Sunday, 11 October 2026
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A strike on the airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, killed 12 people. A US fighter jet disabled a cargo ship leaving Iran in the Gulf of Oman.
Riyadh's airport was hit three times in one week, as Saudi Arabia opened a world oil meeting there. Tanker captains who sail through the Strait of Hormuz can now earn $100,000 a month, against about $15,000 normally.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said a sea mine blew up a supertanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The coast guard of the United Arab Emirates rescued 22 crew from a burning tanker.
India closed dozens of metro stations in Delhi and detained thousands of people to stop a march over names cut from its voter lists. Pakistan's government said a march for the jailed former leader Imran Khan would not reach the capital, Islamabad.
Riders at Il Lombardia, one of cycling's great one-day races, stood still for five minutes over cars getting onto race roads. Fans of Rayo Vallecano, a Madrid football club, threw paper planes onto the pitch in protest at the club's owner until the match was called off.
Jamaat-i-Islami, a political party in Pakistan, has held sit-ins for 42 days against a charge on fuel. Its leader says he will not meet the prime minister unless the charge is scrapped.
An attacker used AI models to help break into South Korean banks. Apate, an Australian company, runs about 350,000 AI bots that answer scam calls and keep the scammers talking.
Scam gangs can now buy stolen data, fake websites and AI tools that fake a face or a voice online, some for under $100, Bloomberg News reported. Scam victims lost an estimated $442 billion across 42 countries last year.
A Kenyan man caught Ebola in Congo and travelled by road and air through Uganda before he died in Nairobi. The World Health Organization is still waiting for a cause after a worker died at a Russian plague laboratory.
Ebola has reached a new district in eastern Congo, where about 48% of confirmed patients have died. Russia told the World Health Organization that the people the dead lab worker met have all tested negative for plague.
12 editions
World
The truth: India's government shut much of its capital and detained thousands of people to stop one protest against the official whose check of voter lists has removed more than 130 million names.
Finance
The truth: Saudi Arabia is asking oil companies and big investors to come to Riyadh this month, and the Houthis hit the airport those visitors fly into three times in one week.
Tech
The truth: The companies that sell AI models are now writing the safety rules for them: Microsoft's boss set out how a model should be stopped, and Anthropic decided for itself to cut its tests off the internet.
Mind & body
The truth: The FDA presented its draft GRAS rule in August as closing a food-safety loophole.
Climate
The truth: Three storms reached North America in one weekend, and the biggest, Hurricane Simon, was still offshore with 150 mph winds on Saturday morning.
Space
The truth: Three clouds of charged gas from one sunspot group, AR4549, gave the UK its northern lights on Friday and Saturday, and forecasters could only give a range for how far south they would reach.
Biotech
The truth: Three US drug approvals announced on Thursday and Friday each cover a narrow group of patients: Tecentriq for colon cancers that cannot fix their DNA mistakes, Hovilpri for herpes that resists older drugs, and Weltruza as a monthly shot for schizophrenia.
Money
The truth: The Intel case decides how hard it will be for US workers to challenge the funds their employer picks for their retirement savings.
Sports
The truth: Vehicles keep getting onto closed race roads in Italy, and the UCI, cycling's governing body, has not said in public what happened to any of those races.
Gaming
The truth: Cyberleek is selling a crypto coin, and leaked GTA 6 footage is what makes people buy it.
Food
The truth: Scientists blame warmer sea water most for the loss of western Alaska's salmon, and no rule can change the sea.
Cyber
The truth: Thieves are going after the secret words that unlock crypto wallets.