Severe Weather: Super Typhoon Francisco (Mekkhala) has weakened into a typhoon over the Philippine Sea, with PAGASA warning it will likely stay offshore while boosting the southwest monsoon and bringing rain; Public Safety & Tech: The Philippines’ cybercrime agency temporarily banned the violent game GoreBox after a Tacloban school shooting, citing links to a suspect’s frequent play and stepping up monitoring of similar apps; Climate & Energy Logistics: A new analysis says Europe may need a dedicated fleet of 65 ships and 33 ports by 2050 to move captured CO2 to offshore storage, even as pipelines grow; Biomed Imaging Breakthrough: Researchers report a cryo-EM advance that improves visibility of tiny, faint proteins, aiming to close a long-standing size limit; Research Funding: Slovenia physicist Marko Žnidarič won an ERC Advanced Grant for work on non-unitarity in many-body systems; Mining & Training: Finland is training Tanzanian mining teachers for safer, practical instruction back home, while Greenland’s Blue Lagoon project ramps up its 2026 critical-minerals exploration.