World
G20 foreign ministers meet in Atlanta amid deep rifts, and the group photo is dropped
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio opened the two-day meeting with calls for unity on security and trade, but disagreements over Russia, Iran and who was invited overshadowed the talks.
30 October 2026
Glacial lake bursts in Bhutan, damaging hot springs; no casualties reported
The outburst on the evening of 29 October sent a flash flood down the Mo Chhu river and prompted flood advisories for Alipurduar in West Bengal and Dhubri in Assam.
30 October 2026
Israel's election ends in deadlock, with neither bloc close to a majority
Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc won 53 of the Knesset's 120 seats and Gadi Eisenkot's 48, with the Arab-led parties' 19 seats sitting outside both camps.
29 October 2026
Carbon dioxide in the air hit a record 426.8 ppm in 2025, says the WMO
The World Meteorological Organization's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows record levels of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, released ahead of the COP31 climate talks.
27 October 2026
Lula wins a fourth term in Brazil as Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede
Brazil's electoral court has called Sunday's presidential runoff for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, completing a comeback after he trailed Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round.
26 October 2026
Typhoon Champi sweeps past Taiwan, leaving one dead and more than 500 injured
The storm, once a super typhoon, glanced off Taiwan's north-east coast early on Saturday before moving north towards China's coast.
24 October 2026
Kenya reports a second Ebola death as nine cases trace back to one cluster
Health officials say all of Kenya's confirmed cases trace back to one known cluster, while the far larger outbreak in Congo has since passed 10,000 confirmed cases.
24 October 2026
UN says the world will overshoot 1.5C and must cut emissions faster to come back
The UN Environment Programme's annual Emissions Gap Report, published ahead of the COP31 climate summit, finds that current pledges fall far short and that warming will pass the 1.5C limit for a period.
21 October 2026
New study narrows who was buried in a reused Roman coffin at Westminster Abbey
An archaeologist's analysis of a skeleton found in a 4th-century sarcophagus points to one of two early abbots of Westminster.
21 October 2026
Japan launches MMX probe to fetch samples from Mars's moon Phobos
JAXA's MMX spacecraft left Tanegashima on an H3 rocket on 20 October, starting a trip meant to end with material from Phobos returning to Earth.
20 October 2026
