The Disappearers

Two US service members have gone missing in Morocco while taking part in a multinational military exercise, ABC News reports. Searches are likely under way, though details about the exercise, the service members' unit, and the circumstances of their disappearance have not yet been released.

An Italian court on Monday convicted three Egyptian security officials for their involvement in the 2016 kidnapping of Giulio Regeni, the Cambridge University student whose tortured body was found on a Cairo roadside days after he disappeared. The verdict is a landmark in Italy's years-long effort to establish accountability, though Egypt has consistently denied involvement and the defendants were tried in absentia.

The UK government is set to scrap the distinctive Brexit-era warning labels that were required on products such as cars and electrical goods after leaving the European Union. The labelling, introduced when Britain split from EU rules, is being dropped as part of wider moves to diverge from EU regulation. Commentators are debating whether the change is a practical cut to red tape or a symbolic gesture.

Families of the 43 students who vanished in Mexico are demanding the government disclose full details of the military's involvement in the 2014 disappearance. They are pressing authorities to release information about what soldiers knew and did in Iguela and surrounding areas. The case remains one of Mexico's most notorious unresolved atrocities, with relatives accusing the state of withholding key evidence for years.

Historically, stocks have delivered a large premium over bonds as compensation for their higher risk. Fortune reports that this gap, known as the equity risk premium, has now almost disappeared, leaving equities offering barely more than safer bonds. Analysts say the shift is unusual and raises questions about whether stocks are overpriced or bonds are unusually attractive.

Italy is restructuring its armed forces as the Russian threat to Europe grows, establishing a joint command to counter sabotage, cyberattacks and foreign interference and to protect critical infrastructure. Defence Minister Guido Crosetto warned that the traditional line between war and peace has disappeared, reflecting growing concern in Italy over hybrid threats.

Mexico is preparing to announce new findings in the investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers' college in Iguala, Guerrero. The case remains one of the country's most notorious human rights scandals, and families of the victims have long demanded accountability. Any new revelations are expected to draw close scrutiny from victims' relatives, rights groups and the public.

A team of Purdue University researchers is travelling this week to search for the missing plane of aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished over the Pacific in 1937. The expedition is drawing attention as one of the latest efforts to solve one of aviation's most enduring mysteries, with observers watching to see whether the team can turn up new evidence of the aircraft's fate.

Astrophysicist Charles Liu joins StarTalk to explain why the observational evidence for the Big Bang could one day vanish from our view. As the universe's expansion accelerates, distant light may eventually become unreachable, potentially erasing the cosmic microwave background and other key clues that support the Big Bang theory for future observers. The discussion has drawn significant attention from audiences interested in cosmology.

Analysts are reassessing al-Qaeda a quarter-century after the September 11 attacks, arguing the network has transformed from a centralized organisation into a dispersed set of affiliates and alliances. The changing structure, they say, presents a different security challenge for counterterrorism efforts, with the group adapting to new conflicts and regions while the threat it poses has evolved rather than disappeared.

The US Coast Guard is searching waters off Nantucket for a medical evacuation jet carrying six people that disappeared while flying from Bermuda to Boston. The aircraft, reported to be an air ambulance, lost contact mid-route, prompting an active search-and-rescue operation. Concern is mounting for the patients and crew aboard, with updates on the search expected as crews continue combing the area.

A small aircraft took off from Bermuda and then disappeared without a trace, with its flight recording ending over the open ocean. German news outlet n-tv reports the plane vanished mysteriously mid-flight, and search details remain scarce. The incident is drawing attention because of Bermuda's long-standing association with unexplained disappearances in the surrounding Atlantic waters.

Japanese media are covering episode five of the NHK morning drama 'Brassam', in which Tamayo, played by Ran Murakami, explosively reveals her feelings for Ryo at a locked front door. Outlets are also recapping the character's father Seiji, played by Atsuro Watabe, reacting to the canary's disappearance, while features explore Uno Chiyo, the writer on whom the drama is based, and her pursuit of freedom and love.

Military.com reports that fewer than ten American veterans who witnessed the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain alive, and their firsthand accounts are rapidly disappearing. As the last eyewitnesses of the only wartime use of nuclear weapons pass away, historians and families are racing to record their stories before this direct link to 1945 is lost.

The Dutch television programme Het Familiediner is being axed after more than 25 years on air. Dutch news outlet AD reports that the long-running show, in which families search for lost relatives, will disappear from television. Viewers are reacting to the end of a familiar fixture of Dutch programming.

Brazilians are searching for information about the digital transit wallet, the official app holding the CNH and CRLV documents. Discussion is focused on what to do if the digital vehicle registration fails to load during a police stop, with guidance circulating on what traffic agents can and cannot do when a driver cannot display the digital document at a blitz.

The San Diego Padres completed a two-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in the MLB Wild Card Series, opening with an emphatic 8-0 rout. Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a leadoff homer in Game 1, while Michael King carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning. The Cubs' offense largely disappeared as their playoff run ended quickly.

The Justice Sahai Commission's report concludes that Gumnami Baba, the Faizabad ascetic long rumoured to be Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose living in disguise, was not Bose but one of his followers. The finding reopens a decades-old mystery that has fuelled debate in India about Bose's fate after 1945, with many supporters rejecting any suggestion he survived the plane crash.

The US Coast Guard is searching for a private jet carrying six people that disappeared en route from Bermuda to Boston. Telemundo reports the aircraft vanished near Nantucket, prompting an active search operation in the area. Authorities have not yet confirmed the fate of those on board as the search continues.

The SETI Institute is explaining how astronomers can tell when a star has engulfed its own planets. Lithium, which can reveal such events, gradually disappears inside stars over time, but beryllium lasts much longer, offering a more durable chemical clue that rocky worlds may have been swallowed. Anne Rathsam walks through the stellar detective work in the institute's latest episode.

A five-year-old girl has vanished without a trace in Anklam, western Pomerania, prompting a police investigation. According to Nordkurier, two female students have come into the focus of the investigation as officers work to establish what happened to the child. The case is drawing attention in the region as the search continues and details remain scarce.

Researchers from Purdue University are travelling to a remote island group in the Pacific Ocean to investigate possible remnants of Amelia Earhart's aircraft. The aviator vanished during her 1937 attempt to fly around the world, and her disappearance remains one of aviation's great mysteries. The expedition has drawn attention as it could finally shed light on what happened to her plane.

The Guardian reports on a growing shift among music and film fans back to physical media such as CDs, DVDs and vinyl records. The appeal is ownership and control: collectors say they are tired of streaming platforms deciding what they watch and listen to through recommendation algorithms, along with catalogues that disappear when licences expire. Physical formats are being framed as a way to keep media on their own terms.