A day of world news is marked by loss, spectacle and unease. Britain is mourning David Hockney, who has died at 88, closing the career of one of contemporary art’s defining figures, whose luminous colors and Pop-era sensibility made him a global cultural force. In Thailand, Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the eldest daughter of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, has died at 47 after years in a coma following her collapse in 2022, setting in motion royal funeral rites. In sport, politics again presses into football: UEFA has approved moving Ireland’s match against Israel from Dublin to a neutral venue behind closed doors over fears of protests and disruption. And in business, Elon Musk is nearing an extraordinary new threshold, with SpaceX’s IPO potentially putting him on course to become the world’s first trillionaire — a milestone as symbolic of modern ambition as it is of widening inequality.