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BBC News began with the rising cost of diesel and US pressure on European countries to release emergency reserves. In the UK, average diesel was just under £2 per litre, according to the RAC, a 40% or 59p increase since the US war with Iran began; filling an average family car cost £110, £31 more than at the start of the conflict. The war disrupted Middle East refineries, Russia restricted diesel exports and China suspended most fuel exports for October. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Washington was working with European countries, noting France, Germany and Italy hold reserves. A later business segment reported the US might consider banning diesel exports, Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries had squeezed supplies, and the UK energy minister had spoken with EU counterparts; the UK gets about a third of its diesel imports from the US and the EU about half. AP polling indicated 73% of Americans disapproved of President Trump's economic handling and 65% blamed his policies for high prices.

Counter-terrorism police made a further arrest in the investigation into activity near RAF Fairford on Sunday. A dual UK-Iranian national was arrested in London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, after five men arrested at the weekend were released on bail. Police said the five were found with petrol, not explosives, in three vans near the base. The Prime Minister told the BBC the government believed Iran played a part, while Iran denied involvement and called claims baseless. Andy Burnham and the head of counter-terrorism policing defended the bail decision; President Trump questioned it. Detectives were examining all angles, including possible foreign state involvement. In France, the education minister was due to meet pupil representatives after nearly 2,000 people were arrested in violent student protests involving more than 1,000 secondary schools. Demonstrations over poor classroom conditions and lack of resources included damage in Marseille and Nantes, and police faced accusations of heavy-handedness. The far-left LFI was criticised for supporting school blockades, and ministers held an emergency meeting and cancelled official visits.

Israel's prime minister said an initial investigation suggested the co-pilot who stabbed the captain on a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight had undergone Islamist radical indoctrination. More than 170 people were on board when the cockpit altercation sent the plane plummeting; the captain opened the cockpit door and the co-pilot was arrested and flown back to Dubai. A passenger helped subdue the attacker and was hailed as a hero. In the US, the lawyer for death row inmate Christa Pike said she was in critical condition and receiving life-saving care after surviving two attempts at execution by lethal injection in Tennessee; her legal team called for her sentence to be commuted. New York's governor appointed a special prosecutor to investigate a woman's allegation she was gang raped by fellow students at a fraternity house near Cornell University in 2024, after losing faith in local prosecutors. Four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station after the fastest ever journey by a US spacecraft, docking less than eight hours after launch from Florida. In Kenya, young people who had disrupted politics with anti-government protests and digital campaigns planned to move to the ballot box in forthcoming elections, with 75% of the population under 35.