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Two arrested after suspected arson killed Philip and Kim English and sons Callum and Jayden in Waterford, leaving two children critically injured
Pete Hegseth made an unannounced visit meeting Netanyahu in Israel eight days before elections, amid US-Israel talks on possible renewed strikes against Iran
London's Oxford Street permanently banned vehicles from a ~1km stretch on October 26, 2026, starting a £150m pedestrianisation scheme
US demands Israel prosecute settlers who severely beat Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine in the West Bank, breaking her vertebrae
Asian Football Confederation endorses Infantino's fourth-term FIFA bid weeks after accusing him of breach of trust, as UEFA demands documents by November 2
ASEAN defense chiefs meet in Cebu Oct. 28–31 under tight security as US Hegseth attends, China's participation stays unconfirmed, and Japan-China bilaterals look unlikely
Singapore forms specialist panel and serves THPA notices to ten palm oil firms over 2026 transboundary haze; three comply, seven silent
Researchers say Russian Storm-1516 AI-fake videos, including a sexual-abuse smear, target Texas Senate candidate James Talarico ahead of midterms
Super Typhoon Champi, 2026's strongest storm at 185 mph, brushes Taiwan, killing one, injuring 500+, cutting power to 288,000 homes
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight AI model optimized with Apple to run locally on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios instead of data centers
AI-discovered "PHP2Shell" critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618/109619) force global website shutdowns and emergency patches after details leak early
European Parliament awards 2026 Sakharov Prize to the US-sanctioned ICC, rejecting Trump's October 9 sanctions and "brick by brick" dismantling threats
NFL announces Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl LXI halftime show on Feb. 14, 2027, at SoFi Stadium
Philippine authorities confirm investigating Meghan Markle's father Thomas Markle Sr. over alleged child sexual abuse material possession, which he denies as 'sick lies'
Trump DOJ charges ex-FBI officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides with lying to Congress in 2023 about the Hunter Biden laptop investigation
Apple's $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo sold out at launch October 23, sending Apple's stock to a record high and briefly past Nvidia in market cap

















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