Chinese car brands outsell Japanese rivals in Europe over a full quarter for the first time, Bloomberg reports, citing Dataforce.

British Columbia elects a Conservative majority government—the party’s first provincial election victory since 1928.

Central-bank gold buying in August exceeded four times the pre-2022 average, while some reserves shifted out of US storage, Fortune reports.

Government websites in several countries go offline as a precaution while administrators install emergency PHP security fixes.

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President Trump says Russia’s President Putin has agreed to deliver 3 million tons of diesel fuel to the US.