Germany's far right takes 44% of an eastern state, and no other party will work with it

World

The truth: The AfD took more than twice as many votes as any other party in Saxony-Anhalt.

Finance

The truth: OPEC+ met on Sunday and added no oil for October, because its 21 members cannot agree the 2027 reference figures their individual quotas are worked out from.

Tech

The truth: OpenAI's 99.9% score came from software OpenAI wrote to feed its own model the questions.

Mind & body

The truth: Everyone agrees on the chemistry.

Climate

The truth: The UN's weather agency reported that the pollution governments can order down is going down, and the pollution from fires is going up faster.

Space

The truth: Pixxel raised $100 million led by Temasek, the company that invests Singapore's government money, and says it will build satellites in the United States to win government work there.

Biotech

The truth: Bangladesh has dengue in all 64 of its districts and a measles outbreak that has killed nearly 1,000 children there this year, and the response people can watch is fogging trucks and clean-up campaigns.

Money

The truth: Three British payment firms went into special administration between October 2025 and June 2026 - Currency Matters, Halo Financial and Monevium - and a fourth, Euro Exchange Securities, was put into the same process by the High Court.

Sports

The truth: Six NFL club owners, led by Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots, have tied more than 95% of Roger Goodell's pay to targets that the same six owners set and judge.

Gaming

The truth: Apple wrote the rule that decides how an app may follow a person around a phone, and UK app makers say Apple did not hold itself to it.

Food

The truth: Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency pays about 27,000 privately run kitchens to cook the country's free school meals, and its own inspectors have found hundreds of kitchens it was paying that do not exist.

Cyber

The truth: Nobody broke in.