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- Harry Styles’s previous tour visited 79 cities. But not all is as it was—his new tour will be hosted in just seven cities. The British heartthrob is not the only musician travelling less
- Tackling one form of cancer has, potentially, revealed a master switch that could enable new treatments for millions of people. Register for free to learn why this is just the beginning econ.st/3S19krh Illustration: Cristina Spanò
- On “The Intelligence” our series profiling World Cup contenders concludes, as @jonfasman takes a look at England’s side bit.ly/4uuUwOV
- A high-income, low-pressure existence is not all it’s cracked up to be
- Italy’s fourth-largest lender has made a bid for the world’s oldest bank. Register for free to learn why politicians in Rome may prove less than enthusiastic at the prospect
- It will bring needed relief to a scarred region, and to global energy markets. But it will not resolve the issues that brought America and Iran to war in the first place
- AI agents—bots that can read, interpret and act—use masses of processing power and have started to run up huge bills. As they proliferate, the problem will grow
- The British government has announced plans to stop under-16s from using big social-media apps. Australia has already enacted a similar ban—but the measure has not led to an uptick in more wholesome hobbies
- The first round of Colombia’s presidential election “exposed a country divided by fear, inflamed by rhetoric and dangerously close to mistaking aggression for leadership”, argues @JuanManSantos
- “The idea loses steam when you think through the full implications of it.” On “The Intelligence” @asdomash examines a growing push to part-nationalise AI companies bit.ly/4eql3a8
- Artists are visiting fewer cities on their global tours
- Russia is dominating the missile war by default, but Ukraine hopes that will change
