The leaders arrived with the same agenda they left with last time: Ukraine, energy, and who pays. What has changed is how little room is left to keep deferring the answers.
Brussels, Belgium · October 18, 2026
Typhoon Champi killed one man and injured 527 people as it swept past Taiwan, with gusts of about 227 kilometres an hour, more than 288,000 homes losing power at the peak and a rare loop offshore that brought the storm back for a second pass.
Taipei, Taiwan · October 24, 2026
The first independent tests of Nvidia's Spark laptops are in, and the verdict splits clean in two. At running big AI models on the desk itself, nothing else is close. At almost everything else a laptop does, the reviews are a shrug with a large price tag attached.
October 24, 2026
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94 percent: 116 clubs were loss-making in the Independent Football Regulator's review, and 32 could not survive more than 30 days without owner funding. Read the full story and its sources.
A leap hour. Coordinated universal time may now drift up to 3,600 seconds from Earth rotation time before any correction, a threshold that at current rates may not be reached for thousands of years. Continuous UTC takes effect on May 20, 2027. Read the full story and its sources.
The switch is nonvolatile: the magnetic state persists after the voltage is removed, which is exactly the property memory technology is built on. The voltage slides four atomic layers into a new stacking pattern. Read the full story and its sources.
That is the week, measured: every question answered from a cited Indeks story, every answer one tap from the full read. A new set lands each week.
Europe · Middle East · Asia · Americas · Africa · Oceania · General
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Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia sat down with France, Germany, Britain and Italy for the first time on Friday, and told Washington and Israel that a fresh strike on Iran would only widen the war. The plans they were answering wait on the other side of the US elections.
Istanbul, Turkey · October 23, 2026
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UN investigators say a network tied to the Emirates has fed weapons, drones and fighters to the RSF. Amnesty found the hardware on the ground. Abu Dhabi denies all of it, and between a record oil field and a football club found guilty on 114 charges, no institution has yet laid a glove on the state at the centre of the story.
Darfur, Sudan · October 22, 2026
A federal judge has ordered Donald Trump to sit for a deposition by December 11 in his 10 billion dollar defamation lawsuit against the BBC, after the broadcaster accused him of stalling and went after his financial records.
Miami, United States · October 22, 2026
Football · Rugby · NFL · NBA · NHL · General
Photo: AP Photo / Greg Payan, via the New York Post.
The Steelers and Saints play the first NFL regular-season game ever held in France on Sunday, at the Stade de France, about 10 kilometres from the protest flashpoints and behind a deployment of 70,000 officers.
Paris, France · October 23, 2026
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Nottingham Forest drew 1-1 at Ipswich Town on Friday, Neco Williams scoring on his 150th Premier League appearance before Julio Enciso levelled, and the point moved Forest to 16th on goal difference while their finishing and a VAR call left them furious.
Ipswich, England · October 23, 2026
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Antonio Conte said on Friday there are no advanced negotiations with Manchester United and called reports of demands for full control unfounded, while United sit 13th in the league and 20th in the Champions League with Michael Carrick keeping the job for Sunday.
Manchester, England · October 23, 2026
Artificial Intelligence · Software · Hardware · Gaming · Reviews · General
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Infinity Ward's finale to the rebooted Modern Warfare saga is live on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Switch 2. It is the first Call of Duty on a Nintendo console in thirteen years, the first built only for current generation hardware, and it is not on Game Pass.
Los Angeles, California · October 23, 2026
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Ahead of one of the biggest listings in history, the maker of Claude says 5 percent of its shares will go into a new fund for public purposes, rising as the company's value climbs, with lobbying and political donations ruled out from day one.
San Francisco, United States · October 19, 2026
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Nine machines from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI went on sale Friday, and they are not just laptops with a better graphics chip. Each pairs a 20-core Grace CPU built with MediaTek with a Blackwell RTX GPU and up to 128GB of unified memory. Nvidia is selling a new kind of PC.
October 18, 2026
Stocks · Earnings · Trade · Housing · Money · General
Brent crude rose 2.7 percent to 116.24 dollars a barrel on Friday, its highest since March after starting October below 97 dollars, and Wall Street paid the bill: the Dow fell 594 points in the morning count, the S and P 500 lost 0.5 percent and four of five stocks in the index fell.
New York, United States · October 23, 2026
American Express posted record third quarter revenue of 20.1 billion dollars, up 9 percent, beat forecasts with adjusted earnings of 4.68 dollars a share and raised its full year outlook, then booked a 336 million dollar charge to cut about 5 percent of its global workforce.
New York, United States · October 23, 2026
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In late morning trading on Thursday the Nasdaq was down 2.3 percent and the big chip fund 5.5 percent, as Tesla and Meta results landed in a market that has stopped cheering the AI spending and started asking what it buys.
New York, United States · October 22, 2026
Space · Earth · Health · Research · General
NASA said on Friday that Artemis III remains on track for summer 2027 as a 14 day Earth orbit mission where the crew will dock with and test landers from both SpaceX and Blue Origin, before Artemis IV attempts the programme's first lunar landing in 2028.
Cape Canaveral, United States · October 23, 2026
Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; image processing Alyssa Pagan (STScI).
Webb's infrared view of the stellar nursery NGC 7129, about 3,300 light years away, has revealed more than 130 stars in the earliest stages of life, most under a million years old, around a central star five to eight times the mass of the Sun.
October 22, 2026
Photo: Louis Leroux-Géré, Thibault Rouillée, Vincent Martin and Cédric de Decker (Starfront Observatories), via NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, Copyright the photographers, via NASA APOD.
Three faint nebulae, glowing blue with ionised oxygen, have been found beside IC 59 and IC 63, the Ghosts of Cassiopeia, after 100 hours of observation through a special filter. One may be a star system's bow shock. Another may be a dying star's shell.
October 21, 2026
Film & TV · Music · Books · Arts · General
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BBC Three, BBC Scotland and Radio 4 Extra will close as linear channels in spring 2027, with programmes moving to iPlayer and Sounds. More than 100 news jobs go too, as the BBC hunts 500 million pounds of savings by 2028.
London, United Kingdom · October 20, 2026
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Lionsgate's Michael has taken $1.029 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing biopic ever made, and now the industry is formalising the applause. The Gotham Awards will honour the cast and filmmakers in New York on November 30.
New York, United States · October 18, 2026
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