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For the Argentina–England World Cup semifinal in Atlanta, tickets are extremely pricey: FIFA's resale marketplace lists prices from about $2,500 up to $172,500, while secondary sites like SeatGeek and StubHub show roughly $2,600–$11,000. Issues with ticket delivery have been reported, and StubHub faces a lawsuit, though FIFA promotes its own marketplace with a 30% buyer/seller surcharge and a FanProtect guarantee.
Nearly 300 Ebola-positive people are unaccounted for in the Democratic Republic of the Congo amid conflict and displaced camps, hampering contact tracing as the outbreak expands; WHO modeling suggests thousands of cases in coming months and vaccines/treatment trials are set to begin, though funding remains short.
Australian nonprofit Rouser Lab is building Earth’s Black Box, a 52-foot monolith designed to continuously log data on planetary health from space agencies, weather services, and universities and store it as Earth’s Vital Index. Planned for installation at a remote Tasmanian airfield by December, the device aims to provide an objective real-time archive of events leading to environmental collapse to spur accountability and action, though critics note the abundance of open climate data and question its practical usefulness. The project also includes the Climate S.O.S. techno-obelisk concept that would transmit a distress call into space in hopes of attracting help from alien civilizations.