Across Venezuela, rescue workers dug through shattered homes and pulverised streets, praying for miracles and bracing for grief. Two 11-year-old boys were pulled out alive, their survival after more than 70 hours beneath concrete met with tears, applause and exhausted relief. Yet in the same ruins, Argentine footballer Lucas Trejo found only loss, as the bodies of his wife and two children were recovered from what had been their home.
Far from the rubble, another family in Thailand is mourning a 17-year-old girl whose life ended in a suitcase by the tracks, while the man accused of killing her faces the possibility of death himself. Overhead, the United States and Iran have agreed, for now, to step back from the brink and let tankers pass safely. Meanwhile, Europe swelters, its silent heatwave already claiming more than 1,300 lives, a reminder that catastrophe doesn’t always arrive with a roar.
