Monday, 5 October 2026
Mon 5 Oct · At a glance
Monday, 5 October 2026
Brazil heads to a runoff, oil stays near $100, and towns push back on data centres
249 stories in 12 beats
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- Oil near $100 and diesel at recordsHigh → · 4 beats
- Towns pushing back on data centresHigh ↑ · 2 beats
- Promises and rules that nobody enforcesBuilding ↑ · 3 beats
- Scam gangs, and the police going after themBuilding ↑ · 3 beats
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Oil near $100 and diesel at records
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Finance
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 Finance stories →Climate
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.
The Climate stories →Food
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.
The Food stories →World
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.
The World stories →Towns pushing back on data centres
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Tech
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 Tech stories →Climate
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 Climate stories →Promises and rules that nobody enforces
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Tech
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.
The Tech stories →Food
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.
The Food stories →Climate
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.
The Climate stories →Scam gangs, and the police going after them
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Cyber
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.
The Cyber stories →Money
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.
The Money stories →World
Police in the Philippines raided scam centres on the island of Mindanao and arrested 244 foreign workers, most of them Chinese.
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World · 41 stories
Flavio Bolsonaro beats Lula in Brazil's first round, and the two meet again in a runoff on 25 October
- Yemen's government starts a war to retake the north
- US pulls all its bombers out of RAF Fairford
- Dodik's party wins in Bosnia, though he is banned
Finance · 23 stories
Saudi Arabia cuts its November oil price for Asia to a six-year low, against forecasts of a rise, as Gulf exports recover
- India's central bank is expected to raise rates
- Bets on a US rate rise fall, and Asian shares climb
- Bessent says the bond sell-off is worldwide
Tech · 24 stories
Trump puts his intelligence chief in charge of a new 'Super Intelligence Force'. It has no budget and no legal powers.
- AI child abuse images up 40%
- Queensland takes data centres from councils
- Data-centre fights spread to Europe and Korea
Mind & body · 21 stories
Tau threads from Alzheimer's brains turned a mouse's own tau into the same shape, the way prions spread
- Essex deaths inquiry hears the regulators
- War doubles PTSD diagnoses in Israel
- A brain tumour named in two hours
Climate · 21 stories
Satellites find huge methane leaks at Turkey's city dumps, a month before it hosts the UN climate summit
- G7 countries release 100 million barrels
- OPEC+ keeps November oil targets unchanged
- Floods kill two in Catalonia
Space · 7 stories
Blue Origin shows a 20-metre solar mast for a Moon base, and a Munich team designs a reactor for the two-week lunar night
- Smile starts its science work
- Russia sets parachute tests for its new crew ship
- US military satellites due to launch
Biotech · 15 stories
Australia's CSL pays $355 million up front to share an experimental antibody for rare kidney and liver diseases, tried so far in 26 kidney patients
- Trump promises $90 to 20 million on Medicare
- 760,000 removed from Obamacare plans
- US work health costs set for biggest rise in 20 years
Money · 13 stories
Glasgow's council threatens to sack and rehire 23,000 staff to bring in equal-pay grades that cut wages for about one in nine
- Coventry women reopen equal pay claims
- Hacked accounts used to rob friends
- UK student tower blocks go bust
Sports · 35 stories
Formula One's own engine software stalls cars in the rain before the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, and Verstappen wins his first race of 2026
- Evans wins rally's world title at the last
- NFL reviews an official who swore at a player
- NFL flags thrown at a record rate
Gaming · 19 stories
Garry Newman says s&box's launch failed, and Facepunch will drop its no-neck character
- Take-Two stops a fan's GTA 5 Switch port
- Warzone lets players hide other games' skins
- Blizzard leaves a Diablo 4 bug in place
Food · 15 stories
Britain has no national food store, and 150 experts tell Andy Burnham to treat food as national security
- Flavio Bolsonaro leads Brazil into a runoff
- 15 US states sue Corteva over its spin-off
- France's corn harvest falls by half
Cyber · 15 stories
Citrix rushes out a fix for a new NetScaler flaw. Attackers used it on boxes their owners had updated only days before.
- OpenAI finds another government break-in
- Epic slows new work to fix flaws
- UK losses from hijacked accounts jump
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