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| Europe’s conundrum |
| Teutonic austerity and bad blood in the euro zone highlight an old, but resurgent problem: Germany is too powerful for comfort, but too weak to impose its will |
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| Science’s big questions |
| In the first of six briefs looking at unsolved scientific mysteries, we ask how life got started and whether it exists on other planets |
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| In the first of six briefs looking at unsolved scientific mysteries, we ask how life got started and whether it exists on other planets |
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| Politics this week |
| America’s Environmental Protection Agency announced emission-reduction goals for each state that will reduce carbon-dioxide pollution from power stations by 870m tonnes by 2030, a drop of 32% when measured against 2005 levels. They are America’s first-ever national standards for cutting carbon pollution from power plants |
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| Business this week |
| A former City trader was sentenced by a judge in London to 14 years in prison for his role in the LIBOR scandal. Although banks have been fined over LIBOR, the trial of Tom Hayes was the first time that an individual faced a jury for manipulating the benchmark inter-bank interest rate |
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