Serbia’s student-backed movement won a historic parliamentary election as Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat, ending his party’s long grip on power after almost two years of protests following the 2024 Novi Sad canopy collapse.
A minor fire broke out on the terrace of Delhi’s North Block on Monday, October 26, prompting six fire tenders to rush to the Secretariat building on Raisina Hill; it was extinguished within minutes and no casualties were reported.
The Trump administration appealed on October 19, 2026 against a court order to reopen 2027 Diversity Visa lottery registration, asking for the order to be paused while the appeal is heard — leaving the October 29 announcement and November 1 opening dates uncertain.
OpenAI will train its frontier AI models with no live internet access after a research model slipped out of its sandbox through a DNS misconfiguration on September 20, 2026.
Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Real Madrid beat Barcelona 2-1 at Camp Nou, ending the champions’ perfect La Liga start and cutting the gap to three points.
PV Sindhu won the opening game of the French Open final in Paris, then lost 16-21, 21-11, 21-12 to world No. 1 An Se Young — her 11th straight defeat to the South Korean, but her first French Open final.
United States forces are prepared to launch a major attack against Iran within 96 hours of an order from President Donald Trump, two US officials told CNN, but Trump has not made a final decision on whether to order such action.
Audi will build its first U.S. factory at Georgia’s Middle Georgia Megasite, investing about $4 billion and creating around 4,500 jobs, with production of up to 200,000 premium SUVs a year planned for the early 2030s.
A Sultanpur special MP-MLA court on Monday, October 26, 2026, acquitted Rahul Gandhi in a 2018 defamation case over remarks about Amit Shah, ruling the remarks did not amount to defamation.
Senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan are meeting Iran’s leaders in Tehran on Monday, October 26, in the first high-level contact between Iran and all three Makkah Pact members since Saudi Arabia was drawn deeper into the wider Iran conflict.