Today’s science file is really a study in systems and scrutiny: in Washington, the Justice Department has reportedly waved through Paramount Skydance’s roughly $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery without concessions, a striking sign of confidence in media consolidation even as California and European regulators keep their own investigations alive. At the United Nations, attention turned to leadership and development, with António Guterres naming veteran Nigerian official Ahunna Eziakonwa as his new Special Adviser on Africa, elevating a figure deeply involved in shaping UNDP strategy across 46 countries. Elsewhere, the day carried a harder edge, with courts in Ireland and the UK hearing disturbing kidnapping cases — one involving a German-Pakistani suspect arrested in Cork, another ending in a 34-year sentence in London. And in a lighter corner, Good Weekend invited readers to test themselves with a new interactive “Superquiz.”