September 2026
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Taiwan's producer prices rise 16.75 per cent in August while consumer prices rise 2.04 per cent
Consumer prices in Taiwan were 2.04 per cent higher in August than a year earlier, the fourth consecutive month above 2 per cent. Producer prices rose 16.75 per cent over the year. Import prices in dollar terms were 20.45 per cent higher and export prices 23.05 per cent higher. Core consumer prices, excluding fruit, vegetables and energy, rose 2.30 per cent.
The Moon will hide Jupiter in the daytime sky
The September 8 occultation will be visible from parts of North America, Greenland and eastern Russia, with daylight and location determining observing conditions.
Ukraine's chief prosecutor Kravchenko resigns amid a call-centre corruption inquiry
Ukraine's chief prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko has resigned after a weekend search of his offices over a money-laundering scheme that anti-corruption investigators said was led by an official in his office. In a Telegram post on 7 September he called the step a political decision and said he did not want the post used as a tool for political confrontation.
Uranium from Syria's undeclared reactor is placed under IAEA safeguards
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said the Assad-era reactor at Deir ez-Zor was configured to produce fissile material usable in nuclear weapons. Inspectors reached concealed material in August, and an agency report seen by AP says about 73 tonnes of natural uranium metal was verified at a newly disclosed site. Grossi said the material is now under IAEA safeguards.
Xiaomi launches the 18 Fold in China with its own XRing chip
Xiaomi launched the 18 Fold in China after its IFA preview. The foldable combines the company's own XRing chip with two displays and a 6,000 milliamp-hour battery, starting at 10,999 yuan. Because the sources differ between O3 and 03 for the chip version, the headline does not settle that designation; availability outside China also remains unstated.
Yen breaks 153 per dollar, strongest since February
The yen broke through 153 to the dollar in Tokyo on Tuesday morning and moved to about 152.9, its firmest since 17 February. The rally started on 2 September. Pricing from money broker Totan ICAP assigns a 99 per cent probability to a Bank of Japan rate increase at the coming meeting. Some analysts play down official buying and tie the gain to a sense that, after American pressure, Tokyo is acting with more resolve against a weak yen.
CERNQ52’s trail across the sky constrains a family of orbits
The entry calculated for the small object spotted by Mount Lemmon rests on an inference from light moving across the sky to a physical trajectory. Meerkat searches distance and approach rate together; the observation’s gain is to constrain the possible orbits.
Clozapine's weight gain runs through MC4R and Kir7.1, and the control conditions are what carry it
A clozapine diet made female mice obese in 12 weeks at a blood level patients actually reach. What holds the MC4R claim up is a set of comparisons that could have gone the other way: ziprasidone did nothing, and olanzapine worked somewhere else entirely.
European XFEL saw the same droplet twice, 750 femtoseconds apart
Ultrafast science has moved for years by lining up separate look-alike samples caught at different moments. Two X-ray colours from one machine now put two moments on the same particle. What that buys is two frames rather than a sequence, and numbers say how far two frames reach.
Honiara sets the price, and Canberra routes it through 50 constituencies
Australia has put more than 980 million Australian dollars behind a treaty with Solomon Islands, and the leaked breakdown sends part of it to each of the 50 constituencies before the November budget session. The leverage a small state won here is real; the harder question is which institution in Honiara gets to read the terms.