Oil at $104 reached ordinary kitchens, and three regulators began checking what companies had told them

World

Missiles hit Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, and a barrel of oil rose to $104.68. QatarEnergy says ships cannot reach Qatar, so the country is shipping very little of the gas the rest of the world buys from it.

Finance

A barrel of oil stayed above $103 all day. The daily cost of hiring a tanker to carry it has reached a record.

Climate

In Dhaka, Bangladesh, Parvin Akter sometimes waits until midnight to cook, because the piped gas comes and goes. South Korea shipped 129,000 barrels of jet fuel a day to Europe this month, after the war cut off about half of Europe's usual supply.

Climate

An outside panel found Chubu Electric, a Japanese power company, had given the country's nuclear regulator manipulated earthquake figures for two reactors. Its president and chairman are going, and the eleven-year bid to restart them has been dropped.

Sports

A class action says insurance companies owned by Mark Walter told regulators that 3% of their customers' money went into businesses he controls, when the real figure was about 42%. He owns two of the biggest clubs in American sport, baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers and basketball's Los Angeles Lakers.

Tech

China's share regulator has slowed approvals for makers of human-shaped robots that want to sell shares to the public. In some of those companies the buyer was a local government that had also paid for most of the company, so the regulator is asking who really wanted the robots.

Money

The law giving American drivers a tax break on car loan interest passed in July 2025. The rules that make it possible to claim were published today, fourteen months later.

Space

Drug companies are already building an artificial retina and printing human tissue on the International Space Station. No medicines regulator anywhere has written down how anything made up there would be approved for sale.

Gaming

The European Union is drafting a law to make shops check a buyer's age before a download. Its own definition of an online game is wide enough to cover a single-player game that goes online only to fetch a repair.

Mind & body

Antivenom is a hundred years old and cheap, and in four Indigenous districts of the Brazilian Amazon it sat in city hospitals hours or days away. Moved into the villages' own health units, the share of snakebite patients treated within six hours went from two in five to three in four.

Biotech

Doctors in England can now prescribe a breast cancer drug the health service refused for years. The makers did not substantially cut the price; the health service raised the most it will pay for one extra year of good health, from 30,000 pounds to 35,000.

Food

The World Food Programme has received $206 million for Sudan so far this year, against $645 million for the whole of last year. It has halved the rations it hands out there.