The pipeline built to avoid the blocked Gulf is shut too, and diesel hit a record

World

Drones launched from Iraq hit the 1,200km pipeline that carries Saudi crude across the desert to the Red Sea, and Saudi Arabia shut it on Friday. The line was built so that oil could reach buyers without passing through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran closed in February.

Finance

Diesel in the United States passed $6 a gallon this week, the highest price ever recorded there. Brent crude, the main international oil price, ended the week 8.7% higher at $104.61 a barrel.

Climate

Saudi oil exports fell last month to their lowest level in at least 13 years. The International Energy Agency, the energy watchdog for rich countries, cut its forecast for how much oil the world will use this year.

Food

The heavy fuel oil that powers cargo ships now costs more than 70% more than it did before the war with Iran. Refineries that are still working are turning the crude they can get into diesel instead.

Climate

A company running artificial intelligence put 69 portable gas turbines beside a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, under a rule needing no air permit. With no permit nothing had to be reported, so the pollution figures came from state inspectors, a NASA satellite and a mother with three air monitors.

Money

Police found 35 bodies and more than 100 sets of ashes at a funeral home in Hull, in northern England. England has no licence, no register and no inspection for funeral directors, so nothing was due to go and look.

Cyber

A company called IDScan posted its first admission of a break-in on a page carrying an instruction telling search engines not to list it. McKesson, which supplies medicines and supports 3,300 cancer-care providers, has published nothing about the size of its own break-in since 29 August.

Tech

A mathematician asked whether OpenAI's model had benefited from his own sessions on the company's coding tool while it worked on a 90-year-old maths problem. Only OpenAI can look at that record.

Space

Rocket Lab asked a US government watchdog on 11 September to reopen NASA's $700m contract for the spacecraft that will carry Mars data home, which Blue Origin won. It is arguing that NASA broke the eligibility rules, because that is the only kind of argument a losing bidder is allowed to make.

Food

Bayer goes before a judge in Missouri on Monday asking approval of a $7.25bn deal covering about 65,000 cancer claims over its weedkiller Roundup. The deal is written to cover people who have not sued yet.

Sports

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have opened a criminal investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team. Bankruptcy papers for the golf tour LIV show that the player Phil Mickelson holds a stake in the tour itself.

Gaming

Sony told a court that its customers never owned the digital games they bought, only a licence to play them. A federal judge has paused a Minnesota law banning two prediction-market firms while that case runs.

Biotech

American regulators cleared a lung cancer pill as a first treatment on 69 patients who all got the drug, with nobody to compare them against. A second cancer medicine was cleared on how long patients went before a scan showed the cancer growing, not on how long they lived.

Mind & body

Almost all the evidence for the new tooth pastes, peptides and gels comes from extracted teeth in laboratory rigs rather than from people. Sixteen of 20 Australian sunscreens sold as SPF 50 or above came in below the number printed on the bottle.