Sunday, 11 October 2026
Sun 11 Oct · At a glance
Sunday, 11 October 2026
Missiles hit Riyadh's airport and Gulf tankers, as India shuts Delhi to stop a protest
221 stories in 12 beats
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- Attacks on Gulf airports and shipsHigh ↑ · 3 beats
- People protesting togetherHigh ↑ · 3 beats
- AI used by scammers, and against themBuilding ↑ · 2 beats
- Diseases crossing bordersHigh ↑ · 2 beats
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Attacks on Gulf airports and ships
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World
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.
The World stories →Finance
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.
The Finance stories →Climate
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.
The Climate stories →People protesting together
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World
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.
The World stories →Sports
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.
The Sports stories →Money
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.
The Money stories →AI used by scammers, and against them
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Cyber
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.
The Cyber stories →Finance
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.
The Finance stories →Diseases crossing borders
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Biotech
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.
The Biotech stories →World
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.
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World · 36 stories
India shuts much of Delhi and detains thousands to stop a protest over 130 million names cut from voter lists
- Strike on Riyadh's airport kills 12
- Trump says Ukraine needs a new president
- Glide bombs kill 20 in Zaporizhzhia as Europe keeps sanctions
Finance · 23 stories
A missile strike on Riyadh's airport kills 12 as Saudi Arabia opens a world oil congress and keeps its big investment summit on
- Hormuz tanker captains paid $100,000 a month
- US jet disables a ship leaving Iran
- Russian diesel unlikely to cut US prices
Tech · 23 stories
Microsoft's boss says every AI model should be treated as possibly compromised, with an emergency brake a person can pull mid-task
- US Senate study questions data-centre jobs
- Nvidia said to stop its top gaming card
- Cloudflare buys Deno
Mind & body · 12 stories
The US food regulator's draft rule would let some chemicals be added straight into food without a safety review, if each stays under 0.5 parts per billion
- Over 1,000 eye-damage reports on weight-loss drugs
- Americans trust science more than most
- A mother's view inside a secure hospital
Climate · 22 stories
Hurricane Simon reaches 150 mph as it nears Mexico's Pacific coast, and Tropical Storm Rachel's waves flood homes in Long Beach, California
- Isaias kills four and leaves 670,000 in the dark
- Can Russia supply Trump's diesel?
- Poor countries can no longer keep fuel cheap
Space · 8 stories
Three clouds of charged gas from the Sun put the northern lights over southern England, and the Met Office says they may return until Tuesday
- A dead Soviet satellite breaks apart again
- A cargo ship leaves the station to burn up
- Musk given the top US science medal
Biotech · 14 stories
US regulator approves the immune drug Tecentriq for one kind of stage 3 colon cancer, after a trial found it halved the risk of the cancer returning
- A monthly shot for schizophrenia approved
- A new pill for herpes the old drugs miss
- Trust in science measured in 140 countries
Money · 10 stories
US Supreme Court hears Anderson v. Intel, on when savers can sue over weak returns in a 401(k) workplace pension, and the justices lean towards Intel
- US Medicaid drops refugees and asylum seekers
- Fake meetings appear in online calendars
- Three Plan 2 borrowers, ten years on
Sports · 35 stories
Riders refuse to start Il Lombardia for five minutes over cars on race roads, then Paul Seixas, 20, becomes its youngest winner
- Fans stop a Madrid match over their owner
- Portugal suspends Ronaldo
- Oklahoma beat the top team, Texas
Gaming · 16 stories
GTA 6 leaker Cyberleek says it will release the whole game if its crypto coin reaches $30 million
- Arc Raiders tests a mode with no player fights
- Valve's unfinished Deadlock passes Team Fortress 2
- Squadron 42 gets a Steam page and a date
Food · 14 stories
Alaska's pollock trawlers catch about 300,000 salmon a year while Yukon villages may not fish for Chinook, and trawling becomes an election fight
- The Indus swallows farmland near Layyah
- Ethiopia plants 47 billion trees on its farmland
- Barry Callebaut's new plan fails to lift its shares
Cyber · 8 stories
Ledger finds a hidden chip in a crypto wallet sold by a reseller, as reports say thieves took more than $86m from hundreds of wallets
- A hacking kit for older iPhones now takes crypto
- Fake meetings land straight in calendars
- AI bots keep phone scammers talking
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