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Tigst Assefa won the 52nd Berlin Marathon in a course-record 2:11:04, the third-fastest women's marathon ever, and Guye Adola took the men's race in a personal-best 2:02:50.

The International Whaling Commission's biennial meeting, its 70th, opens in Hobart, with a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary proposal and a pro-whaling 'sustainable use' resolution among the items before it.

President Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office at 2 p.m. ET on 28 September 2026 that Mesabi Metallics will invest about $15 billion in a steel plant in Iowa, which the White House calls the largest of its kind in US history and the first mega steel plant built in the country since the 1960s. The plant is due to start producing steel in 2030. Its first phase is put at about 7.5 million tons a year with up to 6,000 construction jobs, rising to 10 million tons a year and at least 1,750 permanent jobs. It will run on iron ore from Mesabi's new mine at Nashwauk on Minnesota's Iron Range, and Iowa lawmakers have discussed tax incentives for a plant in Lee County in the state's southeast. The announcement came weeks before the November midterm elections, as Trump pointed to his 50% steel tariffs as the driver of new US steel investment.

Nike's 1997 Air Bakin basketball shoe, worn by Tim Hardaway, returns from the vault for only the second time in its original black and Varsity Red colourway, at $170.

Canadian spirits, wine and malt beer are barred from entering the US from 29 September 2026, escalating the 50% tariff into a near-total import ban over provinces' boycott of American alcohol.

NHTSA's Chief Counsel ordered Tesla to answer 21 questions under oath by 30 September 2026 on how it self-certified the Cybercab, which has no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors, as meeting federal safety standards.

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work and cyber defence, rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program ahead of broad release at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.