Monday, 5 October 2026
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Gulf oil is flowing again, yet a barrel cost $101.58 on Monday. Saudi Arabia cut its price for Asian buyers to help cover shipping, which now costs about 15 times what it did a year ago.
The G7, a group of seven rich democracies, began releasing 100 million barrels of emergency oil and fuel, with diesel first. Diesel in Britain hit a record average of 2 pounds a litre on Friday.
US diesel averaged $6.41 a gallon at the end of September, close to a record. Louisiana and Oklahoma now allow untaxed tractor diesel to be used in road vehicles.
Oil shipped out of the Middle East rose above its pre-war level on four days in late September, even while attacks on tankers went on.
More than 21,500 people signed a petition against a giant data centre near Dalby, a farm town in Queensland, Australia. In Europe, local fights have delayed or cancelled about $42bn of data-centre building.
The Dalby data centre would need about a quarter of Queensland's power demand at its peak. Data-centre companies have given rural Texas towns more than $343 million, much of it in places where people opposed them.
The AI safety promises six companies signed with Trump on Tuesday carry no penalties. His new AI task force has no budget and no powers in law.
Britain has had no national food store since the 1990s. England's wildfire programme, promised for 2023 to 2027, never started, and no agency routinely checks how farmed fish are killed in England and Wales.
Turkey asked every country to cut methane before it hosts next month's UN climate summit. Its own new law on measuring emissions leaves out the city dumps that leak it.
Criminals who took over people's email and social media accounts in the UK stole 6.3m pounds in a year, up from 1.2m. US prosecutors say one man's crypto wallets took in $53m from scams aimed at Americans.
Criminals use hacked email and social media accounts to ask the owner's friends and family for money. One music fan's hacked Instagram account was used to take 1,400 pounds from her friends.
Police in the Philippines raided scam centres on the island of Mindanao and arrested 244 foreign workers, most of them Chinese.
12 editions
World
The truth: Courts barred Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Milorad Dodik in Bosnia from running, and on Sunday the candidates each man backed came first: his son Flavio with 47%, and Dodik's ally Zeljka Cvijanovic with about 55.6%.
Finance
The truth: Gulf oil is flowing again, but carrying it to Asia now costs far more: a supertanker from the Gulf to China costs $1.2 million a day, against $80,000 a year ago.
Tech
The truth: Trump gave AI a new official name and a new task force, led by his intelligence chief, on Sunday.
Mind & body
The truth: Scientists in Cambridge showed that tau threads from human brains turn a mouse's own tau into the same fold, which is new support for the idea that Alzheimer's spreads through the brain the way prions do.
Climate
The truth: Turkey will host next month's UN climate summit and has asked every country to cut methane.
Space
The truth: Two ways to power a Moon base were shown in the last fortnight, and neither has left Earth.
Biotech
The truth: CSL is paying $355 million now for a drug whose best evidence is an early look at 26 kidney patients, reported by CSL and Alentis themselves.
Money
The truth: Glasgow City Council must replace pay grades that Scotland's Court of Session found unfair to women, and its new grades cut pay for more than 2,500 staff.
Sports
The truth: The FIA, which runs Formula One, makes every team use its wet-weather engine settings, and on Sunday those settings left cars stuck at walking pace at Sepang.
Gaming
The truth: Facepunch built s&box to live on games its players make, and after five months its founder says about 20 good games there are lost among 500 tech demos and clickers.
Food
The truth: Britain gave up its national food store in the 1990s, and its answer to this week's warning from 150 experts is a campaign telling households to keep tinned food.
Cyber
The truth: Citrix's NetScaler boxes, which many companies use to let staff sign in from outside, have now had six flaws used in attacks this year by CISA's count, and owners who updated last week had to update again on Sunday.