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The World Health Organization released global guidelines prioritizing lifestyle changes over weight-loss drugs for childhood obesity. UNICEF data shows obesity has surpassed undernutrition as the leading form of malnutrition in school-aged children globally. For children under ten, the agency recommends diet, exercise, and counseling instead of medication or surgery due to safety uncertainties. Weight-loss drugs may be considered for adolescents aged ten to nineteen after supervised interventions fail. Bariatric surgery remains restricted to mature adolescents with severe obesity after six unsuccessful months of treatment. Officials emphasize that sustainable behavioral change and structural accessibility are essential. About 400 million individuals aged five to nineteen were overweight in 2024, with obesity prevalence quadrupling since 1990. While some pharmaceutical treatments are approved in the United States and the European Union for older adolescents, global health authorities urge caution. Experts state comprehensive support systems must precede medical intervention to effectively combat rising global pediatric obesity rates.

A British appellate court has quashed the fraud convictions of five former bank traders accused of manipulating benchmark interest rates following the 2008 global financial crisis. The Court of Appeal threw out the convictions of former Barclays employees Jonathan Mathew, Jay Merchant, Alex Pabon, Philippe Moryoussef, and Colin Bermingham, who were sentenced between 2016 and 2019. The ruling follows a July 2025 U.K. Supreme Court decision that overturned similar convictions for two other traders due to inaccurate judicial instructions given to jurors. Lawyers for the five appellants argued successfully that their trials suffered from identical, legally flawed jury instructions, rendering their convictions unsafe. The U.K. Serious Fraud Office stated it would not seek retrials or oppose the appeals. Libor and Euribor benchmark rates previously governed trillions of dollars in global financial products before widespread market reforms phased them out.