Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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Tim Davie resigned as BBC director-general in London after the broadcaster apologised for misleadingly editing a Panorama segment, while US President Donald Trump threatened a $1bn lawsuit.
Delegates opened the UN Climate Conference COP30 in Belém, Brazil, without leaders from the United States, China, Russia or India, a gap that risked shaping negotiations.
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford entered Caribbean waters amid rising tensions with Venezuela, and Britain suspended some intelligence sharing over alleged illegal strikes on narco‑boats.
Russian forces advanced into Pokrovsk, Ukrainian officials said, reporting about 300 soldiers had entered, while President Zelensky called the situation "extremely difficult" as fog hampered drones.
Google announced it would invest €5.5 billion in Germany by 2029 to expand data centres and cloud infrastructure, including a new site south of Frankfurt for AI workloads.
Germany’s federal prosecutor said officers arrested a man in Dortmund who had run a darknet platform seeking cryptocurrency bounties for assassinations of more than 20 politicians, including Merkel and Scholz.
A Munich regional court ruled that OpenAI's ChatGPT violated German copyright by using song lyrics to train its models, siding with music rights society GEMA.
The U.S. Senate passed a spending bill in Washington on Monday to reopen the government, with eight Democrats joining Republicans, sending the measure to the House for approval.
Turkish prosecutors sought more than 2,000 years in prison for Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, charging him with 142 offences, while the opposition denounced the move as politically motivated.
SoftBank sold its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.8 billion, boosting quarterly profit as it redirected capital to larger bets on OpenAI and dragging tech shares lower.
The Office for National Statistics said UK unemployment rose to 5.0% in the three months to end‑September, its highest in four years, a setback ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves's budget.
The World Health Organization revoked Canada's measles-elimination status, citing ongoing outbreaks and declining childhood vaccination coverage that undermined the country's ability to keep measles eliminated.
A European study of more than 86,000 participants across 27 countries found that speaking multiple languages was linked to slower aging and lower dementia risk, benefits rising per additional language.
Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) reported that the country was a top target for cyberattacks, with state-backed spies and criminals exploiting weak defenses and novel phishing methods.
China deployed unprecedentedly large solar-panel fields nationwide, accelerating the global renewable transition and, according to reports, saw emissions plateau or begin to fall, boosting prospects of early targets.
The United Nations warned at the climate summit in Brazil that global air‑conditioner demand could triple by 2050, causing massive extra emissions unless smarter, natural solutions were adopted.
David Szalay, a British‑Hungarian author who lives in Vienna, won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh, which judges called hypnotic.
Vienna-based author David Szalay won the Booker Prize for his novel "Flesh", earning the prestigious English-language literary award and its £50,000 prize.
Turkish football authorities suspended more than 1,000 players, including professionals from Galatasaray and Beşiktaş, in a nationwide match‑fixing and betting probe that prompted arrests and detention orders.
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Spain's federation dropped Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal from the national squad, saying he underwent an unreported invasive groin treatment before joining the team camp, sparking a row with Barcelona.
A Turkish military C-130 crashed near Georgia's border with Azerbaijan on Tuesday, killing all 20 aboard, Turkish authorities said, while other reports said casualties remained unconfirmed.
Italy's INPS found that over the next ten years more than 1.2 million, about one third, of public‑sector employees would retire, with average age 55–59.
Tatsuya Nakadai, the Japanese actor who starred in Kurosawa’s Ran and appeared in more than 100 films, died at 92, ending a seven-decade career in cinema.
Actress Sally Kirkland, Oscar-nominated for Anna and once part of Andy Warhol’s circle, died at 84 after a period of ill health.
