethereum’s unstaking process.For the six months ended June 30, TETH redemptions generated $48.426 million in distributions for redeemed shares against $42.174 million of contributions for new shares. Using the filing’s unrounded figures, redemptions exceeded contributions by $6.251 million. The trust sold 21,125.2745 ETH for $48.426…

Most of us think of orange juice as a simple breakfast habit, something you pour without much thought. Yet scientists are discovering that this everyday drink may be doing far more in the body than quenching thirst. A recent study has shown that regular orange juice consumption can influence the activity of thousands of genes inside our immune cells. Many of these genes help control blood pressure, calm inflammation and manage the way the body processes sugar, all of which play an important role in long-term heart health. The study followed adults who drank 500ml of pure pasteurized orange juice…

Viewed from the state department in Washington DC, the world is on fire – but record heatwaves are not to blame. The unresolved Iran war has badly burned Donald Trump. His military campaign conclusively failed, energy and food prices are still rising, and a Republican rout in November’s midterm elections looms. Humiliatingly, Israel this week flatly rejected his latest Gaza peace proposals, days after Trump congratulated himself on a “historic breakthrough”. In Europe, Russia’s attacks on Nato allies grow increasingly brazen, threatening a wider escalation. The Ukraine war, which Trump vowed to end, is now well into its fifth year,…

A flood and a landslide triggered by torrential rain killed two elderly women and injured two babies in rural northwestern Spain on Saturday, authorities said. “The deaths of two women, approximately 60 and 80 years old respectively, have been confirmed,” said the emergency services of the Castile and Leon region after the disaster in the small village of Manzanedo de Valdueza. They added that two babies had been treated for bruises, while a third person reported missing, a man in his 80s, “has been found unharmed”. Firefighters, police, ambulances and the Civil Guard were rushed to the scene, which footage…