Tesla is waging a pressure campaign casting safety regulators as feckless bureaucrats blocking its life-saving technology as it chases an elusive prize – government approval of its ‘Full Self-Driving’ technology across Europe.

Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.

The phoenix of ancient mythology perishes in flames only to rise again from the ashes.  

My colleague Will Dunham writes that astronomers have now found a world that rightly can be called a phoenix planet.

Researchers say this exoplanet appears to have been born ‌from material expelled into space during the death throes of a star a bit bigger than the sun, and now orbits the highly compact stellar remnant that was left behind, called a white dwarf..