The sheikh don’t like it
The weekend despatch: The question of motive behind the sham deals of one of global football’s richest clubs. The rising sea off California. + What’s happening in Eau Claire, Wisconsin?
Out of sight
The weekend despatch: How stable is China? The threat of Hong Kong. + What was John Coltrane’s “churning tension”?
Yet to be uncovered
The weekend despatch: Parsing 68 million tonnes of rubble in Gaza. When rigging an election isn’t enough. + Who’s Wesley Stace?
‘Tell the Saudis to stop lying’
The weekend despatch: The evidence the 9/11 Commission never saw. The American dollar, out of control. + What’s Mew?
The wrong machine
The weekend despatch: American companies, hired by the White House to break into computers overseas. Off Angola’s Lisima Plateau, a survey team’s palm-sized beetles and blue spiders. + Who is Rustie?
‘A shield of peace’
The weekend despatch: A new military alliance is taking applications. An unknown ancestor is in every human genome. + Who is Kurt Ballou?
Buying time
The weekend despatch: Engineers from America’s leading AI labs, all asking Washington to help them cool things down. Astronomers listening for alien signals, now opening up beyond a band they’ve been using for decades. + Who is Vini Reilly?
To the victor …
The weekend despatch: In Budapest, the machinery of the old order, handed to the people who ran against it. A 25-kilometer crater in the Quebec bush that no one noticed for 390 million years. + How rare are creative multi-hyphenates in Hollywood?
Oil, oil, everywhere
The weekend despatch: A petrostate lines up for petrol. The discovery in Egypt of a town that buried its dead with gold on their tongues. + Is time slowing down, or are jazz tracks getting longer?
