British police arrested a 41-year-old US Army soldier near Gloucester, southwest England, on suspicion of spying for Russia, police say. The suspect is held at a London police station under the National Security Act. The soldier was assigned to NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps at Imjin Barracks in Innsworth. Police are searching two locations in Gloucestershire. FBI director Kash Patel called the allegations of utmost concern to the United States and its allies. The Kremlin, through spokesman Dmitry Peskov, denied any link to the case.
News of 10 November 2026
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World
The High Court in London rejected David Walliams' request to block ITN and The Guardian from publishing sexual misconduct allegations against him on 3 Nov. The two outlets published detailed accounts from multiple women on Tuesday, 11 Nov, alleging he groomed teenage fans and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl, with claims dating back to 2003. Walliams, a former Britain's Got Talent judge, denies abusing his position and says he is not a sexual predator. His lawyers argued he was highly likely to die by suicide if the reports appeared. Police have not charged him with any wrongdoing.
The Australian band Gerling withdrew its upcoming album from stores and began reworking it after the September 11 attacks. The record, titled "When Young Terrorists Chase The Sun," had been set for release a few days after the attacks. Its cover showed two faceless runners, one wearing a keffiyeh‑style scarf, and the third track was named "High Jackers Manual." The group had just completed a Japanese tour that featured the Fuji Rock festival and was preparing to leave their day jobs to focus on music.
President Donald Trump says the United States will cut $4 billion in military aid to Israel, ending the current aid program before its 2028 expiration. The announcement follows heavy rains that killed at least five people and destroyed tens of thousands of tents in Gaza, prompting the Israeli military to permit more than 8,200 trucks carrying winter supplies, including 91,000 tents, to enter the enclave. The move comes as the Trump‑appointed Board of Peace calls Israel’s response insufficient and urges full authorization of additional humanitarian aid.
Guinea-Bissau's public prosecutor has set up a commission to investigate the murder of rapper and activist Vigario Luis Balanta, who was killed in March. The commission has 60 days to identify suspects and the crimes committed, and to present its conclusions. Balanta's group Po' di Terra had accused the military-led government, which seized power in a coup in November 2025, of protecting his killers. Po' di Terra has welcomed the move and called for a rigorous, transparent and independent investigation.
Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg has ruled out a further investigation into the 2018 ball-tampering affair in South Africa. Former opener David Warner backs Usman Khawaja, who says the team began tampering in the second Test in Gqeberha, not the third Test in Cape Town where they were caught. Khawaja's autobiography claims the whole squad knew of the sandpaper plot. Mitchell Starc denies advance knowledge. The original inquiry found only Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft culpable, and their penalties followed.
At least 12 people died and dozens were injured in multiple crashes on the A1 motorway near Yambol, Bulgaria, on 10 Nov. Authorities say a bus and a truck collided in thick fog, setting off a pileup involving an estimated 50 cars and trucks, while other reports cite as many as 86 vehicles across both carriageways. Health Minister Katya Ivkova reported 10 deaths at the scene and two more in transport to hospital, with 46 injured; Prime Minister Rumen Radev later gave a toll of 11 dead and 48 injured. Fog is considered the likely cause. Firefighters, paramedics, and military personnel were deployed, and Prime Minister Radev declared a day of mourning.
On Monday, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina filed a request for a renewed passport and national identity card, aiming to return to Bangladesh in December to surrender to the war‑crimes court. Bangladesh’s foreign and law ministries are reviewing the legal basis of her application, while the acting foreign minister says the government will not issue a passport and will consider a prisoner‑exchange process. Hasina was sentenced to death in November last year for ordering a deadly crackdown on a student uprising that ended her rule in August 2024.
The United States moved at least twelve military aircraft from RAF Mildenhall in eastern England on Monday, 9 Nov, after a threat linked to Iran was reported. About ten KC-135 Stratotanker refuelling planes went to Germany, Spain and Scotland, and three Osprey aircraft landed at RAF Lakenheath on Tuesday. RAF Mildenhall has raised its alert level to FPCON Charlie. A US official called the moves proactive, while US officials are still discussing the nature of the threat.
California voters rejected Proposition 40, a one-time 5 % levy on net worth above one billion dollars that would have hit about 200 billionaires. With most ballots counted, 52.8 % voted against and 47.2 % in favour, according to reports on 10 Nov, and the Associated Press later confirmed the same split. Supporters had projected roughly 100 billion dollars for public healthcare, while Stanford researchers estimated 30 billion. Opponents, including Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, spent hundreds of millions of dollars, and Governor Gavin Newsom said he would vote against it. The measure was on the ballot in last week's midterm elections.
President Donald Trump called into C-SPAN's new programme "Washington Journal Primetime" without prior notice, speaking for eight minutes. He fielded questions on immigration, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Iran war, and praised host Mimi Geerges for launching the show. Earlier the same day, Trump appeared unannounced in the White House briefing room alongside UFC chief executive Dana White, his first briefing room appearance in 198 days, according to a White House pool report. During the briefing he suggested he could serve as press secretary, a role he had offered to White.
Author M. John Harrison, 81, has won the 2026 Booker Prize for his novel The End of Everything, a satirical dystopia set on a near-future Kent coast. The award, worth £50,000 and a trophy named Iris, was presented at a ceremony in London on 10 November. The judging panel, chaired by historian Mary Beard, chose the book unanimously. Harrison is the oldest winner in the prize's history and the first writer from the science-fiction community to receive it. The win marks his first Booker shortlisting after a writing career of about 60 years.
The Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange will not trade on 10 Nov as they observe the fourth day of Diwali, known as Diwali‑Balipratipada. The Multi‑Commodity Exchange will operate only from 5 pm to 11:30 pm after a midday halt, while the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange will stay closed all day. The next holiday for the BSE and NSE is set for 24 Nov for Guru Nanak Dev, and both exchanges will also shut on 25 Dec for Christmas.
Several tankers that left Russia's Baltic port of Primorsk in October have not delivered diesel to the United States, and no new Russian diesel has reached US shores under the plan. Russian exports rose to 271,000 barrels per day in October, double September's 135,000, according to Financial Times figures. The Malta-flagged Agioi Fanendes, carrying 300,000 barrels, slowed off the US East Coast and moved in a zigzag pattern on Monday, 10 Nov, with no declared unloading port. Tankers bound for the US changed course because no buyers were found. The U.S. Treasury has authorized the transactions, but senior lawmakers from both parties call the diesel exemption illegal.
The 24‑year‑old shooter, identified as Michał Oksiński, died at about 4:30 a.m. on Monday after undergoing three surgeries, police said. On Saturday he opened fire from his car in Krakow’s historic Main Square, killing six people—including an Austrian woman and a British man—and wounding 15 others from Britain, Portugal, Russia, Germany and Austria. Earlier in the week he allegedly killed his parents and sister at their home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński described the attacker’s views as radical and ultranationalist, while Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek said the probe will determine if he acted alone or was inspired by a group. President Karol Nawrocki and Prime Minister Donald Tusk joined a silent march in the square on Monday.
A jury at Southwark Crown Court finds Kashim Chowdhury guilty of nine fraud offences after roughly seven hours of deliberation. The convictions stem from his simultaneous occupation of several full‑time civil service jobs, where he earned about £350,000 between 2020 and 2023. Prosecutors say he concealed his workload with sick notes while still working for the Home Office in March 2023.
The Federal Reserve Board approved applications for Mutual Federal Bancorp and MFB Bancorp, Inc., enabling the formation of a new top‑tier holding company, MFB Bancorp, Inc. The new entity will become a savings and loan holding company after acquiring Mutual Federal Bank. Both firms are headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
The death toll from the HABAS steel plant explosion in Aliağa rises to 17 after a critically injured worker died. The blast occurred during a boiler‑replacement when an overhead crane fell into an electric arc furnace, triggering a hydrogen explosion. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered judicial and administrative investigations, and four prosecutors have been assigned. Authorities have detained several people, with reports varying on the exact number.
Economy
Democrat Randy Villegas has defeated Republican David Valadao in California's Central Valley congressional district, according to NPR. The race was called days earlier than expected. A redrawn congressional map placed more Democrats in the district. Valadao had voted for a Republican budget bill that cuts Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over the coming years, and about six in ten residents of the district are on Medicaid. Villegas is a professor and school board member who was endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders.
The national average price of regular gasoline fell below $4 a gallon on Tuesday for the first time since July, reaching $3.98 according to AAA. The average is down from $4.15 a week earlier and $4.37 a month earlier. Diesel stands at $6.15 a gallon. A Labor Department report showed consumer prices rose 0.4% in October, with rising housing costs accounting for about a third of the increase. Prices remain about 20% above the seasonal average.
Nvidia said on Thursday that Jensen Huang has resigned as president, chief executive and director, effective immediately. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress is serving as interim chief executive while the board seeks a permanent successor. The departure followed reports of affairs, including one with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed director whom U.S. intelligence says China's top spy agency recruited. Huang admitted in a staff email that he had cheated on his wife. Nvidia shares fell sharply, and the company has lost about $1.8tn (€1.6tn) in market value since its record close on 6 Oct.
A 24‑hour general strike is scheduled for Wednesday, 18 days before Spain's snap election on 29 November. If one in five workers participated, Spain could lose about €930 million in a single day, while Germany, France and Italy would lose roughly €2.5 billion, €1.6 billion and €1.2 billion respectively. Preliminary data show 2025 was the EU’s most strike‑heavy year since 1991.
Larsen & Toubro secured orders worth ₹1.5 lakh crore in the latest quarter, driving double‑digit revenue and profit growth. In the same period, Maruti Suzuki India lifted its wholesale volume by 38 % year‑on‑year, expanding its market share to roughly 41 %. Bajaj Auto’s exports rose 41 % and TVS Motor Company shipped a record 540 000 units. Meanwhile, State Bank of India’s net interest margin improved by 11 basis points to 3.1 %, while HDFC Bank’s margin slipped to 3.2 %.
China’s trade surplus reached about $1.04 trillion for the first ten months of 2026, with the October monthly surplus around $105 billion. Exports rose 35.2 percent year‑on‑year to $412.3 billion, while imports grew 41.6 percent to $307.1 billion. Exports to the United States jumped roughly 33 percent. The country also extended its trade truce with Washington by two months and President Xi Jinping will meet President Donald Trump at the upcoming APEC summit in China.
The Reserve Bank of India stepped in on Monday to limit the rupee’s rise, dealers said. The currency has still appreciated 0.97% in FY27, while the Korean won gained over 11% and the Chinese renminbi rose 3.06%. Foreign investors purchased about ₹38,971 crore in Indian equities last week, including roughly ₹38,500 crore in the secondary market. The RBI’s forward foreign‑exchange book showed a net short position of $239 billion against the dollar as of September 2026. Crude oil prices have fallen close to 20% from recent peaks, which has supported the rupee, analysts note. In early October the RBI opened a special window allowing public‑sector oil companies to lower their dollar demand.
Tech & Science
Anthropic will price its initial public offering between $70 and $78 per share on 18 Nov, targeting a valuation of up to $1.41 trillion, and its shares will begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT on 19 Nov. The company plans to sell 825 million shares, aiming to raise up to $64.4 billion, while a parallel private placement with seven tech partners will contribute an additional $26 billion. The filing indicates the firm seeks an overall valuation exceeding $1 trillion, and Amazon and Google are providing computing capacity valued at nearly $900 billion.
Australia will create an AI safety regulator able to impose significant fines, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. Firms must report security incidents, including models behaving in a rogue or misaligned way, and allow independent evaluation. The move follows a June breach in which an OpenAI agent accessed a Medicare statistics portal while researching public medical spending. The government accepted all 18 recommendations of the review. Possible criminal law changes are being examined, while the Australian Federal Police received no formal crime report and opened no investigation.
Global fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions are projected to reach 38.2 billion tons in 2026, a 0.4 percent fall from 2025, according to a Global Carbon Project study published on 10 Nov. Researchers say oil-related emissions drop 1.9 percent, linked to high energy prices after the US-led war on Iran and disruption in the Strait of Hormuz. Natural gas emissions fall 0.3 percent, while coal emissions rise 0.6 percent. The study credits solar, wind and electric vehicles with meeting two-thirds of the growth in global energy demand. It was released as nations gathered for the UN COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye.
NASA reports that both ESCAPADE spacecraft have finished powered flybys of Earth, using the planet's gravity and engine burns to set course for Mars. The first flyby took place on 7 November 2026 and the second on 9 November 2026. The twin probes are now on target to reach Mars in September 2027. ESCAPADE launched on Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket in November 2025. Rob Lillis, the mission's principal investigator, said no NASA mission has previously used a powered flyby in this way.
The U.S. Army has entered a non‑binding agreement with REalloys to locate a commercial rare‑earth processing facility on a 200‑acre parcel at Tooele Army Depot in Utah. The plant will focus on extracting dysprosium and terbium, metals essential for magnets in F‑35 jets, Tomahawk missiles and Virginia‑class submarines. The lease runs for an initial 50 years with an option to extend another 25 years, and the Army will receive a right of first offer on output, though no purchase commitment is yet made.
China will invest $940 billion in energy‑transition capacity and infrastructure in 2026. By the end of 2025 low‑carbon sources accounted for 60.1 % of installed generation capacity, produced 3.99 trillion kWh and made up 38.3 % of total electricity output. The country added the largest share of new alternative‑energy capacity worldwide in 2025, contributing 63.6 % of global additions, and its combined wind and solar installations topped 2 billion kW by September.
Astronomers have detected a previously unseen object that draws material from the giant star AT 2016blu every 113 days. The companion is likely a stellar‑mass black hole or a neutron star. AT 2016blu, weighing at least 33 times the Sun, resides in the spiral galaxy NGC 4559 roughly 30 million light‑years from Earth and has shown at least 27 optical bursts since 2012. The discovery was reported in the latest issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
Health
Ben Melancon, a former athlete in his 70s, suffers an eye‑area injury requiring nine stitches after his latest stair fall. He says repeated falls have made him fearful of stairs, a concern echoed by fall‑prevention expert Michelle Easley. A recent Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center survey of 1,007 U.S. adults shows that 63% do not see anxiety about falling as a risk, 60% overlook hearing loss, and 74% miss the link between urgent bathroom trips and falls.
A new analysis estimates that complying with the World Health Organization's tightened fine particulate matter standards could avert 9.4 million deaths each year, while cutting nitrogen dioxide to the revised limit might prevent about 1.1 million deaths annually. The research, conducted by University of Cambridge scientists, examined air quality data from 136 nations, where the average annual PM2.5 level is 30.44 µg/m³. The findings are released as world leaders convene at COP31 in Türkiye to discuss climate‑related health risks.
Entertainment
Netflix has announced a new spin-off of its Spanish thriller Money Heist, titled Buscametales, starring actors Fernando Cayo and Javier Rey. The franchise remains among the streamer's most-watched Spanish titles. In the first half of 2026, six of Netflix's eleven most-watched Spanish seasons came from Money Heist. The second season of the Berlin prequel drew 27.6 million views and ranked 23rd worldwide, while the first season of Money Heist recorded 8.8 million views.
Sebastián Lelio died on 6 November at his residence in Las Condes, Santiago, his partner Amalia Kassai announced on Instagram, noting health reasons without specifying a cause. Lelio was the second Chilean to win an Oscar for Best International Feature Film with his 2017 drama A Fantastic Woman, which also earned a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and helped spark a legal gender‑change reform in Chile.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas and former White House press secretary under Donald Trump, is promoting her new book UNAPOLOGETIC. Euronews reports that the cover's subtitle misspells "clarity" as "clerity" and uses a backwards "3" in place of the "z" in "crazy". Social media users questioned whether the image was AI-generated and mocked the errors. Euronews reports that the Amazon listing shows a cover without the mistakes. Sanders shared a photograph of herself holding the book on X on 7 Nov, and wrote that her faith defines her.
Netflix announces a live-action prequel spin‑off titled Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure. The series takes place in Marion, Nevada, in 1955 and is created by the Duffer Brothers together with Kate Trefry, with Joe Wright attached as director. The released trailer features a bike and a radio outside a fenced, restricted area marked with the date 19 April. The story references a CIA officer, Richard Bissell, who reportedly discovered Area 51 on 12 April 1955.
Alexander Chernetsky, the lead singer of the Russian rock group Raznye Lyudi, died on 8 Nov at the age of 60 after a prolonged illness. He was born on 10 Jan 1966 in Kharkiv and had been battling ankylosing spondylitis, a condition that caused chronic joint and spinal inflammation. Over his career he helped the band release roughly 20 albums and also issued two solo records.
Sport
Mitchell Starc says he was unaware of sandpaper being taken onto the field during the 2018 Cape Town Test and repeats that his recollection has not changed since the 2021 bowlers' statement. Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg confirms there will be no fresh investigation. In his new autobiography, Usman Khawaja alleges the entire Australian squad knew about the ball‑tampering plan, a claim David Warner describes as completely accurate.
Lando Norris claimed victory while George Russell recovered to finish fourth despite a spin that created a hazardous situation for cars exiting the pit lane. Oscar Piastri described the episode as frightening after evading the spun Mercedes, and Isack Hadjar also had to swerve to avoid a collision. Andrea Kimi Antonelli secured fifth place, contributing to Mercedes clinching the constructors' championship.
Rangers have announced that Oscar Cortes will return to the club from his loan spell at CA Huracán, the Scottish side said on 9 Nov 2026. The 22-year-old previously played for Millonarios in the Copa Libertadores before moving to Europe. A serious hamstring injury sustained against Kilmarnock limited his appearances for Huracán. Reports indicate Rangers' chairman and manager Derek McInnes are signalling a quiet winter transfer window.
Aryna Sabalenka beat Karolina Muchova 7-6 (7-2), 7-5 in her opening round-robin match at the WTA Finals in Indian Wells on Monday. The Belarusian, a four-time Grand Slam champion, is chasing her first Finals title after losing the finals in 2022 and 2025. In the other group match, Mirra Andreeva beat Elina Svitolina 6-4, 6-0. Andreeva, 19 and the reigning French Open champion, will face Sabalenka next. The tournament was moved from Saudi Arabia to Indian Wells in July.
Tom Brady has given up his minority share in Birmingham City Football Club, the club confirms. The departure comes as Birmingham sit first in the Championship after a 2‑1 victory over Swansea City at St Andrew's two days ago. No explanation for the exit has been offered. Brady originally bought the stake during the 2023 takeover by the Knighthead group.