Sunday closed with Spain lifting the World Cup after Ferran Torres’s extra-time winner against Argentina at MetLife, while a ninth night of U.S. strikes on Iran left a third American service member dead, Brent above ninety dollars, and Hormuz still contested — and in London, Andy Burnham prepared to walk into Number 10 on Monday.
Ferran Torres’s extra-time goal gave Spain a 1-0 win over holders Argentina at MetLife Stadium, securing La Roja’s second World Cup title. Spain’s young squad finished the tournament unbeaten and having conceded just one goal, nullifying Messi’s attack in a controlled final after six weeks of play.
Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino were booed as they walked onto the field for the trophy ceremony after Spain’s win. The president had arrived earlier on Marine One, sat with Infantino through the match alongside other heads of state, then tried to join Spain’s victory party after weeks of calling the country “hopeless.”
A Provo fire captain, his wife, and their three sons were found dead near a southern Utah campground after weekend storms; authorities said they were likely flood victims.
Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance announced the birth of Alec Neel Vance at Walter Reed, their fourth child and the first born to a sitting vice president in more than 150 years. The couple said mother and baby were healthy and tied the news to Vance’s long public push for higher U.S. birth rates.
U.S. Central Command finished a ninth straight night of strikes on Iranian command centers, air defenses, coastal surveillance, and missile and drone sites meant to blunt attacks on Hormuz shipping. A third American service member was confirmed killed in recent operations as traffic through the strait slowed and both sides accused each other of breaking a June understanding.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it had targeted U.S. aircraft in Jordan and stopped tankers in the strait while Centcom said it was holding Tehran accountable. Brent briefly cleared ninety-one dollars as a vessel caught fire in Hormuz and early Asian trade priced a fresh night of U.S. strikes.
Former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham won the Labour leadership after Keir Starmer’s resignation and is set to become Britain’s fifty-ninth prime minister on Monday. He will accept King Charles’s invitation at the Palace, speak outside Number 10, and start naming a Cabinet while inheriting a sluggish economy and high living costs.
A massive search continued after a passenger ferry sank off Guyana late Saturday in what officials called one of the country’s worst maritime disasters. Authorities opened a criminal probe after the captain and a crew member allegedly tested positive for marijuana and the passenger manifest — listing more than a hundred people — proved inaccurate.
TSMC CFO Wendell Huang told CNBC the foundry is pouring another hundred billion dollars into Arizona, lifting its U.S. investment pipeline to about two hundred sixty-five billion as customers ride a multi-year A.I. demand wave. Full-year capital expenditure guidance moved up to sixty to sixty-four billion dollars, with two-nanometer technology expected to drive near-term revenue.
Brent for September jumped about 2.8 percent to top ninety dollars a barrel and WTI rose roughly 2.4 percent to the mid-eighties after fresh U.S. strikes and confirmation of a third American combat death. Traders priced slower Hormuz traffic and the risk that Iranian disruption of the waterway — which handled about a fifth of world oil before the war — could tighten supply further.
Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 reached a roughly 280-mile orbit on its first try from Sriharikota after a half-hour hold for a last-minute technical fix. The 72-foot commercial launcher can loft about 350 kilograms to low Earth orbit, putting India’s private small-sat class above Rocket Lab’s Electron in payload class on paper.
Nolan’s Homer adaptation took an estimated $124.5 million domestically and $264.1 million worldwide, his best global opening weekend, with IMAX alone near $30 million in the U.S. About 7.5 million domestic tickets moved before China, Japan, and South Korea even open.
Samsung Biologics launched a 1.46 billion Swiss franc all-cash tender at 44.31 francs a share for peptide API specialist PolyPeptide, aiming to close by year-end. The deal would be Korea’s largest biopharma acquisition and pushes Samsung into the peptide ingredients feeding the GLP-1 obesity boom.
01.ai, the Beijing startup founded by former Google China chief Kai-Fu Lee, is lining up a pre-IPO raise ahead of a planned 2027 Hong Kong listing. Lee wants the financing timed around the firm’s first full annual results disclosure.
A lone hacker rebuilt an entire bowling-alley POS and scoring stack with ESP32s for roughly the cost of a used car.
Alibaba drops Qwen 3.8 and the front page immediately treats it like a new default open-weight baseline.
Hardware founder sold 2,500 MIDI recorders and argues the hard part was distribution, not silicon.
Simon Willison digs into Claude Code shipping an unreleased Bun rewritten in Rust inside the binary.
Study finds AI advice made people less accurate while making them more confident in wrong answers.
Minecraft Java moves input and windowing onto SDL3, a long-requested modernization for the desktop client.
A developer joins the IndieWeb and writes up the practical glue: feeds, webmentions, and owning your URLs.
After fifteen years of patient gardening, bananas finally fruit outdoors in Rayleigh, Essex.
A short essay on mental models for parallel code that stays readable when the cores multiply.
Ollama pitches a simpler path for running and shipping open models on local machines.
Someone burned a research budget figuring out how to spend fewer tokens on deep-research pipelines.
Kagi’s Orion browser keeps pushing a WebKit-native, extension-friendly alternative to Chromium defaults.
Julia lands a UnifiedIR pull request aimed at cleaner optimization across the compiler stack.
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