Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Tue 22 Sept · At a glance
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Oil fell for a fourth day. Diesel and petrol still set records.
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- Diesel costing more while oil fallsHigh ↑ · 4 beats
- States slowing down data centresBuilding ↑ · 2 beats
- Money voted that has not reached peopleHigh → · 2 beats
- Fines for what companies did years agoBuilding ↑ · 2 beats
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Diesel costing more while oil falls
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Finance
A barrel of oil fell for a fourth day to about $100, losing more than 9% over those four days. The average price of diesel in the United States still set a record of $6.51 a gallon.
The Finance stories →Food
Diesel futures in Europe closed at an all-time high last week, more than double their level at the start of this year. Russia is set to extend its ban on selling diesel abroad to the end of October, after drone strikes cut how much its refineries can make.
The Food stories →Climate
Diesel prices around the world hit record highs this week, according to the International Energy Agency, which tracks fuel supplies for wealthy countries.
The Climate stories →World
Petrol in Nigeria's two biggest cities rose to about 1,400 naira a litre, from about 1,200 a month earlier.
The World stories →States slowing down data centres
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Tech
Texas stopped issuing every state permit a new data centre needs, until the operator of its electricity grid finishes an audit. California passed laws the same day making data centres publish how much power, water and land they use.
The Tech stories →Climate
The queue waiting to plug into the Texas grid adds up to 474 gigawatts, a figure the companies asking to connect filled in themselves. The European Union has proposed an energy label for data centres.
The Climate stories →Money voted that has not reached people
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Mind & body
The United States Congress voted $300m for Gavi, the alliance that buys vaccines for poorer countries, and the government has not sent it. Uganda's 20,000 doses of a new HIV injection ran out in the one district that got any, after 60 people.
The Mind & body stories →Money
England removed the income limit on free school meals, so about 500,000 more children can have one, but only once a parent fills in a form. Somerset's councillors voted to build the list themselves from records the council already holds.
The Money stories →Fines for what companies did years ago
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Cyber
Ireland's data protection regulator fined Google 403 million euros over location settings the company used between May 2018 and February 2020. That one Dublin office handles Google's privacy cases for all 27 European Union countries.
The Cyber stories →Tech
Norwegian police raided the Oslo headquarters of Telenor, a phone company part-owned by the state, over call records its Myanmar arm handed to the army after the 2021 coup.
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World · 43 stories
Xi comes to Washington to ask the US to stop arming Taiwan, and points at a promise from 1982
- US and China set AI safety talks
- Democrats urge keeping the Chinese car ban
- China tells Germany to avoid a trade war
Finance · 33 stories
Twelve US states sued to stop the $110bn Warner Bros deal. On Monday all twelve settled, and Paramount kept every channel it owns
- Oil falls for a fourth day
- Borrowing costs fall around the world
- Nasdaq closes at a record
Tech · 32 stories
Texas stopped issuing every permit a data centre needs. California told data centres to publish what they use.
- Alibaba shows China's most powerful AI chip
- Data centres become an Ohio election issue
- Two customers are 85 per cent of Nscale's order book
Mind & body · 41 stories
An injection given twice a year now stops HIV, and the town in Uganda that helped prove it has already run out
- Gilead refuses to sell to Doctors Without Borders
- South Africa asks to make the drug at home
- Money to hand out the injection in hair salons
Climate · 25 stories
Turkey published its plan for the November climate summit, as a report found the world has built less than half the clean power it promised for 2030
- Texas freezes data-centre permits, then cuts their fees
- EU proposes an energy label for data centres
- Typhoon Dujuan kills two in Japan
Space · 19 stories
SpaceX plans to retire the only capsule NASA can fly crews on. The agency is going back to Boeing.
- Starship's first orbital try slips a week
- Two working instruments go dark
- Vulcan may fly again this month
Biotech · 16 stories
A man with ALS was given a drug written for his mutation alone. A year later he is still working as a doctor.
- Gene therapy passes its test in an inherited blindness
- A cheap epilepsy drug and a children's brain tumour
- Breast cancer pill approved for one mutation only
Money · 26 stories
England now offers a free school meal to every child in a Universal Credit home. Nobody is signed up automatically.
- Wales drops the same income limit
- A child poverty plan aimed at B and Bs
- A council will sign children up itself
Sports · 34 stories
Three of American football's young quarterbacks were hurt in two days. Every man who replaced them had been signed months earlier.
- Baseball's last week begins with half the field open
- Atlanta take the National League East
- Toronto's chances fall to five per cent
Gaming · 18 stories
Bungie deleted years of Destiny 2 in 2020. It now says it will build it all again and hand it back.
- A video call nearly ended Kojima's studio
- Cheating in games is an $8.5bn trade
- A patent to pause games for adverts
Food · 18 stories
Trump says the US will buy potash from Belarus. The fertilisers American farms cannot get are nitrogen and phosphate.
- Diesel sets records worldwide, and Russia holds its own back
- A damaged Saudi pipeline keeps oil above $100
- Indonesia's worst fires in eleven years reach a court
Cyber · 23 stories
Google is fined 403 million euros over how it handled people's location data
- Watchdog says messages to airliners can be faked
- One extortion gang now bills another
- A browser add-on can seize the browser's AI helper
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