Health & Education
Surgeons removed the lower lobe of Pope Leo XIV's right lung on Tuesday, 13 October, and the Vatican says his recovery at Rome's Agostino Gemelli hospital is proceeding as expected.
Safety
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu told the Senate on 14 October that 937 police officers and gendarmes had been injured since the movement began, while the Alliance Police nationale union filed a complaint against the state.
Safety
A 42-year-old man was ejected from the Goliath coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday, 12 October, and died after landing below the ride. Six Flags has temporarily closed ten coasters in the US and Canada while police and state regulators investigate.
Safety
A 23-year-old British man died after entering a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Saturday, 10 October. Donald Trump then shared footage of the attack and AI-generated clips on Truth Social, despite a family plea to stop sharing them.
Safety
The device was plugged into a television's USB port and wrapped in toilet paper, OpenAI and the US Justice Department said. The company dismissed the employee on the day of his arrest.
Safety
Consumer prices rose 3.7% from a year earlier in September, above the 3.6% economists had expected and up from 3.4% in August. Energy costs, driven by the Iran war, pushed the figure higher just weeks before the 3 November midterm elections.
Health & Education
Police charges at the Complutense University of Madrid on Wednesday, 14 October, drew condemnation from university rectors, unions and the university itself as the regional education strike began.
Safety
Prosecutors say the boy's digital devices suggest probable membership in the True Crime Community, an online network that glorifies mass killers. He acknowledges the shooting but denies intending to kill.
Health & Education
More than 6,600 arrests have been made nationwide since the protests began in September. On Tuesday, 13 October, about 200 schools closed, and Greta Thunberg joined pupils outside a lycée in Saint-Denis.
Safety
Sberbank said its data centre in Balakovo was attacked but that its systems kept working normally. The strike came days after Ukrainian drones hit three Yandex data centres, which the Kremlin says the government is discussing.
Safety
Cornell will add sexual assault investigators to its campus police and expand support for survivors after a former student's lawsuit over an alleged 2024 gang rape. President Michael Kotlikoff admitted he knew of the case in 2024 but never followed up.
Safety
UK prime minister Andy Burnham welcomed Volodymyr Zelensky to Downing Street on 14 October with a guard of honour and promised faster delivery of British air defence missiles. The visit came after Donald Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian diesel.
Safety
Russell Brand went on trial at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, facing three counts of rape, three of sexual assault and one of indecent assault involving six women. He denies all the charges.
Safety
Two boys aged 16 and 17 have admitted six assaults carried out from a black minicar in Rome on 4 and 5 October. Actor Davide Iacopini, one of the victims, remains in intensive care with a reserved prognosis.
Safety
Judge Carli Kierny imposed a sentence of at least 40 years on Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, a former gang leader convicted in August of orchestrating the 1996 Las Vegas shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur. Davis, who maintains he is innocent, says he will appeal.
Safety
Investigators in Molise are examining school computers and servers for traces of online ricin research after a mother and daughter died of poisoning in late December 2025. The second of four searches ordered by the Larino prosecutor's office took place at a Riccia liceo on 14 October.
Health & Education
Kenya's health ministry says the 39-year-old man developed symptoms on 13 October while already in quarantine. The case comes as the Democratic Republic of the Congo reports more than 9,000 lab-confirmed Ebola cases.
Safety
Recordings obtained by the Associated Press show emergency crews waited about half an hour before prison officials confirmed the call was real and let them through the gates.
Safety
The US Federal Maritime Commission proposed a $200,000 per-voyage fee on Spanish-flagged ships and import curbs on five Spanish product groups. The measures remain open to public consultation before any decision.
Safety
Two prison officers were overpowered in central Essen on Wednesday, 14 October, and a 34-year-old prisoner was freed as he was taken to a doctor's office. Police are searching for the three men, who may be armed.
Safety
The European Commission wants importers of oil, gas and coal to meet EU methane monitoring duties in early 2028 instead of from January 2027. Parliament and member states must now negotiate the proposal, which cites pressure on energy supply and prices.
Safety
Drinking alcohol becomes banned across Deutsche Bahn stations and platforms from 15 October, while restaurants and sealed drinks in luggage stay exempt. The company says the move is meant to make stations safer and cleaner after assaults on rail staff.
Safety
Career diplomat Joshua Huck now leads the US embassy in Athens in a transitional role, while a permanent successor to Kimberly Guilfoyle is chosen, confirmed and installed over several months.
Safety
Norwegian authorities detained five suspects in the Bergen area on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, while searches ran in Romania and Germany. Eurojust estimates losses to NATO member states at more than one million euros.
Safety
Six people were arrested on 10 October and eight more are named as accused in the same case file. Police estimate the group's gains at more than 350,000 euros.
Safety
An Innsbruck court approved house arrest with an electronic ankle tag for René Benko, the former Signa founder held in custody since January 2025. His lawyer expects him to move home in the week of 12 October 2026.
Safety
The 2027 draft budget in Berlin contains no funds for Polish survivors of Nazi occupation, and even supportive Bundestag members consider changes before adoption unlikely.
Health & Education
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest index value of any world region, and seven of the eight countries with alarming hunger levels are located there. The reports come ahead of World Food Day on 16 October.
Safety
Military gendarmerie and prosecutors are examining a partly buried object on the Pomeranian coast. RMF FM reports it is a Polish test drone, a claim the services had not confirmed at the time of reporting.
Safety
The boat was carrying between 15 and 20 children when it overturned on Tuesday evening, 13 October, near Vaishali in Bihar. Thirteen bodies had been recovered by Wednesday, and the search for others is still under way.
Safety
Both the Argentine and Brazilian sides of the falls have restricted walkways after the Iguazú River passed 12,000 cubic metres per second. The limits apply to Wednesday, 14 October, as forecasts point to flows above levels considered safe.
Safety
A court in Nürtingen ordered two Turkish nationals held in pretrial custody on 13 October 2026 while Poland seeks their extradition over a 23 September fire at a Starlink station in Masovia.
Safety
Prosecutors and police searched 42 addresses in Bucharest and three counties on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, in a case about forged customs papers for US luxury car imports. Investigators, working with the FBI, also allege thefts, fraud and robberies in the United States.
Safety
Four masked men with pistols entered the Villarreal goalkeeper's home near Valencia in the early hours of Tuesday, 13 October 2026, and nobody was hurt, the club said.
Safety
Two people were killed and 21 injured on the evening of 13 October in a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, followed by a larger overnight barrage across Ukraine that Zelensky said targeted energy facilities.
Safety
Police in Cologne seized a robot after it allegedly approached a 16-year-old girl from behind and made thrusting motions against her. The robot's owner, 16, and a 19-year-old companion are suspected of livestreaming the incident.
Safety
Volunteers from Bergwacht Grainau removed about 700 kilograms of waste from the Höllentalferner glacier on Saturday, 10 October, and found bones that police are now examining.
Safety
Moscow says European countries bought $320.7 billion of Russian oil and gas since 2022, while the European Commission counts about €197 billion ($209 billion) through July 2026 and Sweden disputes the aid comparison.
Safety
Police in Burgos are treating the death of an 83-year-old woman found in her Gamonal flat as a homicide, though the front door was not forced and several rooms were in disarray.
Safety
Police in Małopolska detained a 14-year-old boy who had threatened three female classmates with death and said he would act on it at school. A separate case in Bartoszyce sent a boy just under 14 to a juvenile shelter.