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Brent crude rose to $102.05 a barrel at 7am Eastern Time on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, as escalating conflict in the Middle East intensified concerns over global oil supplies. The benchmark was up $2.20 on the previous morning and 52.58% higher than a year earlier. The rise pushed Brent above the $100 mark for the first time in almost six weeks. Reuters reported that the latest gains followed attacks by Iran-backed Houthi forces on Saudi energy facilities, raising fears that shipments through the Red Sea could be disrupted. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/7538e6386a819bcdc2547d530ec3472e?utm_source=openai)) Oil prices have climbed sharply since early August as hopes of…

Rebel Wilson, Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Attwood were among the passengers caught up in a second day of disruption at Britain’s airports after a technical failure at air traffic control provider NATS led to widespread cancellations. Up to 250,000 travellers have been affected at Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Stansted, with airlines still attempting to recover from the disruption caused by the failure in NATS’s flight data processing system. Flights resumed on Wednesday, September 9, but airports warned that delays and cancellations would continue as aircraft and crew were repositioned. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/f0f69ef27a90c9d0455ebf54f0998df3?utm_source=openai)) Wilson, 46, appeared to abandon plans to leave London after…

Alexis Mac Allister’s Liverpool future has come under fresh scrutiny after the midfielder revealed he is “very, very sad” at not being offered a new contract, despite team-mates Ryan Gravenberch and Dominik Szoboszlai receiving improved terms. The Argentina international said he had opportunities to leave Anfield during the summer but chose to remain, insisting that Liverpool was still the right club for him. His current deal runs until the summer of 2028. Mac Allister made the admission during a press conference on Tuesday, September 8, ahead of Liverpool’s Champions League meeting with Atlético Madrid. He said the club had told…

Warm, humid weather is set to return to Washington DC on Wednesday 9 September, with temperatures approaching 89F (32C) under mostly sunny skies. The National Weather Service said the capital region would remain dry through the day, offering favourable conditions for outdoor plans despite a noticeable rise in humidity. Southerly winds of up to around 18mph could make it feel warmer. The heat will give way to a more unsettled pattern on Thursday as a cold front approaches. Showers are expected to become more likely from the late afternoon, with thunderstorms possible and temperatures reaching about 90F (32C). Rain could…

Shorter quarters are increasingly likely to become part of the AFL landscape when Tasmania joins the competition in 2028, as league officials work out how to accommodate an expanded fixture without adding further strain to players. AFL Commission chairman Craig Drummond has confirmed that reducing match duration is being considered alongside major changes to the competition structure. He said the players and the AFL Players’ Association were close to reaching their limit on the number of minutes played each week. “If we want to have more games, we probably need a shorter game,” Drummond said. “Most football people would say,…

Investigators were due to interview the pilots of an Amazon cargo plane on Wednesday as they seek to establish why it overran a runway at Miami International Airport, killing five people on the ground. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recovered both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from 21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-33A operating for Amazon. The aircraft crashed while landing on Sunday, 6 September, after arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Captain Joseph Carroll, 55, and first officer Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37, were released from hospital after suffering minor injuries. Carroll had…

Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard arrived on This Morning nursing the effects of a late night after celebrating the programme’s success at the 2026 National Television Awards. The presenters tucked into bacon and egg sandwiches prepared by Jamie Oliver during Wednesday’s live broadcast, as they reflected on nearly losing the Best Daytime gong after the ceremony at London’s O2 arena. Holding the award aloft at the start of the programme, Deeley joked: “It’s really heavy, isn’t it? You almost lost it this morning, didn’t you?” Shephard replied: “We got it here, might have a little graze on it, but that’s…

US stock market futures were little changed on Wednesday as Brent crude rose above 100 US dollars a barrel for the first time since July, reviving fears that the escalating Middle East conflict could intensify inflationary pressure and delay interest-rate cuts. Brent futures were up 2.06 per cent at 99.94 dollars a barrel after briefly breaking through the 100-dollar mark. The benchmark last traded above that level on 24 July. The rise followed a fresh deterioration in the US-Iran conflict, with attacks on energy facilities and shipping routes raising concerns over the reliability of oil supplies from the region. Disruption…

The next James Bond appears to have been cast, with screenwriter Steven Knight suggesting he already knows the identity of the actor who will replace Daniel Craig as 007. Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders, is writing the 26th Bond film and was asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme whether he had written the script with the chosen actor in mind. “It’s a bit of both,” he said. “It does make life a little bit easier if you know who that person is, but also you have to write the character, not the actor.” He declined to name the…

More than 36,000 Plex Media Server installations exposed to the internet remain unpatched against multiple recently disclosed security vulnerabilities, leaving them at risk of attack. The figure was identified by the Shadowserver Foundation, which monitors internet-connected systems and tracks vulnerable services. Its findings indicate that a large number of Plex servers have yet to receive the updates needed to address the flaws. Plex Media Server is used to organise and stream films, television programmes, music and other media from computers and network-attached storage devices. While many installations are intended for private use, some are configured to allow remote access over…