Ubtech begins pre-sales of the world's first full-size ultra-bionic humanoid robot; marketed for emotional companionship, it is scheduled to officially launch on June 30.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company executive vice president for sales and trading said aviation fuel supplies across the Middle East are paralysed by disruption at the Strait of Hormuz, and carriers with price hedges still cannot operate flights due to a shortage of physical fuel.

Forbes real-time list shows SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son's net worth rose to US$100.7bn on June 2, surpassing Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani. SoftBank shares rallied as much as 14.71% yesterday, lifting market value to ¥48.0 trillion (about US$306bn) and briefly overtaking Toyota’s roughly ¥46.0 trillion, ending Toyota’s more-than-20-year run as Japan’s largest listed company by market cap. At today’s Tokyo close SoftBank market cap was ¥49.3 trillion versus Toyota ¥44.92 trillion.