Global and Australian News Roundup: Oil Prices Surge, Iran Tensions Escalate, Commonwealth Games Open

The cost of living issues clouding Labor’s national conference could become more acute after oil soared over US$100 a barrel again overnight and Donald Trump threatened “a massive attack” on Iran.

The Commonwealth Games have opened in Glasgow in a scaled down event forced on the organisers by the late withdrawal of Victoria. The Commonwealth’s fastest man on two wheels, Matt Richardson, has brushed off the impact of his controversial switch to England as having “zero effect” on him.

Outspoken Labor backbencher Ed Husic claims the party has become “allergic” to dissent and dispute, warning the unity on show at its tightly controlled national conference could backfire.

Seven-year-old Miles Phillips’ song about the eastern rosella has gone viral and been compared to the Strokes, the B-52s and Taylor Swift. He tells Rafqa Touma how he wrote it.

Origin Energy customers’ addresses, phone numbers and partial bank account data have been accessed in a hack, the company has confirmed.

A Northern Territory minister has been criticised for scientifically inaccurate claims that groundwater in the territory needs to be used to prevent the Earth’s magnetic poles from flipping.

Elon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president’s financial axeman. In an interview with the Economist, he also said robots would usher in an era of “amazing abundance” that would make money meaningless.

The US president, Donald Trump, has said he is close to deciding whether to launch “a massive attack” against Iran, on a scale larger than strikes already witnessed during the months-long conflict with Tehran. The oil price has climbed back above $100 a barrel for the first time in two months helped by a Houthi blockade on Saudi shipments out of the strait of Bab al-Mandab. Dubai is offering to pay family and friends of residents to visit in an effort to revive tourist numbers.

Israel’s far-right minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, joined thousands of Jewish extremists who stormed Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site overnight.

More than 20,000 people, including thousands of tourists, have been evacuated as a “particularly intense” wildfire advances on the Atlantic coast of south-west France.

Long-term exposure to road traffic noise is associated with a higher risk of Parkinson’s disease, the biggest study of its kind has found.

Pauline Hanson has hit out at the media for taking her remarks “out of context” after she was criticised for describing paid leave for those experiencing family and domestic violence as “ridiculous”. Blaming the messenger is straight from the Trump playbook, Josh Butler argues.

The fearsome reputation of freezing Canberra winters had Brigid Delaney worried when she moved to the capital. An electric blanket would be essential but how to avoid sleeping with “malevolent, dangerous energy”? The answer, it seems, is flannel.

The former Carlton co-captain Sam Docherty talks to Jonathan Horn about cancer and the other hardships that took him to “rock bottom” and the “obsession” that helped him carve out a 13-year AFL career.

Richard Carapaz won stage 18 of the Tour de France after a breakaway group of six riders but uncertainty surrounds the health of race leader Tadej Pogacar, whose team has been swept by a virus since Monday’s rest day.

Norway’s football federation is considering a complaint to Fifa ethics investigators next month over Donald Trump’s role in clearing Folarin Balogun from a mandatory one-game ban at the World Cup.