Reuters Staff | Reuters Kyoto University Professor Hiroyuki Yano, who is leading research in making auto parts using wood, at his laboratory in Kyoto, Japan on July 25, 2017. The global push among carmakers to make ever lighter vehicles is leading some auto suppliers in Japan to turn to what …

Photo Kendrick Lamar’s latest album, “DAMN.,” released in April, returned to the top of the Billboard chart. Credit Amy Harris/Invision, via Associated Press After three months, Kendrick Lamar has returned to the top of the Billboard album chart in a slow week of music sales during which last week’s best-seller, …

Yuri Gripas | Reuters Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (R) and China’s Vice Premier Wang Yang arrive at the U.S. – China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue to discuss bilateral economic and trade issues in Washington, U.S., July 19, 2017. China said on Tuesday that it would take actions to defend its interests …

Jim Bourg | Reuters President Donald Trump (L) welcomes South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House in Washington, June 30, 2017. The president was making an annual speech to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the nation’s liberation from Japanese military rule that began in 1910 and ended in …

Photo If you won’t be able to view the solar eclipse next week, perhaps the music of artists like Sun Ra will help you achieve a feeling approximating totality. Credit Leon Morris/Redferns, via Getty Images The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, …

Photo A police officer at the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash on the set of “Deadpool 2” in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Monday. Credit Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press A woman died Monday on the set of “Deadpool 2” in Vancouver, British Columbia, while attempting a stunt …

Beyond that, Ms. Swift said after the verdict that she now would be donating an unspecified amount to organizations that help sexual assault victims defend themselves. Photo Tree Paine, right, publicist for the pop singer Taylor Swift, joins Ms. Swift’s younger brother, Austin, on the way to the federal courthouse …

“I know we’re shoegazers, but literally everyone onstage was staring at my pedals, trying to figure out why they kept going on and off,” Mr. Halstead said with a laugh backstage the next day. Photo From left, Mr. Chaplin, Simon Scott, Ms. Goswell, Christian Savill and Neil Halstead. Credit Damon …

Mike Mergen | Bloomberg | Getty Images A pharmacy technician fills a prescription inside a Wal-Mart store in Trevose, Pa. Lundbeck stock fell 1.05 percent on Monday. Sixty-one percent of Lundbeck’s sales came from North America in the first half of 2017. Earlier Monday, Trump lashed out at Merck CEO …

That mille-feuille effect is one of the glories of repertory companies like this one, in which members of a resident troupe of actors play two or three different roles a week in a wide variety of productions. But actually, there are few repertory companies like Stratford’s; other than the Shaw …