https://theindeks.com/The world, measured. World, market and sport from The Indeks.https://theindeks.com/world/trump-approval-record-low/https://theindeks.com/world/trump-approval-record-low/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000A Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday puts the president at the lowest approval of either term, with gasoline prices doing the damage and a 12 point Democratic lead on the generic ballot, fourteen days before the midterms.https://theindeks.com/sport/tottenham-maddison-coventry/https://theindeks.com/sport/tottenham-maddison-coventry/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Tottenham beat Coventry 3-1 for their first win of the season, the last of the 92 league clubs to get one. James Maddison scored 14 minutes into his first start since May 2025, and Dejan Kulusevski returned after 526 days.https://theindeks.com/sport/psg-barcelona-champions-league-preview/https://theindeks.com/sport/psg-barcelona-champions-league-preview/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Two perfect records meet at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday, with Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona both on six points and 19 goals scored between them in four Champions League games. Something has to give.https://theindeks.com/sport/nba-opening-night-2026/https://theindeks.com/sport/nba-opening-night-2026/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000The 2026-27 season tips off with a tripleheader: Boston at Detroit in the afternoon, LeBron James and Jaylen Brown debuting for Philadelphia at the champion Knicks, and Oklahoma City at San Antonio to close the night.https://theindeks.com/market/musk-spacex-share-pledge/https://theindeks.com/market/musk-spacex-share-pledge/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Elon Musk has pledged one SpaceX share to every child in America next year. No eligibility rules, timetable or delivery mechanism have been published, so for now it is a promise in search of a plan, and a very large one.https://theindeks.com/sport/liverpool-villarreal-team-news/https://theindeks.com/sport/liverpool-villarreal-team-news/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Liverpool will be without Jeremie Frimpong and Dominik Szoboszlai for Villarreal's visit to Anfield on Tuesday. Szoboszlai's thigh injury recurred in the comeback win at Brentford, while Villarreal get Tajon Buchanan back.https://theindeks.com/world/houthi-strike-yemen-training-camp/https://theindeks.com/world/houthi-strike-yemen-training-camp/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Three ballistic missiles hit a government military training camp in Shabwa province during morning training, according to Reuters, in one of the deadliest single strikes on Yemeni government forces in months.https://theindeks.com/market/homebuilder-confidence-lowest-2012/https://theindeks.com/market/homebuilder-confidence-lowest-2012/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000US builder confidence fell to 29 in October, the lowest since June 2012. A record share for this period, 43 percent of builders, cut prices, and buyer traffic hit its lowest level since April 2012 outside the pandemic.https://theindeks.com/world/france-curfews-unrest/https://theindeks.com/world/france-curfews-unrest/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Overnight curfews now cover parts of Paris, Lyon, Lille, Bordeaux, Nice and Marseille after the worst unrest in years. The government calls it control restored. Its critics call it a confession, and the movement has already called the next march for Saturday.https://theindeks.com/market/france-bond-yields-24-year-high/https://theindeks.com/market/france-bond-yields-24-year-high/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Ten year French yields climbed to 4.96 percent on Tuesday, within a whisker of levels last seen in 2002, as the unrest met a budget France cannot pass and a debt it cannot shrink. The street has a vote. So does the bond market.https://theindeks.com/science/euclid-first-comet/https://theindeks.com/science/euclid-first-comet/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000A telescope built to map distant galaxies has discovered its first comet, a streak in September deep field images that software flagged and the Minor Planet Center confirmed on October 8. It could one day be a target for a mission built to meet a comet.https://theindeks.com/market/chip-stocks-two-trillion-rout/https://theindeks.com/market/chip-stocks-two-trillion-rout/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Philadelphia chip index fell 11.4 percent last week, its worst week since March 2025, then buyers stepped back in on Monday. Meta reports on Wednesday, and that is where the argument gets settled.https://theindeks.com/sport/champions-league-wrap-up-october-20/https://theindeks.com/sport/champions-league-wrap-up-october-20/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Matchday 3 delivered 40 goals in nine games: Paris Saint-Germain beat Barcelona 4-2 in a six-goal classic, Liverpool came back from 2-0 down at Anfield, and Phil Foden scored a hat trick as Manchester City hit five.https://theindeks.com/market/amazon-morgan-stanley-aws/https://theindeks.com/market/amazon-morgan-stanley-aws/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Amazon closed up 4.98 percent at $262.45 after Morgan Stanley named it a top pick and raised its price target to $350. The bank expects AWS growth to reach 47 percent in 2027, and earnings on October 29 are the next test.https://theindeks.com/world/alberta-rejects-separation/https://theindeks.com/world/alberta-rejects-separation/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000The province that was asked whether to start walking out of Canada voted by a landslide to stay, handing Mark Carney the decisive result he campaigned for and leaving the separatist movement beaten, but measured at one voter in four.https://theindeks.com/science/wasp-17b-planet-out-of-shape/https://theindeks.com/science/wasp-17b-planet-out-of-shape/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Using a new method on JWST data, teams at Cornell and Bristol found the hot Jupiter WASP-17b has one side of its atmosphere puffed out by heat and day side winds. It is the first real shape measurement of its kind, and a benchmark for 6,000 known worlds.https://theindeks.com/world/ukraine-drones-st-petersburg/https://theindeks.com/world/ukraine-drones-st-petersburg/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Ukraine struck oil sites, a shopping warehouse and a data centre in and around Vladimir Putin's home city. Moscow says it downed 1,015 drones in one night, a claim Kyiv was happy to let stand, because scale was the point.https://theindeks.com/market/tesla-earnings-preview/https://theindeks.com/market/tesla-earnings-preview/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Across its last eight reports Tesla has swung an average of 7.8 percent the day after earnings. It arrives at this one down about 21 percent this year, with a low bar, rising spending and margins under the microscope.https://theindeks.com/world/puigdemont-return-home/https://theindeks.com/world/puigdemont-return-home/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000A Supreme Court judge has confirmed the arrest warrant is gone, so the Catalan leader who fled Spain in 2017 can return without being detained. The amnesty itself is still undecided, and an early election is six weeks away.https://theindeks.com/world/pakistan-afghan-taliban-kurram-clash/https://theindeks.com/world/pakistan-afghan-taliban-kurram-clash/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Hours of shelling followed what Pakistan called a militant crossing attempt into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Casualty claims from Pakistani security sources have not been independently verified, and that gap matters for how this reads.