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1. Typhoon Dujuan rocks Japan
Japan has been battered by Typhoon Dujuan and has reported four deaths and six missing persons, according to The Guardian. The brunt of the typhoon tore through the prefecture of Kanagawa, nearby to Tokyo, with the newspaper adding wind speeds reached almost 90 miles per hour. An estimated 45,000 households, hotels and businesses in Chiba — another prefecture close to the Japanese capital — lost power.
The typhoon disrupted sporting events at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, which has approximately 15,000 athletes in attendance. The typhoon has now entered the Pacific Ocean, but landslides and flooding still pose problems. All Nippon Airways canceled 140 flights, and Japan Airlines canceled 135 flights.
2. Major air traffic control glitches hit US and UK
Airspace and airline traffic were affected notably in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom on Monday, the BBC reports. In the U.S., airports in Boston, Newark, New York and Philadelphia canceled hundreds of flights when a construction team accidently cut a cable needed for air traffic control, causing delays throughout the Northeast of the U.S. and affecting some incoming flights of attendees at the Sept. 22 United Nations General Assembly in New York City. A service close to normal has resumed.
Earlier on the same day, U.K. air traffic control saw a second technical glitch in the space of two weeks. The National Air Traffic Services stated the most recent “connectivity issue,” which saw disruption in Northern Ireland, Scotland and northern parts of England, had “nothing to do with a separate software defect … earlier this month.” The BBC reported 150 flight cancellations.
3. Hyatt Regency Hong Kong acquisition talk values hotel at $382 million
According to Hong Kong news outlet The Standard, talks between New World Development and potential owner Singapore-based OUL Group for the acquisition of the 381-room Hyatt Regency Hong Kong values the hotel at $3 billion Hong Kong dollars ($382 million). NWD owns the hotel in a joint venture with the Abu Dhabi Investment Group, which is in its own talks with UOL, The Standard reports.
“The [NWD] move came as the heavily indebted developer seeks to cut debt and improve its balance sheet amid weakness in the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong’s property market. In May, Blackstone had reportedly scrapped a proposed HK$31.2 billion investment with NWD after the developer refused to give up control.”
4. UK borrowing larger than expected ahead of Oct. 28 budget
Borrowing by the U.K. government in August was heavier than expected, the BBC reports. This puts more pressure on the Chancellor of the Exchequer before next month’s budget, the first for the government of prime minister Andy Burnham. According to the Office for National Statistics, borrowing in the month reached £18.3 billion ($24.5 million), an approximately 18% increase over the amount of borrowing in July.
The ONS added U.K. debt remained just below £3 trillion at the end of August 2026, although as a share of the economy it was lower than a year earlier. Newspaper Morningstar added the U.K. chancellor John Healey will “face pressure to raise taxes or cut spending at [the Oct. 28] budget as soaring borrowing costs because of the Iran war and weaker growth has wiped nearly £12 billion off the U.K. government’s fiscal headroom.”
5. UK changes time-off-work bereavement laws
The U.K. government confirmed Tuesday that starting next April the law will change around bereavement and time off work. The Independent reports the new regulations will mean that women and their partners who experience a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks will be entitled to two weeks of unpaid leave and that the current law permitting legal time off work for the loss of family and spouses will be extended to “step, half, adoptive, kinship care and foster relationships.”
Kate Dearden, minister of work from the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, said “no one should have to fight for time to grieve. These changes back people going through some of the hardest moments of life, whoever they are and wherever they work.” Time off work under the new regulations will be able to be taken flexibly within 56 weeks of the loss and as single days rather than a full block.