QUICK HITS

1 Royal wedding: Princess Beatrice got married in a private ceremony Friday, with her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, in attendance, Buckingham Palace said Friday. Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor. The monarch, the Duke of Edinburgh and other close family members attended.

2 Writer dies: Joanna Cole, the children’s author who conjured Ms. Frizzle and the shape-shifting yellow coach of the “Magic School Bus” books, a best-selling series that hooked millions of young readers on science by taking them on field trips inside the human body, down to the ocean floor, into space and beyond, died July 12 at a nursing home in Sioux City, Iowa. She was 75. The cause was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

3 Launch delayed: After years of budget overruns, testing problems and political difficulties, NASA’s next great telescope has been delayed again, the space agency announced Thursday. The James Webb Space Telescope, which was proceeding toward a launch date of March 2021, will now be launched no sooner than Oct. 31, 2021.

4 Retirement delay: France’s government is delaying a divisive overhaul of the country’s retirement system until at least the end of the year because of the economic crisis unleashed by the pandemic.

5 Arrest in slaying: A personal assistant arrested Friday in the slaying of a 33-year-old tech entrepreneur who was found dismembered inside his luxury Manhattan condo was believed to have owed his boss a “significant amount of money,“police said. Tyrese Haspil, 21, of Brooklyn, faces a murder charge in the death of Fahim Saleh, whose beheaded body was found Tuesday afternoon.